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8 options, all bookable direct with the operator: no OTA commission baked into the price, free cancellation up to 24 hours before travel.
Four hours on a 60 to 65 foot flybridge with a crew of two, a swim stop in the lee of the Palm, and the skyline doing what it does at six o'clock. The price buys the vessel, so twenty guests cost what four do, which is the whole difference between a charter and a ticket.
4 hours
from $2,151per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $4,221
Book this experienceAbove about 100 feet a boat stops being a venue and becomes a house: cabins, a real galley, a tender on the transom and a crew who have done this a thousand times. Vessels this size are chartered one at a time from a small local fleet, so we quote the actual boat free on your dates rather than publish a number we would have to take back.
8 hours
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Book this experienceThe dinner cruise most people book is a warm buffet on a crowded deck; this is its opposite, a private vessel lying at anchor with a chef cooking a set menu aboard for your table and nobody else's. The menu is agreed in advance and dietary requirements are built into it rather than apologised for, and the boat stays out as long as the conversation does.
4 hours
from $4,493per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $6,562
Book this experienceA yacht is a floating lounge; this is a boat you can actually feel, a hard-top cabin boat that will hold thirty knots out to the World Islands and be back inside the Palm in twenty minutes. Ten guests maximum, one skipper, and the whole hull is yours, which is the only way to stop and swim exactly where you want to.
3 hours
from $871per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $2,941
Book this experienceMost of the World Islands are still bare sand four kilometres offshore, which is precisely what makes the one finished island worth the crossing: a proper resort lunch at the Anantara, then back out to water with nobody else in it. The yacht is yours for the full day, so the afternoon gets decided at anchor instead of on a timetable.
8 hours
from $4,329per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $6,399
Book this experienceFive hours of a crewed yacht with a chef aboard costs roughly what a serious dinner for twelve costs on land, with the difference that the dining room moves. We charter the boat, brief the galley and agree the menu in writing first, so nobody discovers offshore that dinner turned out to be a cheese platter.
5 hours
from $4,493per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $6,562
Book this experienceDrift is the quiet one: teak, white canvas, a pool facing the Palm and none of the sound systems that turn the other beach clubs into a decision rather than a rest. One price covers the cabana, the loungers and the food and drink minimum, and the car waits until you have had enough sun.
8 hours
from $545per vehicle · up to 6 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $2,614
Book this experienceChildren on a boat need three things: something to jump off, shade to recover in and a proper bathroom, and a crewed 65-footer is the smallest thing that carries all three. It also solves the real problem with a beach day, which is that a beach cannot be moved when the wind gets up.
5 hours
from $2,560per vehicle · up to 7 guestsHyundai StariaRolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge from $4,629
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