A Limassol sunset cruise takes you out from Limassol Marina or the Old Port for an evening of dusk on the water. Find more trip ideas on Greece Tours. Below we sort the VIP drinks and food yacht, the Prosecco evening, the private drone cruise and the gourmet charter. We add the sights from the sea, the sunset times by month and the booking terms.
What is a Limassol sunset cruise?
It is an evening boat trip from Limassol, on the southern coast of Cyprus, that sails towards dusk. Guests swim, eat or drink on board while the sky changes colour. The trips below differ by boat, length and menu.
Wikipedia describes the golden hour as the time shortly before sunset. Daylight then turns redder and softer than with the Sun high in the sky. The easyJet page of a DanEri catamaran sunset promises “the warmth of the golden hour” as you sail.
The DanEri program for its evening trips lists the gear on board. A Limassol sunset cruise there carries snorkelling equipment, SUP boards, inflatable toys and noodles. The program also names fishing equipment and a kid’s box.
After a swim stop, the Relaxing Adults-Only Sunset Cruise from Limassol follows the illuminated coastline. Its listing describes city lights dancing on the water. It also describes orange and pink hues in the sky as the Sun dips below the horizon.
The Limassol sunset cruise listings read for this page run from 1 hour to 3.5 hours. Daytime cruises and snorkel stops are on our Limassol boat trip guide. The wider island is on our Cyprus tours page.
Which Limassol sunset cruise styles can you book?
GetYourGuide sells four Limassol sunset cruise boats. They are a VIP yacht with food and drinks, a Prosecco cruise, a drone-film cruise and a private gourmet cruise. Musement and DanEri add adults-only and catamaran evenings.
Each Limassol sunset cruise on GetYourGuide carries one of these exact titles.
- VIP food and drinks: Limassol: Sunset VIP Cruise with Drinks and Food
- Prosecco cruise: the sea cruise with sunset views and a glass of prosecco
- Drone film: the private sunset boat cruise that films the evening by drone
- Gourmet charter: Limassol: Private Sunset Cruise with, Gourmet Delights
GetYourGuide’s tags split the four by group type. The Prosecco, drone and gourmet listings carry a private-group tag. The VIP cruise carries none.
Other sellers sort the evening their own way. Musement lists an Adults-only Sunset Cruise on ‘My Way’. The easyJet activities site lists a semi-private DanEri catamaran sunset from Limassol Marina. Icelolly lists a Relaxing Adults-Only Sunset Cruise from the Old Port.
The DanEri catamaran sunset greets guests with a glass of Prosecco as they step aboard. Its listing adds free Wi-Fi, snorkelling gear and SUP equipment. If the weather allows, a stopover lets guests swim, and an inflatable flamingo is on board.
DanEri also posts a sunset program on its own site. Choose shared or private first when you pick a Limassol sunset cruise, then the menu. The next sections take the four GetYourGuide boats in order.
Where does a Limassol sunset cruise board?
A Limassol sunset cruise boards at Limassol Marina on the Prosecco, gourmet, My Way and DanEri listings. The Relaxing Adults-Only cruise departs from the Old Port instead.
The Musement listing gives the meeting point as “Limassol Marina – MY WAY boat (near Haägen Dazs)”. The GetYourGuide texts of the Prosecco and gourmet cruises both say the trip starts from Limassol Marina. The texts of the VIP and drone cruises name no harbour, so read the voucher for the quay.
DanEri asks guests of its catamaran sunset to meet the crew 15 minutes before the cruise. The crew wear DanEri logo t-shirts. Guests show a valid ID or a copy of the passport.
The DanEri page names two car parks for drivers. One is the covered Limassol Marina car park, and the other is uncovered and across the street. The marina’s own notice says the covered car park reads number plates at the barrier. Drivers tap a card at one of two exits.
Pickup depends on the boat. GetYourGuide tags only the Sunset VIP Cruise with pickup. The Prosecco, drone and gourmet listings carry no pickup tag. The Relaxing Adults-Only cruise lists round-trip transfers from Limassol hotels, and you enter your hotel name and address at checkout.
DanEri’s own program for a 3.5 hour Limassol sunset cruise lists the swim stop at 17:30. The sail into the sunset follows at 19:00. The program puts the return to port at about 8:00 PM.
What does the VIP drinks and food Limassol sunset cruise include?
This Limassol sunset cruise serves gourmet food and unlimited drinks on a yacht. Musement’s matching listing adds a swim stop and a buffet dinner. GetYourGuide titles it Limassol: Sunset VIP Cruise with Drinks and Food.
That Musement listing, titled Adults-only Sunset Cruise on ‘My Way’, places the swim stop at Ladies Mile beach. The onboard bar serves unlimited local drinks and cocktails. The buffet offers hot and cold food.
