Family yachts in Puerto Vallarta
Charter 2 luxury yachts in Puerto Vallarta for your family. Curated ERentals roster, on-water inspected. Direct booking.
Charter 2 luxury yachts in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for your family.
We list 2 yachts suited to a family charter in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, including 85' Azimut Don Moi and 90' Cheoy Lee. Between them they host 25 to 50 guests, so a couple and a full party both have somewhere to land. Nightly rates open at $6,150. Every yacht is visited or vetted before it reaches this page, and a concierge handles the booking end to end.
Who Fits On What
90' Cheoy Lee takes 50 guests. 85' Azimut Don Moi takes 25 guests. Day-charter and overnight capacity are different numbers on most boats, so tell us which you are planning and we confirm against the vessel's certificate rather than the brochure.
About Puerto Vallarta
Banderas Bay is one of the largest bays in the Americas, and that scale is what makes Puerto Vallarta a charter destination rather than a town with boats in it. Inside a single day you can be snorkelling the granite arches at Los Arcos, anchored off a village with no road to it, and watching humpbacks breach in open water, without ever crossing the same stretch twice. The water is warm, which is not true of most of the Pacific coast, and the bay is sheltered enough that a twelve-guest cruiser has a comfortable day when the open ocean would not. Our fleet here runs from a 47ft sailing catamaran up to a 122ft Hatteras, and one boat takes fifty guests, which is the largest capacity we list anywhere.
Los Arcos
The granite sea arches at the bay’s southern edge, a protected marine park twenty minutes out. Snorkelling here is the single most reliable thing on the water in Vallarta, shallow, clear, and full of fish. Go early, before the tour boats.
Yelapa and Quimixto
Villages on the southern shore reachable only by boat, which is exactly the point. Yelapa has a waterfall walk and beach palapas; Quimixto is quieter still. A lunch stop here is what separates a charter day from a harbour cruise.
Best Time to Visit Puerto Vallarta
December through April is the dry season and the peak: warm, clear, and the window when humpbacks are in the bay to calve, roughly December to March. That is the single best reason to come, and it books earliest. May and November are shoulder months with good water and softer rates. June through October is the rainy season and the hurricane window; mornings are often fine and the storms arrive late in the day, so charters still run, but the forecast governs and September is the month most likely to lose a day.
When can we actually see whales?
Humpbacks are in Banderas Bay roughly December to March, with January and February the most reliable. They come to calve, so sightings are of mothers and young, often close in. Boats are required to keep their distance and the crews hold to it; a captain who promises a close approach is telling you something about how they operate.
Is the water warm?
Yes, and that is unusual for the Mexican Pacific. The bay runs comfortably swimmable most of the year and genuinely warm from summer into autumn. Compare that with Cabo, where the Pacific side is noticeably colder.
