The charter price
Every charter company publishes a weekly price for each boat and each week of the year, high in July and August, lower at the edges of the season. That published price is what you see on the card and on the yacht page; we sell at it and are paid by the company out of it. For a stay starting on a day the company does not normally change over, the price is for exactly the stay you asked, never a Saturday week quietly substituted.
Discounts
Two kinds, and the card shows the result rather than the promise. The company's own discount — early booking, last minute, a long charter — is already taken off the price you see, with the original struck through beside it. A Yachtco discount, where we give one, is shown on its own line and is funded from our commission; it never makes the price higher than the company's, only lower.
Extras: before arrival and at the base
The yacht page sorts extras into the two places you pay them. Before arrival, with the charter: the optional things you tick, such as a dinghy outboard or a SUP, and our crew. At the base, on check-in day: the company's obligatory extras — the transit log or final cleaning, linen where it is charged, a tourist tax where the country levies one — listed with their prices so you know what cash or card you need on the dock. An extra the company confirms only on request is marked as such and never counted as certain.
The deposit
Paid to the charter company at check-in, by card block or cash as the company states, and returned in full after check-out if the boat comes back as it left. Its amount is on the yacht page; on many boats the company offers a non-refundable insurance in its place, also priced there. It is never paid to us.
How you pay
By bank transfer at the quoted price, in the instalments the company's payment plan sets — typically a first instalment at booking and the balance some weeks before departure, the exact dates on your offer. By card with 5 % added, which is what the card networks charge us. There is no booking fee in either case. Payments go to Blackbird One Ltd., trading as Yachtco, and each one is confirmed by a document in your account.
Our skipper and cook
Our skipper is from 2.100 € a week, our cook from 2.100 €, each booked by the whole week and paid with the boat — never below the company's own rate for the same role where that is higher, which the boat's page shows. With our cook aboard, food is 500 € per person a week, half board, children included. Without a cook the skipper eats with you or on an allowance of about 30 € a day. On a yacht the company crews itself the crew is already in the price.
What is never in the price
Fuel, paid on return for what you used. Marina and mooring fees, night by night, which vary from a free anchorage to the price of a hotel room in the best-known harbours. Water and electricity at the quay where metered. Provisioning, and the skipper's tip if you give one. Budget for these as the running costs of the week rather than look for them in the charter price, because no company puts them there.
A real week, added up
Take Bavaria 30 Cruiser | La Luna, Marina Vrsar, Croatia, as the site lists it today — the first boat of the site's own order that carries a company discount:
- Company's published price
- 800 €
- Company's own discount
- -40%
- Charter price, per week
- 480 €
- Our skipper, a week (optional)
- from 2.100 €
- Obligatory extras at the base
- as the boat lists them
- Deposit at check-in, refundable
- as the boat lists them
- Fuel, marinas, food
- as you go
The yacht page shows the "as the boat lists" lines with their numbers; this guide leaves them out because they change per boat and per base. Open Bavaria 30 Cruiser | La Luna →