Musement tells guests to bring bathing gear and sunblock. It marks the trip as subject to weather conditions. Its header gives the length as 2 to 4 hours, while its text counts three hours on the water.
The Relaxing Adults-Only Sunset Cruise from Limassol opens with a welcome drink of chilled champagne. Unlimited drinks and cocktails follow. Dinner holds two fresh salads, three hot dishes and a selection of fruits.
A DanEri sunset cruise serves finger food: a local cheese platter, nuggets, cucumber and carrot sticks and a fruit plate. The all-inclusive drinks are water, coffee, tea, soft drinks, white Cyprus wine and beer. DanEri adds that the menu on board can change during the season.
What does the prosecco Limassol sunset cruise add?
The prosecco cruise adds a private motor yacht and a glass of Prosecco or champagne. Guests also get water, snacks or seasonal fruit and a swim in Limassol Bay. GetYourGuide shows 4.5 stars from 27 reviews for it, the largest count of the three private GetYourGuide cruises.
The trip starts with a short tour of the marina. Travel Buddies, a review site, puts it at 10 to 15 minutes past the luxury yachts. Guests take photos with the yachts as a backdrop.
On the prosecco Limassol sunset cruise the boat then enters Limassol Bay. The captain tailors the route to the weather, and the same goes for the swim. GetYourGuide calls the water of the bay clear.
One reviewer on that site mentions a longer sunset than expected and warm blankets that kept the guest comfortable. Another reviewer praises the water and the Prosecco that the captain provided.
A third reviewer calls the cruise suitable for quiet and lively travellers alike. Guests can dance or listen to the waves. Travel Buddies names couples and small groups as the guests who suit this Limassol sunset cruise.
GetYourGuide offers the trip in English and Russian. Travel Buddies lists comfortable shoes, a sun hat, swimwear and a towel to pack.
What does the private Limassol sunset cruise with drone footage include?
The private cruise with drone footage includes professional drone filming of the trip and a refreshing drink on board. GetYourGuide files it as a water activity and describes it as a private sunset cruise experience.
Sea World Diving Adventures Cyprus runs this Limassol sunset cruise, according to the Travelocity listing. The PADI page of the dive centre puts it a 10 minute drive from Limassol. The same page promises a diving adventure with free photos and videos.
Wikipedia defines a drone as an aircraft with no human pilot, crew or passengers on board. It flies on its own or under remote control, and aerial photography is one of its uses.
Aerial photography means taking pictures from an airborne platform. Wikipedia lists helicopters, balloons, kites and drones among the platforms. Moving pictures from the air are called aerial videography.
On this Limassol sunset cruise the drone films the trip itself. The footage comes from the air, not the deck. Wikipedia adds that aerial photography means bird’s-eye views of landscapes and surface objects.
Which gourmet private Limassol sunset cruise suits a special evening?
The gourmet cruise is a private Limassol sunset cruise that sails for 3 hours. The listing promises music with gourmet food, a calm coastline and unobstructed views. English, Greek and Russian are the languages on offer.
At the time of writing, the gourmet listing carries the New activity label and no reviews yet.
A second private evening boat is a Sunseeker Camargue 50 yacht on Click&Boat. It leaves Limassol Marina with a professional skipper who speaks English and Russian. A stand-up paddleboard sits on the inclusion list. Click&Boat marks the boat as verified by its booking count and customer reviews.
Click&Boat describes the Sunseeker trip as a romantic escape, a special celebration or an evening with family or friends. Reviewers of the owner’s boat say drinks and food were arranged as agreed before the trip.
Daytime catamarans with lunch are on our Limassol catamaran cruise page. The private yachts on this Limassol sunset cruise page keep the deck to your own group.
What can you see from the sea on a Limassol sunset cruise?
From the water you see the marina yachts, the seafront towers and white rock cliffs. A wide sunset sky spreads over open sea. Each boat sets its own route, and the weather decides the final course.
Travel Buddies lists the coastline and the city skyline among the views from the bay on a Limassol sunset cruise. Wikipedia gives One Limassol a height of 170 metres on 38 floors. The NCL shore-excursion page calls it the tallest residential seafront tower in Cyprus. It describes the Trilogy Limassol Seafront as a trio of towers.
According to Wikipedia, the city spreads along the Mediterranean coast beyond the castle and the port. Its suburbs stretch along the shore to Amathus. Wikipedia places the hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues of the tourist coast between the Old Port and Amathus.
The ruins of ancient Amathus lie on the same coast, near Agios Tychonas, east of the city. Its sanctuary of Aphrodite ranked second in Cyprus, after the one at Paphos.
Click&Boat’s Sunseeker listing offers two routes. One follows white rock cliffs and fish farms to Governor’s Beach, about 50 minutes each way. The listing calls that beach a sheltered bay with turquoise water. The other heads west past the Port of Limassol to Lady’s Mile Beach, about 1.5 hours each way.
