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The fleet
Filter by hull type, charter type and how many the yacht sleeps. Rates are indicative starting figures, not quotes, and every one names its source on the yacht's own page.
18 of 18 listings
Sanlorenzo, 2018
A 37 metre Sanlorenzo from 2018 with five cabins and seven crew, one of the larger hulls that stays in Thai waters through the season rather than visiting for a few weeks.
from $14,900
per day
Ao Po Grand Marina
Not published, 2022
A 42 metre, six-cabin superyacht delivered in 2022 and listed for Thai charter, at the size where twelve guests is the legal ceiling rather than a design choice.
Rate on application
Ao Po Grand Marina
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
The workhorse of the Phuket bareboat fleet. Four cabins, eight berths, shallow draught for the limestone anchorages, and simple enough that a competent crew can run it without a skipper.
from $6,500
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
Leopard Catamarans
The house catamaran of the global bareboat brands, built for charter service rather than adapted to it, with a forward cockpit that is genuinely useful at anchor in the tropics.
from $10,500
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Beneteau
The cheapest way to charter a yacht in Phuket with cabins for eight, and the one that actually sails upwind. The trade-off is heel, less deck space and a draught that keeps you out of the thinnest anchorages.
from $4,200
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
Jeanneau
The main monohull alternative in the bareboat fleet, with the walk-around deck that makes moving forward at sea a normal act rather than a small adventure.
from $4,400
per week
Phuket Yacht Haven
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
Sanlorenzo
Just under thirty metres, which is the last size below the point where the Thai charter licence question becomes unavoidable for a foreign-flagged hull.
from $88,000
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
Various
The steel or aluminium displacement hull with range, tankage and a real dive setup. This is the class that runs Mergui, where there is no fuel dock, no chandlery and no charted anchorage to fall back on.
from $145,000
per week
Ao Po Grand Marina
Various
The Thai-flagged day fleet: a crewed catamaran for up to twenty people, out of Chalong, priced in baht rather than dollars. Not a luxury charter, but the honest first step before committing to one.
from ฿45,000
per day
Chalong Bay
The Phuket fleet is booked two different ways, and flattening that into one list would misdescribe the market. Above roughly thirty metres you charter a named hull with a named crew: this yacht, built in this year, with these people aboard. 2 of the listings here are that.
Below it, in bareboat and skippered charter, you book a model. Nobody sells you hull number 214 of a Lagoon 46. They sell you a Lagoon 46 and decide which hull you get closer to the date, which is why a class listing here carries no build year. Inventing one would make the page look more precise than the market actually is.
The practical consequence is worth knowing before you enquire. On a named hull you can ask about the captain by name and read reviews of that specific boat. On a class listing you are choosing a specification and an operator, and the operator is the part that varies.