The honest price of a festive night, itemised to the waterline

The floor, and why it is real

€300 buys two hours on a Comfort-class yacht in Istanbul — the whole boat, not a seat. Inside that figure already sit the captain, at least one crew member, fuel for the standard route, Wi-Fi and a sound system that plays whatever your phone holds. It is a genuine floor rather than bait: on calm dates, on the right boat, that is the invoice.

Everything above the floor is one of five variables, and a proper quote is simply those variables written out as lines. Learn the lines and no yacht price in this city will confuse you again.

Five variables move every quote

• Class. Comfort opens at €300 for two hours. Premium adds space, design and service; Luxury is the VIP tier for weddings and large events. Both upper classes are quoted individually for the specific yacht and date.
• Size. A boat for 2–8 guests and a hull for 20–30 are different machines with different running costs; event yachts for 100+ guests are a category of their own.
• Date. Warm-season weekends and holiday evenings draw the most requests; quiet weekdays are the kindest to a budget.
• Duration. The €300 figure covers the first two hours on Comfort. Longer charters are quoted as a whole for the boat and date — ask for the total, never a meter rate.
• Add-ons. Catering from €30 per person; decor, DJ, live musicians, photo, video, drone, transfer and the laser message are each priced individually and each entirely optional — event services lists the full menu.

Every line a quote can contain

Three bookings, taken apart

Totals depend on the yacht and the date, so inventing them here would be theatre. What can be shown honestly is which lines appear in each quote — and which stay at zero.

A two-hour date for two

The shortest quote we write: one line for the boat — Comfort, from €300 — and often nothing more, because on most yachts your own picnic and playlist ride free. Couples who want ceremony add a set table, flowers and candles as individual decor lines, and dinner arrives either from your own bag or as catering at €30 per person, times two. The Romantic Package bundles exactly this shape.

A birthday for fifteen

Fifteen guests asks for a larger Comfort or a Premium hull, so the boat line is quoted for the date rather than read off this page. The duration line appears too — birthdays breathe best in the four-hour format. Then the celebration lines: decor and a cake, a photographer, catering multiplied by fifteen at from €30 a head, a DJ if the deck should dance. Six or seven visible lines, every one removable — the birthday page shows where hosts usually trim.

A corporate night for sixty

Sixty guests is event-yacht territory, and the quote becomes a project plan: the vessel, an evening slot, full catering with waiters, sound and a DJ, transfer coordination for guests arriving from across the city, photo and video for the follow-up. Every line is individual because every company wants a different night — the formats live on corporate events. What never changes is the shape: one document, every cost named, nothing discovered on the day.

Keeping the number small

• Pick a weekday. The boat is identical on a Tuesday.
• Cruise in daylight. Sunset is the most requested slot; the afternoon shores photograph just as well.
• Bring your own food and drinks where the yacht allows it — most do — and spend on the one course that matters instead of five that do not.
• Stay on the standard route: its fuel is already inside the base price.
• Keep the two-hour format. The heart of the strait fits inside it comfortably.
• Match the boat to the real headcount. Eight friends do not need a hull built for thirty.

Current figures sit on the price page; if you would rather answer a few questions and receive a shortlist with the arithmetic already done, the charter planner exists for exactly that.