Every boat, sorted by the hours on record
- Sunset sailing — 4 hours, evening. €35 adult, €25 child. The shortest thing we sell, and the cruise is the whole of it: no food, no drinks, no bar on the record and no swim stop listed.
- Night disco boat — 4 hours, after dark. €48 adult, €34 child. Four hours bought as an event — a live DJ, an animation team and a foam show, bar paid separately, no meal recorded. Teens and adults; under-18s accompanied.
- Fishing day — 6 hours. €50 adult, €35 child. The fishing is all done from the boat, a hot lunch is served on board and there is a swim stop in a sheltered bay. Open water can be choppy, and that is part of the six.
- Private yacht — 6 hours. €580 for the whole boat, never per person, with the route adjustable inside those hours, weather permitting.
- Pirate galleon — 7 hours, daytime. €20 adult, €14 child. Grilled chicken, rice and salad served on board, swimming in the coves below the castle, music and an English-speaking animation crew — and no DJ.
- Starcraft day — 9 hours, daytime. €35 adult, €25 child. Lunch cooked on board and a foam party fired off in daylight between the swims. Not recommended with serious mobility limitations.
- Green Canyon day — 9 hours. €33 adult, €20 child, open buffet on board. Inland and freshwater: the water is cold mountain water, and even a bottle of water sits outside the fare.
- Manavgat river and bazaar — 9 hours, Monday and Thursday only. €43 adult, €30 child, open buffet, comfortable shoes for the bazaar. The waterfall entrance is not in the price.
- Suluada — a full day, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. €43 adult, €30 child. Our record says full day and puts no hour figure on it; the road leg is long, and the island holds no shops or facilities.
The same €35 buys four hours or nine
Two boats carry the identical adult fare and almost nothing else in common. €35 buys four evening hours on the sunset sailing, or nine daytime hours on the Starcraft. Same money, more than double the time — which is the plainest evidence on this page that the fare is not counting hours.
It is counting what happens inside them. The sunset boat is a cruise and only a cruise. The Starcraft day feeds you, swims you and runs a foam party through the middle of the afternoon. Neither is mispriced; they are two different purchases wearing the same number.
Why €20 buys seven hours and €50 buys six
The cheapest adult fare we publish is the pirate galleon at €20, and it is seven hours with a cooked lunch in the middle of them. The dearest per-person fare is the fishing day at €50 — for six. That is €50 − €20 = €30 more for one hour less.
The €30 is not buying time. It is buying a hot lunch, a day given over to fishing from the deck and a boat that goes where the fish are rather than along the postcard coastline. If your instinct is to rank these trips by hours per euro, rank them by what fills the hours instead; the whole fare grid, boat by boat, sits on our Alanya boat trip prices page.
Four hours, two completely different evenings
The two shortest trips are the same length and opposite in purpose. The sunset sailing is €35 and includes nothing but the ride. The night disco boat is €48 — €48 − €35 = €13 more — and those thirteen euros buy the only DJ in this fleet, an animation crew and a foam show after dark.
One thing to plan around either way: no meal is recorded on the night boat, and the evening sailing carries neither food nor a bar. Four hours is short enough that this matters less than it sounds, but it is better known before you board than discovered at sea.
Three boats record nine hours, and no two are the same day
The Starcraft day is nine hours on salt water — lunch cooked on board, swimming in sheltered bays, foam in daylight rather than after dark.
The Green Canyon day is nine hours inland on cold mountain water, with an open buffet and a lower fare than the sea day it gets compared with, €33 against €35. What it does not include is anything to drink, down to bottled water.
The Manavgat river day is nine hours too, but only on Monday and Thursday: an open buffet, a bazaar that wants comfortable shoes, and a waterfall entrance that is not inside the €43. Two of the nine boats run on fixed weekdays, and that filter usually decides a short holiday faster than the hours do.
All Inclusive changes the fare, not the clock
Two boats sell a second fare on the same departure: the pirate galleon and the Starcraft day, at €40 an adult and €28 a child, with unlimited soft drinks and the same lunch, and no alcohol of any kind. It is an upgraded ticket on those two boats rather than a separate all-inclusive boat, and it adds nothing at all to the seven or the nine hours.
For a couple with a six-year-old on the galleon that reads €20 + €20 + €14 = €54 standard, against €40 + €40 + €28 = €108 all inclusive. The same seven hours either way; the difference is what you drink during them.
Where our record stops
Suluada is the honest gap in the table. The record calls it a full day, gives Monday, Wednesday and Saturday as its days, and stops there — no hour figure to quote, and no lunch written down either way. It also carries a long road leg, and the island itself holds no shops or facilities.
The other figure we will not print is a time. Pickup is confirmed for your own hotel after booking, and one hour published on a page would be wrong for most of the people reading it. So treat the hours above as the recorded length of the trip rather than the length of your door-to-door day — the blog piece “How Long Is a Boat Trip in Alanya?” takes that second version of the question. Whichever length you choose, cancellation stays free up to 24 hours before departure.