The south of France is the most expensive charter coast in the Mediterranean and the least willing to print a price. Between Marseille and Menton the market is broker-led, the boats are large, and the rate is one line of a negotiation that also covers dates, crew and where the yacht will be when you step aboard. What you can read without asking anyone is the day-hire market, and that prices an afternoon rather than a week.
What is actually published on this coast
Click&Boat prints a from-price per day against its Monaco listings, and SamBoat does the same across France. Those are readable in seconds and they price a day boat out of a harbour, not a week aboard a yacht. No company in this record publishes a weekly rate for the Cote d'Azur, which is recorded here as a dated absence rather than filled in with an estimate from somewhere else.
Why the APA is the number that matters here
On a crewed yacht of the size this coast charters, the weekly fee buys the yacht and its crew and very little else. The Advance Provisioning Allowance is a float paid to the captain before the trip, normally quoted as a percentage of the charter fee, out of which fuel, food, drink, berthing and port charges are paid as they are incurred, with the balance returned against accounts at the end. Berthing in Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Cannes in season is expensive enough that the APA is a large number, and a budget built on the charter fee alone will be badly wrong.
What moves the price on this coast
Three things, in order. The week: the Grand Prix and the yacht show are their own market and no published figure describes them. The berth: a yacht that has to be moved to meet you carries a delivery leg, and a berth in Monaco itself is scarce in a way that Antibes and Golfe-Juan are not. And the crew: the difference between a skipper and a full crew is a step change in the fee and in what the APA has to cover.
Questions people ask about yacht charter south of france
How much does a yacht charter in the south of France cost?
No company in this record publishes a weekly rate for the Cote d'Azur. Click&Boat publishes day-rate from-prices against its Monaco listings, and week-long charters are quoted on enquiry with an Advance Provisioning Allowance charged on top.
What is the APA on a French charter?
A float paid to the captain before the trip, usually a percentage of the charter fee, covering fuel, food, drink and berthing as they are spent, with the balance returned with accounts at the end. It is charged on top of the rate.
Is it cheaper to charter from Antibes than Monaco?
The yacht costs what it costs. What changes is berthing and any delivery leg, and Monaco berths are the scarcest on the coast, so the running cost differs more than the charter fee does.