The yacht in the film almost never has the name you would have to book. The ship Keira Knightley boards in The Woman in Cabin 10 is called Aurora Borealis on screen and SAVANNAH in real life. Bond’s Manticore is NORTHERN CROSS. The Mediterranean Queen from Murder Mystery is SARASTAR.
All ten of the yachts below are real, and all ten can be chartered. We hold the records on every one of them. The weekly rates run from €94,500 to €1.15 million, so this is not only a list of boats you cannot have.
1. SOLANDGE
Seen in: Succession, series two finale
A week from: €1,150,000
The Roys spend the whole of This Is Not for Tears aboard her, anchored off the Dalmatian coast, deciding which of them gets fed to the wolves. Logan works his way round the boat asking each one in turn whether they could be the blood sacrifice. The yacht is the point: nobody can leave, and everyone has to keep smiling at breakfast.
HBO shot it off Cavtat, Korčula, Mljet and Šipan, which is the same water a Croatian charter cruises today.
Why the yacht stands out. She is a 279-foot Lürssen from 2013 taking twelve guests in eight cabins, and the thing you notice on film is the scale of the open deck. The series uses it the way a theatre uses a stage, with the family arranged across it and nowhere private to stand.
Worth watching? It is the best-written television of the decade, and the finale is the best episode of it. Start at series one.
2. SAVANNAH
Seen in: The Woman in Cabin 10, as the Aurora Borealis
A week from: €1,000,000
Keira Knightley plays a journalist on a maiden voyage who watches a woman go over the side and then cannot prove anyone was in that cabin. The entire film happens aboard.
The filming story is better than the film. Seventy film crew, twenty cast and twenty-five yacht crew worked aboard a vessel nobody was allowed to scratch. No shoes. No food inside. No resting on the furniture. The director called it the inverse of luxury. Knightley named one of the green rooms the room of doom, because it had a glass wall onto the swimming pool and the water never stopped moving, and a good part of the cast was seasick.
Why the yacht stands out. SAVANNAH is the Feadship that broke the mould in 2015: a single propeller and hybrid propulsion, which is why a ship of 273 feet is so quiet at anchor, and an underwater lounge with windows below the waterline. Twelve guests in six cabins.
Worth watching? The reviews are lukewarm and the twist is guessable. Watch it for the boat, which is filmed with more love than the plot.
Watch: SAVANNAH as the Aurora Borealis, in Netflix’s own trailer.
3. CHRISTINA O
Seen in: Triangle of Sadness
A week from: around €700,000
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner puts a boatload of the very rich on a luxury cruise and then takes the plumbing away. The captain’s dinner is served in a force eight. What follows is fifteen minutes of cinema nobody who has seen it has forgotten.
One honest note. She plays the yacht, but most of the dinner was not shot aboard her. The crew built a copy of her dining room on a gimbal that rocked twenty degrees and filmed there for thirteen days, and some of the camera team took seasickness pills to get through it.
Why the yacht is legendary. She is not a set and never was. Aristotle Onassis converted a Canadian frigate into her in the 1950s, and the guest list since has run through Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. The mosaic pool on the aft deck still converts to a dance floor. The bar stools are still upholstered the way Onassis had them done, which is a story your crew can tell you and we will not print. She takes 34 guests at one table across 17 cabins.
Worth watching? Yes. It won the Palme d’Or and was nominated for Best Picture. Do not eat first. See CHRISTINA O’s full listing.
Watch: CHRISTINA O end to end, including the mosaic pool and the Churchill library.
4. PLANET NINE
Seen in: Tenet
A week from: €650,000
Christopher Nolan needed a ship that looked like it could reach anywhere on earth and launch a helicopter off the back. He did not need to build one.
Why the yacht stands out. PLANET NINE is a 242-foot ice-classed Admiral explorer from 2018 with a helicopter hangar and lifts running through all five decks. Explorer yachts are built to leave the Mediterranean behind, and she is why Antarctica, Patagonia and the Northwest Passage are charterable at all. Twelve guests in eight cabins.
She is also the hardest one here to just go and book, because she works Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, a long way from any charter fleet.
Worth watching? Divisive. Half the audience found it the most exciting thing Nolan has made and half could not hear the dialogue. The yacht sequence is in the first half and it looks extraordinary.
Watch: inside the 73m explorer, the helicopter hangar and the five decks Nolan used.
5. SARASTAR
Seen in: Murder Mystery, as the Mediterranean Queen
A week from: €392,000
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are the New York couple who get invited aboard a billionaire’s yacht off Monaco, and the billionaire is dead by the end of dinner. She is the scene of the crime for most of the first act.
Why the yacht stands out. A 197-foot Mondomarine from 2017 taking twelve guests in six cabins, and the most travelled boat on this list. Her season areas run from the Adriatic and the Aegean right across to the Bahamas and the Grenadines, which means she is the one most likely to already be in the water you want.
Worth watching? It is a Sandler holiday comedy and it knows it. Fun, forgettable, and the yacht gets more screen time than most of the cast.
