Corporate Bosphorus Tours with bosporuscruise.com

Rates are the starting hourly charter price for the vessel with captain and crew; catering, drinks, show and transfers are quoted per head on top. Minimum charter length, peak-date pricing and exact totals are confirmed in your written proposal. Live prices and photos for each vessel are on the yacht rental page and the fleet cards above.

Bosporus Cruise operates on the Istanbul Bosphorus, the strait that separates Europe from Asia and carries the skyline every visiting delegation wants to see: Dolmabahçe and Beylerbeyi palaces, the Rumeli fortress, Ortaköy Mosque and the bridges lit up after dark. Most sailings board at Kabataş Pier on the European side, five minutes from the T1 tram and F1 funicular and roughly ten to twenty minutes from Sultanahmet, Beyoğlu, Karaköy, Beşiktaş and Nişantaşı. Private charters can also depart from Bebek marina.

The company runs two distinct lines of business. Scheduled cruises — dinner, sunset, day, lunch and breakfast — carry individual guests and smaller delegations on a fixed programme with a private table guarantee. Private charters put a whole vessel at one company’s disposal, by the hour, with the programme written around the brief.

For a corporate brief, start with Corporate Events for formats, capacities and per-head budgets, Employee Outings for team days, or the full Group & Private Events hub. Availability, quotes and invoices come from the same desk: contact the reservation team.

Most corporate briefs arrive with a headcount and a date, and the vessel follows from those two numbers. Getting the match right is what keeps a company night from feeling either cramped or half-empty, and it is the first thing our coordinators check.

Six to thirty guests. A private yacht is the natural home for a board retreat, an executive dinner or key-client hosting. The saloon seats everyone at one table, conversation stays in one circle, and the hourly rate starts from €85. Bosporus 11 is the largest of the eleven at thirty guests and twenty-six metres; below that, the choice is mostly about deck layout and how much of the evening you want to spend outside.

Thirty to seventy guests. This is where a department party, a distributor briefing or a product demo sits. Event Boat 3 takes up to seventy and still feels like one room, which matters when there are speeches. Larger vessels at this headcount look sparse; two smaller yachts sailing together is usually the wrong answer for a group that needs to hear one presentation.

Seventy to three hundred guests. Company anniversaries, client galas and year-end parties. Event Boat 5 (150), Event Boat 1 (250) and Event Boat 2 (300) all carry a stage, a dance floor and a proper service line, so a hot five-course dinner for the full room is realistic rather than optimistic.

Three hundred to seven hundred guests. Congress dinners, incentive groups and city-scale launches. Event Boat 4 is the only vessel in the fleet that takes seven hundred, which is also why it is the first date to disappear in the autumn season. Above seven hundred we run multi-boat groups sailing in convoy on a synchronised programme.

Corporate events fail procurement for boring reasons: no invoice in the company name, no written scope, no named liability. Because Bosporus Cruise trades under Travelpedia Tourism — a TÜRSAB-certified “A” group travel agency holding licence number 10807 since 2018 — the contracting entity is a licensed Turkish travel agency, not a boat owner operating informally.

• Written proposal first. Vessel, date, sailing window, capacity, menu, programme and total in euros, with inclusions and exclusions listed. Nothing is verbal.
• Corporate invoice. Issued to the company with full tax details, in the currency agreed, for the amount in the proposal.
• No deposit to reserve. A confirmed brief holds the vessel; payment terms are agreed in writing rather than collected at the pier.
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before sailing on standard bookings; bespoke productions with third-party costs are quoted with their own terms stated upfront.
• Licensed captains and crew on our own payroll, operating vessels under our own licence — so the operator, the invoice and the accountable party are the same company.

If your procurement team needs supplier documentation, tax registration details or a scope of work in a specific format, the reservation desk can supply it during the proposal stage rather than after the event.

A large share of our corporate work arrives through destination management companies, incentive houses and event agencies building an Istanbul programme. We are set up to be one supplier line inside that programme rather than a competing brand in front of your client.

In practice that means agency-facing rates and net pricing on request, a written vessel hold while your client decides, flexible branding on board so the evening carries your client’s identity rather than ours, and coordination directly with your on-site team on the day. Timing is the part agencies care about most: because the drivers, the kitchen and the crew are ours, a delayed transfer or an overrunning gala dinner can be absorbed by moving our own schedule rather than renegotiating with three subcontractors.

For multi-day programmes we can also sequence a small executive yacht for the leadership group and a large event boat for the full delegation on different evenings, quoted together and invoiced as one line.

Pickup starts about an hour before sail-away, with our own drivers collecting from hotel lobbies or an office address. Boarding at Kabataş is unhurried: guests are met by name, seated by the plan agreed in advance, and served a welcome drink while the boat is still alongside.

The first hour is the Bosphorus at its best — Dolmabahçe, Ortaköy, the bridges — which is when speeches and awards land well, because there is a view behind the speaker and nobody has left the table yet. Dinner service runs across the middle of the sailing; a five-course Turkish menu comes out of our own galley, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and halal plates prepared alongside rather than as an afterthought.

The last hour is the entertainment decision, and it is genuinely optional. A full Turkish night show — whirling dervish sema, oriental, zeybek, halay, horon, Roman and Caucasian folk dance, then a live DJ — turns the room into a party. A conservative client dinner instead keeps live music low and the deck open. Companies hosting mixed international groups often split the difference: the show during dessert, the DJ only for the final thirty minutes.

The boat docks back at Kabataş at the agreed time, and drop-off runs in reverse. Your coordinator confirms the headcount actually carried, and the final invoice follows.

Get a corporate proposal within 24 hours

Send us the guest count, the date and a budget range, and a named coordinator will come back with a written proposal: vessel, capacity, menu, programme and the total in euros. No deposit is needed to hold a date. WhatsApp is answered around the clock, usually within five minutes.

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