Classic is a search word, not a product name
Nobody at Alanya harbour sells a boat called the classic. The word belongs to the people typing it, and what they are describing is specific enough to answer properly: a sailing in daylight, a run along the coast, stops to get in the water, a meal on board, and a minibus back to the hotel at the end of it.
Two of the nine boats we sell are exactly that day. The other seven are deliberately something else — an evening, a river and a bazaar, an island, a fishing rod, a cold-water canyon, a night with a DJ, or a boat with nobody aboard but your own party. So this page describes the standard day using only what our own records hold, and it is just as clear about the parts the word ‘classic’ quietly implies that neither boat delivers.
The four things a standard day is made of
Strip the two records down to what they share and four things sit inside the fare. Everything else is a difference between the boats, and every one of those differences is in the next section.
- Daylight hours out of Alanya harbour — seven on the pirate galleon, nine on the Starcraft day cruise. Nothing shorter qualifies: both four-hour trips on our list sail in the evening.
- Swim and snorkel stops. The galleon's record puts them in turquoise coves below the medieval castle; the Starcraft's in crystal-clear, sheltered bays. Neither says how many stops there are, so neither does this page.
- Lunch on board, inside the price. The galleon's is written out dish by dish — grilled chicken, rice and salad. The Starcraft's says freshly cooked on board, and that is the whole of it.
- Round-trip hotel transfer, at no extra cost inside each boat's own recorded pickup zone. Those two zones are not the same shape, which is the detail people tend to find out late.
The €20 galleon and the €35 Starcraft, side by side
Both leave Alanya harbour, both are shared boats priced per head, and both put the round-trip hotel transfer inside the fare — each within its own recorded pickup zone. Here is where they part company. Per head the longer day is €35 − €20 = €15 more for an adult and €25 − €14 = €11 more for a child, and what that buys is two extra hours on the water and the foam. It does not buy a different coast: both are daytime sailings out of the same harbour.
- Pirate galleon — €20 adult, €14 child, seven hours in daylight, lunch named in full. Music rolls out across the marina and an English-speaking animation crew works the deck; no DJ and no foam party appear anywhere in its record. Families, couples and groups of any age, and non-swimmers explicitly welcome. Pickup covers central Alanya; beyond that, collection is on request rather than included.
- Starcraft day cruise — €35 adult, €25 child, nine hours in daylight, lunch cooked fresh on board. The animation crew fires off a foam party between the swims, which is the one thing the galleon's record does not contain. Its own entry does not recommend it for anyone with serious mobility limitations, and distant outlying resorts fall outside its pickup.
Lunch is in the fare. Drinks are not.
Both boats carry a bar — the galleon's record invites you to grab a cold drink from it, the Starcraft's lists soft drinks, beer and cocktails — and on both, everything that comes off it is paid separately. Across seven or nine hours in the sun that is a line worth budgeting for rather than discovering.
There is one way round it, and it is a fare rather than a boat. These two sailings, alone in the fleet, sell an All Inclusive option instead of the standard ticket: €40 per adult and €28 per child for the same boat, the same departure and the same lunch, plus unlimited soft drinks. No alcohol of any kind — no beer, no wine, no spirits, no cocktails. It upgrades the ticket; it does not move you to a different boat, and anyone advertising an all-inclusive boat in Alanya harbour has changed the meaning of the thing.
€54 on one boat, €95 on the other
Two adults and a six-year-old: €20 + €20 + €14 = €54 on the galleon, with lunch for three sitting inside that number, or €35 + €35 + €25 = €95 on the Starcraft. The nine-hour day therefore costs €95 − €54 = €41 more for the three of them.
Swap the six-year-old for a toddler and the galleon day is €20 + €20 + €0 = €40, because infants up to three sail free. Children of four to eleven pay the child fare and anyone twelve or over pays the adult one — the same rule on both boats and on both fares.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure is the only date rule our record puts on either of these two.
What ‘classic’ promises that these two boats do not
This is the half of the subject most listings skip, so it gets its own list. If quiet is the actual requirement rather than a bonus, the honest answers on our list are the fishing day, the sunset sailing and the private yacht.
- A theme-free deck. One of the two is a pirate galleon and the other throws foam between the swims. ‘Classic’ suggests a plain boat having a plain day, and strictly speaking we do not sell that.
- Drinks in the price. Not on these two at the standard fare, and not on any of the other seven either.
- A DJ. Exactly one boat in our fleet sails with one, and it sails after dark. A daytime foam party and a live DJ are two different products here.
- A voyage inside the sea caves. Our product records describe swimming coves and sheltered bays; they do not itemise the caves or state what any boat does when it reaches them, so this page will not either. The caves have their own guide.
- A departure time. We never print one on any page. Collection is confirmed hotel by hotel, and a printed hour would be a guess wearing the clothes of a fact.
- A sailing on whatever date suits you. Two other trips carry recorded fixed days; these two carry none. An absent restriction is not the same as a promised daily departure, so check your date as you book.
If the standard day is the wrong day
Seven other boats exist because this day does not suit everybody. What follows is a set of pointers rather than a ranking; matching a boat to the day you actually want is another page's job.
- Cold fresh water instead of salt: the Green Canyon day, €33 adult and €20 child, nine hours, open buffet included, and the only trip in the fleet with a recorded Avsallar pickup.
- A river and a bazaar: Manavgat, €43 / €30, nine hours, Mondays and Thursdays only, open buffet included and the waterfall entrance not.
- An island: Suluada, €43 / €30, a full day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a long road leg west and no shops or facilities once you are there.
- A rod: the fishing day, €50 / €35, six hours, hot lunch included, a swimming stop recorded in a sheltered bay, and open water that can be choppy.
- An evening: the sunset sailing, €35 / €25, four hours, with nothing served on board at all. The same €35 buys either nine daylight hours with lunch or four evening hours with none.
- Your own party and nobody else: the private yacht, €580 for the whole boat for six hours, snorkelling masks included, route adjustable, weather permitting. That figure is the price of the boat and never a per-person rate.
Where our record stops
We hold the ingredients of the standard day, not its timetable. How many swim stops each boat makes, how long they last and the order the day runs in are not written down anywhere we can see, and we would rather say so than invent a schedule that reads well.
The same goes for the boats themselves: capacity, deck layout, shade and on-board facilities are not in our records, so you will not find them asserted here. Snorkelling masks are recorded as included on exactly one product — the private yacht. For these two day boats the record says swim and snorkel and stops there, so bring your own mask if it matters to you.
No vegetarian, vegan, halal or gluten-free option is recorded on either lunch. Ask us before you book rather than after, and we will tell you what the boat can actually do.
If the sea caves are the real reason you are booking, they have a guide of their own, and the full fare grid for all nine boats sits on the prices page.