What does an Art Basel Miami yacht charter cost, all-in?

A 45-metre yacht for the Basel week (six nights, Monday arrival through Sunday close) typically runs $260,000–$470,000 all-in. That comprises a base charter fee of around $160,000–$300,000, APA of 30–35%, the Miami Beach Marina berth supplement of $18,000–$42,000, and concierge, restaurant programme, beverage, private-aviation and on-shore coordination of $50,000–$100,000. A 55-metre yacht moves the all-in to $500,000–$900,000; 70m+ moves beyond $1.7m.

How is Art Basel Miami different from Art Basel Switzerland?

Same gallery network and curatorial standard, completely different surrounding ecosystem. Basel Switzerland (June) is the contemporary-art industry's working week — galleries-to-galleries, fewer celebrities, lower hospitality intensity. Miami is the industry's social-and-collector week — the brand activations are more prominent, the celebrity-and-platform footprint is larger, and the chartered-yacht hospitality is structurally more important to the week's working substance.

Can I get a First Choice Preview entry?

First Choice Preview is the most contested entry of the week, allocated by individual gallery invitation. Allocation is relationship-driven through the major galleries; collectors with serious purchasing history with a gallery (six-figure-plus historical purchases, museum-trustee status, foundation principal status) generally have access. We can support introductions through gallery relationships but cannot guarantee First Choice entry; serious collector clients usually arrive with their own gallery access.

Can I host major gallery principals on board?

Yes — and this is one of the most common single use-cases. A chartered yacht is the calmest setting in Miami for a serious collector-and-gallery conversation across the week. We coordinate gallery introductions through long-standing Miami art-week relationships; the working format is typically a dinner-table conversation of ten to sixteen on the principal-and-curator side.

What's the right yacht size for Art Basel?

For a collector principal charter with the yacht as the working hosting base: 38–48m. For a major gallery or foundation anchor charter: 49–60m. For a luxury-house headline activation: 60m+. The 45–55m bracket is the sweet spot for serious art-week hosting — large enough to host a meaningful collector-and-curator reception, controllable enough to keep the curatorial register of the dinner programme through the week.

Can I extend the charter into the Bahamas?

Yes — the most popular post-Basel continuation is a 5–7 day Bahamas decompression: overnight passage Sunday night from Miami to Bimini, then onward to the Exumas (Highbourne Cay, Norman's Cay, Staniel Cay) or to Eleuthera (Harbour Island). The Bahamas in early December are the calmest weather window of the year; the week is a natural decompression from the intensity of Basel.

What's the weather in early December?

Reliably 24–26°C daytime, 18–20°C overnight, low humidity, rain rare. Aft-deck reception evenings through Basel week are weather-friendly with very high confidence. The one operational risk is a late-season cold front from the north; we monitor through the week and adjust outdoor reception timings if a front is moving through.

How do guests get to Miami?

MIA (Miami International) is the primary commercial gateway; Opa-Locka and Miami Executive (KTMB) are the private-aviation primary fields. PBI (Palm Beach International) and FLL (Fort Lauderdale) are useful alternatives for guests connecting through Bahamas private-aviation legs. All within 30–60 minutes of the chartered marina by car.

Possible but uncommon. The week is intellectually adult-led and the hosting cadence is meaningful; most family-led art clients arrange family time before or after Basel rather than during. We have run multi-generational families with adult children present at curatorial-collector dinners successfully; for younger children we typically advise either pre- or post-Basel family time on board with a Bahamas extension.

Is the WiFi on board good enough for live business?

Yes. US charter yachts at the relevant scale run Starlink with redundant cellular failover; bandwidth supports video conferencing, virtual auction bidding, board calls and a connected hospitality programme. Miami Beach and Downtown cellular coverage is excellent across both marina sides.

Can I host museum-trustee dinners on board?

