Perry’s Cave

We didn’t go in the cave we went to the butterfly house. It is surreal hundreds of butterflies simply awe inspiring.

On a recent trip to Put In Bay, I visited Perry’s Cave. The tour guide, Jeff, was very exceptional. He was very informative and shared his enthusiasm about the cave with those on the tour. He made Joes and kept the audience’s attention. The cave was fairly small but has a lot of history with it. The cost of the cave is $ 8 but show you AAA card and save $ 1. I highly recommend if you are not claustrophobic.

I can’t believe some of the low reviews for this place… honestly it’s probably one of the best family attractions in the island. In regards to other reviews we did have a young tour guide but he was very much into it (telling jokes, keeping us engaged with historical info about the cave etc) we purchased a super saver pass for the cave, the butterfly house, and the maze (although we could have used it at the putt putt or rock climbing wall you could choose 3 out of 5). They have a cute «mining» station outside you purchase a bag in the gift shop and the kids get to mine for gems. Our kids loved it!!! Def give it a shot if your looking for family fun activities in put in bay

No idea how the cave is, but the maze is sad. Trash littered the ground and the port-​a-​potty quality walls are deciving from the wood ‘fort’ exterior. Take your kids to the playground in the beautiful park on the opposite side of the island instead

What a rip off! I want the $ 20.50 back that I paid for me, my husband and our little girl. Bad attitude teenagers lead a 15 min tour with stupid jokes about rocks looking like animals and no real history. The only thing NOT fun on the island

Caves are cool but it’s too expensive for the brief history lesson.
The tour took about 20 minutes and really could have been shorter. I guess management feels more time= more money.
Save the $ and visit one of Ohio’s free caves.

I’m sad this place is getting 1’s and 2’s. It’s a poh-​dunk little tiny cave in Ohio, what do you expect? It’s only a 20 minute tour and it’s $ 8, but honestly it was worth it just to hear the weird history. I would give it 5 stars if it were less than $ 5, but for what it was worth it’s a quirky little place and our tour guide was hilarious.

A pretty lame little cave, staffed by uncaring teenagers including an exceptionally blasé tour guide. The kitschy gift shop abounds with typical overpriced goods. $ 8 per person is too much to spend for such an uneventful tour with a tour guide who knows nothing from outside of her script and just doesn’t seem to care.
I didn’t try any of the other events here thanks to the bad first impression.

We were in Put-​In-​Bay over the holiday weekend and i had looked forward to visiting the two caves available for tour while we were there.
Once we got there and went to the counter to acquire our tickets, I detected something weird about the attitude of the employees working the counter. They were friendly in a very condescending manner. They were just flat out rude to the two teenagers who were buying snacks ahead of us. I chalked it up to long hours and ignored it though.
After we got our ticket, we were herded into a room above the cave and were told to wait. It was very hot and very stuffy in this room. We waited. Then waited some more. Then we waited even longer. All the while, our tour guide is just watching us squirm with a grin on her face as though she is enjoying it. Once we waited long enough where it was no longer amusing for her, she proceeded to lecture us in the most condescending way possible regarding the rules of the tour. She took time to explain how stairs worked, that rocks were hard, and that moisture was wet. Here is where began the most unpleasant part of our entire vacation.
I don’t know exactly how to put this in words other than to be as blunt as possible with it. This tour guide was beyond annoying, beyond condescending, and had the worst attitude and voice I have ever witnessed in a tour guide. We were not the only ones in the group (of about 20 – 30) to get increasingly fed up with her attitude either. At various points in the tour, people literally walked away in disgust due to her behavior. I do not remember her name, but she was sort of short and had red hair. To any Perry’s management that is reading this, I HIGHLY suggest you take her off this tour or train her to NOT treat your customers in the way she does. There are also bad reviews on other sites that mention a redhead female employee behaving badly. Just FYI.

I have been visiting PIB since I was a child and had never been to Perry’s Cave. Obviously it was time for me to check it out. In all my travels, I had never been in a cave before so I thought this was interesting. Of course I knew this wasn’t going to be Mammoth Cave or anything like that but it was a pretty cool to check out and our tour guide was really informative. The tour was quick but I felt like it was worth the cost. But again, this was my first cave and I know that for $ 8 I could probably do better. *wink* Tall folks beware, you will spend 80% of the tour hunched over but there is no crawling around, just walking. At 5’2,” I was mostly standing.
We also checked out the Butterfly House. I recommend this if you are into looking at butterflies. I can’t recall how many different species they have but there are hundreds of butterflies flying around. I was able to get some cool photos. Very peaceful. Also a huge gift shop that is very nice.
We scoped out the antique car collection as well. The collection includes an old snowmobile and the island’s oldest car. The car collection is housed in a small barn and won’t take you long to peruse.
You can also play miniature golf, laser tag, do some rock climbing and gemstone mining. Most of the activities run $ 8/​each and honestly none of them are worth that but what can you do? We actually purchased a $ 60 pass at the Jet Express that included round trip Jet Express fare, Perry’s Cave, Butterfly House, Heineman’s Winery, miniature golf, and a few other attractions. Only worth it if you actually do the included attractions.

I thought it was over priced and lame.
I have seen better in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma. The gift shop is crap maybe if i had a 5yr old to take with me that had never seen a cave, It might have been a better time.

We stopped off a main drag at Put In Bay on Catawba Ave. to this site-​seeing tourist locale. The sign says «Perry’s Cave Family Fun Center.»
The center includes Perry’s Cave, the butterfly house, miniature golf, Fort Amaze’n (a human maze challenge), Gemstone mining, a climbing wall, an antique car mueseum, and a picnic area.
I personally only went to the cave itself, which is considered an Ohio Natural Landmark. They offer tours (and lantern tours afterhours) at $ 7.50 for adults, $ 4.50 for children 6 – 12. The cave is all natural limestone, and lies 52 feet below the surface, so you take some (short) steps down into the mouth of the cave. For taller individuals, like myself, you really have to watch certain heights of the cave because they dip down so low. (I hit my head on the way out!) You get there by way of the connected gift-​shop, which sells gemstones, jewelry, glassworks, odds-​and-​ends for the kids, etc. I’m not sure if I would’ve paid what I did to see it again, but for a one-​time thing, it’s good to know its there, and the history behind it all is interesting.
We did check out the butterfly house until we saw the cost to see the butterflies (another $ 7.50? No thanks, I’ve seen butterflies). It wasn’t until I came home that I found you could purchase the cave tour, the butterfly house, and a round of miniature golf at 25% off (which is still $ 7.50 for miniature golf by itself, meaning the price for 3 would be almost $ 17.) If you have the time and money, it wouldn’t be that bad, but there are a lot of things to see on this island, so you be the judge.