How Much Does It Cost to Charter a Yacht?

A yacht charter is usually priced as a multi-day or weekly booking rather than a single day, and the total scales with the same factors that drive a day rate — boat size and age, season, region, and whether you're chartering bareboat or with a crew — plus one more: whether the listing offers a multi-day discount for longer stays. A week booked at a flat daily rate and a week booked under a duration discount can land at very different totals for the same boat, so it's worth checking whether a listing has a longer-stay rate before assuming the week is just "day rate × 7."

As with a single day, there is no fixed weekly price list here — owners set their own rates, and a week's cost for a mid-size sailing yacht or motor yacht commonly spans a wide range depending on region and season, with crewed superyacht charters running considerably higher. Treat any number you see outside a specific listing's calendar as general market orientation, never a quote.

This is the single biggest cost lever after boat size:

• Bareboat — you or a licensed guest on your booking operates the boat. No captain fee applies.
• Skippered — a captain comes with the boat, either because the owner requires one or because you've opted into an optional captain. When a captain is required, that fee is billed automatically as part of your total. When a captain is optional, it's only added if you actually request one.
• Fully crewed — for larger yachts, additional crew (steward, chef) may be built into how the owner prices the boat rather than itemized separately.

A captain fee being billed as its own line doesn't mean it's a side payment you settle informally — it's charged through the platform as part of what you owe, whether the owner bills it per day or as a flat per-trip amount.

Beyond the base rental, a charter total can include:

• Mandatory fees the owner charges on every booking (cleaning, for example)
• A captain fee, when the boat requires or you request one
• Optional extras you choose — water sports gear, catering, and similar add-ons
• A guest-facing service fee, if the platform is charging one at the time of your booking — this is separate from anything the owner sees and, when active, is shown clearly before you pay, on top of the rental total
• A security deposit, shown on the listing and locked into your booking's terms once you book — but this is never something BoatRentalHub charges, holds, or refunds. The owner collects it in person, typically at check-in, and returns it directly once the boat is checked back in undamaged. See our payment timing guide for exactly what does get charged online versus what doesn't.

Every yacht on the platform carries its own cancellation terms, set by that owner — there's no single company-wide policy. Those terms are shown on the listing and again at checkout as concrete dates and refund amounts, and once you book, the terms you saw are frozen to your booking even if the owner changes their listing afterward. Longer, more expensive charters are exactly where it's worth reading these terms carefully before you commit — see the full breakdown in our cancellation policy guide.

Charter costs vary enormously by destination even for comparable boats, so region is often the first filter worth applying. Croatia is one of the more transparent markets to compare against, with a wide spread of yacht sizes and both bareboat and skippered options — or browse the full yacht listings directly and filter by your dates to see live, real quotes rather than averages.