Yes — and this is a growing share of Art Basel charter activity. The Pérez Art Museum, ICA Miami, the Bass and visiting trustees from US and international museums (the Whitney, MoMA, the Tate, the Stedelijk, the Centre Pompidou) regularly attend Basel; the yacht-based trustee dinner has become a popular alternative to the museum-led gala for board principals hosting their senior donor table.

What about discretion?

Strong by default. The marinas are controlled environments; the press perimeter at the fair itself is meaningful but does not extend to the marinas. For specific principal-protection requirements we coordinate with the guest's existing security director and trusted regional close-protection partners; it is not a default add-on.

What's the cancellation policy?

Yacht charter cancellation follows the MYBA or industry-standard agreement signed at contract — typically 50% deposit non-refundable from signing, balance at six months, full balance non-refundable inside ninety days. Berth contracts at the Miami marinas are non-refundable from allocation. Specialist charter cancellation insurance is strongly recommended and we introduce a broker at contracting.

Editorial guide · Art Basel Miami Beach · Miami Beach

Art Basel Miami Yacht Charter

Five days each December when Miami Beach becomes the contemporary-art capital of the Americas — and a chartered yacht in Biscayne Bay becomes the most coveted private hosting platform of the week.

Dates · Early December, annually (5 days)From · $280,000 / weekRead · 18 min

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Editor's introduction

Why Art Basel Miami Beach belongs on the water

Art Basel Miami Beach is the single most important art-and-collector event of the Western Hemisphere, and the one week each year when the global contemporary-art economy converges on a city that, for the other fifty-one weeks, sits outside its central gravity. The fair itself — staged across the Miami Beach Convention Center with 280 galleries from forty countries — is the formal heart of the week, but the surrounding satellite fairs (Untitled at the beach, NADA, Design Miami across the road, Scope and Pulse in their year-on-year reformations), the museum and private-collection openings (the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the ICA Miami, the Rubell Museum, the Margulies Collection, the de la Cruz Collection, the Bass), and the unparalleled brand-and-luxury activation calendar (Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Cartier, Tiffany, Bulgari, the platforms, the auction houses) together make Art Basel week the densest single hosting environment in the US calendar.

From a charter-broker perspective, Art Basel week is the most strategically valuable December charter window in the Americas. Hotel inventory across South Beach, Miami Beach proper, Brickell and Downtown Miami is contracted by sponsors a year ahead; the prestige restaurant inventory across the week is gone by September; the headline brand activations operate at door-control intensity that makes hosted business conversations difficult; and the principal-table hosting that the week is actually built around (collector-and-dealer dinners, museum-trustee dinners, family-office advisor dinners, foundation-and-philanthropy dinners) has progressively migrated onto chartered yachts moored on the Miami Beach Marina, the Sunset Harbour Marina, and the Island Gardens Deep Harbour Marina across the causeway in Downtown.

What makes a chartered yacht specifically valuable at Art Basel is the operational paradox of the week — the formal art-fair environment is intensely public, the post-fair social calendar is intensely competitive, and the actual collector-and-dealer relationships that drive the week's economic substance need a private and controlled setting to conduct serious conversation. A 50-metre yacht moored at Miami Beach Marina across Art Basel week is, in practice, a private floating gallery — capable of hosting a collector-table dinner of twenty Wednesday night, a dealer-and-foundation cocktail reception of seventy Thursday night, a museum-trustee lunch Friday, and a closing decompression Sunday for ten — without any of the operational complexity of the hotel and restaurant alternatives.

Editorially, Art Basel charter splits into four briefs we deliver against each year. The first is the collector principal charter — a serious private collector using the week to compress months of dealer conversations and to host their advisor table. The second is the dealer or gallery anchor charter — a major international gallery running a controlled week of collector-and-curator hosting. The third is the luxury-house activation charter — a maison sponsoring the week using the yacht as the private extension of their main Art Basel presence. The fourth is the philanthropy-and-foundation charter — a foundation or museum patron using the week to host trustees and major donors. This guide covers all four.

