Private Touren auf Phuket: die acht Index-Tagestouren, privat gegen Gruppe

The index measures the join-in seat — one adult on a boat or a minibus that the operator fills — and publishes the median with its sample size (September 2026). A private version is the same trip with the boat, the car or the guide reserved for one group, priced per boat or per group rather than per person, and the only arithmetic that matters is the group size at which the two meet. Phi Phi is the clearest case: $63 per adult join-in (n = 6) against 47,900 THB (≈ $1,433) for a private speedboat for the day, which is the same money per head at 23 guests and less above that. Phang Nga Bay meets at 23: $52 per adult join-in (n = 12) against 39,900 THB (≈ $1,194) per boat. Coral and Racha on a luxury longtail meet at 10, because the longtail is 9,900–14,790 THB (≈ $296–443) for the day and the join-in seat is $39.

Phi Phi by private speedboat is 47,900 THB (≈ $1,433) for eight hours with captain, crew and hotel transfer, park fee of 400 THB per adult in cash on top, and Maya Bay closed from 1 August to 30 September. Phang Nga Bay is 39,900 THB (≈ $1,194) for the full day or 29,900 THB (≈ $895) for a four-hour James Bond run; the Similans are 50,000–80,000 THB (≈ $1,496–2,394) for a twelve-hour day from a Phuket villa, in season only (15 October – 15 May), with the guide at about 2,500 THB and the villa-to-pier car at about 3,500 THB quoted separately. The basic speedboats — older single-engine boats for ten to thirty-five — are 14,000–32,000 THB (≈ $419–958) a day across operators, and the fuel to Phi Phi is usually a surcharge on those; the rate on the table is for the modern twin-engine boats that a private week uses.

The Old Town walk is the one land tour with a published private rate: 5,900 THB (≈ $177) for one or two adults with a private guide, 1,250 THB for each extra adult, children at 600 THB, against $59 per adult join-in (n = 5). The elephant sanctuary is priced per person whether the group is private or not — 3,000 THB (≈ $90) for the full-day observation programme, against $88 per adult join-in (n = 9) for the half-day join-in — and the private element is the car: a driver for the day, quoted per vehicle by the transfer company, replaces the pickup loop. The Big Buddha and Wat Chalong half-day has no dated private list price that this site could verify; operators quote a private car and guide per vehicle on request, and the table says so rather than guessing.

January, February, March, April, October, November and December are the calm months on the west coast — zero to two rough days in the marine normals — and every private boat runs to plan. July, August and September are rough: the Harbour Department holds speedboats in port on the worst mornings, the Similans are closed, and the private day goes into Phang Nga Bay, where the water is enclosed. A private boat has one advantage a join-in boat does not: it leaves when the captain says the crossing is fine, not when the schedule says, and it turns back without a vote. A rough-sea cancellation by the Harbour Department is refunded or moved; the reserve date in a private plan is what makes it a change of order rather than a lost day.