If your team is ten people or fewer, a team building boat trip in Ibiza is one of the easiest offsite days you will ever organise. One private boat, a professional skipper who handles everything, food and drinks served at the teak table — and between October and April, the whole boat starts from €999. With ten colleagues aboard, that works out at roughly €100 per person before fuel and extras, for the day everyone will still be talking about at the Christmas party.
We run these days ourselves from Marina Santa Eulalia on Ibiza's east coast, and small corporate groups have quietly become some of our favourite charters: they book midweek, they know what they want, and they happily leave the planning to us. Here is how a team day on our NAVAN S30 works, what it honestly costs, and why the quiet months are the clever ones to book.
Why a team building boat trip in Ibiza beats another long dinner
Most team activities seat people in rows or split them into taxis. A boat puts everyone in one circle. Ten guests is our maximum on the NAVAN S30, and we say that with some pride: this is not a floating conference centre. Ten seats means the whole team fits around one teak table, in one conversation, with nobody stuck at the far end shouting over the music.
Just as important: nobody on your team has to play organiser once the lines are off. Our skipper is always aboard and handles the navigation, the anchoring and the weather calls; nobody needs a licence, and nervous sailors tend to settle within the first half hour on calm water. If you are still weighing the options for a group day, the per-person maths in our boat party vs. your own boat comparison is a useful starting point.
The day, hour by hour
A full-day charter is eight hours, typically 10:00 to 18:00 and flexible if your agenda needs it. We depart from Berth H17 in Marina Santa Eulalia; there is parking at the marina and the walk from Santa Eulalia town takes minutes — which matters when ten people need to arrive at the same time.
Where we go depends on the wind, and we are open about that. Our home water is the east coast: Tagomago island lies about twenty minutes from the berth, with quieter coves further north when we want an anchorage to ourselves. When conditions allow, we point south instead for the full Formentera day — a first swim stop in the shallow, glass-clear water off S'Espalmador and lunch at anchor off Ses Illetes.
Whichever route wins, the moment that makes these days work is always the same: engines off in a quiet cove, the anchor chain running out, and about thirty seconds of silence before the first colleague jumps. Snorkelling gear is on board, and the Bluetooth system plays whichever playlist survives the team vote.
Food and drinks without a catering contract
Offsite catering is usually its own project. On board it is one line in the booking: our drinks package (cava, beer, soft drinks and ice) is €35 per person, the Mediterranean lunch board with fresh fruit and water is €45, and premium cocktails mixed on board are €65. Add an inflatable SUP for €50, or the Seabob underwater scooter for €250 — briefing included, and usually the moment the org chart stops mattering.
On Formentera days, our team can also reserve a beach-restaurant table for you in advance, so the long lunch is already waiting when the boat noses into the bay.
What it costs — per boat, not per person
| Season | Full day (8h), whole boat |
|---|---|
| October – April | from €999 |
| May & September | €1,250 – €1,450 |
| July & August | €1,600 – €1,750 |
All prices are for the entire boat, with fuel charged separately by actual usage. That per-boat logic is worth underlining, because event agencies often package a comparable day at a per-person rate — and with a full team, those per-head prices can approach what the whole boat costs when you book direct. Current rates and packages are on our prices page.
When to book: the empty-calendar advantage
Retreat season in Ibiza is not August — that is when flights and hotels are at their most expensive and the anchorages at their busiest. The window retreat planners quietly use is spring and autumn, and from October our low-season rate applies. Midweek dates are usually the easiest for us to confirm, which suits a Tuesday-to-Thursday offsite perfectly.
We will be honest about the late-autumn trade: the air is cooler on the ride out, so bring a layer; our skipper reads the forecast that morning and picks the sheltered side of the island; and for most people, swimming ends sometime in November. In exchange you get anchorages to yourselves, the clearest light of the year and the lowest price on the calendar. We wrote up exactly what a low-season day on the water looks like in our winter charter guide.
If you are building a three-day offsite, put the boat in the middle: arrival dinner on day one, the water day as the centrepiece, strategy over breakfast while everyone is still talking about it. Booking works online with a 30% deposit and the rest is settled on the day. Tell us the occasion when you book — we set the boat up differently for a leadership team of four than for a full squad of ten.