Booking note

Art Basel berths at Miami Beach Marina and Island Gardens commit by July.

Event schedule

Art Basel Miami Beach day-by-day

Indicative running order based on prior editions. Final times are released by the organisers closer to the date; your concierge will confirm the working schedule for your charter week.

Day –3 to –1
Sat–Mon pre-week
Yacht arrivals & rig
Charter yachts arrive Miami from the Bahamas, from Fort Lauderdale or repositioning from the Caribbean dock through the prior weekend. Miami Beach Marina, Sunset Harbour and Island Gardens berth contracts confirm; branded dressing for gallery and luxury-house yachts completes through Monday. The city quiets briefly before the fair opens Tuesday.
Day 1 — Tue
First Choice VIP preview
Art Basel First Choice Preview 11:00–15:00 — the most contested entry of the year, by individual invitation through galleries. Vernissage Preview 15:00–20:00 follows. Tuesday evening hosts the opening dinner programme — the Faena dinner, the gallery openings in the Design District, the museum dinner programmes. The most senior collector conversations of the week happen Tuesday night.
Day 2 — Wed
VIP Preview continues, peak hosting
VIP Preview 11:00–20:00. Densest single hosting day of the week — most galleries open their off-site collector dinners Wednesday evening, the major luxury houses hold their headline cocktail receptions, and the museum and foundation programme runs in parallel. The yacht-based collector dinners Wednesday night are the working spine of the week.
Day 3 — Thu
Public opening & gallery dinners
Fair opens to the general public 11:00; First View private hours 11:00–14:00. Thursday evening hosts the second tier of gallery and foundation dinners; the Pérez Art Museum gala and the ICA Miami dinners anchor the museum calendar. Yacht-based collector dinners continue with smaller, more curated tables.
Day 4 — Fri
Collector decisions & foundation evening
Fair public 11:00–20:00. Friday is the working buying day for the serious collector — second-look acquisitions, dealer follow-up conversations, foundation-acquisition meetings. Friday evening hosts the most curated dinner programme of the week — smaller, more intimate collector-and-dealer dinners of twelve to twenty.
Day 5 — Sat
Public peak, satellite fairs
Public peak at the fair; satellite fair attendance (Untitled, NADA, Design Miami) at maximum. Daytime collector schedules turn to the satellites and the private-collection visits (Rubell, Margulies, de la Cruz, the Bass). Saturday-evening hosting is the contested social-evening slot — the major celebrity-attended dinners and the platform-sponsored brand evenings run Saturday.
Day 6 — Sun
Fair closes & decompression
Fair final day 11:00–18:00. Light closing-conversation day for collectors and dealers. Sunday-evening dinners narrow to closing principal-table format; the week's pace eases. Sunday brunch on board for the principal-and-advisor table is a popular format.
Day 7 — Mon
Departure or onward cruising
Departure day. Most yachts disembark guests Monday morning at the chartered marina for private-aviation departures from Miami or Opa-Locka. Yachts that extend slip lines for a continuation in the Bahamas — the Exumas and Eleuthera are the popular post-Basel decompression destinations.

VIP hotspots

Where the week actually happens

The berths, terraces, lounges, and tables that define Art Basel Miami Beach. Access varies: some require a host on the inside, others can be arranged through our concierge.

