Most booked Alanya Pirate Boat Trip
The classic Alanya day out — a painted galleon along the cave coast, swim stops under the castle walls, foam on the deck and lunch cooked on board.
- ⏱ 7 Hours
- 🚙 Hotel pickup included
Alanya · Mahmutlar · Avsallar · The Turquoise Mediterranean
Seven boats out of one harbour, under the Red Tower: the pirate galleon day, the Starcraft cruise, the night disco boat, the sunset sailing, the Suluada island run, the Manavgat river day and a yacht of your own. From €20 per adult, and you pay on the day you sail.
Choose your boat
A galleon with a foam party, a nine-hour cruise along the caves, a night boat with a DJ, an evening sailing under the castle, the clearest water on this coast at Suluada, a river-and-market day, and a private yacht. Filter them below by what you actually want from the day.
What do you want from the day?
Most booked The classic Alanya day out — a painted galleon along the cave coast, swim stops under the castle walls, foam on the deck and lunch cooked on board.
The longer day on the water: the same cave coast and swim stops as the pirate boat, with more hours to spend on them and lunch served on deck.
The night boat. A live DJ, a foam party and the floodlit castle from the water — an evening out rather than a day trip, and not one for young children.
An evening cruise out of Alanya harbour, timed so the castle headland, the Red Tower and the cave coastline are lit by the last of the sun. Four hours on the water, back after dark.
The white sand and glass-clear water of Suluada — the island people call the Turkish Maldives — reached from Alanya. Sails Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. A full day, with a long road transfer each way.
Six quiet hours out of Alanya harbour with a rod in your hand. Gear provided, lunch cooked on board, and a swim stop somewhere sheltered on the way back.
The day that leaves the sea behind: a cruise on the emerald reservoir behind the Manavgat dam, the waterfall, and the riverside bazaar. Mondays and Thursdays only.
The day that swaps the sea for the mountains — a reservoir the colour of bottle glass, pine cliffs on both sides, and water cold enough to wake you up.
Private hire is quoted rather than priced from a list, because the number depends on the boat, the date, how long you want and what you would like laid on. Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with a real figure.
The experience
Alanya is built around a limestone headland that drops straight into the sea, with Seljuk walls running up it and the red-brick Kızıl Kule standing at the bottom since 1226. From the promenade you see one side of it. From the water you see the whole thing at once, which is why almost every visitor ends up on a boat at some point in the week.
The coastline west of the harbour is punched through with caves — Pirates' Cave, the Lovers' Grotto, the Phosphorus Cave — and the boats run along it slowly enough to look into them. Between the caves the water is deep enough to be properly blue and sheltered enough to swim in, so the day is a rhythm of cruising, anchoring, swimming, and cruising again.
What differs between the boats is the mood, not the coast: a galleon with foam and games for families, a bigger cruise with a full lunch, a night boat with a DJ, and a quiet evening sailing for people who want the coastline and the light and nothing else.
Stage by stage
This is the shape of the classic pirate-boat day. The Starcraft cruise runs the same coast over a longer day; the evening boats compress it into four hours.
You are collected from the main entrance of your hotel. The strip runs more than forty kilometres from Okurcalar to Mahmutlar, so the time depends on where you are staying — the office confirms yours the evening before rather than us printing a time here that would be wrong for half of you.
The transfer ends at the harbour, in the shadow of the Red Tower. You board directly from the quay; there is no tender and no queue for a smaller boat.
The boat pulls away and turns along the headland, so the castle walls and the tower stand above you as you leave. This is the photograph everyone takes, and it happens in the first ten minutes.
West of the harbour the cliffs are hollowed out. The boat runs close in past Pirates' Cave, the Lovers' Grotto and the Phosphorus Cave, slowing at each one.
The crew drop anchor in sheltered water where you can swim off the boat. On the pirate and Starcraft days there is time for more than one stop, and snorkelling is part of it.
On the pirate, Starcraft and Manavgat days lunch is cooked and served on the boat and is included in the price. On the evening boats it is not — those are cruises, not meals.
The deck turns over to music, foam and the animation crew for the last stretch. On the night disco boat this is the whole point of the trip rather than an interlude.
Why book with us
Each boat on this site is a separate day with its own price, length and character. We do not sell one cruise under seven names.
Round-trip transfer from hotels between Okurcalar and Mahmutlar is included on every boat. Staying outside that belt? Ask — we answer case by case rather than promising it on a page.
The price you see is the price for the cruise and the transfer, plus lunch on the boats where lunch is included. Where a boat has a bar rather than a meal, we say so.
No prepayment and no card. You pay in euros on the day you sail, and you can cancel free up to 24 hours before.
Booking and WhatsApp support in English, German, Russian and Polish.
Children aged 4–11 pay a reduced price on every boat, and infants 0–3 sail free. The reduction differs per boat, so each page shows its own figure.
On the water
The galleon under the castle, the cave coastline, and the water the boats anchor in.







Questions
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