The straight answer, before anything else
There is no private boat and no yacht charter on this brand from Belek. Not a small one, not a large one, not on request, not in high season. If you have landed here from a search for a Belek yacht charter, the most useful thing we can do is say so in the first paragraph rather than in the small print, and then spend the rest of the page on what actually exists.
This is not modesty about a product we are quietly holding back for the right customer. We operate three shared day trips from Belek and nothing else on the water, and the same is true of the sunset cruise, the fishing boat and the diving boat that people also ask us for. Half of being useful is being precise about the shape of the hole.
What does exist is a private charter fleet on this coast, run inside our own group of companies, based at harbours along the shore rather than at Belek. The rest of this page is about where those boats are, what sort of day each one is, and the single question you need answered before you count on any of them.
Why the charter does not leave from Belek
The reason is the one that already surprises guests about our own galleon day: as far as our records go, Belek has no boat harbour of its own. Our pirate galleon does not sail from Belek either. That day starts with a hotel pickup in Belek or Kadriye and a transfer to Side Harbour, where the boat is moored, and the transfer sits inside the €25 rather than being added to it.
A shared day boat absorbs that geography easily. It collects guests from a whole strip of hotels, drives them to the harbour and sails a fixed programme, and one vehicle serves everybody. A private charter is a different animal. It is a single vessel with its own captain and crew, based where it is based, and it publishes the hotel areas it can reach around that harbour. Belek is not on those lists.
So the honest sentence is not that we cannot be bothered. It is that the boats are moored elsewhere and their published pickup areas begin further along the coast. We would rather write that down than take a booking and try to solve it on the morning, with your holiday day already spent.
Who in our group charters whole boats, and from where
Whole-boat charters on this coast belong to a different part of our own operation rather than to a partner we found for the occasion. The ones we can send you to are published by bestboattour.com, the sister brand that actually charters whole boats on this coast, and it publishes in the same four languages as this site, so a German, Russian or Polish reader is not dumped onto an English page.
The fleet it publishes runs to five boats, and they are genuinely different days rather than five names for the same boat.
- Private yacht from Kumköy — about seven hours out of the Kumköy and Side coast, with lunch served on deck and a round-trip air-conditioned hotel transfer from the Kumköy and Side area included in the charter.
- VIP private boat from Side — about six hours on a traditional wooden boat or a yacht, along the Manavgat River and the Side coastline, with a freshly cooked lunch on board; the hotel transfer here is optional rather than automatic.
- Private yacht in Alanya — about six hours past Alanya castle, the Red Tower and the sea caves, with the round-trip transfer from the central Alanya districts included in the charter; food and drinks here are arranged in advance rather than served as standard.
- Luxury motor yacht — about six hours off Antalya, with the meal agreed with you in advance and, on request, a return late enough to bring you home under a sunset; hotel transfer is arranged on request.
- Private gulet — about seven hours with your own crew and a lunch menu put together for your group; hotel transfer on request, and deck decoration for a celebration arranged before the day rather than improvised on it.
The pickup question, which from Belek is the whole question
Here is the part that decides whether any of the above is any use to you, and it is worth reading twice. Each of those boats publishes the hotel areas it collects from, and each list follows its harbour: the Kumköy yacht and the Side VIP boat name the Side and Kumköy strip, the gulet's list and the Alanya yacht's both run along the Alanya coast, and the luxury motor yacht's covers the Antalya city districts. Belek appears on none of them.
That is not a refusal, and we are not going to present it as one. Every one of those pages closes its pickup list with the same offer: if you are staying somewhere else along the coast, message them and they will tell you honestly whether they can reach you. It is the same sentence we use on this site, for the same reason, and it means the answer is available to you in a few minutes on WhatsApp.
So the practical advice is short. Ask the transfer question first, get the answer before you decide the day is happening, and only then look at boats. If the answer is yes, you have your charter. If it is no, you either make your own way to the harbour or you take one of the shared days that does collect you at your Belek hotel — and knowing which of those two situations you are in is worth more than any brochure.