6. TURQUOISE
Seen in: Riviera
A week from: €350,000
Sky Atlantic’s Riviera opens with hundreds of the Cote d’Azur’s best-dressed partying on a superyacht, and then an assassin blows it up. That explosion is the thing the series is remembered for, and it is her.
She survived it. The fire was pyrotechnics and the boat went back to work.
Why the yacht stands out. A 181-foot 2011 build from the Turkish yard that shares her name, twelve guests in six cabins. She has since moved west and now charters the Caribbean rather than the Riviera she detonated on.
Worth watching? The first series is a proper glossy thriller with Julia Stiles. It thins out after that. Watch episode one for the party and the bang.
7. AQUARIUS
Seen in: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
A week from: €220,000
She is the boat that carries Benoit Blanc and the rest of the cast out to the island at the start of the film, filmed in Greece.
Why she matters most on this list. AQUARIUS is the one you could actually book without a lottery win. A 150-foot Mengi Yay from 2016 taking ten guests in five cabins, chartering Greece and Turkey, which means the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Corfu and the Turkish coast. At €220,000 she is a fifth of the Succession yacht.
Worth watching? Yes, and it is the most fun of the ten. Rian Johnson films a Greek summer the way a travel agent would.
Watch: AQUARIUS carrying the cast out to the island, filmed in Greece.
8. SPACECAT
Seen in: The White Lotus, series three
A week from: $160,000
The Ratliff brothers take her out for a day and a night in Thailand, in the series that made half the internet start pricing Phuket.
Why the yacht stands out. She does not look like anything else afloat. A 36-metre SilverYachts catamaran from 2022, eight guests, nine crew including a London-trained chef, and a profile closer to a spacecraft than a boat, which is where the name comes from. She still works Phuket and the Gulf of Thailand, so the water on screen is the water you get.
We have written about her separately: the White Lotus yacht, and how to charter her in Thailand.
Worth watching? Series three is the slowest of the three and the best looking. Start with series one if you have never seen it.
9. NORTHERN CROSS
Seen in: GoldenEye, as the Manticore
A week from: €94,500
Bond follows Xenia Onatopp and a Canadian admiral out of the Monte Carlo casino down to the Monte Carlo Yacht Club, and photographs them boarding the Manticore from the open-air theatre at Fort Antoine. The admiral does not come back. The Manticore belongs to the Janus syndicate, and losing track of her is what costs the French navy a helicopter.
Why she is the best value on this page. At €94,500 a week she is the cheapest way onto a Bond yacht by a wide margin, and she is a genuine piece of the film rather than a lookalike: a 141-foot Marineteknik built in Sweden in 1991, ten guests in five cabins. Her seasons are listed in Ibiza and the Balearics.
Worth watching? GoldenEye is thirty years old and still the best Brosnan Bond. The Monaco sequence is in the first twenty minutes.
10. REGINA
Seen in: Skyfall, as the Chimera
A week from: on request
Séverine takes Bond aboard at Macau and the Chimera carries him to Silva’s abandoned island. It is the quietest stretch of the film and the most beautiful.
Why the yacht stands out. She is a 183-foot ketch from 2011 under a rig that makes her one of the most photographed sailing yachts in the eastern Mediterranean, and the Macau water is actually Turkey. Twelve guests in six cabins.
Her rate is not published, so it comes on request.
Worth watching? Skyfall is the best-shot Bond ever made, by some distance. Roger Deakins photographed it.
What these rates are, and what they are not
Every figure above is the published guide rate for a week, and it is a starting point rather than a quote. Two things move it. The season: a July week on any of these boats costs more than the figure here, which is usually the low-season line. And the expenses: most are chartered plus expenses, so food, drink, fuel and berths come out of an APA on top, typically around 30 percent of the fee, with local VAT added.
Tell us the boat and the week and we will come back with the real number from her central agent, including what the APA is likely to run.
People also ask
What is the yacht in The Woman in Cabin 10?
SAVANNAH, a 273-foot Feadship delivered in 2015. On screen she is called Aurora Borealis. She takes 12 guests in 6 cabins and charters in the Mediterranean from about €1 million a week.
What is the yacht in Triangle of Sadness?
CHRISTINA O, the 325-foot yacht Aristotle Onassis converted from a Canadian frigate in the 1950s. She is still chartering, takes 34 guests, and a week starts around €700,000.
What is the yacht in Glass Onion?
AQUARIUS, a 150-foot Mengi Yay from 2016, filmed in Greece. She charters in Greece and Turkey from about €220,000 a week for 10 guests, which makes her the most accessible of the famous ones.
Can you really charter the yachts from films?
Yes, for the ones that are charter yachts to begin with. Every yacht on this page is a working charter boat with a central agent and a published or quotable rate. Some famous screen yachts are privately owned and never available, which is why they are not on this list.
Which film yacht is the cheapest to charter?
NORTHERN CROSS, the Manticore from GoldenEye, at about €94,500 a week for 10 guests. SPACECAT from The White Lotus is next at around $160,000, then AQUARIUS from Glass Onion at €220,000.
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