Lowest fare here1,053 reviews
40 minOne-way Speedboat Transfer to/from Phi Phi & Lanta
★ 4.6 · 1,053 reviews
- 40 minutes, One-way speedboat transfer
- Hotel pickup included
- Cheapest here
- Free cancellation
$22$33.00 / hour
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Phi Phi speedboat tour price: what the fare covers, and why the range is so wide
The Phi Phi speedboat tour price on this site starts at $22 and finishes at $1,323, and that is not a sixty-fold difference in quality. It is five different products wearing the same word. A forty-minute one-way crossing, a group day trip with a buffet lunch, an early departure that reaches Maya Bay ahead of the day boats, a premium catamaran with its passenger numbers capped, and a boat chartered entirely for your own party are not competing with each other. This page takes all 18 listings apart, sorts them into those five bands, and says plainly what moves a fare from one band to the next.
The Phi Phi speedboat tour price, in one panel
- Lowest fare on this site
- $22a one-way crossing, forty minutes
- Lowest full-day fare
- $35lunch and National Park fees included
- Typical group day trip
- $35–$46seven to eight hours, lunch included
- Early departures
- $63–$79nine hours, Maya Bay before the day boats
- Premium and small groups
- $81–$160capped numbers, catamarans, pool club lunch
- A boat to yourselves
- $972–$1,323no other guests, fully customised
- Our top pick
- $79rated 4.9 across 3,492 reviews
- Cancellation
- Free cancellationit applies across every tour on this site
Quick answer
The short answer. Expect to pay $35 to $46 for a standard group day trip with a buffet lunch included, $63 to $79 for an early departure that reaches Maya Bay before the day boats, and $81 to $160 for a premium catamaran or a capped small group. A one-way crossing on its own is $22, and a private boat for your own party runs from $972. The Phi Phi speedboat tour price is set mainly by four things: where the boat leaves from, how many islands it reaches, whether lunch and the National Park fees are inside the fare, and how many people share the deck. Every booking here carries free cancellation.
The five bands
The Phi Phi speedboat tour price by type of trip
Five bands, what sits in each one, and what you are actually buying as you move up. Fares are the current listing fares on this site.
| Band | Price here | What sits in this band | What the extra buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-way transferA crossing, not a tour | $22 | A forty-minute speedboat crossing to Tonsai Pier or Laemtong Beach | Nothing but the water between two points — there are no island stops at all |
| Group day tripSeven to eight hours | $35–$46 | Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon and one or two sand stops, with a buffet lunch | A full day, a meal ashore, snorkelling gear and a guide |
| Early departureNine hours | $63–$79 | The same landmarks, reached before the day boats, plus the 4 Islands of Krabi | An emptier Maya Bay and a second group of islands in the same ticket |
| Premium and small groupEight to ten hours | $81–$160 | Speed catamarans, capped passenger numbers, extra islands such as Maithon or Rang Yai | Space on deck, fewer people to wait for, and a longer itinerary |
| Private charterYour own boat | $972–$1,323 | A boat and crew booked for your party alone, fully customised | The schedule itself: no other guests, no fixed order of stops |
What moves it
Four things that move the Phi Phi speedboat tour price, and one that does not
Where the boat leaves from. This is the largest single factor and the easiest to overlook. Boats that start at the Phi Phi Islands themselves are already there, so they sell short trips cheaply: $37 for seven hours, $40 for seven and a half, $44 for four. Boats that start on the mainland have to buy the crossing twice out of the same fare, which is why the Phuket and Krabi listings are longer days at higher figures. When you compare two tours, check the departure point before you compare anything else.
How many islands are in the itinerary. A Phi Phi speedboat tour price rises with the number of places the boat has to reach. $44 covers Maya Bay and Pileh Lagoon. $35 adds Khai Island. $81 adds Bamboo Island and Maithon. $79 adds an entire second group, the 4 Islands of Krabi — Koh Poda, Chicken Island and the Separated Sea. Each additional island is fuel, hours and another set of moorings, and it shows up in the fare.
