Honest Picks
A Suluada day is not a private cruise for two, and we will not sell it as one. It is a shared boat, a long crossing and a bay so bright it looks edited. What makes it work for a couple is the shape of the day. We run the departure from Side every day and the departure from Antalya on selected days, and both sail out of Adrasan harbour.
If you want your evening back, take the Side boat. It leaves Adrasan at 09:40 and docks at 16:00, so dinner is still yours. If you would rather sleep in, take the Antalya boat: pickup between 08:30 and 09:00, and a day of around twelve hours. Either way the fare is €40 per adult, booked free online and paid on the tour day — the numbers live in the price guide.
Two things are worth knowing before you picture it. There is no shop on the island, so bring whatever you want to drink or read; and the passenger list is a mixed one, families included. If you want the bay closer to yourselves, ask us about a private boat — it is arranged on request, not a fixed product with a fixed price. For the swim most couples remember, read about the Love Cave, and see both departures side by side on the best Suluada boat tour.
The one that fits any date, because it sails every day of the week. Pickup is 05:30–06:00 across the Side region, the boat leaves Adrasan at 09:40 and is back at 16:00 — about ten hours door to door, which returns your evening intact. Lunch is cooked on board; drinks at the bar are not included. The trade-off is the alarm clock, and it is a real one.
The later start, for couples staying in central Antalya, Kemer or Beldibi. Pickup falls between 08:30 and 09:00 and the day runs about twelve hours, with snorkel masks and pool floats included. Check the calendar first: it sails Tuesday and Thursday all year, plus Saturday from April to October, so your date chooses the boat rather than the other way round.
The Side departure suits most couples: it sails every day, so it fits whatever date you have free, and it docks at 16:00 with the evening still ahead of you. Couples staying in central Antalya, Kemer or Beldibi are better off on the Antalya boat, which starts between 08:30 and 09:00 and runs Tuesday and Thursday all year plus Saturday from April to October.
Not on the scheduled tours — both departures are shared boats. A private boat is possible on request: tell us your dates and how many of you there are, and we will come back with what is available. There is no fixed price or fixed timetable for it, so we quote nothing until we have checked.
That depends on how you sleep. The Side departure collects between 05:30 and 06:00, which is genuinely early, and buys you a full day of swimming stops at Suluada and the bays around it before the boat docks at 16:00. If that alarm would ruin the day for you, the Antalya departure begins between 08:30 and 09:00 instead.
€80 — €40 each, the same from every pickup point on the coast, booked free online and paid on the tour day. That covers the cruise from Adrasan, the transfer where we operate one, every swimming stop and lunch cooked on board. Drinks at the bar are paid separately, and the breakfast stop at Adrasan is optional.