Short answer
What does a boat charter website include, and what does it cost?
A brochure site with tours, what the price includes, a gallery and WhatsApp booking starts at ₺30,000 and goes live in about 3 days once the content is ready. A site with a page per boat and several languages runs from ₺50,000 and takes 1 week; an availability calendar and booking panel starts at ₺150,000.
Boat Charter, The search
Guests are searching for an evening, not a boat.
Searches come in as 'Bosphorus tour', 'sunset boat', 'yacht for a proposal', with a date and a number of people attached. Visitors want three things answered: how many can come aboard, what the price includes, where the boat leaves from.
Each tour card should answer all three. Are food, drinks, music, the captain and fuel included or not? A site that leaves this out moves the question to WhatsApp, and you end up typing the same answer to every guest.
Boat Charter, On the phone
The video plays only when it is on screen.
The opening video on a boat site is heavy by nature. We do not download it when the page opens; a single still frame shows until then, and the video plays only once it enters the screen. A guest on a phone sees the first screen without waiting, and the booking button does not wait for the video either.
