85 of the 122 discounted boats we are tracking in Phuket today are catamarans. The median week costs €4,696. The same boats are listed at €5,600 — so the median saving is €904, and the deepest discount on the board right now is 20%.
Those are not indicative prices. They are what the boats are offered at this week in three booking networks we read every night, which is also why the numbers on this page change: it is rebuilt with the data, not written once.
Charter sites publish a “from” price and leave it there. Below is both numbers: what the operator lists, and what the week actually goes for after the discount.
| Model | Boats on offer | Week, after discount |
|---|---|---|
| BALI 4.5 | 18 | €4,021 |
| LAGOON 52 F | 16 | €5,992 |
| ISLAND SPIRIT 410 | 6 | €3,496 |
| BALI 4.1 | 5 | €2,897 |
| FOUNTAINE PAJOT SABA 50 | 5 | €6,424 |
| EXCESS 11 | 4 | €3,174 |
| FOUNTAINE PAJOT ELBA 45 | 4 | €5,236 |
| FOUNTAINE PAJOT SAONA 47 QUINTET | 4 | €4,800 |
Models with a single boat on offer are left out — one boat is a coincidence, not a price. Every figure is a median across the boats of that model currently listed.
See all current deals →It is not a preference we invented — it is what the operators keep in Phuket. Catamarans are 70% of everything on offer, and the monohulls that remain are mostly smaller and cheaper.
The reasons are the ordinary ones. A catamaran gives far more living space for the same length, sits level instead of heeling, draws less water, and has two engines instead of one. On a family holiday in flat water those things matter more than sailing performance, and the Andaman Sea in season is flat water.
Read cabin counts carefully — ours included. Charter systems report the total number of cabins on board, and on a catamaran that total usually includes the crew cabins in the bows. A Bali 4.5 appears as six cabins and has four for guests; a Lagoon 52 F appears as eight and has six. Every listing you will see, here and elsewhere, inherits that from the operator’s own sheet.
76 of the catamarans on offer are bareboat, which means you are the skipper and the operator will want to see a certificate. The rest come with crew, and they are the larger and more expensive end of the list.
If you do not hold a licence, a skipper can be added to any boat from €150 a day. What counts as a licence in Thailand, and what sailing without one really costs, is set out on the licence page.
Almost all of them lie in Yacht Haven Marina on the north-east of the island, with a smaller fleet at Ao Po Grand Marina nearby. Both are about forty minutes from the airport and open straight onto Phang Nga Bay, which is where most weeks are spent.
The median on offer right now is €4,696 for seven days, with the cheapest catamarans under €2,500 and the largest crewed boats above €12,000.
We read the offers that operators publish to their booking networks, including the discounted ones, and list the price after the discount rather than the headline rate. The boats are the same boats.
The Andaman season runs roughly from November to April. Outside it the monsoon makes for a very different week, and fewer boats are on offer.
For a bareboat charter, yes — the same rules apply as for any yacht. See which certificates are accepted.
One per couple — and check whether the number quoted is guest cabins or all cabins. Charter systems usually count the crew cabins in the bows as well, so a boat listed with six often has four for guests.
Every night. The page is rebuilt from the same data as the main listings, so what you see here matches what you will find one click away.