Superyacht Charter in Phuket

A superyacht charter in Phuket with Horizon Cruises Phuket means one of seven crewed yachts from 92 to 170 feet, chartered whole from ฿350,000 (a five-hour half day on Sea Bear in low season; a full day from ฿550,000), with cabins for eight to twenty-two guests overnight and up to eighty by day. Six of the seven leave from Ao Po Grand Marina. Send your dates on WhatsApp and you get the yachts that are free with one final price in Thai baht.

Where the line between a luxury yacht and a superyacht is drawn

There is no legal definition of a superyacht, and on a yacht charter in Thailand the word is used loosely. On this site the line sits just above our three yachts, Ferretti 80 Sofia, Beluga 88 and Technema 89 Say Yes, which are compared on the luxury yacht charter in Phuket page. Above it a yacht carries an engineer among the crew, cabins with private bathrooms for eight or more guests, and a draft deep enough to change which anchorages can be used. Each of the seven is a private yacht charter in Phuket in the plain sense: the whole boat goes to your group and nobody else comes aboard. One exception is worth naming: Aventure, the only sailing yacht in the catalogue, measures 29 metres, but she is a classic ketch chartered for several days at a time, so she is compared with the boats under sail rather than here.

The seven yachts, with the starting price from each yacht's page

Horizon Cruises Phuket offers seven yachts in this class, all partner boats with their crews. Westport 130 Sea Bear is the yacht behind the starting rate at the top of this page: refitted in 2025, five cabins for ten overnight guests, a crew of seven, up to forty guests by day, with a slide, a floating pool and a jet ski included. Astondoa 102ft from ฿390,000 takes twenty-five guests by day and eight overnight, has an office on the main deck and a crew of six, and is the only one of the seven not based at Ao Po. Song of Songs from USD 37,500 is 139 feet long with six cabins, twelve overnight guests and a crew of eight to ten, sold as all-inclusive packages, which is why her price is in US dollars. Vanora is the longest yacht in the catalogue, a liveaboard with eleven cabins and the one that takes the most guests by day. The other three sit between Sea Bear and Astondoa in price; their guest counts and starting rates are in the cards below.

Crew: what a professional crew does on a week-long Phuket yacht charter

Crews run from five to ten people with defined roles, and one of them is responsible for the machinery rather than the service: a vessel of this size does not run a week-long itinerary without an engineer. Meals are cooked aboard where the programme includes a chef. The tender, the water toys, the masks and snorkels and the next anchorage are handled without anyone in your group deciding anything. On a single-day yacht trip much of this is invisible; over a week it is the whole point, which is why these seven are booked for several nights far more often than for an afternoon.

Where a yacht this size can go around Phuket: Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and the Andaman Sea

Draft and length limit the anchorages. A boat above the line does not tuck into the small bays behind the limestone that a forty-foot boat uses, and it does not come alongside every pier, so boarding is sometimes by tender, arranged in advance. We therefore tailor the itinerary to the vessel: the sheltered water of Phang Nga Bay with James Bond Island, the Koh Yao islands, the Krabi side, and longer passages into the Andaman Sea towards the Similan Islands in the dry season. Six of the seven run from Ao Po in the north-east of the island, which has no tide restrictions and is the closest of the four to the airport; Astondoa is based at Royal Phuket Marina on the east coast.

Two pricing models for a superyacht charter, and what a day on the water costs

Five of the seven are quoted like the rest of the catalogue: a day rate that moves with the season and the route, with fuel for the agreed route included in the published figure except where a yacht's page lists a fuel fee for a longer route. One of them has a flat day rate across six routes, so a far island costs the same as a day in the bay. Vanora's rate also includes fuel but depends only on the format, half day, full day or overnight, and stays the same all year. Song of Songs can be chartered two ways: as an all-inclusive package covering a day or a night aboard with food, drinks and water toys, or per night with tax and a provisioning allowance added separately. Sea Bear also publishes a weekly rate in US dollars with an advance provisioning allowance on top, and the manager runs both figures for your dates.

Prices are per boat, not per guest: the rate covers the group up to the headcount shown on each yacht's page. On several of these yachts the national park fees are in the rate, and the yacht's page says so; on the others the park and beach fees are paid per person at Phi Phi, in Ao Phang Nga, at the Similan Islands and at Banana Beach on Coral Island, with children at a reduced rate; the parks revise their rates from time to time, so we confirm the current figures with your quote.

Lead time, deposit and booking a superyacht charter in Thailand

In the 2026/27 yachting season, November to April, the dates on these seven go early. For a week aboard plan months rather than weeks ahead, particularly for the peak weeks; the peak dates are shown on each yacht's page. Most boats take a 50% deposit with the balance before departure, some boats are paid in full at booking, and late cancellation is non-refundable; the exact terms are on each yacht's page and on the terms page. How we compare with other Phuket charter companies is set out in top yacht charter companies in Phuket. Horizon Cruises Phuket has arranged charters from its office in Chalong since 2013 under TAT licence 34/02188, with support in English and Russian. Send the dates, the number of guests and the format, and you get the yachts that are free with a final figure in writing; we reply on WhatsApp around the clock.

Smaller alternatives: a power catamaran, a speedboat or private boat hire in Phuket

If reaching one specific small anchorage is the point of the trip, a smaller boat serves you better and we will say so. A private boat charter in Phuket works the same way on every boat we offer, the whole boat with its crew for your group: forty-one motor yachts from ฿33,900, twenty power catamarans from ฿35,900, seventeen sailing catamarans from ฿20,900 and nine speedboats from ฿21,000, all compared on the yacht charter Phuket prices page. A speedboat or a power catamaran gets into the bays that a superyacht anchors outside of.