Bring your extended family, up to 32 guests to a luxury yachting vacation!
When it comes to superyacht charter, or mega yacht charter in most cases family offices, rich households, private individuals or corporate clients look for an established brand of superyacht manufacturers which accommodate 10 or 12 guests and a large number of professional crew in order to enjoy ultimate yachting holiday. These superyachts are usually manufactured by Italian, Dutch or British shipyards such as Benetti, Heesen or Sunseeker. In some cases, usually when it is talk about megayachts or most recently 300ft+ giga yachts, they tend to be manufactured by German shipyards such as Luerssen. While such luxury floating villas are readily available and can be chartered in all major sailing destinations, during the summer in South of France, Amalfi coast or Sardinia in Italy, within the Balearics in Spain or around Greek islands, they tend to be quite expensive and considerable investment is needed to enjoy their splendour. Even when they are available in more secluded and far away destinations such as the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Dubai or even South Pacific, say Kimberley area of Western Australia, the captain will not be allowed to accommodate more than 12 guests on board. To bring an extended family, usually means chartering two or even three yachts and that may prove impossible to finance as the cost will easily quadruple at times.
What if you want to bring 20 family members
Where it gets complicated is that by inviting your brother and sister and their kids, the house even on the most exclusive and biggest of them all gets quickly full. Six cabins on an 100ft or on an 250ft superyacht are only going to accommodate 12 guests, regardless if you will pay 80,000 Eur per week or 800,000 Eur per week. Even the most sensible yachts that will allow a number of supernumeraries to be registered as nanny or bodyguard, even though they may be your cousin or his girlfriend, that will only increase number of your family members up to 14 maximum. The answer could be simpler than you think and closer than you can imagine. Croatian built superyachts in the Adriatic!
What are these Croatian superyachts
Built for distinguished parties of 20+ and usually up to around 30 guests, these are superyachts offering similar level of luxury found on any standard mega yacht. With up to around 10 crew, including a professional chef, the main difference is the total cost, cruising speed and to some extend finer attention to details when it comes to serving smaller versus a large group. Take the FREEDOM, a 150ft+ superyacht with 11 luxury cabins and price that is in the region of 100,000 Eur per week. You can bring both your loved ones, up to 23 guests and enjoy a total luxury at 10kn+ cruising speeds, less than 120l/h fuel consumption and levels of luxury found on any other similarly sized superyacht.
Facilities on board
What will you find on board you may ask yourself? In general, everything you expect from any other type of superyacht for sure. From designer interiors, high quality materials, furnishing and top bed linen for sure. Space on deck will be enormous and cabins will be of reasonable size with all necessary facilities found too. Water toys are many and can always be topped up if needed. We always recommend to charter an additional, even two, superyacht tenders to follow your around as that way you can also bring everyone to more difficult to access bays, anchorages and hidden swimming spots at high speed if need be. The costs will increase of course, yet they will be much less than chartering 2x 150ft superyachts anyway.
Final choice of where to enjoy luxury yachting holiday
In any case, given total costs, level of luxury, excellent service and overall value, when it comes to indulging in a superyacht lifestyle and allowing extended family to experience it, nothing beats the offer on boats such as M/S FREEDOM in Croatia. A number of other models are available and all differ from one another in some finer ways, thus you are best advised to get a yacht charter broker from SuperSailYachts.com to advise on availability, pricing and subtle differences to find the most suitable luxury yacht for your family.
