Turkey Yacht Charter Prices

A crewed gulet or motor sailer has a median of about €23,400 a week for the whole boat, a sailing yacht €34,000 and a motor yacht €78,000. All are base charter fees before APA and VAT. Because gulets take up to 36 guests, the cost per person here is the lowest of any crewed charter we broker.

Yes, though it is not the typical Turkish boat. The local market is built around gulets, which take more guests and usually cost less per person, so that is what most Turkish quotes come back as. Catamarans sail here too and we source them from partner fleets on request — tell us it is what you want and we will price one alongside a gulet so you can compare. If the catamaran is the point of the holiday rather than the destination, Greece has the deepest choice and is a short flight away.

Budget roughly half as much again as the headline rate. APA runs 30 to 35% of the charter fee and covers food, drink, fuel and harbour fees; VAT is charged on top; crew gratuity is customarily around 10%. On a €23,400 gulet week that puts the realistic total near €35,000 — and provisioning in Turkey costs less than in the western Mediterranean, so the allowance tends to stretch further.

For a large group, substantially — a gulet taking sixteen or twenty guests has no equivalent in the Greek fleet, and the per-person figure reflects that. For six or eight people set on a catamaran the comparison is closer, because in Turkey that is a boat we source from partner fleets rather than one the local market leads with, while Greece has the deepest catamaran choice in the Mediterranean. Running costs ashore and in harbour are lower in Turkey than in Greece, Italy or France.

May, June, September and early October. The season runs from late April to October and is longer at both ends than in Greece or Croatia. July and August are peak and very hot; the shoulder months give warm water, quieter anchorages and noticeably better rates on the same boat.