All-inclusive is a designation that the hospitality and charter industries use in ways that range from genuinely comprehensive to technically accurate but practically misleading. The resort that is all-inclusive except for the premium spirits and the specialty restaurant and the spa treatments and the water sports beyond the basic paddleboard is all-inclusive in the letter and not in the spirit of the term. The charter boat that is all-inclusive except for the APA is all-inclusive in the same qualified sense.
The Naora all-inclusive has no except. Here is what the annual participation covers, itemised completely and without qualification.
Accommodation
The private cabin on the Eighty2 for the duration of every leg within the annual allocation. Six private cabins, each designed for double occupancy, plus the bunk cabin. The cabin is the member’s for the leg, not the allocated berth that the budget charter provides but the private cabin with the specific selection priority that the membership tier provides. Linens, towels, the daily attention of the stewardess who ensures the cabin is in the condition the member returns to after the day’s activities. No nightly cabin rate. No check-out charge. No minibar invoice.
All Meals and Beverages
Three meals per day from Richard’s galley for the duration of every leg. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, provisioned from the local markets at each port, supplemented by the trolling line, and completed from the dry and frozen stores the circumnavigation carries. The wine and the sundowners and the morning coffee and the afternoon fruit and the specific provisions of the offshore galley that twelve people on a boat consume across the day. No beverage surcharge.
No premium list. No end-of-week bar tab. The provisioning is the programme’s budget. The food and drink the member consumes for the duration of the leg is included in the participation fee without the per-item accounting that the resort’s all-inclusive designations so frequently conceal a per-consumption structure beneath.
The Diving Programme
The full diving programme with Céline, the guided dives, the freediving programme, the snorkelling. The tank fills from the onboard 300-bar compressor. The equipment rinse and storage. The dive briefings and the site knowledge that Céline brings to every entry. The specific sites that the route visits and that Céline has been preparing the programme around for the chapter the leg covers.
On a standard liveaboard dive operation, the dive package is the significant additional cost above the accommodation rate: two dives per day at the typical liveaboard rate represents a meaningful daily increment above the boat rate. On the Naora leg, the diving is included. Every dive, every tank, every briefing, every morning and afternoon dive for the duration of the leg.
Water Sports and Equipment
The SUP boards, the kayaks, the dinghy for shore transfers and exploration, the snorkelling equipment. The watersports that the offshore anchorage makes available, the freediving from the platform, the paddleboarding in the lagoon, the kayaking along the coast, the dinghy trip to the reef edge. On the charter boat with the watersports package, these are typically included in the charter rate for the basic items and charged additionally for the premium equipment or the guided activities.
On the Naora leg they are available for the duration of the leg without the additional booking or the additional charge.
Fuel, Marina Fees, and All Operational Costs
The diesel for the passages and the manoeuvring. The marina fees and harbour dues at every stop on the route. The water taken aboard at the marina. The waste disposal charges. The port authority clearance fees. The anchor and mooring costs at the anchorages that charge for them.
Every operational cost the boat incurs in the course of the leg is the Naora programme’s cost, managed as part of the operating budget and not passed through to the member.
No fuel levy. No port charge. No harbour fee that appears on the settlement document after the week is complete.
The Crew
Sven, Ludo, Richard, and the stewardess, fully compensated as part of the Naora programme’s operating cost. The crew does not work on the expectation of the gratuity that supplements their income to the level the work deserves.
They are paid at the level the offshore professional deserves to be paid. The member who wants to express appreciation for an exceptional leg does so at their own discretion, the structure does not depend on it and the crew’s performance does not reflect the expectation of it. No expected tip percentage. No crew gratuity envelope at the end of the week.
This is what all-inclusive means on the Eighty2. No APA. No fuel surcharge. No marina fee settlement. No diving package extra. No crew gratuity expectation. No asterisk. The participation is the total cost of the offshore sailing experience for the days it lasts. This is the number the comparison should use.
