Every few weeks someone writes to this desk with the same sentence: "we want a luxury catamaran in Greece, not a sailing boat with a crew". They are right to draw the line, and the line is real. Below about 20 metres a crewed catamaran is a very good holiday. Above 23 metres it becomes something else: a sixty-foot-wide platform with five en-suite staterooms, a chef, a jacuzzi on the foredeck and a tender that outruns most of the harbour. This is the class the phrase "luxury catamaran" actually describes, and in Greece it runs from about EUR 49,000 to 90,000 a week before expenses. Here is what that money buys, boat by boat, from the rate cards on this site.
What makes a catamaran a luxury catamaran in Greece?
Size, crew and the yard. In Greek waters the luxury tier is the 23 to 24 metre class: the Sunreef 80, the Fountaine Pajot Thíra 80 and Power 80, the Lagoon Seventy 8 and 78, and the CNB Bordeaux 81. Each carries a crew of four to six, a dedicated chef, a jacuzzi on deck, a beach club at the stern and a garage of toys, and each sleeps eight to twelve guests in cabins that would be called suites on a motor yacht. The Greek Charter Index puts the 23 to 24 metre sailing catamarans at EUR 54,900 to 90,000 a week and the power catamarans of the same length at EUR 49,000 to 90,000, one price per yacht per week, fully crewed, plus APA and VAT.
What separates them from the 16 to 19 metre boats most people picture when they hear "catamaran charter" is volume. A Sunreef 80 has 340 square metres of living space; a Lagoon Seventy 8 has a beam of 11.23 metres, which the yard compares, fairly, to a 130 foot monohull. The difference shows up at anchor more than underway. Ten people on a 24 metre catamaran can lose each other for an afternoon, and that is the whole point.
The catamaran fleet on this site runs to more than forty hulls, so the luxury class is a shortlist inside it, not a separate category. If you are choosing between the two tiers, the honest comparison is on the best catamarans page; this piece stays with the top of the range.
What does a luxury catamaran charter in Greece cost in 2027?
From the rate cards, base price per week, before APA, VAT and gratuity:
Sailing catamarans, 23 to 24 metres
Genny, Sunreef 80, 2021, ten guests in five cabins, crew of six: EUR 56,000 to 79,000. Above & Beyond, Sunreef 80, 2019, eight guests in four cabins: EUR 56,000 to 77,000. Ad Astra, Fountaine Pajot Thíra 80, 2024, ten guests, crew of five: EUR 65,000 to 90,000. Sol Madinina, Thíra 80, 2025, ten guests: EUR 65,000 to 85,000. Aloia, Thíra 80, 2024, ten guests: EUR 65,000 to 85,000. Serenissima III, Fountaine Pajot 80, 2024, ten guests: EUR 65,000 to 85,000. Imladris, CNB Bordeaux 81, 2024, eight guests in four cabins: EUR 65,000 to 85,000. Sameli, a 23 metre Balance built to sail fast, ten guests: EUR 54,900.
Power catamarans, 21 to 24 metres
Just Marie 2, Lagoon Seventy 8, refitted 2024, six guests in three cabins: EUR 49,000 to 59,000. Alteya, Sunreef 70 Power, 2021, eight guests in four cabins: EUR 49,000 to 69,000. Crazy Horse, Lagoon 78, refitted 2023, ten guests in five cabins: EUR 50,000 to 69,000. Elly II, Fountaine Pajot Power 70, a new build delivering for 2027, ten guests: EUR 59,000 to 69,000. Samara, a custom 24 metre power catamaran refitted 2024, eight guests: EUR 65,000 to 70,000. Alina, Fountaine Pajot Power 80, 2026, ten guests: EUR 70,000 to 90,000. ChristAl MiO 80, Thíra 80 power, 2026, twelve guests in six cabins: EUR 70,000 to 90,000.
The spread inside each range is the season. The low figure is May, June or late September; the high figure is the five or six weeks from mid July to the end of August. For the week itself, add the running costs: an Advance Provisioning Allowance that pays fuel, food, drink, berthing and provisioning and is settled against receipts at the end, Greek charter VAT at the yacht's certified rate of 5.2 to 12 percent, and a crew gratuity of 10 to 15 percent of the base if the week was what it should be. On a catamaran that lands at roughly 1.35 to 1.6 times the base all in. A EUR 65,000 week on Ad Astra in June is therefore a EUR 88,000 to 104,000 week once everyone has been paid, and I would rather you heard that from me than from the final statement. The arithmetic, line by line, is in the cost breakdown, and the VAT bands are on the Greek VAT page.
Sunreef 80 or Thíra 80: which is the better luxury catamaran?
They are the two platforms that define the class, and they are different animals.
