Two different purchases
The day boats sell you the sea. The pirate galleon runs seven daylight hours for €20 and feeds you grilled chicken, rice and salad; the Starcraft runs nine for €35 with lunch cooked fresh on board. Both carry an animation crew, both swim in full daylight, and the pirate boat's own record says non-swimmers are welcome too.
The sunset boat sells you the light. Four evening hours for €35, and its record lists nothing beyond the cruise and the hotel transfer — no meal, no drinks, no programme. The air out there is cooler than on shore, the castle and the Red Tower stand against the light, and nothing loud is recorded on this deck. You are paying for the hour, not the catering.
The comparison in one list
- Departure — the day boats use the daylight; the sunset boat leaves late in the day and sails into the evening. Exact pickup times are confirmed per hotel, never printed.
- Duration — seven hours on the pirate galleon, nine on the Starcraft, four on the evening sailing.
- Food — lunch is included on both day boats. The sunset boat carries no food at all.
- Drinks — included nowhere. No boat on this site includes drinks; the day boats have a paid bar on board.
- Swimming — a daylight activity, and the day boats are built around it. The sunset boat's record lists the cruise and the transfer, nothing more.
- Children — the child fare (4–11) is €14 on the pirate boat and €25 on the Starcraft or the evening sailing; infants up to 3 sail free everywhere. The meal and the animation are on the day boats.
- Temperature — the evening on the water is cooler than the shore, and the sunset boat's own advice is to bring a layer.
- Pickup — the day boats collect in central Alanya (the Starcraft excludes the distant outlying resorts; the pirate boat lists outside-centre pickup as excluded, on request only). The sunset boat collects along the Alanya resort strip.
- Price — €20 buys seven hours with lunch; €35 buys either nine daylight hours with lunch or four evening hours with neither.
The dinner question, answered plainly
We do not sell a dinner cruise. No boat in this range serves an evening meal, and the sunset sailing includes no food and no drinks — its record excludes both. Anyone booking it expecting dinner on deck will come back hungry, and we would rather say so here than argue about it afterwards.
The practical version: eat ashore. The sailing is four hours, which leaves the rest of the evening for a table in town — before the boat or after it, whichever side of the cruise suits you.
Who should take which
Travelling with children, take a day boat. The pirate galleon's record lists families, groups of any age and non-swimmers among its passengers, and the arithmetic is blunt: two adults and a child of 4–11 pay 20 + 20 + 14 = €54 there, against 35 + 35 + 25 = €95 on the evening sailing — after which all three would still need feeding ashore.
For two people the day boats are not wrong — the pirate boat's record lists couples explicitly. What the evening has that no daylight hour can offer is its light: the castle side of the town against the sun, cooler air, and a deck on which nothing loud is recorded. The other quiet options in this range are the fishing trip and the private charter.
One caution from the records: the Starcraft day is not recommended for anyone with serious mobility limitations.
What does not change
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure, on the day boats and on the evening sailing alike.
The child policy is the same everywhere: infants 0–3 sail free, children 4–11 pay the child fare, and from 12 you pay as an adult. And drinks are included nowhere — the day boats carry a paid bar, and the sunset sailing includes no food or drink of any kind.