Naples Beach Club's Four Seasons Resort Adds a Sports Gastropub and Bowling Alley With The Wager

Naples Beach Club, A Four Seasons Resort, will open The Wager this October, an elevated sports gastropub that blends game-day viewing with recreational play, according to reporting this week by Florida Weekly. The resort sits at 801 Gulf Shore Boulevard North in Old Naples, on roughly 1,000 feet of beachfront tied to a hospitality history on that site dating back to 1946, and it reopened under the Four Seasons flag in November 2025 with 220 guest rooms and suites and five dining venues.

I am Kris Asquith, Broker Associate at Premiere Plus Realty, and I sell property across nine Southwest Florida markets including Naples. A new venue landing inside one of Old Naples' best-known resorts is a small, concrete data point about that stretch of the coastline, and it is worth recording accurately rather than guessing at what it means for anyone considering property nearby.

According to Florida Weekly's reporting, The Wager will include a four-lane bowling alley, described as a first for the Four Seasons brand, along with a pool table, air hockey, foosball, ping-pong, pinball and other arcade games, plus an outdoor professional putting green. The space is set up for both indoor and outdoor seating and includes a private dining room, so it can host a casual walk-in visit or a larger booked gathering.

The food and drink menu was still being finalized at the time of that reporting, but two signature items were named: beer-battered fish and chips, and a dessert called the Kitchen Sink Sundae. The overall concept is being positioned as an upscale, full-service take on a sports bar rather than a simple lounge with televisions, which tracks with how Four Seasons has built out its other dining venues at the property.

The Wager will be open to both hotel guests and the local community, not just registered guests of the resort, according to that reporting. General Manager Diego Angarita was quoted saying the venue "offers a sense of familiarity and community while maintaining the elevated service and quality expected from Four Seasons," positioning it as a repeat-visit spot for locals rather than a one-time hotel amenity.

Florida Weekly's coverage placed the opening inside a broader pattern: Florida's growing profile as a sports destination, with Formula 1, Inter Miami and last summer's FIFA World Cup matches cited as drivers, has several South Florida luxury hotels investing in upscale sports-viewing spaces. The Wager is one entry in that wider trend rather than an isolated addition, alongside comparable venues the same reporting named in Boca Raton, Fort Myers and West Palm Beach.

Nobody can honestly put a number on what one new venue does to nearby property values, and it is fair to be skeptical of anyone who claims otherwise. What is verifiable is narrower and still useful: Old Naples' resort corridor along Gulf Shore Boulevard North will have one more staffed, publicly accessible amenity than it had before, open to residents as well as overnight guests. That is a real, if modest, addition to what currently exists along that stretch of the coast, distinct from the resort's own reopening a year earlier.

Treat it as one data point among several rather than a signal on its own. A single new gastropub inside an existing resort does not change flood zones, elevation, insurance costs or permit history for any specific address nearby, and those are the factors that actually decide what a property near Old Naples is worth to own.

If you're weighing property near this part of Old Naples, whether that's luxury homes in Naples, Naples condos closer to the beach, or new construction in Naples further inland, what's actually open, staffed and drawing steady traffic month over month is a more useful thing to track than any single opening, this one included. Resort amenities can support a neighborhood's daily life without moving the underlying value of a specific home, and the two should not be confused.

The details that decide what a given Naples property is worth to own, insure and maintain still come from the property itself, not from what a nearby resort adds to its lineup: elevation, flood insurance history, association rules where one applies, and what a survey and inspection turn up. The inspection stage of the home buying process is where each of those gets checked before you are ever committed to anything. If you want a straight read on how a specific opening like this one actually affects a specific address near Old Naples, get in touch or call (239) 300-1427.