Rates are per hour in dirhams and include crew, fuel and marina fees. Minimum charter length is set by the boat, not by the day of the week.
Our most-booked boat, and the easiest first charter. Comfortable for a dozen guests without feeling like a party boat, and small enough to get close in along the Marina waterfront.
AED 750per hour · 2 hour minimumCrew, fuel and marina fees included
Enquire about Azure Pearl
The right size for a birthday or a company day out. Enough deck space that twenty-two guests can spread out, and a saloon with proper air conditioning when the afternoon gets heavy.
AED 1,400per hour · 3 hour minimumCrew, fuel and marina fees included
Enquire about Desert Wind
A full superyacht charter for events, brand shoots and weddings. Four cabins, a jacuzzi on the sun deck, and a crew used to running a schedule to the minute.
AED 3,200per hour · 4 hour minimumCrew, fuel and marina fees included
Enquire about Gulf Royale
Quick, quiet and well kept. The boat we put families on. Good shade, a low swim platform that children can actually use, and a crew who slow the day down.
AED 1,050per hour · 2 hour minimumCrew, fuel and marina fees included
Enquire about Marina LyraThe honest answer almost always comes from the headcount rather than the budget. Pick the smallest boat your group legally fits on, then spend what is left on hours rather than length.
The hourly rate is the number people compare and the minimum charter is the number that decides the bill. The 62ft is AED 1,400 an hour against the 55ft’s AED 1,050 — close enough to feel like a small step. But the minimums are three hours and two, so the smallest booking you can make is AED 4,200 against AED 2,100. That is a factor of two, not a difference of a few hundred dirhams.
The same applies at the top of the fleet. The 85ft is a little over double the 62ft’s hourly rate, and its four-hour minimum makes the smallest charter AED 12,800 against AED 4,200. When you compare boats, compare minimum charters.
Every rate includes the captain and crew, fuel for the agreed route, all marina and departure fees, chilled water, soft drinks and ice, swim equipment, life jackets in adult and children’s sizes, and a Bluetooth sound system. Nothing on that list appears again at the end.
Bringing your own food is free on every boat and most groups do it. Catering, decoration, a photographer and watersports alongside sit outside the rate, are agreed in writing beforehand, and are added to the balance rather than settled supplier by supplier.
All four berth in Dubai Marina, take about twelve minutes to clear the channel, and cruise at around ten knots. Charter time runs berth to berth on all of them.
Start from the headcount, not the boat. Count everyone boarding including children, pick the smallest boat that fits, and spend the difference on an extra hour rather than on length. Most people book bigger than they need and use about a third of the deck.
The 48ft Azure Pearl at AED 750 an hour with a two-hour minimum, so AED 1,500 for the smallest real charter. It carries up to twelve guests, and crew, fuel and marina fees are inside that rate.
Because the fixed costs of a charter barely change with length. Crew call-out, fuelling, provisioning, cleaning down and moving the boat off its berth cost nearly the same for two hours as for four, and on an 85ft with five crew a two-hour booking would cost more to run than it earns.
Whichever one you fill. At full capacity the 85ft works out at AED 366 a head for four hours and the 62ft at AED 191 for three. The same 85ft with twenty aboard is AED 640 each, so a bigger boat is only cheaper per head when it is close to full.
Our largest is the 85ft Gulf Royale for up to thirty-five guests. Above that no yacht on this coast is licensed to carry you, because capacity comes from vessel certification rather than length. For more than thirty-five, a privately hired dhow takes up to a hundred.
The 55ft Marina Lyra. The deciding feature is a low, wide swim platform with a ladder a child can use unaided, plus good shade, an air-conditioned saloon and children's life jackets carried as standard.
Per boat, per hour. Two people pay the same as twelve on the same yacht, which is why a private charter gets cheaper per head as the group grows and why a shared dhow cruise at AED 99 a head is better value below about ten guests.
Yes, chartered in from partner fleets with about a week's notice and priced individually. Note that the licensed guest number does not keep rising with length — most 100ft and 35m boats are still certified for around thirty-five to fifty.
Most people get this wrong in the same direction. They book bigger than they need. Leave the headcount and the date and we will name the boat, or message us and we will do it on WhatsApp.
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