An all-inclusive fare, not an all-inclusive boat
Search for an all-inclusive boat in Alanya and you will be shown a photograph of a boat. What we actually sell is a line on a booking form. On two of our nine trips — the pirate galleon and the Starcraft day cruise — the same departure can be bought at a second price, €40 for an adult and €28 for a child of four to eleven, and that price carries unlimited soft drinks alongside the lunch the boat was already serving.
Nothing else changes. Same hull, same crew, same swimming stops, same hotel transfer. You are not moved to a different vessel, and there is no separate all-inclusive boat moored somewhere in the harbour for the people who paid more. Anyone advertising one is describing a different fleet.
The other seven trips on this site have no such option at any price. If you are looking at the sunset sailing, the disco night, the Green Canyon day, the Manavgat day, Suluada, the fishing day or the private yacht, the all-inclusive fare is simply not on the menu.
The two days you can buy it on
The pirate galleon is the short one and the cheap one: seven hours in daylight, €20 adult and €14 child as standard. Lunch is grilled chicken with rice and salad — the only menu our record names dish by dish — and the day is built around swimming and snorkelling in the turquoise coves below the medieval castle. There is an English-speaking animation crew and music that rolls out across the marina; there is no DJ.
The Starcraft day cruise is the long one: nine hours, €35 adult and €25 child as standard, lunch cooked fresh on board, and swim stops in crystal-clear, sheltered bays. Between the swims the animation crew cranks up the music and fires off a foam party. Our record notes it is not recommended for anyone with serious mobility limitations.
Both are daytime family days that already include a meal, which is exactly why the drinks upgrade sits on these two and on nothing else. The €40 fare buys the same day with the drinks question taken off the table.
What €40 and €28 do to your bill
The upgrade price is flat — €40 and €28 on both boats — so what it costs you depends entirely on which boat you were standing on.
On the galleon it is the bigger step: €40 − €20 = €20 more per adult, and €28 − €14 = €14 more per child. On the Starcraft day it is small change: €40 − €35 = €5 more per adult and €28 − €25 = €3 more per child.
That flat price also produces a comparison people miss: the galleon on the all-inclusive fare costs €40, which is €5 more than a plain nine-hour Starcraft day at €35. The full upgrade-versus-standard sum, worked through family by family, lives on its own page rather than being repeated here, and the price grid for all nine trips is a page of its own too.
Children of four to eleven pay the €28 fare and twelve upwards pays €40. Infants under four sail free on the standard fares across this fleet; the all-inclusive record names an adult price and a child price only and says nothing about infants, so ask us rather than assume. Either way the booking cancels free up to 24 hours before departure.
No alcohol. Not at any price.
The all-inclusive fare covers soft drinks. It does not cover beer, wine, spirits or cocktails, and there is no dearer version of it that does.
This is where we would rather lose a booking than be misunderstood, because to a great many people arriving from an all-inclusive hotel the phrase means an open bar. On these two boats it means unlimited soft drinks and lunch. You can still drink on the water — both boats carry a bar, and the Starcraft's record lists beer and cocktails — but you buy it there, glass by glass, on top of whatever fare you are on.
We do not sell an alcohol-inclusive boat trip in Alanya. If an open bar is what you came for, no fare on this site is it, and we would rather say so now than at the quay.
What the other seven boats do about drinks
No standard fare in this fleet includes drinks. That is true of all nine boats, the two upgradeable ones included. What differs is whether there is anything on board to buy.
A paid bar is recorded on four boats: the pirate galleon, the Starcraft day, the disco night and the fishing day. Two of those four are the boats with the all-inclusive fare — so among the seven trips without it, only the disco night and the fishing day have a bar at all.
The remaining five carry nothing to sell you. The sunset sailing records no food, no drinks and no bar: four hours with nothing aboard. The Manavgat day and the Suluada day record no bar either, and on the Manavgat day drinks sit outside the buffet. The private yacht carries food and drinks only if they were arranged in advance.
The Green Canyon day is the one to plan around: nine hours, an open buffet included, and an exclusion written down to the level of bottled water. Pack accordingly.
What our record does not say
It says unlimited, and it attaches no cap to the word. It does not list which drinks are poured — no brands, no mention of tea or coffee — so we will not itemise a tray we have not seen.
It also does not say whether the upgrade can be added once you are aboard. Treat it as something to settle when you book, and tell us then.
What it does not change is the food. The all-inclusive fare buys the same meal the standard fare buys: grilled chicken, rice and salad on the galleon, lunch cooked on board on the Starcraft. What it adds is the drinks.
The round-trip hotel transfer is inside both fares within each boat's own recorded pickup zone, which is central Alanya for both — the galleon records pickup outside the centre as on request rather than included, and the Starcraft day records distant outlying resorts as excluded. The upgrade widens neither zone.
And it does not price what the bar sells, so nobody can tell you how many soft drinks it takes for the upgrade to pay for itself — us included.