Dolly Parton’s Pirates Voyage sails to Panama City Beach in 2025
Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show, a family attraction from Dolly Parton, will open in Panama City Beach, Fla. in spring 2025.
At Pirates Voyage, diners will enjoy their meal as a battle unfurls upon two full-scale ships and within a lagoon in the middle of the auditorium.
Parton: “I Dream Big”
The Parton-owned Pirates Voyage company announced the project earlier this week. In a press release, Parton teased that future guests can expect “pirates, mermaids, exciting acrobatics, pyrotechnics, and even a few songs that I wrote — it’s a show everyone in the family is going to love. Everyone knows I dream big, so we are definitely going ‘overboard’ with the details as we get started!”
The attraction’s arrival in the Florida panhandle will mark the third location for Pirates Voyage. The show has other branches in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
The four-course meal at existing Pirates Voyage venues includes themed menu items like “swashbucklin’ sugar-cured ham” and “apple o’ me eye pie.” Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free meals are also available.
If the Panama City Beach attraction aligns with its sister locations, pricing will start around $70 per person, depending on the date.
Pirates Voyage By the Numbers
Here are some statistics about Pirates Voyage’s future home in Panama City Beach:
- 15: feet to the bottom of the interior lagoon
- 300: jobs created upon the attraction’s opening
- 400: jobs created for the attraction’s construction
- 585: tons of steel used during construction
- 1,000: seats inside the theater
- 2,400: cubic yards of concrete used during construction
- 44,000: cubic yards of import fill material used during construction
- 60,000: square feet of space in the indoor theater
- 60 million: dollars spent to create the attraction
Learn more info about Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show here.
More Dolly Parton
In addition to the aforementioned existing Pirates Voyage Dinner & Show locations, Parton also operates Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner Attraction, which resides in Branson, Mo. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
The latter city serves as a convergence for all of Parton’s themed experiences. Not only can Pigeon Forge visitors stop by Pirates Voyage and Dolly Parton’s Stampede, but they can also partake in Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud, performances at Comedy Barn Theater, breakfast at Frizzle Chicken Café, or, of course, a trip to the Dollywood theme park and adjacent Splash Country water park, all under the dominion of Dolly.
Photo courtesy of Dollywood
This May, Dollywood will debut The Dolly Parton Experience, a walk-through, museum-like attraction. Last year, the park opened HeartSong Lodge & Resort and the Big Bear Mountain roller coaster. Enjoy our video of Dolly herself performing an original song at the grand opening of Big Bear Mountain:
