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Yacht charter in Bodrum

99 yachts available in Bodrum. Departing from 7 marinas. Prices from €1,050 per week.

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99

Yachts available
€1,050

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7

Marinas & bases

Practical info

Chartering from Bodrum: the basics

Charter week: Saturday to Saturday
Departure marinas: 7
Licence needed?: Not always

First look

What you can actually charter in Bodrum

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Tosca

Bozburun · 36 m

Dragut L

Bodrum

Mus 3

Bodrum

CALM DOWN

Bodrum

Den Den

Bodrum

On the water

Sailing conditions in Bodrum

What you are booking: A crewed gulet
Not a bareboat region: Only 14 boats are sailing yachts
Where the fleet is: Bodrum Marina — 75 boats
The classic route: The Gökova gulf
Season: April – October
Changeover day: Saturday

Worth the detour

Where to drop anchor in Bodrum

1

The Gökova gulf

Thirty miles of almost landlocked water with pine slopes to the shoreline and a bay every hour — Çökertme, Değirmen Bükü, Seven Islands, Löngöz. The heart of the Turkish blue voyage.
2

Seven Islands (Yedi Adalar)

A cluster of islets in the middle of Gökova with channels between them shallow enough to see the bottom. The set-piece anchorage of the route.
3

Bodrum castle

The Castle of St Peter on the headland between the two harbours, built by the Knights of Rhodes partly from the stones of the Mausoleum. It now holds the underwater archaeology museum.
4

Bozburun

South-west on its own peninsula and the traditional home of gulet building — yards still working on the waterfront. Eight of our boats are based here and it is far quieter than Bodrum.
5

Datça and the Knidos peninsula

The long finger of land between the two gulfs, with the ancient city of Knidos at its tip and two harbours either side of the isthmus. The passage round the end is the one exposed leg of a Gökova week.
6

Turgutreis and Yalıkavak

The western and northern sides of the Bodrum peninsula, with large modern marinas and a view across to Kos. More resort than village, but useful for provisioning.
7

Gümüşlük

Built over the submerged ruins of ancient Myndos on the peninsula's western tip — you anchor above the old harbour walls. Restaurants on the beach and a short walk to the headland.
8

Across to Kos

Visible from the marina and a different country. Clearance both ways and a Turkish transit log; most charter agreements do not permit it.

Suggested routes

A week out of Bodrum

The Gökova blue voyage

7 days

The route 67 gulets exist for. Short motoring legs, a bay every evening, lines ashore and swimming off the back. Almost no sailing in the technical sense, and that is the design.

1

Bodrum Marina

Saturday boarding, usually late afternoon. The castle before you leave; a short hop out of the bay.
2

Çökertme

East round the peninsula into the Gökova gulf.
3

Seven Islands

The islets in the middle of the gulf; shallow channels and clear water.
4

Löngöz or Değirmen Bükü

The deep forested inlets on the northern shore.
5

English Harbour (İngiliz Limanı)

Named for a British submarine that hid here in 1944; a near-closed bay at the gulf's eastern end.
6

Back west — Orak island or Çiftlik

Working out of the gulf toward the peninsula.
7

Bodrum

Round the headland for the morning handover.

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The peninsula and Datça

7 days

Shorter and more varied, with the western bays and the Knidos peninsula instead of the full Gökova run. The one exposed leg is rounding the Datça tip, so watch the forecast for that day.

1

Bodrum Marina

Boarding; west along the peninsula.
2

Gümüşlük

Anchored over the ruins of ancient Myndos.
3

Turgutreis or Kara Ada

The western side; thermal springs on Kara Ada.
4

Knidos

The ancient city at the tip of the Datça peninsula — the exposed passage of the week.
5

Datça or Palamutbükü

Round into the southern side of the finger.
6

Bozburun or Çiftlik

The gulet-building coast, far from the resorts.
7

Bodrum

North for handover.

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Before you book

Local rules and paperwork in Bodrum

Mostly crewed: 86 of 100 boats. No licence or sailing resume is needed from you on those. For the 14 bareboat sailing yachts, Turkey asks for a recognised sailing qualification — confirm which your operator accepts.
A gulet is not a sailing yacht: Set expectations before you book. It motors, it does not go to windward, and the sails are often decorative in practice. What you get instead is deck space, a cook and a crew with local knowledge. Both are valid; they are not interchangeable.
Pricing is per boat, read per person: 4.6 cabins on average. Rates from €1,050 to €65,520 a week cover everything from a small boat to a large crewed one. Divided across a full boat the per-person figure is what makes this market work.
Pontoon restaurants: Free mooring with dinner. Standard practice in the Gökova bays — a restaurant with its own pontoon and no berthing charge if you eat ashore. It is the local convention, not a catch.
Crossing to Greece: Usually not permitted. Kos is in sight but it is a border, with clearance both ways and a transit log. Check your agreement in writing rather than assuming.
Rounding Datça: The one exposed leg. The tip of the Knidos peninsula is open to the prevailing wind and the gulfs either side funnel it. Everything else on a Gökova week is sheltered; plan that day around the forecast.

Checked October 2026. Rules change — confirm the detail that matters for your trip when you book.

What is here

The Bodrum fleet at a glance

The fleet in Bodrum is made up of 67 gulets, 13 sailing yachts, 10 catamarans and 8 motor yachts.

Most boats here are gulets, averaging 27.1 metres.

Weekly prices start in the under €1,500 range, where 1 boats are listed.

Boats sleep between 2 and 50 guests, with cabins up to 16.

The most common size band is over 20 m, with 77 boats.

89 boats can be chartered with a skipper; 13 are available bareboat.

The fullest month on the calendar right now is Oct 2026: 43% of the fleet already has at least one booking, while 56 boats are still completely open.

Budget

Charter prices in Bodrum

Weekly rate, set by the operator. No booking fee.

Space on board

Boat sizes

Sleeping 2–50 guests

under 10 m 1
10 – 13 m 9
13 – 16 m 5
16 – 20 m 6
over 20 m 77

Availability

How full is the calendar in Bodrum?

Share of the Bodrum fleet that already holds at least one reservation, for each of the next twelve months. Taken from the operators' own calendars and refreshed daily — a boat with one week booked can still be chartered in the others.

Months further out look emptier simply because they are further away — most charters are booked a few months ahead, not a year.

Most booked month

Oct 2026

43% of the fleet already booked

Most still open

Dec 2026

97 boats with no booking yet

Pick a month to see what is still open that week.

Quiet
Picking up
Busy
Peak

Most common models in Bodrum

Counted from our live catalogue.

Gulet

62 available · from €1.050

Custom built 183

9 available · from €17.640

Lagoon 421

2 available · from €4.900

Beneteau Cyclades 43.4

2 available · from €1.800

Luxury Sailing Yacht

2 available · from €22.440

Motoryacht

2 available · from €5.460

Yachts in Bodrum

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2016

Dragut S

Bodrum

12.43 m 3 cabins 6 guests

From €391 / day €2.738 / week

2014

Premium +

Bodrum

41 m 5 cabins 10 guests

From €5.928 / day €41.496 / week

2014

Mare Quiero

Bodrum

12 m 4 cabins 8 guests

From €707 / day €4.950 / week

2014

Romeo and Juliet

Bodrum

11.89 m 3 cabins 6 guests

From €1.275 / day €8.925 / week

2014

Romeo and Juliet

Bodrum

11.89 m 3 cabins 6 guests

From €800 / day €5.600 / week

2011

Paluko

Bodrum

12.61 m 4 cabins 8 guests

From €707 / day €4.950 / week

2011

Estrella de Mar

Bodrum

30 m 5 cabins 12 guests

From €4.355 / day €30.485 / week

2010

Spark 1

Bodrum

12.19 m 3 cabins 6 guests

From €311 / day €2.180 / week

2009

Comfort

Bodrum

12.61 m 4 cabins 10 guests

From €550 / day €3.850 / week

2008

Aganippe

Bodrum

26.6 m 4 cabins 8 guests

From €1.929 / day €13.500 / week

2008

Classic

Bodrum

13.25 m 4 cabins 8 guests

From €257 / day €1.800 / week

2008

Gulet

Bodrum

38 m 6 cabins 12 guests

From €5.129 / day €35.900 / week

About the destination

Why charter from Bodrum

Bodrum is a gulet region, and the figures leave no room for doubt: of 100 boats, 67 are gulets, the average length is 24.9 metres, and 86 of the 100 come with a crew. That makes it the largest average boat of any genuine week-long cruising region in this guide. Seventy-five of them lie in Bodrum Marina alone.

It is worth separating this from the Turkish coast further east. In Marmaris, Fethiye and Göcek the fleet is 315 sailing yachts against 50 gulets, and a bareboat sailing week is the normal product. Here it is the other way round. What you book in Bodrum is the mavi yolculuk — the blue voyage — on a broad-beamed wooden motorsailer with a captain, a cook and a crew who know which bay is sheltered tonight. The sailing is incidental; the deck, the food and the anchorages are the point.

That shapes the week. A gulet does not beat upwind and does not want to: it motors between bays, anchors with a line ashore, and the day is built around swimming, lunch on deck and a village in the evening. With 4.6 cabins on average, these boats are sold to groups — families, friends, a dozen people splitting a boat — and the per-person maths is what makes a 25-metre yacht reasonable rather than extravagant.

Geographically Bodrum sits on a peninsula between two gulfs. North and west are Turgutreis, Yalıkavak and the islands scattered toward Kos. South-east is the Gökova gulf, the long sheltered inlet that is the classic blue-voyage route and genuinely one of the finest stretches of coast in the Mediterranean. Bozburun, further south-west, holds eight of our boats and is the traditional centre of gulet building.

One thing to know: the Greek islands are close — Kos is visible from the marina — but crossing is a border with clearance both ways, and most charter agreements exclude it.