The one rule that is actually written down
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure. It applies to all nine trips on this site, from the €20 pirate galleon to the private yacht at €580 for the whole boat, and it is the only weather-proof commitment we can put in writing — because it is the only one our record carries.
It is more useful than it looks. A forecast three days out is a guess; a forecast the evening before is not. The 24-hour window means you can hold a date now and still change your mind once the picture has firmed up, at no cost. Two adults and a six-year-old on the pirate boat come to €20 + €20 + €14 = €54, and more than 24 hours out none of that is at stake.
What the weather can change on the day
Two things, going by the record: the route, and the swim stop. The private yacht is the one product whose own record spells this out — the route is adjustable, weather permitting, and so are the swim stops. On a shared boat the same logic runs without the paperwork. None of the day boats names a fixed anchorage: the pirate galleon records swimming in turquoise coves below the medieval castle, the Starcraft day in sheltered bays, the fishing trip in a sheltered bay. Sheltered from what is exactly the question the crew answers on the morning.
What the record does not do is put a number on any of it. There is no wind speed at which a departure is called off, no swell height written into a policy, no forecast rule. The captain reads the day and decides. Any site that hands you a figure invented that figure.
Three different questions, all of them called weather
- Wind. The fishing day is the one trip whose record raises it in as many words: all the fishing is done from the boat, and open water can be choppy. That is a recorded characteristic of the trip — six hours, €50 adult and €35 child, hot lunch on board — and not a forecast for your date.
- Heat. No standard fare on this site includes drinks, on any of the nine boats. Two of them let you close that gap before you sail: the pirate galleon and the Starcraft day sell an All Inclusive option at €40 adult and €28 child, which buys unlimited soft drinks plus the same lunch, on the same boat and the same departure. No alcohol. It is an upgraded fare on those two boats, not a separate all-inclusive boat, and the other seven trips have no such option.
- Evening cool. The sunset trip's own record says it plainly — it is cooler out there than on shore, so bring a layer. Four hours in the evening, €35 and €25, with no food and no drinks on board, because the cruise is the entire product. The temperature is the part people underestimate, and it is the one weather variable you can solve by packing.
Two of the nine days are not about the sea at all
The Green Canyon day (€33 adult, €20 child, nine hours, open buffet included) and the Manavgat day and bazaar (€43 and €30, also nine hours, open buffet) both record their swim stops in cold mountain water rather than the Mediterranean. The warning the record attaches to that water is about temperature, not motion: it is mountain-spring cold, and it is cold in every month. Bottled water is excluded on the Green Canyon day, which matters more in heat than in wind.
The disco night yacht is the other case, for the opposite reason. Four hours in the evening, €48 and €34, live DJ, animation team and a foam show — and no swim stop in its record at all. An afternoon that would have spoiled a swimming day takes nothing away from a programme that was never going in the water.
When the weather becomes a calendar problem
Two of the nine trips do not sail every day, and that is where a weather decision costs you time rather than money. Suluada sails Monday, Wednesday and Saturday only. The Manavgat day and bazaar sails Monday and Thursday only. Everything else on the list runs as a daily programme.
Do the arithmetic on a short holiday. Cancel a Thursday Manavgat booking on the Wednesday — free, well inside the rule — and the next Manavgat departure is the following Monday. On a seven-night stay that can mean no second chance at all. Suluada is the same shape and adds a long road leg, with no shops or facilities on the island once you are there, so whatever the day's weather demands you carry with you.
The claims we will not make
We do not publish a wind threshold, because there is not one in our record. We do not publish a cancellation trigger or a refund procedure beyond the 24-hour rule, because we would be describing a process we cannot point at. And we will not tell you what the sea will be doing on your date.
What is safe to say is what each trip is, what it costs, what the 24-hour rule gives you and who makes the call on the morning. Everything past that line is somebody's guess with a confident font.