What a charter costs, and why we will not print theirs
A charter is not priced the way a seat is. You are buying the vessel for the day, with its captain and crew, which is why one more guest does not add one more fare and why two people end up paying for an empty deck. The figure the sibling publishes is a starting price for the boat, and its own conditions state that the final one follows the boat category and the size of the group, confirmed once you send both.
We do not reprint another operator's fares here. Prices move, and a number copied onto a third website is the number most likely to be stale on the day you read it. Our own fares appear all over this site because we are the ones who charge them; theirs are on their pages for exactly the same reason. What we will give you is the order of magnitude: a charter starts at several times what two adults and two children pay for a full day of seats on our galleon, which is €75.
That is the trade, stated plainly. You are not buying a better boat trip, you are buying the boat. For a party of six or eight the arithmetic closes up quickly. For a couple it rarely does, and anyone telling a couple otherwise is selling rather than advising.
If what you actually wanted was quiet
A good share of the people searching for a private boat are not really after exclusivity. They are after the thing a shared day boat cannot promise: calm water, no sound system, and nobody else's holiday happening two metres away.
If that is you, the closest thing we run from Belek is the Green Canyon day, and it deserves an exact description rather than a hopeful one. It is a freshwater reservoir behind the Oymapınar Dam near Manavgat — a deep-green, cool, calm lake between pine-clad cliffs, not a stretch of Mediterranean coast. The captain anchors in sheltered coves, there is free time on the open deck, and it is the calmest water in our programme, at €42 for adults and €25 for children aged 4-11, about 8 hours door to door. It is still a shared boat with other guests aboard.
What it is not is a substitute for a charter, and we will not sell it as one. The galleon sits at the opposite end of the same scale: a foam party, music and pirate animation, which is precisely why families love it and precisely why nobody should book it hoping for peace and quiet.
Booking every seat does not make the boat yours
One more thing worth saying, because it tends to be asked in a hopeful tone. A single booking on the galleon can cover a large party, which genuinely helps a family group that does not want to split across several reservations. It does not buy the boat. Other guests are still on board, the foam party and the pirate animation run for the whole deck rather than for your group, and we cannot rope off a section of it for you.
If a boat to yourselves is the actual requirement, then the shared day is the wrong product and no number of seats fixes that. That is the point at which the charter fleet, and the transfer question above it, become the conversation worth having.
What we do run from Belek
So that this page is not only a list of things we do not have, here is the programme it is measured against. Three days, three genuinely different kinds of water, all with the round-trip hotel transfer from Belek or Kadriye included and all paid in euros on the day of the tour.
- Alibaba pirate galleon: a full day of around 7 hours, roughly 6-7 of them on the boat, boarding at Side Harbour after the morning transfer from Belek. €25 for adults, €12.50 for children aged 4-11, infants 0-3 free.
- Green Canyon reservoir cruise: freshwater rather than sea, about 8 hours door to door including the scenic drive inland each way. €42 for adults, €25 for children aged 4-11, infants free.
- Manavgat market and river boat: the open-air market plus a traditional wooden riverboat on the Manavgat River, 7 hours, running on Mondays and Thursdays only because those are the market days. €43 for adults, €30 for children aged 4-11.
- All three: hotel transfer included, nothing prepaid, no card taken online, free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure.
How our own booking works, since none of it is prepaid
You reserve a date and pay nothing at that moment. No deposit is taken and no card details are collected online, the balance is settled in euros on the day of the tour, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure, so holding a date early costs you nothing if the week changes shape.
Pickup times are confirmed the day before and depend on where your hotel falls in the route, which is why you will not find a departure clock time anywhere on this site. If your hotel sits outside the Belek and Kadriye belt, message us and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach you rather than promising it on a web page — the same answer we would want from anyone else, including the charter fleet.