Plain answers on yacht charter
Everything we get asked on WhatsApp, written down properly: what a charter really costs, how APA and VAT work, where to go, and how to book without surprises. Written by the desk that books the boats, not by a content team.
Rates and money
Real numbers from the fleet we book, not teaser rates: what a day and a week on the water actually cost.
Rates and moneyThe per person math that makes a yacht day affordableA 6,000 euro yacht day across twelve people is 500 euros each. The reframe that changes who charters.
Rates and moneyAPA explained: the extra 25-35% nobody warns you aboutYou found a yacht for 20,000 a week. You will actually pay more. The number nobody shows you, explained.
Rates and moneyVAT on yacht charters: country by country, in plain wordsThe tax line on your charter quote, explained without the legal fog.
Rates and moneyThe MYBA charter contract, clause by clause, for guestsWhat you actually sign for a crewed week: payment schedule, cancellation, weather, and the clause people miss.
Rates and moneyWhat is actually included when you charter a yacht?Where every euro of a charter rate goes, and the extras to ask about before you book.
Rates and moneyTipping the crew: what is normal on a charterThe gratuity question everyone quietly googles on the last evening, answered before you board.
Charter basics
The complete first timer's walkthrough: booking, boarding, the day itself, and what to bring.
Charter basicsDay charter or a crewed week: which one is your trip?Eight hours or seven days: two different products, two different budgets, one honest comparison.
Charter basicsCrewed charter versus bareboat: why we only book crewedYou can rent a boat to sail yourself. Here is why everything we book comes with a professional crew.
Charter basicsFive yacht charter myths, killed with real numbersThe five beliefs that stop people chartering, tested against the fleet's real rates.
Charter basicsHow big a yacht does your group actually need?Guest capacity is a legal limit and comfort is not measured in meters. Matching the boat to the group.
Charter basicsYacht day versus beach club: same money, different dayThree thousand euros gets your group a table, or the whole sea. The line by line comparison.
Charter basicsWhat a charter broker actually does for youWhy the same rate buys you more through a desk that verifies boats and answers the same day.
Destinations
Every major charter ground compared honestly: where the money goes furthest and where the hype is real.
DestinationsIbiza or Mallorca: which Balearic island for your charter?Formentera scene or Cabrera silence: the honest split between the two Balearic charter capitals.
DestinationsThe Blue Lagoon by private boat: doing Comino rightGo early or go late, and know the second lagoon: the playbook for Malta's most famous anchorage.
DestinationsSunset and party charters in Malta: how the evening worksBirthdays, proposals and plain good evenings: the Malta sunset charter, planned properly.
DestinationsCapri, Positano, Amalfi: a week on the coast that invented glamourThe Gulf of Naples week, planned like a local captain would run it.
DestinationsThe Greek islands by charter: Saronic, Cyclades or Ionian?Three seas, one country: matching your group to the right Greek island chain.
DestinationsSplit to Dubrovnik: the Croatian island run, day by dayThe classic Dalmatian one way week, planned southbound with the crowds behind you.
DestinationsWhere the yachts actually anchor on the French RivieraThe Riviera beyond the marina selfie: the anchorages that make the day.
DestinationsSardinia by boat: Costa Smeralda and the Maddalena islandsCaribbean water two hours from Milan: the Costa Smeralda day and week, honestly mapped.
DestinationsMontenegro: Europe's fjord, before everyone finds itThe most dramatic charter water in the Adriatic, at rates from another decade.
Planning
The season is ten weeks long. The boats are finite. The calendar that wins them.
PlanningWhy the best charter itineraries are half emptyThe planning principles behind every great week aboard, from people who watch them happen.
PlanningChartering with kids: the brief that changes everythingTwo kids under six, a nervous grandmother, one dream day: how the family brief gets built.
PlanningBirthdays, proposals and company days: chartering for an eventHow to run a birthday, a proposal or an offsite on the water without a single surprise.
PlanningHalf days and sunset slots: the charter almost nobody asks forThe low ticket way onto the water that most clients never think to request.
PlanningEating and drinking aboard: how food works on a charterFrom your own cooler to a chef's tasting menu at anchor: the complete food playbook.
Booking
The whole booking, demystified: five steps, no form, no waiting week.
BookingLast minute charters are real. They work like this.Yes, you can still get a boat this week. No, it does not work the way you think.
BookingNine questions to ask before you pay for any charterThe due diligence checklist that separates real offers from pretty listings.
BookingCancellation and weather: who pays when plans changeThe rainy day rules of chartering, read before the sky does anything.
BookingMessage a broker like this and get the best boats firstThe 20 second message that skips the whole back and forth.
BookingWhat makes a successful yacht charter requestThe four details that get you the right boat fast, and the five extras that help, from the desk that reads hundreds of requests.
BookingOne saved contact for the whole Mediterranean: how we workThe case for us, made with checkable facts rather than adjectives.
Charter a yacht by destination
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