Seafarer Cruising & Sailing Holidays Omdömen 

Fifth year running. They must be doing something right. They do a lot right and that's why we keep coming back. There were (as usual) a lot of repeat customers. It was another fantastic two weeks of sun, sailing (lots of dinghies for all abilities with a great sailing area) and relaxation. Staff are all brilliant. Room cleaning was a bit sporadic. Kit is becoming a bit tired and would benefit from more investment. Great holiday.

WARNING! Do not book a flotilla holiday with Seafarer sailing. Seafarer subcontract their flotilla holidays in Greece to third parties without transparency. We are currently stranded in a port in Greece with a broken engine on our yacht. The local supplier (Sail Aegean) is a sub contractor of Seafarer and has failed to send an engineer to fix our engine. No response when we or the lead crew try to contact them. Seafarer deny that it is their responsibility despite our contract being with them. A holiday ruined. A claim in the pipeline. Would advise not to book with seafarer sailing.

Very disappointed with Seafarer this week, whom we have used for half a dozen times in the past. We are on their Sporades Flotilla trip with friends. Who came on our recommendation. Never again.

I could not find Mr Neilson’s email address, so putting it out on Tripadvisor.

Avoid this company.

I can’t sleep, as on our second night we are berthed below a disco in Patitiri on Alonnisos. It is 24:00 and we are tired relative beginners who have sailed 35 nm into a headwind earlier today. I believe we were the only yacht that sailed the route. We were told it was 18nm. No time for lunch.

When we arrived we received a nice text from the hostess. Only she forgot to inform us that we should not walk c1km in 35degree heat to the Seafarer jetty as per the Seafarer website, as that was used last year and nobody at Seafarer had bothered to change the photo. I responded with two text and two telephone calls, but the incoming call number has not the hostesses actual number. We then had to walk the c1km back.

The Sun Odyssey 519 is in a sorry state. Bits don’t work. Seafarer/ Agean Sailing can’t count to 7. Barometer read 970 when we arrived. Scratched plastic cups, tools that don’t work, no inflatable life jackets, stays that don’t close, and boat has a tired feel. Complain to the land team who leased yacht and was told that it was a Seafarer problem. Seafarer tells me it was an Agean Sailing problem.

Obviously have photographic evidence.

Tonight the thirty odd clients from ten boats went to a local restaurant where it took 90 minutes to get our main meal. It was actually very nice, but service was terrible. Just to get the staff two free meals?

I won’t be using such a useless company again. Sadly I still have 5 days to go. What else could possibly go wrong?

I have had excellent experiences with Seafarer but also a disappointing one. Firstly, the office has always been helpful and responsive. I have sailed from Croatia and the Ionian Islands. This year I wanted to sail the Cyclades to visit the famous islands such as Naxos and Santorini. The trip started poorly as the yacht could not reach my pick up in Mykonos. I had to ferry to Syros and lost a day’s sailing. I could accept that this was due to adverse winds although the information was provided very late on the morning of my flight to Mykonos.
My problem was that the skipper made it clear that he had no intention of sailing the planned route. He said he had a summer to fill in and sailing the same route would be boring for him. He wanted to explore other places. He ‘sold’ this to the other clients as an opportunity to explore isolated bays and go snorkelling.
The other clients – all French speaking which I had not expected although they were delightful and accommodated my English language – had not sailed before and felt obliged to go along with the skipper’s suggestions. One lady did express her frustration but was overruled. As a result, I did not see any of the islands that I had booked to see.
Seafarer claims their web site states that routes are subject to weather, which I understand. In my case, this was not the reason for the total abandonment of the itinerary. If seeing specific islands matters to you, make sure before you commit that Seafarer understands and makes a commitment in that regard.

Extremely happy with our Searfarer experience. There was a problem with our outbound flight due to an unfortunate cancellation. Seafarer stepped in and sorted new flights for us meaning we had a much shorter delay than if we had left it to the airline. Then our luggage was lost! Again, Seafarer took all that stress away and resolved this on our behalf so we could get on and enjoy our yacht in the beautiful Saronic Gulf. Great team at Korfos, attentive service in Greece and London and a lovely well equipped yacht. Will definitely book again!

We recently stayed at Nikiana beach resort and had a fantastic holiday. We have had a number of holidays with other companies of this type and found this holiday to be by far and away the best. All the staff both English and Greek were very helpful, knowledgeable and attentive throughout our stay. The accommodation whilst basic which is what we expected was clean and well presented. The sailing equipment was well maintained and there was plenty of it. During our stay, at no time did we struggle for equipment to use. We had a fabulous stay, would thoroughly recommend it and are hoping to get back again later in the season. Thank you to all the staff at Seafarer.

