The broadest fleet on the island and the one most likely to have something free at short notice. Simpson operates across Southeast Asia with Phuket as its main Thai base, covering everything from bareboat catamarans up to crewed superyachts.
Charter licence
Runs a mixed Thai-flagged and foreign-flagged fleet. Ask which flag your specific hull carries and, if foreign, for the charter licence reference.
Not on public record means no public statement was found. It is not a claim that a licence is missing, and the two are genuinely different. The licence belongs to the individual yacht and its management company, so inside one fleet the answer changes from hull to hull. What the licence covers.
Sunreef Yachts
The luxury catamaran answer to a superyacht: twenty-four metres of beam-heavy platform with superyacht volume, shallow draught for the limestone anchorages, and the 24 metre length that puts it exactly on the Thai charter licence threshold.
from $90,000
per week
Ao Po Grand Marina
Sunreef Yachts
Eighteen metres of crewed luxury catamaran, below the licence threshold and above the charter-fleet standard. The size most couples and small families actually want once they have seen the price of the next step up.
from $48,000
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Lagoon
A metre longer than the 42 and noticeably more comfortable for eight adults, with the flybridge helm that has become the standard layout in the charter fleet.
from $8,500
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Lagoon
The size at which a catamaran stops being a bareboat and starts carrying crew: five cabins, twelve guests, and a skipper and cook in the forepeaks.
from $16,000
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Fountaine Pajot
The main alternative to the Lagoon fleet, with finer hulls that sail better and a slightly less generous saloon. The choice if the group actually intends to use the sails.
from $11,000
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Bali Catamarans
The catamaran with the tilting garage door instead of a cockpit bulkhead, which turns the saloon and cockpit into one space. In a climate that is 30 degrees and humid, that single design decision is why this class charters well in Thailand.
from $17,500
per week
Phuket Boat Lagoon
Azimut Yachts
Twenty-four metres of planing motor yacht: the class that turns the thirty mile crossing to Phi Phi into ninety minutes instead of five hours, at the cost of a fuel bill that runs through the APA rather than the base rate.
from $55,000
per week
Ao Po Grand Marina
Princess Yachts
Twenty-six metres with five cabins and a flybridge that works as a second saloon, which in this climate is where guests actually spend the evening.
from $62,000
per week
Ao Po Grand Marina
Traditional wooden build
A heavy wooden motor-sailer with six cabins and a great deal of deck, chartered for the space and the shade rather than for the sailing. The cheapest way to put twelve people on a private yacht for a week in Thai waters.
from $24,000
per week
Phuket Boat Lagoon
Operators rarely run an identical itinerary. The variant matters more than the name: a four-night version of a five-night route has dropped a destination, and it is usually the furthest one.
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