Weekly Yacht Charter Mallorca — Prices and the Live Fleet

Weekly Yacht Charter Mallorca

A week is how Mallorca charter actually works. Boats are cleaned, provisioned and handed over on a fixed turnaround day, and the vast majority of the island's monocasco, catamaranes and motor yachts are priced, insured and crewed around that Saturday-to-Saturday cycle. If you have been quoted a day-rate and are trying to scale it up to seven days, or you have seen wildly different weekly prices for boats that look similar on paper, this page exists to make sense of that gap.

Below we explain what a week actually buys you around Mallorca, how the island's two main charter bases shape the kind of week you get, what tends to change the price beyond the headline rate, and when in the calendar weeks get booked up first. The live fleet underneath this page pulls real weekly-charter yachts currently available from Mallorca operators, so once the pricing logic makes sense you can go straight to comparing actual boats and actual weeks rather than guessing from brochure numbers.

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Why a week in Mallorca

Seven days is enough time to treat Mallorca as one island rather than a single stretch of coastline, which is the main reason weekly charter is the default unit here rather than an add-on to day trips. In a week you can realistically string together a run down the southwest coast past Port d'Andratx and Sa Dragonera, cross to the sheltered calas of the south, and still have days spare for the northeast around the Bay of Pollença or a hop across to Cabrera. Try to do that in three or four days and you spend more time moving the boat than enjoying where it's moored.

Most Mallorca charters run on a fixed weekly cycle, typically starting on a Saturday and returning the following Saturday, because that's when marinas turn boats around, crews reset for the next group, and operators can plan cleaning, provisioning and maintenance slots. Chartering by the week fits that rhythm rather than fighting it, which is part of why weekly rates are usually the cleanest, best-value way to book rather than a multiple of nightly pricing.

The alternative — stringing together several shorter chárteres de día — tends to cost more overall and delivers a different experience. Day charters are priced to cover a full turnaround (cleaning, fuel, patrón time) every single time you go out, so the fixed costs repeat daily instead of being spread across a week. A week also lets you actually settle into a rhythm: mornings at fondear, afternoons moving, the option to skip a day entirely if the weather or the group wants a lazy stretch at the same bay. That flexibility mostly disappears once you're paying and planning day by day.

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Where weekly charters start in Mallorca

Palma is the obvious starting point for most weekly charters and for good reason: it has by far the largest concentration of charter operators and available boats, direct flights into Palma airport, and a coastline in both directions — southwest towards Andratx and Sa Dragonera, or south and east towards Cabrera and the calas around Colònia de Sant Jordi. A week out of Palma commonly means an anticlockwise or clockwise loop, spending two or three nights on one side of the island and the rest working back, with Palma itself as both start and end point so guests can fly in and out easily.

Alcúdia, in the northeast, is the other significant base and it suits a different kind of week. The Bay of Alcúdia and Bay of Pollença are more sheltered, the coastline up towards Cap de Formentor is dramatic and closer at hand, and a week from here tends to stay concentrated in the north and northeast rather than attempting a full circumnavigation — think fewer long passages, more time at anchor, and easy access to Menorca as a genuine option if a couple of longer days are built in.

Both bases can support either style of week — full-island or one-coast — and the right choice comes down to how much time you want to spend moving versus anchored, and which flight or ferry connections are easiest for your group. Neither approach is more "authentic" than the other; they're simply different trade-offs between coverage and relaxation.

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Weekly charter in Mallorca spans three broad boat types, and the type you choose changes the shape of the week as much as the base does. Monohull sailing yachts are the traditional choice: they sail well, suit guests who actually want to sail rather than just arrive, and tend to have slightly less cabin and deck space than a catamaran of similar length, which matters for a full week aboard.

Catamarans have become the dominant choice for weekly familia and group charter because of stability at anchor and the amount of usable deck and cabin space — a real consideration when six or eight people are living aboard for seven days rather than an afternoon. They generally sit at a higher price point than an equivalent-length monohull, and that premium is usually worth it specifically for the week-long stay rather than a day out.

Motor yachts suit a week built around fewer, faster relocations and more time at each stop — useful if the group wants to cover ground quickly on transfer days and then park up, rather than spending hours under sail. Fuel becomes a genuinely significant variable on motor yacht weeks in a way it rarely is on a sailing yacht, which is one of the points worth checking carefully when comparing quotes across boat types.

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Mallorca charter pricing runs in broad seasonal bands rather than a single rate all year: a quieter low season either side of summer, a busy shoulder period either side of the peak, and a genuine temporada alta through the core summer months when demand and prices both peak. The same boat can carry a noticeably different weekly rate depending purely on which band the week falls into, so it's worth checking the season attached to any quote rather than assuming the figure is fixed.

Popular boats and popular weeks — particularly anything touching late July or August, and especially weeks that start on a public holiday weekend — sell out well ahead of the season itself. If you have a fixed week in mind for peak summer, the live fleet below is the most reliable way to see what's actually still available rather than what was listed months ago.

Weekly yacht charter Mallorca prices

Weekly charter pricing starts from a base rate that's set by the boat itself — its length, age, type and specification — multiplied by the seasonal band the week falls into. That base rate is the number most quotes lead with, and it's the one that varies most between boats, so it's a reasonable starting point for comparison but rarely the whole picture.

What's included and excluded around that base rate is where quotes genuinely diverge, and it's worth checking each of these individually rather than assuming they're all bundled the same way. A skipper is usually mandatory on sin patrón-adjacent charters in Spanish waters and is either included in the base rate or charged separately by the day. Fuel is typically not included and is settled either as a fixed allowance or against actual consumption at the end of the week. Mooring costs at your home marina are usually covered, but overnight mooring fees at other ports or marinas during the week generally are not. End-of-charter cleaning may be included or added as a fixed fee. A security deposit is standard, sometimes reducible or waivable via a damage waiver at extra cost. On crewed charters specifically, an Advance Provisioning Allowance (APA) — a separate fund for fuel, food, drink and marina costs, usually a percentage of the charter fee — sits on top of the base rate and is one of the most commonly overlooked additions when guests compare headline prices.

The honest way to compare two weekly quotes is to work out the true all-in total for your actual week — base rate plus skipper if not included, a realistic fuel estimate, likely marina stops, cleaning and any APA — rather than ranking boats purely on the headline weekly figure. A lower base rate with a mandatory APA and separate fuel can easily end up costing more than a higher base rate that includes most of it, so ask each operator directly what's in and out before comparing numbers side by side.

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