About Us

I’ve always been busy.  I can’t handle sitting around, so I knew a desk job wasn’t for me.  Among other things, I’ve built homes and run a restaurant. One night I was driving around Kemah, Texas, a little entertainment district halfway between Houston and Galveston, in my personal golf cart when a few tourists asked me for a ride.  Five minutes and $20 later, a business was born… golf cart taxis!

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From there, I grew it into a golf cart rental business in the same small area, and my teenage son Chandler became a part of it. 

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One day in the fall of 2018, a client who had rented a cart blew out a tire.  He was all the way down on Galveston Island, on 24th Street and Strand.  When I arrived, it was a sunny, beautiful Saturday afternoon, and there were thousands of tourists walking around… and not another golf cart in sight! 

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It hit me.  This is where we need to be!

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Who doesn’t want to live in the sunshine, where the water meets the land?!

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When I returned home, I told Chandler, “We’re moving to Galveston!”

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He was a teenager, so his response was a garbled mess of a shrug, a mumble, and an “Okay!” 

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By January we started construction on our first location at 4102 Seawall Boulevard, and before we finished, we’d signed a lease on our main location at 1919 Strand. We worked day and night, renovating the stores as well as building golf carts that are suitable for rental.

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We opened on Mardi Gras weekend and, on the first day, rented out every golf cart we had!

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Our business, our clients, and our Galveston neighbors have been great ever since!

 

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Chad and Chandler Jones

Owner, Galveston Golf Carts