Marina
Miami Beach Marina — South Beach
The default Art Basel charter berth on the Miami Beach side. Deep-water capacity for yachts to 90m+, full superyacht service infrastructure, walking distance to Joe's Stone Crab and the South of Fifth restaurant programme, ten-minute drive to the Convention Center. The natural charter berth for collector and dealer charters that want Miami Beach immediacy.
Marina
Sunset Harbour Marina — Miami Beach
Calmer alternative to Miami Beach Marina, in the residential Sunset Harbour neighbourhood. Berths to 50m, fifteen-minute drive to the Convention Center, quieter and more private than the South Beach equivalent. The choice for collector charters preferring privacy over visibility.
Marina
Island Gardens Deep Harbour Marina — Downtown Miami
The Downtown Miami superyacht marina capable of receiving yachts to 100m+. Across the MacArthur Causeway from Miami Beach, fifteen-minute drive to the Convention Center, twenty minutes to the Pérez Art Museum and ICA. The choice for the largest charter yachts that cannot accommodate on the Miami Beach side.
Venue
Miami Beach Convention Center
The home of Art Basel itself. Refurbished 2018; the contemporary art fair occupies the full footprint across the week, with VIP entry, Collectors Lounge and the Magazines section on the upper level. Walking distance from Miami Beach Marina; ten minutes by car from Sunset Harbour.
Hotel & dining
Faena Miami Beach
The defining Art Basel hotel and the host of the headline opening dinner programme. Pao, Los Fuegos and the Saxony bar anchor the working dinner calendar; the Faena Theater hosts the largest sponsored cultural programme.
Hotel & dining
1 Hotel South Beach
South of Fifth flagship; the contested daytime working lunch and reception venue. The rooftop pool hosts a number of luxury-house activations across the week; Habitat is the principal-table dining option.
Restaurant
Design District restaurant cluster
Mandolin Aegean Bistro, MC Kitchen, Michael's Genuine, the Setai Miami Beach dining programme, Le Jardinier — the Design District restaurant programme through Art Basel week is the contested dinner reservation tier alongside the South Beach options. Book by September.
Museum & venue
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
The contemporary art museum on Biscayne Bay. Hosts the headline Wednesday-night museum gala dinner and a number of trustee and collector evenings across the week. Tender accessible from Island Gardens; the most natural collector museum visit of the week.
Private collection
Rubell Museum & Margulies Collection
The two major private contemporary-art collections in Miami, opened to the public across Art Basel week with special exhibition programmes and private-tour access for invited collectors. The most-loved daytime collector excursions of the week alongside Untitled at the beach.
Restaurant
Joe's Stone Crab — South Beach
The Miami institution. Open across Art Basel week to capacity; the principal-and-broker working lunch venue across the week. Walk-in only on Joe's, but the Joe's Take-Away catering programme is the natural on-yacht meal solution for the busiest hosting days.

Charter price ranges

What Art Basel Miami Beach actually costs

Indicative all-in budgets for a seven-night charter timed to the event. Base rates are the yacht only; APA (advance provisioning, typically 30–35%), VAT where applicable, and event-week berth supplements sit on top.

Entry

28–35m motor yacht

Weekly base

From $95,000

Berth supplement

$8–18k Basel-week

Best for

8 sleeping guests, 20-guest reception

A compact base for collector-and-advisor charters of a tight principal party. Sleeps a small group, supports a collector-and-dealer working dinner of fifteen on board, keeps operational simplicity in a four-to-six-day Miami attendance. Pragmatic when the yacht is the calm hosting base and the fair calendar carries the working day.

Core

36–48m motor yacht

Weekly base

$160,000–$320,000

Berth supplement

$18–42k Basel-week

Best for

10 sleeping guests, 35-guest reception

The default Art Basel hosting yacht. A modern 45-metre Sanlorenzo, Westport or Heesen on Miami Beach Marina with crew of nine or ten, a chef capable of running a five-day cocktail-and-dinner hospitality programme. The bracket where the yacht hosts a meaningful Wednesday-night collector-and-dealer reception plus the principal-table dinners through the week.

Showpiece

49–60m motor yacht

Weekly base

$320,000–$650,000

Berth supplement

$42–95k Basel-week

Best for

12 sleeping guests, 60-guest reception

The major-gallery and foundation-anchor bracket. Twelve guests across six suites, crew of fourteen, beach club aft, sky lounge convertible to a private gallery-style dining room. The yacht hosts the headline Thursday-evening reception of sixty curators, collectors and trustees plus the principal-table dinners. The natural shape for major-gallery anchor charters.

