After 4 or 5 visits to Rainbow King and multiple other Alaskan fishing lodges, Rainbow King is clearly the best fishing option in Alaska. You can’t find better fishing, staff, accommodations, or meals. Rainbow King ranks as one of the finest fishing lodges in the world and I have seen many. – Bob P.
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Fishing was excellent every day! I caught 17 Rainbow Trout on one particular day… and they were all very nice Trout… one at almost 25 inches….!
A wonderful week in Alaska. Great fishing. Great guides, great accommodations!!
It had been 38 years since we were at Rainbow King Lodge.
It was better than I remembered!
This is my seventh year my son and I have been to Rainbow King Lodge. It is an amazing experience. The hospitality is off the charts. The fishing is great. The service is amazing and the food is off the charts. Kudos to Gus and Becky and Tony and the rest of the staff. See you next year.
We had the perfect fishing trip. Everyone at Rainbow King was great. The service was excellent. The guides were very good. The food was delicious. Fishing in Alaska is a unique experience, and RKL allows you to enjoy it to the fullest. I highly recommend RKL, and hope to return someday.
Second time to stay at RAINBOW KING LODGE – the whole experience was “over the top”! Fantastic guides, attentive/accommodating management, wonderful dining, oh yeah, GREAT FISHING!!! Alaska is MAGIC and RAINBOW KING LODGE is the place to experience it.
The service and congeniality from the guides, pilots, chef, kitchen staff, drivers, and if I left anyone off them too was superb. It was a real team effort and I give Tony a big thumbs up for seeing to it all. And the fishing was outstanding on every day trip I took. i give it six stars. I recommended Rainbow King to a fellow on the plane from South Dakota.
This is the second time I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a week at Rainbow King Lodge and I can’t recommend it enough. This is a truly world class, best -of -your -life fly fishing trip. And everyone including Gus, Tony, the guides, the chefs and the rest of staff are courteous and care about making your trip awesome. Not a trip just for hard core fly fisherman as the level of amenity makes the trip awesome for casual fisherman who want to experience the best of Alaska. Bears, caribou, and a cold dip in lake illiamna! Highly recommend.
Gus and Tony do everything possible to make rainbow King the place to go for salmon fishing. Weather can change in minutes and they adjust and keep the amazing experience flowing. This was my fifth year and I plan on going every year until I can’t.
Tough to choose. Best fishing in the world with first class service. Every member of the staff has to attitude to make sure the experience is perfect.
The staff and lodge were truly another level of service. Top-notch guides, food, etc
Great time! You and your team nailed it! Smiles all around.
It is in the top ten of all the lodges I have stayed in with staff and fishing being a huge part of that assessment.
Everyone we dealt with did all they could to make the total experience the best it could be. Tony asked about our personal preferences for activities and made sure we checked all the boxes possible. Remarkable with the weather challenges during the week. Gus flew us into every spot we chose, as soon as safe.
The guides were enthusiastic and helpful. They were quick to offer help when they could see we needed it. They made us feel that they were enjoying the day as much as us. I would say that the guides and all the staff’s attitudes made every day great.
The meals never disappointed me. Waterside lunches were over the top. Loved the breakfast flexibility.
Rainbow King is an absolutely top-notch experience! It is the best and why I have been coming every year for almost 20 years! I tell people it is the “trip of a lifetime I take every year!”
Is it true National Geographic experience and anyone that comes will have the time of your life. You are living in the evenings in comfort and experiencing true nature during the day.
My latest experience at Rainbow King was perfect. I visited with my father and brother and had a week of good company, great food, and phenomenal fishing. The RK staff is attentive, knowledgeable, and very agreeable. Scheduling our daily trips was flexible, and each guide clearly had a vested interest in making our days as successful as possible. I cannot recommend RK enough.
A visit to Rainbow King is a first-class experience. When you arrive in Iliamna you will be amazed by the entire professional staff of fishing guides, experienced float plane pilots, world class chef’s, attentive dining room employees and an excellent management team. I have been blessed to be able to visit the Rainbow King Lodge on multiple occasions. The purpose of the trip is to experience the opportunity to fish in the great state of Alaska.
You will not be disappointed in your fishing experience and the professional fishing guides who will go out of their way to assist you in making your trip a memorable one. You will be able to experience all of this while taking in the awesome beauty of the Alaska wilderness.
The entire experience is amazing. From the incredibly attentive staff to the details of the planning. The guides and pilots have the best personality and are very helpful and patient. Everyone works so well together to create a seamless, fantastic experience!
Thank you
My first excursion to an Alaskan lodge was so incredible that there will be more in my future. The Rainbow King Lodge staff exceeded my expectations.
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