Premier 250 Solaris REV Review: A Luxury Tritoon Built for Gulf Sunsets

The 2025 Premier 250 Solaris REV is a 26-foot 5-inch aluminum tritoon built to hold a party still on the water, and there is exactly one of them in Bonita Springs, listed at $167,869 as of September 2026. It seats 17 people by the unit listing, rides on Premier’s triple-tube PTX chassis, and carries the “Revolution Booth” social layout that gives the REV badge its name.

What that money buys, in one sentence: the furniture, the helm, and the hull of a boat designed for six hours at anchor rather than for getting anywhere quickly. If your picture of a good Saturday is a sandbar off Bonita Beach with 10 people, shade, music, and a swim ladder, this is the machine that picture is drawn from.

What it does not buy is a spec sheet you can read end to end. The engine is not itemized on the listing, Premier’s current Solaris page no longer shows a REV floorplan, and there is no published saltwater package. None of that is disqualifying. All of it is worth knowing before you stand next to it with a salesperson.

What the Premier 250 Solaris REV is

Premier Marine builds pontoons and tritoons in tiers. Solaris is the heart of the luxury range — above the entry lines, below the Intrigue flagship — and the 25-foot version is the one most Southwest Florida buyers land on, because it is long enough for open bay water and short enough to fit a residential lift.

The current Solaris line page lists 23- and 25-foot boats in three floorplans apiece: RF with rear- and bow-facing seating, RL with a convertible rear lounge that becomes a bed, and RS with a rear social area and open water panels. There is also a 250 Solaris Upper Deck with a 12-foot upper deck and a water slide, which is a different kind of afternoon entirely.

REV is not on that list. The floor unit’s listing describes the Revolution Booth layout, and the plain reading is that the 2025 REV plan has since been renamed or rotated out of the lineup. We could not verify that against a 2025 Premier catalog, so treat it as the likely explanation rather than a fact, and confirm the seating plan by walking the boat.

Length overall	26 ft 5 in
Beam	8 ft 6 in
Dry weight	2,700 lb (unit listing); Premier lists 2,700–3,300 lb across the 25-foot plans
Chassis	PTX triple-tube (tritoon)
Persons	17 (unit listing, matching Premier's listed max capacity for the 25-foot floorplans)
Fuel capacity	33 gal (PTX 28 package)
Power	Single outboard; Premier rates the 25-foot Solaris plans 300–450 hp by floorplan
Engine on this unit	Not itemized on the listing — confirm with the dealer
Layout	Revolution Booth social plan, transparent bow gate
Helm	Captain-First helm
Boarding	Ricochet 4-inch wide step ladder
Upholstery	Cool-Touch fabric
Listed at Power Lodge, September 2026	$167,869 (1 unit, 2025 model year)
Feed MSRP, 2025 model year	$167,896

Source: Premier Solaris line page plus the Power Lodge unit listing (2026-09-03). Specs and pricing are the manufacturer's published figures and can change by model year.

The equipment Premier lists as standard on the current Solaris — a Captain-First DX helm with a 9-inch Simrad display, refrigerated cupholder, wireless phone charging, a Wet Sounds stereo with RECON speakers and a ZERO subwoofer, RGB lighting, dual-battery automatic control, and a 10-foot power bimini — describes the line as it is built today, not necessarily the 2025 hull in the building. Ask which of it is on this boat. On a purchase this size, the build sheet is the document that matters, not the brochure.

Power: the number that is missing

Premier rates the 25-foot Solaris floorplans for 300 to 450 horsepower depending on the plan, and the boat on the floor is rigged with a single outboard that the listing does not name. That is the first question to ask and it is not a small one: on a tritoon of this size, the engine choice moves both the price and the character of the boat more than any furniture option.

Three hundred horsepower on 2,700 pounds of dry hull is a comfortable cruiser that will pull a tube. The top of the rating is a genuinely quick boat that changes how a long run across open water feels. Confirm the make, the horsepower, the hours, and the engine warranty on the specific hull before anyone talks about payments.

Fuel is 33 gallons on the PTX 28 package this boat carries. That is a day of cruising and anchoring, not a week, and it is worth planning around if your idea of a good outing involves both ends of Estero Bay.

On the water: what the third tube is for

The case for a tritoon in Southwest Florida is straightforward. Two tubes are fine on protected water. Three tubes add buoyancy, planing surface, and the ability to carry more engine, which is what you want the first time an afternoon sea breeze puts a two-foot chop across open bay water with 12 people aboard.

Premier’s own claims for PTX are specific: “the best cruising comfort with 17% lower planing speed,” “5% tighter turning radius and faster cornering speed,” “up to 15% more top-end speed,” and “up to 17% improved efficiency,” plus “up to 218% more center-locker volume.” Premier publishes no baseline for any of those percentages — presumably its own two-tube boats — so treat them as the design brief rather than as measured results.