Wikipedia says the Port of Limassol has breakwaters of 1,300 metres and a depth of 11 metres. It can receive about ten ships, depending on their size. The same Sunseeker listing speaks of the coast glowing in late afternoon light. It also mentions the silhouette of the city from the sea.
Wikipedia describes the green flash as a green spot that shows briefly above the sun at sunset. It lists the ocean horizon as a place to see it. The spot lasts no more than two seconds.
When does the sun set during the Limassol sunset cruise season?
Sunset over Limassol falls at 20:02 on 15 June and at 16:38 on 15 December, according to the sunrise-sunset.org calendar. Two private sunset cruises list dates in every month, so the list below runs from January to December.
Read the line for your month, then set it beside the start time of your Limassol sunset cruise. The calendar shows local clock time and drops the seconds. Each line below gives the sunset on the 15th of that month and the daylight for that day.
Market Cyprus plans its private Prosecco charter to leave about 30 to 40 minutes before sunset. The last figure in each line applies that rule. It shows when a Limassol sunset cruise on that plan leaves.
- January: sunset 17:00, daylight 10 hours 5 minutes, leave 16:20 to 16:30.
- February: sunset 17:30, daylight 10 hours 57 minutes, leave 16:50 to 17:00.
- March: sunset 17:55, daylight 11 hours 56 minutes, leave 17:15 to 17:25.
- April: sunset 19:19, daylight 13 hours 3 minutes, leave 18:39 to 18:49.
- Month five: sunset 19:43, daylight 13 hours 58 minutes, leave 19:03 to 19:13.
- June: sunset 20:02, daylight 14 hours 28 minutes, leave 19:22 to 19:32.
- July: sunset 20:01, daylight 14 hours 15 minutes, leave 19:21 to 19:31.
- August: sunset 19:35, daylight 13 hours 27 minutes, leave 18:55 to 19:05.
- September: sunset 18:54, daylight 12 hours 24 minutes, leave 18:14 to 18:24.
- October: sunset 18:13, daylight 11 hours 20 minutes, leave 17:33 to 17:43.
- November: sunset 16:42, daylight 10 hours 21 minutes, leave 16:02 to 16:12.
- December: sunset 16:38, daylight 9 hours 50 minutes, leave 15:58 to 16:08.
Cyprus keeps UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer. The list jumps by 1 hour 24 minutes between March and April, from 17:55 to 19:19. The change to summer time adds one hour of that. The October change pulls the evening back the other way, from 18:13 on 15 October to 16:42 on 15 November.
When this page was written, the private drone cruise and the private gourmet cruise listed dates in every month. A winter Limassol sunset cruise is therefore bookable on GetYourGuide too.
Larnaca sits on the same coast. Its evening boats and its own sunset times are on our Larnaca sunset cruise page.
How do you reserve or cancel this Limassol sunset cruise?
Choose a date on the listing page, pick a start time and a group size, then pay online. All four Limassol sunset cruise listings on GetYourGuide carry a free cancellation label. The gourmet listing asks for the longest notice and closes 8 hours before the start.
Musement sets its own refund windows. The adults-only cruise on the My Way boat refunds in full at least 24 hours ahead. So does the Relaxing Adults-Only cruise from the Old Port. The semi-private catamaran sunset from the marina refunds in full up to 48 hours ahead. None of the three adds booking fees.
The catamaran listing says bad weather can bring a new date or a cancellation. The My Way listing calls its times approximate and subject to change. Check the departure on the day of your Limassol sunset cruise.
Booking direct follows the operator’s own steps. DanEri takes a reservation request through its online form and replies as soon as it can. You can also call its managers to book a place.
Market Cyprus prices its private charter by the hour of charter, not by the guest. It asks you to confirm the vessel, guest number, departure time and total price when you book.
Which questions do travellers ask about this Limassol sunset cruise?
How long after sunset does the sky stay light?
On 15 June the calendar’s last light, the end of civil twilight, falls 30 minutes after sunset, at 20:32. On 15 December it falls 28 minutes after sunset, at 17:06.
Is the longest day also the day of the latest sunset?
No. The longest day, 21 June, lasts 14 hours 29 minutes and ends with sunset at 20:04. The latest sunset of the year, 20:05, comes from 28 to 30 June.
What does the private Prosecco charter from Market Cyprus include?
Market Cyprus lists the captain, music and one glass of Prosecco per guest on its Limassol sunset cruise. The standard listing runs about one hour, and longer cruises are available on request. The existing offer names up to 12 guests.
Is a swim stop guaranteed on a Limassol sunset cruise?
Not on that charter. Market Cyprus ties its swim stop to time, temperature and sea conditions.