Yacht Charter Calpe — Your Own Boat, Your Own Day

The yacht is exclusively yours for the booked period, with a licensed skipper, fuel for the agreed route, your berth at the Real Club Nautico de Calpe, safety equipment, insurance and snorkelling gear. Crewed yachts add a hostess or chef. Food, drink and optional extras are quoted separately so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

No. Every yacht charter we run in Calpe comes with a professional skipper, so no licence or experience is required from you. If you hold a valid licence and want to take the helm yourself, bareboat charter is possible on certain boats — send us your certification and we will tell you which of the fleet you can take.

At the Real Club Nautico de Calpe: 264 berths across seven docks, boats up to 30 metres LOA, 6.5 metres of draft in the entrance. You will get the exact dock and berth with your confirmation. Calpe's other harbour, Puerto Blanco, is a different scale — 122 berths for boats of 6 to 14 metres, 2.5 metres of entrance draft — and the fishing port alongside still runs its evening auction.

Capacity is set by the individual boat and its certification. Sailing yachts and smaller motor yachts typically take up to 10 to 12 guests for a day charter; catamarans are usually the roomiest for the same number; larger crewed yachts take more. Tell us your group size and we will only show you boats that legally and comfortably fit everyone.

It is a different way, and for most people it is the easier one. The climb beyond the turnstile is capped at 300 people a day, with mandatory booking that is nominative, non-transferable and has to be made at least four days ahead — that is the land route to the summit. From the water there is no permit and no queue: you see the whole 332-metre face at once, which you physically cannot do while standing on it. If you have the time, do both; the summit gives you the view out, the boat gives you the view of the thing itself.

We will not promise that. Whatever restrictions do or do not apply in the water immediately around the rock, we cannot verify them, and we would rather say so than sell you a plan we might have to change on the day. What is certain: you will see it from the sea, properly and at length. Where the anchor goes is decided by the posidonia rules and by the skipper.

Anchoring over Posidonia oceanica is prohibited across the Valencian coast under regional law. The rule was initially suspended pending cartography; once that was approved, the ban became enforceable in early July 2023. The mapped meadows are public on the regional Fondea app and the visor.gva.es viewer, and our skippers use them to plan the day. It is the single rule most visiting boats get wrong on this coast, and it is easy to get right.

June to October, when the sea holds above 20°C and peaks around 26°C in August. June and September are our favourites: warm water, calmer anchorages, more choice of boats. If you want to see the flamingos on the Salines while you are here, May to August is when they are in the hundreds.