Best yacht charter companies in Phuket (2026): 54 yacht charter companies ranked
Every yacht charter company Google Maps lists for "yacht charter Phuket", 54 in all, 37 of them scored with one published formula from eight things a charter client checks before paying a deposit: the Google rating and number of reviews, a tourism licence number on the company's site, a baht price for every boat, the boats the company runs itself, years on the market, languages and published booking terms — read on Oct 10, 2026. Horizon Cruises Phuket leads with 91.3 points. Nothing is estimated and nothing is paid for.
Google Maps business listings via Apify, read Oct 10, 2026 · Full methodology and weights · All sources
Key facts
as of October 2026 · All sources- Horizon Cruises Phuket — 91.3
- Leader
- 54
- Companies listed
- 37
- Companies scored
- 10 of 37
- Licence number on the site
- 7 of 37
- A baht price for every boat
- Phuket Travels Score v3 (yacht charter), from Oct 19, 2026
- Methodology · Source: Phuket Travels ratings
- Oct 10, 2026
- Measured · Source: Phuket Travels ratings
The ranking
Scored companies first, by Phuket Travels Score v3; companies without a score follow, by review count. Google rating and review count as shown on the listing on Oct 10, 2026; the six site criteria were read from each company's own site on Oct 19, 2026: Licence — the Department of Tourism licence number printed on the site; THB prices — whether every boat page carries a baht price (all / partial / none); Boats it runs — boat pages that say the company runs the boat itself; Years — by the year stated on the site; Languages — site or support languages; Terms — how many of the three booking terms (what is included, cancellation, deposit) are published. Websites are printed as a domain, not linked. Fewer than 5 reviews — listed without a score. * operates the yacht catalogue on this site.
Score distribution
Scored companies by Phuket Travels Score band · Google Maps listings read Oct 10, 2026
What the ranking shows
Google Maps lists 54 yacht charter companies on Phuket for the search "yacht charter Phuket" read on October 10, 2026, after duplicates and listings that are not the trade are handled by the rule printed on the methodology page. 37 of them receive a Phuket Travels Score v3; 17 are listed without a score at the end of the table — 14 with fewer than 5 Google reviews, 2 with no website of their own (Siva Charter, Phuket Yacht Charter), 1 selling only per-seat group tours (Ombre Yacht). The leader is Horizon Cruises Phuket (91.3; 5.0 on 33 reviews), followed by Faraway Yachting Phuket, Thailand (87.9; 5.0 on 634 reviews) and Tiger Marine Charter - Phuket (84.6; 4.9 on 145 reviews). The top ten spans 91.3 to 61.5 points and the whole scored field 66.0 points.
On the two Google criteria alone Faraway Yachting Phuket, Thailand would lead with 33.9 of 35 points; Horizon Cruises Phuket leads because of the six site criteria — 65 of 65 against 54. The Google rating is still shrunk towards the category mean (4.83) with a prior worth 20 reviews before it is mapped to the 20 rating points, so a perfect 5.0 on a handful of reviews does not take the full 20; 11 scored companies hold a 5.0 on Google, 10 have 100 or more reviews.
Licence, prices, boats, years, languages, terms
The six site criteria carry 65 of the 100 points and were read from each company's own website on October 19, 2026. A Department of Tourism licence number is printed on 10 of the 37 scored sites (Horizon Cruises Phuket 34/02188, Faraway Yachting Phuket, Thailand 34/02546, Tiger Marine Charter - Phuket 34/01272, V.MarineTour- Phi Phi Islands Day Trip - Private Boat Charters 34/00586, La Maret Phuket 34/01592, Sailing-Phuket 34/01667, …); the other sites either do not hold one or do not print it, and the formula cannot tell the two apart — the number on the page is what counts. 7 companies carry a baht price on every boat page read (Horizon Cruises Phuket, V.MarineTour- Phi Phi Islands Day Trip - Private Boat Charters, Amazing Canoeing - Ao Po Pier Meeting Point, Blue Water Charter Phuket, Boat in the Bay, Asia Marine Charter Base- Yacht Haven Marina, …), 19 on part of them or as "from" captions only, and the rest publish no baht amount or price in dollars or euros, which earns nothing: a client paying in Thailand needs the figure in baht.
19 scored companies name at least one boat as run by itself — Sailing Yacht Cataleya | Yacht Charter Phuket (three or more), Asia Global Yachting ( Thailand ) (three or more), Tiger Marine Charter - Phuket (three or more), Sunsail: Phuket, Thailand Yacht Charters (three or more), Horizon Cruises Phuket (three or more), … — a boat counts only when its own page says the company runs or operates it; a general line about "our fleet" does not, and the formula distinguishes none, one or two, and three or more. 17 state a founding year, the earliest Sanlorenzo Asia-Pacific Service Center (1958, 68 years); "twenty years of experience" without a year scores nothing, because it cannot be checked. 10 sites are in three or more languages. Booking terms — what is included, the cancellation rule and the deposit — are published in full by 20 and not at all by 6. dreamyachtcharter.com, yachtsalesco.com, phuketluxuryboat.com did not open on the run date and score nothing on the site criteria until the next run.