What the layout does is easier to verify by standing on it. The Revolution Booth plan turns the stern into a seating area people face each other in, the transparent bow gate keeps the front of the boat from feeling walled off, and the Cool-Touch fabric is aimed squarely at the problem every dark vinyl seat in Florida has at two in the afternoon. The Ricochet ladder is four inches wide per Premier’s spec, which sounds like trivia until somebody climbs it on a rough day.

Where a 26-foot tritoon is less good is the same place every big pontoon is less good: it does not like getting anywhere in a hurry through real Gulf chop, and it is a wide, tall thing in wind at a dock. This is a bay-and-sandbar boat with the range to see a sunset offshore on a calm evening, not an offshore boat.

What reviewers and owners say

Honestly: not much that we can put in front of you. Boating has tested the 250 Solaris in the RF floorplan, but the article would not resolve during this research pass, and we are not going to quote a review we could not open. Pontoon & Deck Boat’s current archive turned up no Premier features. The pontoon owner forums that would carry long-term reports were unreachable.

That leaves the brand’s reputation, which in this segment runs to heavy-gauge aluminum, furniture that outlasts the class, and prices at the top of it — a fair description of what the boat looks like in person, and not a substitute for a test. If you want third-party opinion before spending this much, the most useful thing you can do is find two owners at a marina and ask them about year three, not year one.

Living with a Premier 250 Solaris REV in Southwest Florida

Where it sleeps decides most of the ownership experience. At 26 feet 5 inches and 8 feet 6 inches of beam, this boat is a lift or a slip for almost everybody. Trailering one is legal and done, but it is a wide, heavy tow that most owners here do exactly once — the day it arrives. Canal-home owners in Bonita, Naples, and Cape Coral are the natural buyer, and the boat is far better for it: on a lift behind the house a tritoon earns weeknight sunsets, and on a trailer 20 minutes away it mostly earns excuses.

If it lives in the water rather than on a lift, ask about bottom paint before delivery rather than after. Aluminum tubes in warm salt water grow things, and the answer to that question changes the maintenance conversation for the life of the boat.

The electrical side deserves attention specific to this machine. A luxury tritoon carries a stereo, RGB lighting, a chartplotter, a powered bimini, and a refrigerated cupholder, all sitting in humidity that never really stops. Premier’s dual-battery automatic control exists precisely because that load is real. Keep the batteries maintained and the connections clean and dry, and treat the canvas and the Cool-Touch upholstery as the consumables they are under 12 months of Florida sun.

The paperwork has one wrinkle worth catching. At 26 feet 5 inches, this boat lands in Florida’s Class 2 registration bracket — 26 feet to under 40 feet — rather than the Class 1 bracket a 25-foot boat would sit in, per § 328.72, Fla. Stat. (2026). It is not a large sum, but it is the kind of detail that surprises people at the counter; the whole process is in our registration and titling guide. And whoever drives it needs the boating safety card if they were born on or after January 1, 1988 — that one has its own rules and its own clock.

Then there is the season. A boat this size on a lift in June is a hurricane-planning question, and it should be answered in May rather than in a warning cone — our hurricane-season prep guide covers the vessel version of that plan.

Recalls and known issues

None found for the Premier 250 Solaris in the U.S. Coast Guard recall database as of September 2026, based on a spot-check of uscgboating.org’s recall listing. That database’s manufacturer filter is unreliable, so read it as a point-in-time check rather than a clean bill.

A boat carries a hull identification number rather than a VIN. Have the dealer run this hull’s HIN for open campaigns before delivery, and run the outboard’s serial number separately — the engine on a boat this size carries its own recall and warranty history.

Price and what is on the floor

One 2025 Premier 250 Solaris REV, listed at $167,869 as of September 2026, against a feed MSRP of $167,896 for that model year. Freight, prep, and Florida tax, title, and registration are additional.

One tax note that matters more at this price than at any other on our floor: Florida’s county discretionary sales surtax applies only to the first $5,000 of a single item, while the 6 percent state rate applies to the whole purchase. The county-by-county math is in our sales tax guide, and on a boat in this range it is worth reading before you budget.

How does the Premier 250 Solaris REV compare?

Inside the Premier range, the step up is the 270 Intrigue REV parked under the same roof: 28 feet 5 inches, 3,000 pounds dry, 19 people, a 47-gallon tank, and $208,411 as listed. That is roughly $40,000 for two feet of boat and a tier of finish, and it answers a specific question — whether you want the biggest, most-equipped thing Premier builds or the one that fits your lift.

Elsewhere on the floor, the ALERA M23Q and M25L are the newer, slightly less expensive premium pontoons at $116,560 and $127,600 as listed, from a builder with almost no published documentation yet. The tube-by-tube version of that decision is in our pontoon buyer’s guide.

If the boat is really for fishing rather than entertaining, a tritoon is the wrong tool and the Crownline 200 FS at $49,990 as listed is the right one. And if what you actually want is speed and a machine you can launch alone, the honest conversation is PWC or boat — a whole stable of personal watercraft fits inside the price of this one tritoon.