Captiva - Sanibel Island Vacation Homes, Rentals & Resorts

It is located on shell-studded sand beaches of Florida’s sub-tropical Sanibel Island. Close to Fort Myers’ Southwest Florida International Airport and easily accessible from the mainland, Sanibel Island and its premier Casa Ybel Resort lie off the mainstream path, where beaches are kept natural and sunsets blaze brilliantly.

More than 70% of Sanibel Island is taken up by nature preserves, and Casa Ybel maintains its own sanctuary, where cormorants, ibises, ospreys, pelicans, sanderlings, and other birds come to feed and rest in Florida’s friendly climate.

Here, too, travelers to Florida and Sanibel Island have found safe haven since the turn of last century. Today, as then, the resort’s Thistle Lodge restaurant serves as the heart of Sanibel Island’s social life and benevolent efforts. Originally built as a wedding gift, it hosts hundreds of weddings, anniversaries, and other celebrations for guests from Florida and throughout the world.

Founded on a spirit of adventure, family fun, and romance, the modern-day Casa Ybel Resort sustains its long-admired traditions to offer this fast-spinning world a place to step away. To dream, yes, to play.