Where they are
Each listing is attached to the nearest area of the Phuket Travel Price Index when it lies within 6 km of the area centre. Mai Khao 9, Chalong 9, Patong 2, Layan 2, Rawai 2 and 2 more areas account for 26 of the 54; 28 are in the interior or at the marinas of the east coast, where charter offices sit beside the boats rather than beside the beach. Horizon Cruises Phuket is in Chalong; Faraway Yachting Phuket, Thailand in Chalong, Tiger Marine Charter - Phuket in Ko Kaeo. For a charter the departure marina matters more than the office: Ao Po for Phang Nga Bay, Chalong for Racha and Phi Phi, Yacht Haven for the Similans.
How we counted
Version 3 of the Phuket Travels Score for yacht charter, from Oct 19, 2026. Version 2 measured how visible a company is online — reviews, web presence, domain authority. For a charter that leaves out what a client needs before paying a deposit, so version 3 scores eight things, 100 points in all: the Google rating (20; Bayesian-adjusted towards the category mean, 4.0 → 0 and 5.0 → 20); the number of Google reviews (15, on a log scale, full marks at 1,000); a Department of Tourism licence number printed on the company's own site (15); a baht price on every boat's page (15; some boats or "from" prices only: 8); boats the company names as run by itself (10 for three or more, 6 for one or two); years on the market as stated on the site (10 for ten years or more, 6 for five to nine, 3 below); languages (5 for three or more, 3 for two, 1 for one); published booking terms — what is included, the cancellation rule and the deposit (10 for all three, 5 for one or two). Every fact is read from the company's own site on the run date and stored with the page it was found on. A site that does not open scores nothing on the site criteria until it does. Companies that sell only per-seat group tours are listed without a score. Nothing is typed in by hand, no position is adjusted on request, and the weights are constants printed on the methodology page. Horizon Cruises Phuket also operates the yacht catalogue on this site; no company pays for its place, and it is scored by the same formula as every other company.
What this is not: a quality audit or a licence verification. A licence number on a page is a statement the company chose to publish, which this site does not check against the Department of Tourism register; a baht price is a published figure, not a quote for your date. Use the table as a shortlist, open the company's site, check the licence where it matters to you and compare written quotes. The ranking is republished monthly from a fresh read of Google Maps and of every site, and every page shows the dates of the data it was built from.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best yacht charter company in Phuket?
By the Phuket Travels Score v3 on Oct 10, 2026, Horizon Cruises Phuket leads the 37 scored yacht charter companies with 91.3 points: a Google rating of 5.0 on 33 reviews, Department of Tourism licence 34/02188, a baht price on every boat's page, three or more boats it runs itself, 13 years on the market, 3 languages, published booking terms. Next come Faraway Yachting Phuket, Thailand (87.9) and Tiger Marine Charter - Phuket (84.6). The score is a published formula over Google Maps data and the companies' own sites, not an editorial opinion; the full table lists all 54.
How is the Phuket Travels Score calculated?
Eight criteria, 100 points, all read by scripts: the Google rating (20, Bayesian-adjusted towards the category mean, 4.0 → 0 and 5.0 → 20), the number of Google reviews (15 on a log scale, full marks at 1,000), a Department of Tourism licence number printed on the company's own site (15), a baht price on every boat's page (15; some boats or "from" prices only, 8), boats the company names as run by itself (10 for three or more, 6 for one or two), years on the market as stated on the site (10 for ten or more, 6 for five to nine, 3 below), languages (5 for three or more, 3 for two, 1 for one) and published booking terms — what is included, the cancellation rule, the deposit (10 for all three, 5 for one or two). Companies with fewer than 5 reviews, without a website of their own, or selling only per-seat group tours are listed without a score. The weights are constants in the site's code and are printed on the methodology page.
Why did the ranking change in October 2026?
From Oct 10, 2026 yacht charter companies are scored by version 3 of the formula. It adds what a charter client checks before paying a deposit — a tourism licence number on the company's site, a baht price for every boat, the boats the company runs itself and published booking terms — and drops web presence and domain authority. Version 2 and its results stay on the methodology page.
How many yacht charter companies are there in Phuket?
This ranking lists 54 — every listing Google Maps returned for "yacht charter Phuket" read on October 10, 2026 that is on the island and in the trade. It is the Google Maps count, not a registry count: a company without a Google Business Profile is not here, and a few listings are branches of one firm.
Why is a yacht charter company missing, and how do I add one?
Because Google Maps did not return it for the search, or it had no listing on October 10, 2026, or its primary Google category is not the trade. Use the "add or confirm a company" form at the bottom of the page: the company is searched for by name on the next monthly run and listed if Google Maps has it. Nothing is added by hand and no position is changed by request.
How often is the ranking updated?
Monthly, by script, from a fresh read of Google Maps and of every company's own site; this page was built from Google data read on October 10, 2026 and sites read on October 19, 2026. Ratings, review counts and what a site publishes change between runs, so a company's place can move — the measurement dates are printed next to every figure.
Is Horizon Cruises Phuket ranked fairly?
Horizon Cruises Phuket ranks 1 of 37 with 91.3 points (5.0 on 33 reviews). Horizon Cruises Phuket is the operator of the yacht catalogue on this site; it is marked in the table and gets exactly the same formula from the same Google data as every other company — the position is whatever the numbers give, and it is published whatever it is.
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