Private Boat to Suluada: Charter on Request

A private boat means the whole boat: your group, your pace, no shared deck. It is not one of our scheduled products, so there is no price list here, no fixed capacity and no timetable. We would rather leave those blank than invent them.

Every request is answered individually. Send your date, the number of adults and children travelling and where you are staying, and we come back with what is actually possible for that day — including, honestly, whether a boat is free at all in high season. Use the contact page; nothing is confirmed until you have it in writing. If a private day is not the right budget, the shared Side departure visits exactly the same island.

The times we publish belong to the scheduled cruise, and they are real. From the Side–Manavgat band, hotel pickup falls in the 05:30–06:00 window in air-conditioned vehicles, with an optional breakfast stop at Adrasan around 08:30, payable at the local restaurant. The boat sails from Adrasan harbour at 09:40 and docks back at 16:00 — about ten hours door to door, and it runs every day.

The Antalya departure picks up between 08:30 and 09:00 from central Antalya, Kemer and Beldibi, and the day runs around twelve hours. It sails on Tuesday and Thursday all year, plus Saturday from April to October — selected days, not daily. A private arrangement is planned around your date instead, which is precisely why we cannot print its schedule in advance. The geography does not change: the boat anchors near the island, tender boats shuttle guests to the bay where conditions allow, and the route takes in the twin beaches, the Love Cave and the sheltered cove of Domuz Bay.

On the shared cruise the ticket covers the two-way hotel transfer, the boat, guidance and every swimming break. Lunch is cooked on board: your choice of grilled fish or chicken with pasta or rice, daily Turkish mezes — stuffed vine leaves, stuffed peppers, lentil patties — and a seasonal salad, then seasonal fruit and Turkish tea. Drinks from the bar are excluded and paid separately, as is the optional breakfast at Adrasan. The Antalya departure additionally includes snorkelling masks, pool floats, marine insurance and harbour fees.

For a private request, treat none of that as automatic. Inclusions, catering and crew are confirmed in the written reply to your enquiry — we do not carry assumptions over from the scheduled product. One thing holds either way: there is no shop on the island, so sunscreen, a hat and anything else you want ashore comes with you from the hotel. Our yacht tour page explains exactly what kind of boat the shared cruise is.

A private boat suits milestone days: a family celebration, a small group that wants the deck to itself, photographers who need to linger. Everyone else is well served by the scheduled cruise, which sails daily from Side and carries a genuinely flat price — €40 per adult from every pickup point, €30 per child aged 4–10, infants 0–3 free. Note the minimum age of 6 on the Side departure. Families can start with the Suluada family tour, and our shared boat versus private charter comparison is blunt about the trade-offs.

Booking the scheduled cruise is simple: reserve free online and pay on the tour day — no prepayment, no card held. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure, and if the harbour authority stops sailings in rough sea you are rebooked or refunded. For a private day, start with an enquiry and we will tell you honestly what your date allows. Every scheduled price sits on the prices page.