About Mala Yachts
We started on Dubai's water in 2006 with dinner cruises, and moved into yacht charter as the market grew with us. Two decades on, the fleet boards anything from ten guests to a thousand.
Mala Yachts charters yachts and builds events on them. Corporate functions, weddings, birthdays and private cruises across Dubai Marina, Dubai Harbour and Dubai Canal.
20
Years on Dubai's water, marine hospitality experience since 2006
10–1,000
Guests per event, on one operator
4.9
Rated on Google
681337
Licensed Dubai charter operator
Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice award
Most Dubai charter companies pick a lane. The luxury brokers will not touch a ten-guest budget cruise; the volume operators cannot berth a superyacht or run an eight-hundred-cover event. We do both ends and everything between, which is why a company that books a small client dinner in March comes back for the annual conference in November.
10–30 guests
Birthdays, proposals, dinner cruises, family days and small client entertaining.
Typical yachts: 45ft to 75ft cruisers, from standard to premium.
30–200 guests
Weddings, receptions, product launches, team offsites and full-catering parties.
Typical yachts: 88ft to 150ft, including Italian builds.
200–1,000 guests
Conferences, gala dinners, brand activations and multi-yacht company days.
Typical yachts: superyacht event vessels, or several yachts in convoy.
Scale
For years our largest events ran at five to six hundred guests, across the sort of function most Dubai operators will not quote for. As of last season we can put up to a thousand people on a single vessel, which removes the convoy logistics and the two-tier guest experience that come with splitting a group across boats.
It is the difference between a company day and a company event. One boarding time, one stage, one room.
Where we are strongest
Corporate is the category we have built the company around, because it is the one that punishes improvisation. A wedding forgives a late supplier. A four-hundred-guest conference with a keynote at 19:20 does not.
So we run it as procurement expects: written quotes, LPO and PO handling, VAT invoicing, supplier access lists, a run sheet agreed in advance and one named person accountable on the day.
Corporate yacht charter in Dubai →Booking a boat is the easy part. What sinks an event on the water is five suppliers who have never worked the same berth, arriving at a pontoon with no loading window. We hold the whole chain, so there is one contract, one timeline and one number to call.
Captain, hosts and deck crew. Every yacht boarded by our team before it is offered.
Live stations to plated dinners, cooked on board. Halal, Indian, Arabic, European and dietary menus.
Florals, branding, backdrops, cake and table setting, loaded and set before guests arrive.
DJs, live musicians, sound and screens, specified for an open deck rather than a ballroom.
Jet ski, flyboard, e-foil and fishing, added to a charter or booked on their own.
Chartered by
Charter companies come and go. The useful question to ask any operator is not how luxurious the fleet looks, but how many years they have actually been trading — and what they built during them.
Syed Tariq
Founder & CEO, Mala Yachts
From the founder
I started on this water in 2006, and the thing I have learned in twenty years is that nobody remembers the yacht. They remember whether the cake arrived, whether the captain was calm, and whether the person who sold them the charter was still reachable on the day.
So we built the company backwards from that. We keep our own crew, our own kitchen and our own décor team, because every supplier you add is another person who can let your guest down. We keep a record of what you booked last time, what you liked and what you did not, so the second event does not start from a blank page.
It is why more than thirty per cent of our business this season came from people who had already sailed with us, and why we hold a ninety-nine per cent delivery record on events we have confirmed.
If something is wrong on your charter, it comes to me. That is not a slogan; it is how a company this size has to work.
Syed Tariq
99%
Delivery record on confirmed events.
30%+
Repeat business this season.
15 min
Reply time, 9am–11pm Dubai time.
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Boarding points: Marina, Harbour, Canal.
Questions about who we are. Pricing, routes and what is included live on the pages that sell them.
Twenty years. Mala's marine hospitality operation started on Dubai's water in 2006, running dinner cruises, and Mala Yachts launched as a dedicated yacht charter brand in 2012. The company is a licensed Dubai charter operator, Trade Licence No. 681337.
From ten guests to a thousand. Events up to around two hundred guests run comfortably on a single yacht; above that we use superyacht event vessels, with single-vessel capacity now up to a thousand people. Larger groups can also be split across yachts in convoy.
No. The fleet spans standard cruisers through to Italian-built ultra-luxury yachts, and we quote all of them. It is unusual for a Dubai operator to cover both ends, and it is deliberate: the same client often needs a modest boat one month and a flagship the next.
We supply them. Catering, décor, staging, entertainment and AV are handled in-house, on one contract with one timeline. Guests who prefer their own supplier can bring them in, and we arrange berth access and loading windows.
Yes. Corporate bookings are handled with written quotes, LPO and PO processing, VAT invoicing and supplier access documentation. It is the category we work in most, so the paperwork is routine rather than an exception.
You get the yacht, the total and the boarding point in writing. Replies within 15 minutes, 9am–11pm Dubai time.