The Sunreef 80 is the older design and the more opulent one. Genny and Above & Beyond are both built on it: 23.87 metres, a 47 square metre saloon that is the largest on any catamaran this length, a flybridge with its own jacuzzi, wet bar and dining, and a hydraulic swim platform at the stern. Genny carries ten guests in five staterooms with two master suites, each with a walk-in wardrobe, and a crew of six. Above & Beyond gives the same hull to eight guests in four cabins and spends the difference on the table: her crew took first place in Diamond tablescaping at the 22nd East Med Multihull & Yacht Charter Show in 2026, and the table is what her guests remember. If dinner matters to your group more than the fifth cabin, that is the boat.
The Thíra 80 is Fountaine Pajot's flagship and the newer idea: 24.38 metres, lighter, with opening wing cockpits on both sides that drop you to sea level, a foredeck jacuzzi, and a sail plan that actually sails. Ad Astra was the first of them built for charter, in 2024, with a 600 horsepower Rafnar tender that will take you to the next island for lunch while the yacht follows. Sol Madinina, 2025, has two jacuzzis, one on the foredeck and one inside the owner's suite, and a captain who holds a Master 500GT ticket, a PADI instructor rating and more than 40,000 miles. Aloia, 2024, runs lithium batteries and solar so the generator stays off at night and the anchorage stays silent, which on a still night in the Cyclades is worth more than most options on the list.
My rule of thumb: Sunreef for the interior and the sense of occasion, Thíra for the sailing and the water. Both are right. Imladris, a CNB Bordeaux 81, sits beside them as the craftsman's choice, French built, four cabins for eight with a full-beam owner's suite that has its own private terrace, and an eFoil in the garage.
Who is on board a luxury catamaran?
Five or six people, and the number is the other half of the price. A Sunreef 80 like Genny sails with six: a captain, a chef, two stewardesses and two deckhands. The Thíra 80s carry five, a captain, a chef, a chief stewardess and two deckhands, and the Lagoon Seventy 8 and the Sunreef 70 Power carry four. Compare that with a 16 metre catamaran, where a captain and a chef do everything, and you have the difference between being looked after and being served. The chef matters most. On this class the galley is a restaurant kitchen with a provisioning budget to match, and the menu is written around the preference sheet you fill in before you board, not around what the island shop had that morning. Crew do change between seasons, which is why I describe the boat here and not the people; the current crew list for any yacht is a question for me, the week you ask it.
Sail or power at 24 metres?
If you want to cross from Alimos to Mykonos in a morning, power. If you want the engines off between islands, sail. The power catamarans in this class cruise at 14 to 16 knots: Alteya, the only Sunreef 70 Power available for charter in the Mediterranean, at 14; ChristAl MiO 80 and Elly II at 16. The sailing boats motor at around 10 knots and sail when the Meltemi gives them a reason to, which from June to September it will.
The power boats also carry more of the "small superyacht" furniture. ChristAl MiO 80 is the only catamaran on this site licensed for twelve guests, in six cabins, with a jacuzzi, two wet bars and a garage that includes two Seabobs, an eFoil, a Jetsurf and four paddleboards. Alina, the Power 80, carries a Williams Sportjet 520 tender with a 230 horsepower jet engine and the most complete toy list in the fleet. Crazy Horse, the Lagoon 78, was styled inside by Nauta Design and refitted in 2023, and her five cabins include two twins, which matters for families with children who should not share a double.
The sailing boats give you something the power boats cannot: silence underway, and a lower fuel line on the APA. Sameli is the outlier. She is a 23 metre Balance built by Two Oceans Marine, refitted in 2023, quick for a catamaran of her size, and her chef took third place, Category A Platinum, in the chefs' competition at the 2024 Mediterranean Yacht Show. At EUR 54,900 she is the least expensive way into this class and the only one I would send a serious sailor to.
The longer comparison, with the fuel arithmetic, is on motor yacht versus catamaran, and the dedicated fleet pages are sailing catamarans and power catamarans.
Who are these boats for?
Three groups, in practice.
Ten people who want five real cabins. Two families, or five couples, or three generations. Genny, Ad Astra, Sol Madinina, Aloia, Serenissima III, Crazy Horse, Alina and Elly II all give ten guests five en-suite staterooms; the question is whether you need twins (Crazy Horse) or a king rather than a large queen in the master (Elly II). The five-cabin catamarans page compares them cabin by cabin.
Six or eight people who want the space of ten. This is where the class is quietly at its best. Just Marie 2 is a Lagoon Seventy 8 that sleeps six in three cabins when most 78 foot catamarans sleep ten; every cabin is a suite and nobody is ever in anyone's way. Above & Beyond, Alteya, Imladris and Samara do the same for eight in four cabins. If you are three couples, start with Just Marie 2; the four-cabin catamarans page has the rest.