Statement

60–80m motor yacht

Weekly base

$650,000–$1.7m

Berth supplement

$95k–$285k Basel-week

Best for

12 sleeping guests, 100-guest reception

The luxury-house headline activation bracket. Crew of twenty, helideck on the larger units, formal indoor dining for eighteen, foredeck staging 100 standing reception. The yacht as full hospitality embassy for the maison's Art Basel programme; Island Gardens berth typically required for the bracket.

Pinnacle

80m+ superyacht

Weekly base

$1.7m–$5m+

Berth supplement

$285k+ Island Gardens

Best for

12 sleeping guests, 180+ standing reception

Narrow pinnacle bracket. The yachts at this scale present at Art Basel are typically platform, auction-house or sovereign-fund anchor charters contracted by single introduction nine months ahead. The platform for the headline collector-and-curator party of the week.

Sample week

A seven-day yacht itinerary around Art Basel Miami Beach

Day 1 — Mon
Miami Beach board, soft evening
Board mid-afternoon at Miami Beach Marina. Orientation of the marina and the South of Fifth restaurant programme, early-evening Champagne service on the aft deck, quiet on-board dinner before the fair opens Tuesday.
Day 2 — Tue
First Choice Preview, opening dinners
First Choice Preview 11:00 entry for the principal-and-collector party; the morning working hours at the fair. Working lunch on board on the foredeck. Vernissage Preview 15:00–20:00. Tuesday-evening principal-table opening dinner at the Faena Pao or on board.
Day 3 — Wed
VIP Preview, headline collector dinner
VIP Preview at the fair through the day. 18:30 — host headline yacht reception on the aft deck for fifty (collectors, dealers, curators), 20:30 — principal-table dinner moves either on board or to Le Jardinier in the Design District. Late return to yacht for nightcaps.
Day 4 — Thu
Public opening, museum gala
First View private hours at the fair morning. Working lunch at Joe's Stone Crab for the principal-and-advisor table. Thursday-evening: Pérez Art Museum gala for the principal party, return to yacht for closing cocktails after 23:30.
Day 5 — Fri
Collector decision day
Working buying day at the fair — second-look acquisitions, dealer follow-up conversations. Friday-evening small principal-and-dealer dinner table of twelve on board — the most curated dinner of the week, with the dealer principal hosting collectors through acquisition decisions.
Day 6 — Sat
Satellite fairs & private collections
Daytime: Rubell Museum and Margulies Collection visit for the principal-and-collector table; Untitled at the beach in the late afternoon. Saturday-evening: 1 Hotel or Faena rooftop reception for the broader extended guest list, decompression cocktails on board after 23:30.
Day 7 — Sun
Brunch on board, fair closes, Bahamas decision
Sunday brunch on the foredeck for the principal table of twelve. Light afternoon at the fair for closing conversations. Sunday-evening: quiet closing dinner on board, departure decision finalised. Either disembark Monday morning, or slip lines Sunday night for an overnight passage to Bimini and a Bahamas continuation.

Guest experience

What life on board looks like

Art Basel week is, in our experience, the most intellectually serious hosting week in the US charter calendar. The clients we run during the week are typically clients with a deep collecting practice or institutional involvement (museum trustees, foundation principals, major-gift donors), and the on-board hospitality has to match that register — the curatorial-and-collector dinner table is a fundamentally different conversational environment from the Palm Beach show-week broker dinner or the Lions creative-industry working dinner, and the crew and chef who run Art Basel well are crews who understand and respect that register. We brief crews accordingly; the yachts that do Art Basel well consistently are yachts whose principal-relationship crews have run art-collector charters before.

