We rented a kayak through their online booking for one hour. In the email it stated that you should…read morearrive 15 minutes early. Well we got there early and once it became our start time, noone was there. I ended up calling them to make sure someone was coming, and I was able to get a hold of a staff member who said they would be there in a couple of minutes. Well that turned into about 15 minutes later. Once the staff member came, they got the kayak on the water, showed us how to get in and gave us life jackets. The actually kayaking was nice and the weather was good that day. Basically two ways you can kayak through a nature area or by some huge lake houses. Both are obviously beautiful choices. So overall, it was a decent adventure but just did not like the fact they were late in getting things started.

The associate onsite was great. We rented 2 paddleboards at the park in New Baltimore, MI and were…read moregiven 2 very short paddles that were missing the section to extend/adjust the paddle to the person's height. As a result the paddles were to short. The only other option was to use a kayak paddle. If you are renting paddle boards and don't have the correct equipment to make it enjoyable and physically comfortable for all customers then you should not rent them.

i took my xmax 300 in on Tuesday and they told me a week to ten days for 600 mile checkup and three…read moredays later they call and said come pick it up. I told them I would drive in Saturday morning at 10. I drove an hour to pickup my scooter and they are closed temporarily!! now I find out that they are permanently closed and they have my brand new scooter. I'm so pissed.

Everything! Great price, no extras, delivered clean and on time. They even gave me a cover for it!read more

Great job! Full service marine winterized my boat, tuned it, cleaned it, and delivered right on…read moretime! Very reasonable pricing for the quality of work that was done!! Thanks guys!

Update to initial review. Stored my boat with them 3 years. Finally stopped last year after being…read moretreated unprofessionally a couple times by Kim. Prices went up to an uncompetitive level and I'm not interested in paying extra to be annoyed.

Updated 12/9/2025 After changing the lower gear oil seals,…read morethey told me to bring the boat in the next spring so they could take it to a lake to test shifting from neutral to fwd and rev... Spring 2025 - My son and I figured out when Lakeside re-installed the lower unit, they did not line up the shaft that runs from the lower unit to the fwd/neutral/rev linkage. Wilson Marine took care of this for $350.00. There's no need to put the boat in the water or even put water paddle on the engine. If they installed it correctly to begin with, the shift ctrl would effortlessly slide from neutral to fwd and rev. Steer clear of this company! Original post taken down from Google and Yelp. Probably cause it was too long. Nutshell version: Lake side Marine is a rip off! In fall of 2024 I asked them to ONLY shrink wrap my boat. They took it upon themselves to replace the gear oil which they said had water in it. BS! When I replaced the gear oil a week earlier, the new oil didn't have water in it. They: changed the gear oil - not needed told me I needed new seals which I agreed to have them install. stabilized the gas - not needed. I always took care of all winterization processes except shrink wrap.

I would highly recommend Lakeside for your marine services!! I bought my first boat and it needed…read moresome work done and since it's an older model, nobody would even entertain the conversation. Jon was willing to take a look and do the work necessary to make me not entirely regret the decision of buying a boat. Over the phone and in person, Danielle is incredibly kind and helpful. Jon was extremely honest and straightforward with all the information he could give me about the boat. Even to the point of explaining how to do some of the more "simple" maintenance items myself since I'm used to wrenching on cars and can do some of the stuff that transfers over. He showed true integrity and honesty throughout the entire process.

Shout out to Wonderland Marine Waterford for outstanding service for my Yamaha Waverunner (I…read morepurchased my Waverunner from this store a few years back). The service department went above and beyond to ensure my satisfaction! Thank You Wonderland - Waterford and Howell, too. Gary O. - satisfied customer

Just don't go there unless you don't care about your Jetski or boat took my Jetski there fully…read moredetailed and polished got it back all dusty and dirty and my hatch door broken.

If I could give no stars I would! We were longtime customers who always paid on time and were…read morepatient and easygoing in regards to scheduling our boat pick up and drop off, letting Dave come at their convenience. But when we went to request our boat drop last year I called right before Memorial Day weekend. I knew that they were busy and asked if they could squeeze us in. Dave said absolutely not. So I asked him if we could have someone else come and pick up the boat and drop it for us instead. He screamed at me and said that he wouldn't be able to do the prep work on it in time but if I wanted to find someone else to do it then fine, go ahead (mind you we had already paid for that at fall pick up as part of our fee). We wanted the boat in the water really bad because it was going to be really hot and wanted to take our family out. So I found someone else who said they would pick up the boat, take it back to their place and prep it for us and then drop it. So I called Dave and let him know. Saturday rolls around and the guy we hired went to go pick up our boat to prep it. Dave refused to let him take it! There were 2 boats in the way (sitting on trailers) and said he didn't have the time to take the 5 minutes to move them (even though the employees in the yard standing around said they could). He then said we owed him money for "something from 2016" but he didn't know what for exactly! What? We have paid you 2 years in a row since then and all of the sudden we owe you money from years ago but you can't even tell us what for?? My husband decided to go up there and try to reason with Dave. When he got there there was only one boat left blocking ours that would take minutes to move. My husband offered to not only pay him the $75 we owed him from 2016 for something but can't say what, but also pay him money to move the one boat in the way so we could get ours out of the marina. He refused, screamed profanities and complained that my husband was parked somewhere that was blocking his boat haulers. My husband (very upset at this point) said "please just let me pay you to move the one boat and this money we all the sudden owe you and I will move my car and we can get my boat and leave". Dave refused and called the police! For no reason at all, after telling us we could come get our boat, he decided to ruin our weekend plans last minute. Just being a jerk. He made it so we had to schedule him to come drop our boat (and pay him the $25 to do so) the following week. When they finally come to drop our boat the guy pulls up (one of Daves workers) and says "I am not able to drop your boat until you give me a check for the money from 2016". With no invoice for the money we supposedly owed him and no explanation as to why we owed him it. And no answer as to why he didn't tell us in the 2 years since that we owed him money. We wrote the check, still tipped the guy who dropped it (it's not his fault his boss is a complete jerk) and finally got our boat back. We were with DSL for 9 years. We always were good clients who paid on time, were understanding when accidents occurred (like the year they lost our boat key and made us buy a new one without reimbursement. And the year they accidentally ripped out all of our stero system wiring when having a guy attend to the boat who had no idea what he was doing, etc). And it seems as though just because he was having a crappy day he decided to use the little power he had (our boat was on his property so without going to court we couldn't force him to give it to us on the spot) to treat us like crap and tried to ruin our family holiday weekend. He lost a loyal long time customer and we have spread the word to our friends and neighbors to watch out. Funny enough, we found others with similarly horrible experiences with his company and not a person who had any kind words for him. Even his employees were apologizing and calling him a "d*ck". Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere for your boat hauling and storage needs. This guy treats his employees and clients horribly and doesn't deserve your business! If I could do zero stars I would.

I took my boat there for winterizing shrinkwrap and storage. Just picked it up and there's a big…read morechunk out of my swim platform. The yelp and other reviews are right these guys are a bunch of freaking idiots don't go there no matter what you do!!