Whether lunch and the park fees are inside the ticket. Most full days here include a meal: an international buffet on Phi Phi Don on $40, a Thai buffet on the beach on $79, a buffet at a pool club on $160. The National Park fee is the item that catches people out, because it is charged separately on some tickets and folded into others. $35 states outright that you travel with National Park fees already included in your booking. We will not quote a figure for that fee, because none of these listings publishes one — but when you compare two fares that look close, check which of them has already absorbed it.
How many people share the boat. Space costs money and the operators say so directly. $98 has a boat with capacity for forty guests and sells twenty-eight of them, for added comfort and space in the operator’s own words. $160 sells a small group on a spacious speedboat. At the far end, $972 sells the whole boat with no other guests aboard. That is a straight line from a shared bench to an empty deck, and the Phi Phi speedboat tour price follows it the whole way.
And the thing that does not move it: the islands themselves. Maya Bay is the same bay whether you reach it on the $44 half day or the $1,323 private charter. Pileh Lagoon is the same water. Nobody is selling you a better Phi Phi — they are selling you a different amount of time, space and choice around the same set of islands. Once you see the fares that way, choosing between them gets much easier.
Every trip, current fare
All 18 listings, sorted by fare
The full list on one scale, from the lowest fare upward, with the cost per hour and the review history behind each. Our top pick sits in the middle of the range and at the top of the ratings: 4.9 across 3,492 reviews.
| Tour | Length | Price | Starts from | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One-way Speedboat Transfer to/from Phi Phi & LantaA one-way crossing, forty minutes on the water | 40 min | $22 | Phuket or Phi Phi | $33.00 | 4.6 · 1,053 |
| Phi Phi, Maya Bay & Khai Island Tour with LunchThe lowest fare on a full day, lunch and park fees included | 1 day | $35 | Phuket | $4.38 | 4.4 · 2,142 |
| Phi Phi speedboat tour, Maya and BambooMaya Bay and Bamboo Island, 3,881 reviews behind it | 7 h | $37 | Phi Phi Islands | $5.29 | 4.4 · 3,881 |
| Phi Phi Islands Speedboat Tour with Buffet LunchMaya Bay, Viking Cave and a buffet on Phi Phi Don | 7.5 h | $40 | Phi Phi Islands | $5.33 | 4.6 · 977 |
| Maya Bay Sunset & Plankton by SpeedboatSunset at Maya Bay and night snorkelling with plankton | 5 h | $40 | Phi Phi Islands | $8.00 | 4.6 · 649 |
| Half-Day Speedboat Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon & SnorkelFour hours: Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon and a snorkel stop | 4 h | $44 | Phi Phi Islands | $11.00 | 4.7 · 188 |
| Speedboat Day Trip with Shark SnorkelingMonkey Beach, Maya Bay and blacktip reef sharks | 5 h | $44 | Phi Phi Islands | $8.80 | 4.5 · 236 |
| Phi Phi Islands One-Day Tour by Speedboat or Catamaran + LunchFrom Ao Nang by speedboat or catamaran, lunch included | 7 h | $46 | Ao Nang | $6.57 | 4.7 · 1,848 |
| Phi Phi&4 Islands Sunset Tour Premium Speed CatamaranA premium speed catamaran with sunset at Tup or Poda | 9 h | $55 | Krabi | $6.11 | 4.7 · 282 |
| Early bird Maya Bay Phi Phi + 4 Islands by SpeedboatMaya Bay before the day boats, plus the 4 Islands | 9 h | $63 | Krabi | $7.00 | 4.7 · 957 |
| Phi Phi Early Bird & 4 Islands by SpeedboatOur top pick: the early start and the 4 Islands, rated 4.9 | 9 h | $79 | Krabi | $8.78 | 4.9 · 3,492 |
| Phi Phi, Bamboo & Maithon by Premium Speed CatamaranBamboo, Maithon and a buffet on Phi Phi Don | 10 h | $81 | Phuket City | $8.10 | 4.6 · 1,045 |
| Phi Phi, Maya Bay & Bamboo by Limited-Group Speed CatamaranA 40-seat catamaran capped at 28 guests | 9 h | $98 | Phuket | $10.89 | 4.7 · 366 |
| Phi Phi Islands Day-Trip by Speed CatamaranSpeed catamaran from Phuket, longtail into Pileh Lagoon | 8.5 h | $125 | Phuket | $14.71 | 4.7 · 972 |
