Corporate and event charter. A private address in the one place everybody wants to be.
Client hospitality at the Grand Prix, a base for the week at Cannes, an incentive trip people still talk about. Choosing the yacht is the easy part. The guest numbers, the berth and the arrivals are where these weeks come undone.
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What you are actually booking
Three different jobs, three sets of rules
Corporate charter covers three quite different things, and the first useful conversation is about which one you are doing. The first is a private charter paid for by a company: an incentive week, or a board offsite where nobody can wander off. It runs like any other charter, and the only differences are who signs and how it is invoiced.
The second is a yacht as a base during an event week: a berth in Port Hercule or the Vieux Port, a few executives sleeping aboard, meetings on the aft deck by day and clients entertained in the evening. The third is a static event, where the yacht stays alongside and becomes a venue for a guest list far larger than she may carry at sea. Each has its own constraints, and they are firmer than people expect.
Before you draft the guest list
The numbers that decide everything
- Guests at seaUsually twelveMost charter yachts are certified to carry up to twelve guests under way or overnight, whatever their length.
- More than twelvePassenger Yacht CodeA small number of yachts are certified to carry more. They are rare, in demand, and worth asking about very early.
- Alongside at the berthOften many moreA static reception at the berth can take a much larger list, subject to the port authority, her flag state and her own certification.
- Branding and filmingThe owner decidesLogos, banners, photography and filming aboard all need the owner's written consent, agreed before you commit.
General guidance, not legal advice. The figures for a particular yacht in a particular port come from her captain and her managers, and we get them in writing before anyone designs an evening around them. See how yacht charter works.
How we run one
From brief to the last tender
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The brief
Dates, the event, and what has to happen aboard. Tell us the largest guest list you might end up with, not the smallest.
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The shortlist
Yachts that are free, in the right port, and whose owners permit what you intend to do aboard, each with its full cost.
- 03
Agreement and berth
The charter agreement, written consent for branding or filming, and the berth confirmed for your dates by the captain and the yacht's agent with the port.
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The week itself
Flights, helicopters, cars, tenders and crew movements on one running order, held by one person who answers at any hour.
What we take off your desk
The parts nobody budgets time for
- The whole cost set out before you commit: the charter fee, the APA and what usually falls outside both. See charter costs
- Written confirmation from the captain, not from a listing, of how many guests may be aboard at sea and how many alongside
- Owner consent for branding, photography and filming, settled before any artwork is signed off
- Shore caterers and extra staff when an evening is larger than the galley was built for, arranged with the chef rather than around him
- Arrivals: cars to the head of the quay, a tender schedule if the yacht is lying off, and somebody at the passerelle holding the list
- A wet weather plan, which for an open aft deck in May is not a detail
The weeks people ask for
Monaco, Cannes and September
Three windows account for most corporate charter on this coast, and all three are decided by berths long before the guest list is.
Cannes Film Festival
11 to 22 May 2027
The 80th Film Festival, centred on the Palais des Festivals with the Vieux Port opposite. Cannes Lions follows from 21 to 25 June 2027. Brands take yachts for whole weeks.
Monaco Grand Prix
3 to 6 June 2027
Berths facing the circuit are few and taken far ahead. In 2027 the weekend carries a sprint for the first time, so Friday and Saturday both hold competitive sessions and hospitality spreads across more days than usual.
Cannes Yachting Festival
7 to 12 September 2027
The show turns the Vieux Port and Port Canto into a trade floor. The yachts are working, so a charter berth that week needs planning the better part of a year out.
Monaco Yacht Show
22 to 25 September 2027
The show turns Port Hercule into a trade floor. The yachts are working, so a charter berth that week needs planning the better part of a year out.
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The berth
The address matters more than the yacht does
At the Monaco Grand Prix the yachts you see on television lie stern to on Quai Albert 1er and the Jetee Lucciana, inside the circuit. There are not many, and they are arranged by each yacht's captain and agent with the port a long way ahead. If a track facing berth is not available, anchoring off Monaco and running guests in by tender is not a consolation prize: it is quieter, it sidesteps the road closures, and the harbour looks better at night from outside it. See Port Hercule.
At Cannes the Vieux Port and Port Pierre Canto sit either side of the Palais des Festivals, which is why a yacht there works as a hospitality base: your guests walk. The Croisette closes and reopens around red carpets all day, so the car that brought clients from Nice may not reach them again at nine. We plan the walking and the tenders first and the driving second. See Cannes marinas.
The rest of the journey
Twenty people, six cities, one afternoon
A corporate week is rarely one flight. We arrange the aircraft into Nice or Cannes Mandelieu, the helicopter for the last miles into Monaco, and the cars at either end, on the same running order as the yacht. If an aircraft slips an hour, the captain knows before your guest does. Our own cars and chauffeurs are in London and Manchester, and on this coast the cars come from our trusted global network.
Request a proposal
Tell us what the week has to do
Dates, the event, how many people at sea and how many at the party, and anything that has to happen aboard. We reply with yachts that can genuinely do it and the full cost of each. Nothing is booked or charged online, and we will sign a non-disclosure agreement first if you would rather.
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Questions people ask
About corporate charter
How many guests can we have on board?
Twelve at sea on most yachts, whatever their length, because of the certification she is built to. Alongside at her berth a static reception can be a great deal larger, subject to the port and her flag. Give us the number you actually need and we will look for yachts allowed to do it.
Can we put our branding on the yacht?
Sometimes, and only with the owner's written consent. Plenty of owners allow a discreet banner, branded tenders or crew shirts and refuse anything beyond that. Ask us before the artwork goes to print.
How far ahead should we plan an event week?
For Monaco and Cannes, six to twelve months is normal and the best yachts go earlier. Event weeks also tend to carry a minimum charter period, so you may be taking the yacht for longer than the days you need her.
Can the company be invoiced?
The charter itself is contracted and paid before the trip. For the flights and cars around it, an account means one monthly invoice with cost codes rather than a settlement after every movement.
Could we do one evening rather than a week?
In the right port and outside the busiest weeks, often. See day charter. During Monaco race week or the Film Festival a single evening is very hard to arrange, because the yachts already there are committed for the whole period.
Are you an official supplier to these events?
No. We are an independent company arranging travel to and around them, and we claim no relationship with any event, port or venue.
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