On board, the most useful single capability across the week is a chef who can run a curated dinner table at gallery-dinner register — sourcing, plating, beverage selection at a level that holds its own against the Faena Pao or Le Jardinier dinner experience that the same guests have been hosted at the previous night. The 45-to-60-metre bracket is the natural size for this — large enough to support a serious chef-led dinner programme through the week, controllable enough to keep the cadence calm. The Thursday-night reception of fifty curators, collectors and trustees is the single most contested single function of any Art Basel charter; the yachts that get it right become the talked-about week of the fair.

Off the yacht, the concierge layer manages the items unique to the Art Basel context — First Choice Preview entries (allocated by individual gallery invitation, not by purchase), museum gala seatings (Pérez, ICA, the Bass), private-collection visit scheduling at the Rubell and Margulies, restaurant reservations through the Design District programme (book by September), and the controlled-access introductions to the major gallery principals (Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, Pace, David Zwirner, White Cube, Lévy Gorvy, Marian Goodman, Sprueth Magers, Esther Schipper, Massimo De Carlo) that drive the working substance of the week. We coordinate this layer through long-standing Miami art-week relationships.

Booking timeline

How Art Basel Miami Beach actually gets booked

T–10 to T–12 months
Yacht longlist & berth strategy
Charter enquiries for the following December Basel open in January or February of the same year. Miami Beach Marina, Sunset Harbour and Island Gardens allocations firm up through summer; the better positions are taken by August. Charter inventory above 50m in Florida during the Basel window is finite and is taken up through the autumn.
T–6 months
Yacht contracted
Yacht contracted with 50% deposit by June for a December Basel. Berth contract confirmed in parallel through the chosen marina.
T–4 months
Hosting & access programme
Hosting calendar drafted — First Choice Preview entries requested through gallery relationships; museum gala seatings requested; restaurant reservations confirmed across the Design District and South Beach; private-collection visits scheduled. The week's social calendar firms up in August/September; entries close progressively through October.
T–2 months
Guest list & dietary lock
Final guest list, arrival flights, dietary requirements, stateroom assignments to chief stewardess. Private-aviation slots at Miami or Opa-Locka coordinated for principal and guests. Curatorial programme on board (artwork display, conversation programme, special talk) finalised if relevant.
T–4 weeks
Final rehearsal & supplier confirmation
Captain and chief stewardess walk through the daily flow with the broker — tender movements (where relevant), restaurant timings, reception logistics, museum-gala car movements. Suppliers (florists, branded provisioning, on-board artwork installation if applicable) confirmed.
Basel week
Live concierge
On-site concierge from the Monday before First Choice Preview through Monday departure. Master schedule held in real time; broker-on-call for any escalation.

Featured yachts

Yachts suited to Art Basel Miami Beach

Examples from our current fleet. Final yacht and berth are matched to your group and event week at proposal stage.

