Aegean Boat Tour from Marmaris: 5 Swimming Stops

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Duration6h

GroupUp to 100

LanguagesEN · TR

PickupAt your hotel

Five bays in one day, lunch and drinks already paid for

You board a boat at Marmaris harbor and spend the day moving between five swimming stops — Aquarium Bay, Phosphorus Cave, two Blue Flag beaches, and Green Sea Bay — with a BBQ lunch and unlimited drinks served onboard. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, and the boat returns by 4pm. No planning required beyond choosing your hotel.

Step-by-step itinerary

Marmaris boat trip with swimming and lunch

Pickup from hotels
Drive to Marmaris harbour
Boat departs at 10:00 am
Visit Heaven Island and feed fish
Swim at Aquarium Bay
Visit Phosphorus (Wishing) Cave
Swim and BBQ lunch at Amos & Kumlubük Bay
Visit and explore Turunc town
Swim at Green Sea Bay
Return to Marmaris harbour
Drop off at hotels

The Experience

The boat is already loading when you arrive at the harbor. Your driver has dropped you at the dock, and the crew is setting out the lunch spread on the back deck — grilled chicken, pasta salad, the works — while passengers find their sun-beds and the first round of drinks gets poured. You're not thinking about logistics anymore. That's the point of this Marmaris all-inclusive boat trip. Pickup happened at your hotel around 9:30am, the route is fixed, and by 10am the boat pulls away from the harbor heading for Heaven Island, where fish farms cluster near the shore and you can toss bread to the water and watch them swarm.

The stops come in a rhythm you don't have to manage. Aquarium Bay arrives first — thirty minutes to swim in water so clear you see the bottom, then back on deck with a cold drink in hand. The Phosphorus Cave (also called the Wishing Cave) is the kind of place that sounds like marketing until you're actually there and the water shifts color as the light moves through the cave mouth, and people are dropping coins and making wishes like it's real. After that comes Amos & Kumlubük, a Blue Flag beach where the lunch is waiting and you eat at a table on the boat with the Marmaris coastline behind you. The crew keeps the drinks coming — soft drinks, tea, coffee, or local alcohol if you've paid the upgrade — and you're not rationing anything because it's all included. Turunc, a small town across the water, gets a stop next if you want to walk around the seafront cafes or hit the local market on Mondays. The last swim break is Green Sea Bay, where the water is so calm it feels like you've left the day behind entirely.

You're back in Marmaris by 4pm, and the same driver takes you back to your hotel. The whole thing runs eight hours, but it doesn't feel like a schedule — it feels like someone else decided where to go and you just showed up. That's what you're paying for: no taxi negotiations, no entry fees to calculate, no figuring out which beach is worth the trip. The boat does that thinking.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off from anywhere in Marmaris, English-speaking crew, five designated swim stops (Aquarium Bay, Phosphorus Cave, Amos & Kumlubük, Turunc, and Green Sea Bay), BBQ lunch with chicken, pasta, and salad, and unlimited soft drinks, tea, and coffee throughout the day. Local alcoholic drinks are available as an optional upgrade.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendly

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want a full day on the water without arranging transport, paying per-stop entry fees, or deciding which beaches to visit — the fixed itinerary and included lunch mean you arrive at your hotel, get picked up, and don't think about logistics again until you're back.