The five boats that feed you
Lunch is not an add-on you buy at the quay. It is a property of the boat: the fare either carries a meal or it does not, and the price tells you nothing about which. The cheapest day on our books, the €20 pirate galleon, includes lunch. The €48 disco night, one of the dearest, includes no meal at all.
So here are the five that feed you, with what the record actually says is on the plate — no more than that.
- Pirate galleon — €20 adult / €14 child, seven hours in daylight. Grilled chicken with rice and salad: the only menu our record names dish by dish.
- Starcraft day cruise — €35 / €25, nine hours. Lunch freshly cooked on board. The entry stops at 'freshly cooked', so this page stops there too.
- Green Canyon day — €33 / €20, nine hours. Open buffet on board. Drinks sit outside the fare here, bottled water included — the one to plan for.
- Manavgat river and bazaar day — €43 / €30, nine hours, Monday and Thursday only. Open buffet, with the waterfall entrance excluded.
- Fishing day — €50 / €35, six hours. A hot lunch on board, plus a swimming stop in a sheltered bay.
The two evenings that feed you nothing
This is the mistake the page exists to prevent, and it is worth two sentences of plain speaking. Both evening trips run four hours. Neither records a meal.
The sunset sailing (€35 / €25) is the sharper of the two, because its record excludes food and drinks and lists no bar either. There is nothing on board to buy. Four hours over the water with the castle and the Red Tower against the light is a fine way to spend an evening — on a stomach you filled ashore.
The disco night (€48 / €34) records no meal, but it does record a bar, and the bar is paid. Eat before you board; the night is built for dancing, not dinner.
Put the nine records side by side and the pattern is hard to miss: every boat that feeds you is a daytime day of six hours or more, and every four-hour evening is a cruise rather than a meal.
Two boats we will not answer for
The Suluada island day (€43 / €30, a full day, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday) is the honest gap on this page. Our fact pack does not state what the fare covers at mealtimes — it points at the product page instead. So we point you there too, rather than guess on your behalf. It matters more than usual here, because the record also notes there are no shops or facilities on the island.
The private yacht (€580 for the whole boat, never per person, six hours) carries food and drinks only if they are arranged in advance. What that catering costs is not something we hold, so ask before you count on it.
Lunch is included. Drinks are a separate question.
No standard fare on any of the nine boats includes drinks. A paid bar is recorded on four of them — the galleon, the Starcraft day, the disco night and the fishing day. The sunset sailing, the Green Canyon day, the Manavgat day and Suluada record no bar at all. On the Green Canyon day the exclusion is spelled out to the level of bottled water, which on a nine-hour day is the detail worth planning around.
There is exactly one exception, and it is a fare rather than a boat. On the pirate galleon and the Starcraft day cruise — those two and no others — you can take the All Inclusive fare instead: €40 per adult, €28 per child. Same boat, same departure, same lunch, plus unlimited soft drinks. No alcohol: no beer, wine, spirits or cocktails.
The arithmetic is worth seeing, because it lands very differently on the two boats. On the galleon it is €40 − €20 = €20 more per adult. On the Starcraft, where the standard fare is already €35, it is €5 more per adult and €28 − €25 = €3 more per child. It is an upgraded fare on two boats, not an all-inclusive boat, and the other seven have no such option.
What every fare does carry is the round-trip hotel transfer, within each boat's own recorded pickup zone.
What a fed family actually pays
Two adults and a six-year-old on the galleon: €20 + €20 + €14 = €54, and lunch for three sits inside that number.
The same three on the Green Canyon day: €33 + €33 + €20 = €86, buffet included, every drink extra.
And the comparison that makes the point: two adults on the sunset boat pay €35 + €35 = €70 for four hours and eat nothing, while the same two on the galleon pay €40 between them and are fed.
Infants under four travel free, children of four to eleven pay the child fare and twelve upwards pays adult. Booking early costs nothing in flexibility either: cancellation is free up to 24 hours before departure.
What the record does not tell you about the food
Only the galleon's menu is written down dish by dish. 'Freshly cooked on board' and 'open buffet' are the whole of what we hold for the others, and we would rather publish that thin sentence than a plausible invented one about mezze and fresh fish.
Can we cater for a special diet? Our record does not list a vegetarian, vegan, halal or gluten-free option on any boat, so this page will not promise one. Ask us before you book rather than after.
We do not print when lunch is served, for the same reason we never print pickup times: those are confirmed hotel by hotel, not fixed on a web page.
And the question every angler asks: whether your own catch gets cooked for you, our record does not say. The hot lunch is in the fare either way.