Private Charters Cape Town: Yachts, Helicopters & Boats
Private charters Cape Town through Chartercraft cover yachts, helicopter tours and boat cruises from the V&A Waterfront, all booked through one independent agency. We arrange about thirty vessels and aircraft with a vetted set of operators based at the Waterfront. Two-hour minimum on the boats, twelve minutes upwards in the air. Every booking confirmed within twenty-four hours, payment in Rand, signed terms before departure.
Why book private charters Cape Town through us
We don’t own the boats and we don’t fly the helicopters. That’s the point. When you ask for a yacht for ten guests on a Saturday afternoon in February, we don’t try to sell you the one we own. We pick the right vessel from the fleet of fourteen-plus at the V&A.
The boats are SAMSA-licensed (the South African Maritime Safety Authority). The aircraft are SACAA-maintained (Civil Aviation Authority). The skippers and pilots have been working this coastline long enough to know which side of Robben Island the wind sits on at four o’clock in summer.
What every charter includes:
- One booking manager from quote to disembarkation
- Per-hour pricing in Rand, no resort fees, no commission loading
- The right vessel matched to your group size and the weather on the day
- Flexible itineraries: sunset, lunch, proposal, corporate, whale-watching in season
- Card or EFT, secure payment, signed terms before departure
Yacht charter Cape Town from the V&A Waterfront
Yacht charter Cape Town through Chartercraft means motor yachts, sailing yachts, power catamarans and sailing catamarans, all crewed, two-hour minimum, departing the V&A Waterfront Marina. Capacity runs from twelve guests on Le Cat (R6,985/hr) to one hundred and forty on the largest power catamaran. The names you’ll see on the booking page: Princess Eve, Princess Emma, Princess Skye, The Only One, Enigma, Eclipse, Ameera, Serenity One, A Beautiful Life, Sea Princess, Tigger 2 Royale, Le Cat, Esperance.
Full yacht charter page. For shorter hourly bookings, yacht rental by the hour.
Helicopter charter Cape Town: tours and routes
Helicopter charter Cape Town runs out of the V&A Waterfront Helipad on six routes: the twelve-minute Hopper, the twenty-minute Atlantico, the twenty-five-minute Two Oceans, the thirty-five-minute Cape Peninsula, the full Cape Point flight at fifty to sixty minutes, and winelands flights to Stellenbosch, Franschhoek or Durbanville. Aircraft are Airbus H120, H125 and H130 plus Robinson R44.
Helicopter tours and routes compared. For private aircraft hire by the hour, helicopter ride pricing.
Boat charter Cape Town: private cruises
Boat charter Cape Town through us is private and crewed. Sunset cruises off Clifton, two-hour coastal runs along the Atlantic Seaboard, four-hour trips down to Hout Bay and Duiker Island for the seal colony, occasional full-day Cape Point voyages when the weather behaves. The shared scheduled boats run from the V&A too; we don’t book those.
Boat cruises. Or, by trip type: sunset cruise, boat trips, coastal yacht cruise.
Luxury charter Cape Town: the premium fleet
Luxury charter Cape Town means the higher tier of the fleet: forty- to eighty-five-foot motor yachts (Princess Skye, The Only One, Princess Emma, Princess Eve), the larger sailing catamarans (A Beautiful Life), and the premium power catamarans (Tigger 2 Royale, Eclipse). Champagne on arrival, hostess on board in addition to skipper and deckhand, pre-charter consultation on route and catering.
What’s on the route from the V&A
From the V&A Waterfront, in roughly the order a typical charter passes them:
- Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles, visible from sea and air
- Clifton 1st through 4th, then Camps Bay
- Hout Bay, Chapman’s Peak Drive, Noordhoek
- Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope (full-day boat or 50-minute helicopter)
- Robben Island, a UNESCO World Heritage site, passed close on most cruises
- Duiker Island, with about a thousand Cape fur seals
- False Bay coastline: Muizenberg, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay (helicopter only)
- The Cape Winelands: Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Durbanville (helicopter only)
How the booking works
- Use the filter on the booking page or browse the category pages on the site.
- Send the booking request. Date, group size, what you want to do.
- We send a quote with terms within twenty-four hours.
- Sign the terms, pay the deposit. We confirm.
- You get a final reservation email with the berth or helipad, time and crew contact.
Same-day or anything large, ring +27 (0)21 300 6180 or write to bookings@chartercraft.co.za. We answer.
