The 8 Best Celebrity Yachts You Can Charter Now
Some of the most coveted yacht charters in the world are for boats owned by stars. Explore our roundup of celebrity yachts here.
Superyachts and celebrities go together like caviar and blinis. A-listers have partied at sea since Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway mainlined spirits on their bestie’s French Riviera boat.
On today’s yacht charter market, eight great yachts exude celebrity allure. They include the honeymoon yacht of Grace Kelly, plus Paris Hilton’s Bahamian charter. We advise that you escape the paparazzi by booking a week on board.
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Grace
Grace is a head-turning classic with a backstory as dazzling as her former royal owners. In 1927, she launched as Deo Juvante II. When Nazi aggression raged across Europe, Britain’s Royal Navy requisitioned this gentleman’s cruiser to rescue soldiers trapped in France. In 1956, it gifted her to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to mark his marriage to American starlet Grace Kelly. The yacht became the royal couple’s home during their seven-week honeymoon cruise.
Remarkably, almost a century after her inception, this war hero and former royal yacht still charters in the Galapagos Islands. Grace has no room for jet skis, but this 144-foot yacht can carry snorkels, enabling all guests to dive into a vivid biosphere with 3,000 sea life species, and kayaks.
Grace books through Classic Charters from $129,000 per week. Your guests can fight over the yacht’s Grace Kelly suite.
Pronto
Celebrities love the unique selling proposition of a catamaran, which has two hulls instead of one, and offers more space than yachts of a comparable size. Imagine a big floating square that can serve as a platform for dawn yoga or midnight movies projected onto an al fresco screen.
Sunreef owners, including tennis champion Rafael Nadal and Formula One star Fernando Alonso, swear by their catamarans. “The huge amount of space that my catamaran has…is the main reason for switching from monohull to multihull,” says Nadal. Paris Hilton and her husband, Carter Reum, booked the Sunreef 80 Power series catamaran Pronto for their Christmas break in the Bahamas. Pronto brings the archipelago’s 700 islands alive with a wet bar and a huge forward terrace.
Pronto charters with TWW Yachts from $90,000 per week.
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Weatherbird
This 98-foot schooner allows guests to, quite literally, party like Jay Gatsby’s gilded posse. That’s because Weatherbird was built for author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s French Riviera pals Sarah and Gerald Murphy. The Murphys were gin-slinging bons viveurs —socialites who lived for lavishness. Their yacht guests like Ernest Hemingway drank enough daiquiris to sink the French navy.
Forget toys. Weatherbird herself is the toy. She has acres of white sails and a flat deck that channels the celebrities of yesteryear. Interiors are gentleman-chic, with polished pine elements, cabin beds, and brass reading lights.
Weatherbird recently chartered with Northrop & Johnson from €45,000 ($53,000) per week. She is currently between owners but will return to the charter market at the end of 2025.
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Christina O
Christina O was the world’s first true superyacht. Built as a World War II submarine hunter, her rugged heft was converted into elegant lines by post-war playboy Aristotle Onassis. After Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy — President John F. Kennedy’s widow — their yacht hosted the 20th century’s greats: Richard Burton, Sir Winston Churchill, and Sophia Loren. This 325-foot leviathan still packs a punch. She can escort 34 guests in Art Deco splendor at speeds up to 14 knots — a volume and speed far greater than most contemporary boats. Even her twin Hacker Craft vintage tenders turn heads.
In a more recent brush with celebrity, Christina O starred in the film Triangle of Sadness (2022) alongside fictional captain Woody Harrelson and guileless model Harris Dickinson.
Christina O charters through Morley Yachts from €700,000 ($823,600) per week.
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Planet Nine
Planet Nine belongs not to a celebrity but to an aristocrat: Lord Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the banking family. His 240-foot yacht was built for global autonomy. She can battle 10,000 nautical miles through glaciers and storms without assistance. Planet Nine has a bigger toybox than an oligarch’s spoiled child: an inflatable climbing wall, a floating assault course, eFoils, and ebikes. She can service charter destinations from Cuba to Antarctica, as long as your captain doesn’t run out of Nespresso pods.
Rothschild’s private yacht found fame as the star of Sir Christopher Nolan’s time-bending thriller Tenet (2020). Planet Nine hosted up to 100 film crew members alongside stars like Sir Kenneth Branagh on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Her MD600 Explorer helicopter, which you can also charter, was repainted in military colors for the Hollywood shoot.
Planet Nine charters in the Mediterranean and Caribbean with Burgess from €650,000 ($765,000) per week.
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Trending
Jennifer Lopez loved chartering the American-built Trending. This 164-foot yacht has everything you’d expect from a top-tier Caribbean charter, including brand-new water toys, a chef trained in a Michelin-starred kitchen, and then some. Her extended bridge deck features a private sky lounge, even when in port. PADI dive instructors can escort guests on three luxury tenders from the Bahamas to the Grenadines.
Before buying Trending, the yacht’s owners chartered on 40 separate occasions in search of the perfect guest experience. Their sum of knowledge was poured into a charter-focused refit. Regular upgrades have kept Trending a charter star with additions like audiovisual systems that allow guests’ vacation videos to be played wirelessly on all her screens.
Trending charters with Camper & Nicholsons from $210,000.
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Cyan
Still haven’t found what you’re looking for? The perfect charter is right here. U2 guitarist David Howell Evans, also known as the Edge, ownsCyan. She comes with rock star extras, including a baby grand piano and a DJI drone, which can zoom ahead during charters to search for empty beaches in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. On movie nights, an amphitheater of cushions encircles her nine-foot sundeck cinema screen. A library of the Edge’s 1,500 favorite movies complements guests’ Disney+ favorites.
A 2021 refit returned Cyan to the premier league of 160 footers — the industry’s most popular category, which offers the best value for a six-cabin charter. She stands out thanks to her dedication to outdoor living. Think sun pads, main deck dining, and a bridge deck bar. Outdoor speakers can serenade guests with U2 classics.
Cyan charters with Burgess from $196,000 per week.
Top Five II
Kylie Jenner is a serial yacht charterer who knows precisely what she wants. That’s why the youngest Kardashian spent her 27th birthday aboard Top Five II. The 200-foot superyacht is a meeting of two great industry talents: Sinot Yacht Architecture, which designs the world’s biggest boats, and Royal Hakvoort, which specializes in building one-of-a-kind yachts. Top Five II features a firepit, elevator, and swimming pool — accoutrements seldom found on lesser yachts.
The winter playground of Top Five II is the Bahamas, the Caribbean’s most popular charter destination, and in summer, she cruises the Mediterranean. Her X-Craft beach landing tender can port parasols, barbecues, and beach volleyball gear to deserted islands and hidden coves. Offshore, her toy collection includes an eFoil, kitesurf and wakesurf gear, wakeboards, inflatables, and a waterslide. Yacht tech includes zero-speed stabilizers that keep the yacht from rocking — and Jenner from spilling her yerba mate.
Top Five II charters from $550,000 per week.
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