Marinas.com Names the 2018 Boaters' Choice Award Recipients, Adds Elite Fleet Tier

NEWPORT, R.I., Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Marinas.com announced today the recipients of the 2018 Boaters' Choice Awards, honoring the marinas which boaters most praised throughout the year. Click here to see the complete list of 2018 Marinas.com Boaters' Choice Award Winners.

Marinas.com leveraged its thousands of user reviews to determine the 2018 award recipients. By relying on customer reviews submitted throughout a marina's season, Marinas.com gave all boaters an equal voice and all marinas an unbiased assessment of their standing in the boating community.

Any marina with at least three reviews in 2018 and an average rating of at least 4 stars received the accolade of being a 2018 Boaters' Choice Marina. This year, 217 businesses comprise the recipient group that consistently provided excellent experiences to their boaters in 2018. Marinas.com includes profiles for more than 8,500 marinas, which places the 2018 Boaters' Choice winners in the top 3% highest-rated marinas.

This year, to further recognize those that not only provided a consistently positive experience, but went above and beyond to delight their boaters, Marinas.com added the Elite Fleet tier of the Boaters' Choice Awards. Representing the top .2% highest-rated marinas, businesses in the Elite Fleet received at least ten boater reviews in 2018 and maintained an average rating of at least 4.8 (out of 5) stars. Click here to learn more about qualifications for the Boaters' Choice Awards.

"We live in a world where providing excellent customer experiences is table stakes for success," said Dockwa & Marinas.com CEO Mike Melillo. "The addition of the Elite Fleet tier of the BCA lets us recognize those marinas that are both overwhelmingly loved by boaters and are actively putting boater needs before immediate business needs. We believe a strong star rating coupled with a large volume of reviews confirms a marina's excellence, and demonstrates a marina's willingness to relish feedback, positive and negative, in order to provide the best possible experience."

The 2018 recipients include a diverse range of marina businesses, from private yacht clubs to public service yards, and locations from the west coast to Marinas.com's hometown of Newport, Rhode Island.

About Marinas.com
Founded in 1996, Marinas.com has the world's most extensive database of marine locations, featuring low altitude, high-resolution aerial navigation photography of marinas, key inlets, detailed overviews of waterfront communities, bridges, locks, anchorages, lighthouses, along with other major nautical points of interest. For more information, visit: http://marinas.com and follow Marinas.com on Facebook.

About Dockwa
Founded in May 2015, Dockwa is an award-winning, unified marina operations platform which connects boaters to marinas in real time, online and by app. Boaters download the free iOS or Android app or log in online and then search, explore, reserve and pay for their reservations in a matter of minutes. Marinas then use the Dockwa platform to confirm the reservation, collect payment and deposit the customer's' information into their intelligent database with a single click. Headquartered in Newport, RI, Dockwa rapidly expanded along the eastern seaboard in its first year, and has since expanded into the Great Lakes region, the West Coast, and beyond. Dockwa now has with a growing marina network of more than 700 marinas and hundreds of thousands of boaters.

For more information, visit: https://dockwa.com and follow on Facebook, LinkedIn, and @getdockwa on Twitter.

CONTACT: Becky Pineo, [email protected], 401-236-8304 ext. 710

SOURCE Marinas.com