Seafarer give great service, staff is very helpful.

I enrolled with Seafarer for my RYA day skipper course in Croatia. The company was organised in confirming by booking and sending detailed joining instructions of where I could find our boat at Zaton Marina, Sibenik as well as useful contacts and information.

What I really like about Seafarer is that they ensure that tuition boats are not over crowed and they mix the type of students; we had 2 competent crew students and 2 RYA day skipper students and the instructor on our boat so we all got nearly personal training and ample time to practice our skills.

I also enjoyed that there are no hidden or extra costs. All marina mooring fees, breakfast and lunch and the cleaning of the boat were included in the price.

During our course, a good breakfast was provided and a light lunch each day plus one dinner for the night sail. In the evenings we ate ashore, normally at the restaurants at town quays (a bonus of taking your course at the very beginning of the season – normally you cannot find mooring space at the old town quays.)

An added bonus enrolling in the course at the very beginning of the season was we also had the very experienced Chief Instructor, Oliver Korolija as our trainer who has thousands of hours at sea and a great teacher.

I thoroughly recommend Seafarer Training in Croatian Islands to anyone who wishes to take their RYA day skipper course.

We have done skipper course this summer as a family with Saefarer in Greece.
It wasn’t our first time with company, year before we had amazing time in Nikiana Beach club, so we knew that we are in good hands.
It was a great holiday intense but with beautiful scenery, and new adventures every day.
Everything was very well organised, explained and taken care of. Boat was in used condition however Lissie, our skipper was fully aware what may course problems and it was sorted before we even realise any possible disasters could happen. Training was excellent , all our weak points had been addressed and all questions no matter how silly answered excessively. She had great connection with kids too, they learned a lot. The most important, it was really practical, a lot of hands on training starting with knots, planning the passage and finishing on serious emergency situations.

I recently had a flotilla in Kos, the yacht provided by Dream Yacht Charters was quite frankly shocking, in response I completed a review regarding them where upon they informed me they had been consulting with our brokers “ Seafarer “ regarding compensation I took this up with seafarer who initially responded but have since after 4 weeks failed to answer emails. I would avoid this company and dream yacht charter like the plague.

As yacht owners and experienced charterers this was by far the worst experience we have had. The staff were unfriendly and unhelpful, the yacht was not ready until 3 hours after the time agreed. The mainsail was not fit for purpose and only one of 2 winch handles worked. Below deck insufficient linen, cutlery, crockery & kitchen equipment were supplied until we insisted they brought more. Some of the crockery was chipped or cracked. We were not provided with an inventory. Also the bathrooms ('heads') had not been properly cleaned. We had to insist on being shown the operation of the holding tanks as the representative said 'we don't use them in Greece'( which we knew was untrue and illegal). On returning the yacht, the staff alleged that we had damaged the rudder which we had not. They admitted it had been damaged previously and temporarily repaired (underwater). That repair had obviously failed so one can only assume that in order to ensure that we could not claim compensation for the poor experience, they tried to blame us for the damage but produced no photos to show the condition before we took the yacht. The whole experience affected our enjoyment of the holiday but Seafarer were not interested and offered no apology.

For the second year in a row I have just spent a week at the Nikiana Beach Club and a week on a flotilla with my family. The staff at Nikiana was great (nice to see most of the same crowd from last year!) and the kids clubs really kept the children busy and happy through the week. Nice to have the option of basic dinghies for the children and more advanced ones for us. The rooms are basic but we don't spend much time there anyway and perhaps one thing to improve, on this new world of remote working, is the wi-fi, as the mobile signal is quite weak in the area. Moving to the second week, the flotilla leaders were very helpful and friendly. Niels and Kat went at great lengths to ensure everyone was safe and had fun, including getting the right weather window for us to sail to the unique town of Assos. The boat had a few minor issues but nothing that compromised safety. Despite all the additional issues with covid testing, etc..once you learn the ropes, it is definitely considering to go to Greece (specially how crowded and expensive the UK holiday became). We are already planning a repeat for next year!

Had the worst experience with Seafarers. Very unprofessional and rude. Many things were not in order with the boat and problems continued occurring throughout our vacation. For example the wiring for the remote control of our anchor was illegally made and very dangerous. There wasn’t even lifejackets enough on the boat. We had to go though everything before leaving port, where things kept on not being in order and missing.. These was just one out of many problems - very disappointing... Generally we used a lot of our holiday on dealing with seafarers. I wouldn’t recommend Seafarers to anybody and we have sailed with many companies and this was by far the worst experience..