FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — When you come to one of the 12 restaurants on Fort Myers Beach to use your pub passport, they’ll give you a stamp to be able to get the special deal the restaurant is giving away. 

“So you would go to the different restaurants throughout the beach and each place has its own special, you get a free drink or a free appetizer or some sort of food, then they stamp your passport,” explained Monica Schmucker with the Fort Myers Beach Woman’s Club. 

After Hurricane Ian decimated the island, the club came up with the idea to help local businesses and their own club recover. 

“We want to bring people back to the beach. The money raised from the sale of the passports themselves will go to help rebuild the woman’s club building, which is completely gone,” said Schmucker. 

The passport is valid at a dozen island favorites, including Liki Tiki BBQ, Parrot Key Caribbean Grill, Lighthouse Tiki Bar, Snug Harbor, Yucatan, Fresh Catch Bistro, The Beach Bar, Cabanas and Junkanoo. You can also buy them at La Ola, Wahoo Willies and The Rude Shrimp. 

“The passports have been great for us, being one of the only three bars that are selling them, we’ve done so well with them,” smiled Tj Holzapfl, who works at The Rude Shrimp.  

But special deals aren’t the only perk to these passports. 

“Just register your passport or if you buy it online it will automatically be registered, and you have a chance to win 2 round-trip tickets on the Key West Express,” said Schmucker. 

Plus, the first one thousand people to use the passport at all 12 locations will also get a Fort Myers Beach tuna skin towel. 

You can use your Fort Myers Beach pub passport right now through the end of December. The passports cost $25.