PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – (June 20, 2018) The Wyvern Hotel in Punta Gorda, Fla., has partnered with the new Nickel Ride innovative transportation service changing the way visitors and community members experience the city.  The hotel’s guests and other visitors in the destination just download the Nickel Ride app on their phone, and request picks up and drop off anywhere within the Punta Gorda city limits. The service is totally free, with just a tip for the driver.

The Nickel Ride in Punta Gorda currently showcases The Wyvern Hotel and its Perch 360 and 88 Keys restaurants as featured advertising.  For more information on The Nickel Ride, go to www.thenickelride.co.

The 63-room Wyvern Hotel is a Condé Nast Johansens property located in the beautifully restored historic downtown district of Punta Gorda.  The hotel features the 88 Keys Contemporary American Cuisine Restaurant and Art Deco Piano Bar with capacity for 130 people, the rooftop Perch 360 Restaurant and Bar for up to 130 people, offering live entertainment and the best view of Punta Gorda’s bustling avenues and majestic yachts of Charlotte Harbor, and the River Room private function space for up to 50.

Within walking distance and short drives from The Wyvern Hotel are waterside shopping, the Peace River Botanical & Sculpture Garden, The Harborwalk, a 98-slip marina and Fishermen’s Village on Charlotte Harbor. Punta Gorda, easily reached by I-75 along Florida’s South-Central Gulf Coast, just North of Fort Myers and South of Sarasota, is known for its royal palm lined streets, old Florida-era tin-roofed homes with wide verandas, brick lanes, street lamps and benches, biking, boating, fishing, shopping, biking and more.  For more information, go to www.thewyvernhotel.com.