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Detailed FAQ

Art Basel Miami Beach charter — questions answered in depth

What does an Art Basel Miami yacht charter cost, all-in?
A 45-metre yacht for the Basel week (six nights, Monday arrival through Sunday close) typically runs $260,000–$470,000 all-in. That comprises a base charter fee of around $160,000–$300,000, APA of 30–35%, the Miami Beach Marina berth supplement of $18,000–$42,000, and concierge, restaurant programme, beverage, private-aviation and on-shore coordination of $50,000–$100,000. A 55-metre yacht moves the all-in to $500,000–$900,000; 70m+ moves beyond $1.7m.
How is Art Basel Miami different from Art Basel Switzerland?
Same gallery network and curatorial standard, completely different surrounding ecosystem. Basel Switzerland (June) is the contemporary-art industry's working week — galleries-to-galleries, fewer celebrities, lower hospitality intensity. Miami is the industry's social-and-collector week — the brand activations are more prominent, the celebrity-and-platform footprint is larger, and the chartered-yacht hospitality is structurally more important to the week's working substance.
Can I get a First Choice Preview entry?
First Choice Preview is the most contested entry of the week, allocated by individual gallery invitation. Allocation is relationship-driven through the major galleries; collectors with serious purchasing history with a gallery (six-figure-plus historical purchases, museum-trustee status, foundation principal status) generally have access. We can support introductions through gallery relationships but cannot guarantee First Choice entry; serious collector clients usually arrive with their own gallery access.
Can I host major gallery principals on board?
Yes — and this is one of the most common single use-cases. A chartered yacht is the calmest setting in Miami for a serious collector-and-gallery conversation across the week. We coordinate gallery introductions through long-standing Miami art-week relationships; the working format is typically a dinner-table conversation of ten to sixteen on the principal-and-curator side.
What's the right yacht size for Art Basel?
For a collector principal charter with the yacht as the working hosting base: 38–48m. For a major gallery or foundation anchor charter: 49–60m. For a luxury-house headline activation: 60m+. The 45–55m bracket is the sweet spot for serious art-week hosting — large enough to host a meaningful collector-and-curator reception, controllable enough to keep the curatorial register of the dinner programme through the week.
Can I extend the charter into the Bahamas?
Yes — the most popular post-Basel continuation is a 5–7 day Bahamas decompression: overnight passage Sunday night from Miami to Bimini, then onward to the Exumas (Highbourne Cay, Norman's Cay, Staniel Cay) or to Eleuthera (Harbour Island). The Bahamas in early December are the calmest weather window of the year; the week is a natural decompression from the intensity of Basel.
What's the weather in early December?
Reliably 24–26°C daytime, 18–20°C overnight, low humidity, rain rare. Aft-deck reception evenings through Basel week are weather-friendly with very high confidence. The one operational risk is a late-season cold front from the north; we monitor through the week and adjust outdoor reception timings if a front is moving through.
How do guests get to Miami?
MIA (Miami International) is the primary commercial gateway; Opa-Locka and Miami Executive (KTMB) are the private-aviation primary fields. PBI (Palm Beach International) and FLL (Fort Lauderdale) are useful alternatives for guests connecting through Bahamas private-aviation legs. All within 30–60 minutes of the chartered marina by car.
Can children come?
Possible but uncommon. The week is intellectually adult-led and the hosting cadence is meaningful; most family-led art clients arrange family time before or after Basel rather than during. We have run multi-generational families with adult children present at curatorial-collector dinners successfully; for younger children we typically advise either pre- or post-Basel family time on board with a Bahamas extension.
Is the WiFi on board good enough for live business?
Yes. US charter yachts at the relevant scale run Starlink with redundant cellular failover; bandwidth supports video conferencing, virtual auction bidding, board calls and a connected hospitality programme. Miami Beach and Downtown cellular coverage is excellent across both marina sides.
Can I host museum-trustee dinners on board?
Yes — and this is a growing share of Art Basel charter activity. The Pérez Art Museum, ICA Miami, the Bass and visiting trustees from US and international museums (the Whitney, MoMA, the Tate, the Stedelijk, the Centre Pompidou) regularly attend Basel; the yacht-based trustee dinner has become a popular alternative to the museum-led gala for board principals hosting their senior donor table.
What about discretion?
Strong by default. The marinas are controlled environments; the press perimeter at the fair itself is meaningful but does not extend to the marinas. For specific principal-protection requirements we coordinate with the guest's existing security director and trusted regional close-protection partners; it is not a default add-on.
What's the cancellation policy?
Yacht charter cancellation follows the MYBA or industry-standard agreement signed at contract — typically 50% deposit non-refundable from signing, balance at six months, full balance non-refundable inside ninety days. Berth contracts at the Miami marinas are non-refundable from allocation. Specialist charter cancellation insurance is strongly recommended and we introduce a broker at contracting.

Editor's note

Art Basel Miami is the highest-register collector-and-curator hosting week in the American charter calendar — and the December window where a chartered yacht does work that no hotel or restaurant alternative can equal. Engagement for the following Basel should open by spring; serious berth conversations close by August.

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