Twelve guests. One boat, ChristAl MiO 80. Greek charter yachts carry twelve guests at most, so a party of twelve on a catamaran is this hull or two boats.
If your group is four or six and the budget is nearer EUR 20,000 to 40,000, the luxury tier is not where you belong, and I say that as the person who would earn more if it were. The 16 to 19 metre crewed catamarans run EUR 18,900 to 48,000 on the Index and give a family a magnificent week; the catamaran charter hub starts there.
Where does a 24 metre catamaran go in a week?
Anywhere a 15 metre one goes, with more comfort in the bits between. The three grounds this house works are the Saronic Gulf, the Cyclades and the Ionian, all from Athens, and the luxury catamarans change the calculation in one way: the Meltemi. A 24 metre hull with a beam of eleven metres takes a force 6 crossing in the central Cyclades as a long lunch, where a 15 metre boat would stay in port. That opens July and August in the Cyclades to catamaran charterers who would otherwise be told to go to the Ionian, and it is why the crewed catamaran Cyclades page sends its largest groups to this class. The islands themselves, with the miles between them from the house table, are in the Cyclades guide.
The power catamarans add Mykonos and Santorini to a week that starts in Athens without turning the week into a delivery. ChristAl MiO 80 at 16 knots covers the 90 miles from Alimos to Mykonos in under six hours; a sailing catamaran takes the better part of a day. The Mykonos catamaran page sets out the two ways to do it.
What is included in the price, and what is not?
Included in the base: the yacht, her crew, their food, insurance, and the toys on her list. Not included: the APA, which covers fuel, marina fees, food and drink for the guests, and anything bought ashore for the boat; the VAT; the gratuity; and transfers to the marina. Fully crewed means the crew do everything on board, from the cooking to the laundry to the tender runs, and nothing on the base price is "per head". The all-inclusive page explains why a true all-inclusive price does not exist on a crewed yacht in Greece and what the honest alternative is. The full glossary entries are APA, crewed charter and the gratuity guide.
On a luxury catamaran the APA runs higher in absolute terms than on a smaller boat, because the chef shops for ten and the engines are bigger, but it runs lower than on a motor yacht of the same length, because two hulls push through the water with a fraction of the fuel. That is most of the argument for the class in one sentence.
When is a luxury catamaran the wrong choice?
Four cases, and I would rather lose the booking than pretend otherwise.
When you want speed. Twenty knots and more is motor yacht territory; the fastest catamaran here does 16, and most sail at 10 under power. If the plan is Athens to Santorini and back with stops at Mykonos, Paros and Ios in seven nights, read what EUR 50,000 a week buys and look at the motor yachts.
When you want to sail hard. A Thíra 80 sails well for her size, but she is a floating villa first. A serious sailor should look at Sameli, or at a monohull; the comparison is on catamaran versus monohull.
When you are four people. Four guests on a 24 metre catamaran is not luxury, it is empty rooms you are paying for. A 20 metre boat at EUR 31,500 to 43,500 serves four couples better.
When the week is in April or October. The toys, the beach club and the foredeck jacuzzi are summer furniture. Outside late May to early October the class loses half its argument and the saloon of a motor yacht wins.
How far ahead do I need to book one for 2027?
Earlier than you think, because there are not many of them. Fifteen hulls in this class on this site, and of the thirty-two requests that reached this desk in September 2026, twenty-nine were for 2027. July and June are filling first, then August. If you want a specific boat in a specific week in high season, the conversation should happen this autumn; for June or September, the winter is fine. The 2027 planning page has the calendar, and the earlier catamaran article is still the right place if you have not yet decided between a catamaran and anything else.
Elly II is the special case: a Fountaine Pajot Power 70 under construction for delivery in 2027, so her first season is being sold now at EUR 59,000 to 69,000 against a fixed specification rather than a sea trial. I would rather say that plainly than bury it.
How I shortlist a luxury catamaran for a client
I ask three questions and the boat usually names itself. How many of you, and how many cabins do you actually need: ten in five, eight in four, six in three, twelve in six. Do you want to move or to stay: power or sail. And what is the one thing the week is for: the table (Above & Beyond), the diving (Sol Madinina), the silence (Aloia), the toys (Alina), privacy for three couples (Just Marie 2), children (Crazy Horse), the newest hull on the water (ChristAl MiO 80, Alina, Elly II). Then I check the weeks, because in this class the week decides more than the preference.
The rest is a conversation. Write to me with the dates, the people and the one thing that matters, and I will tell you which of these fifteen is free and what her week looks like. The form is on the contact page, and if the budget is in the EUR 35,000 to 80,000 band the private charter page sets out everything else in that range, catamaran or not.