| Phi Phi Island Sunrise Small Group Speedboat TourA small group on a spacious boat, sunrise start | 8 h | $160 | Phuket | $20.00 | 4.9 · 443 |
| Private Luxury Speed boat to Phi Phi IslandsA private charter, fully customised, maximum eight aboard | 7 h | $972 | Phi Phi Islands | $138.86 | 5.0 · 4 |
| Phi Phi Island Private Full-Day Speedboat TripYour own speedboat for a full day from Phuket | 8 h | $1,197 | Phuket | $149.62 | 5.0 · 5 |
| Private Phi Phi & Bamboo Islands Tour by SpeedboatA private day to Phi Phi and Bamboo, from Kamala | 7 h | $1,323 | Kamala | $189.00 | New |
Reading a fare
Six checks that tell you what a Phi Phi speedboat tour price actually includes
Run these six down the booking page before you compare two tours, and the numbers stop being mysterious.
- Count the hours, then divide
The cost-per-hour column above does this for you. It is the fastest way to see that a nine-hour early departure and a four-hour half day are not really competing, and that the difference between $35 and $46 is far smaller per hour than it looks per ticket.
- Check whether lunch is in the fare
Almost every full day here includes a buffet, and the listings say where it is served. A tour without a meal is not cheaper if you buy the meal anyway, so compare the fares that include one against each other rather than against the ones that do not.
- Look for the National Park fee
$35 folds it into the booking and says so. Others do not mention it, which usually means it is settled separately on the day. No listing here publishes the amount and neither will we — but knowing which side of the fare it falls on is the difference between two numbers that look identical.
- See who runs the boat
$35 names its operator and states that it runs its own pier, boats and crew as a direct operator. That is unusual detail for a listing to publish, and it tells you where the fare is going.
- Check the passenger numbers
Where an operator caps its own boat, it says so. $98 is the clearest example on this site: forty seats, twenty-eight sold. That cap is a real part of what the higher fare is buying, and it is written on the listing rather than implied.
- Confirm the cancellation terms
Every tour on this site carries free cancellation. It costs nothing to hold a date while you finish comparing, and it is the reason you can book the boat you want now rather than the boat that is still available later.
Our top pick across all 18 listings is the nine-hour early departure from Krabi — Maya Bay and Pileh Lagoon ahead of the day boats, a Thai buffet on the beach and the 4 Islands, rated 4.9 across 3,492 reviews.
See the early bird tours→Where you start
The Phi Phi speedboat tour price by departure point
The same islands seen from four different starting lines. This is the comparison that explains most of the spread in the table above.
| You are starting from | Fares here | What the fare has to cover |
|---|---|---|
| The Phi Phi IslandsYou are already there | $37–$972 | Short runs to Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon and Bamboo, with no long crossing inside the fare |
| PhuketThe longest crossing on this site | $35–$1,323 | Two crossings, a full day ashore and back, which is why the days run eight to ten hours |
| KrabiThe early departures | $55–$79 | A shorter crossing than Phuket, plus the 4 Islands of Krabi on the way home |
| Ao NangOne listing, one shape | $46 | Seven hours with a lunch buffet, sold as speedboat or catamaran |
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One listing from each band, so you can see the ladder
The crossing, the lowest full-day fare, the shortest mainland day, our top pick, the catamaran with capped numbers, and a boat with nobody else aboard.
Park fees included2,142 reviews
1 dayPhi Phi, Maya Bay & Khai Island Tour with Lunch
★ 4.4 · 2,142 reviews
- A full day, Phi Phi, Maya Bay and Khai Island
- Hotel pickup included
- Lunch included
- Free cancellation
$35$4.38 / hour
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1,848 reviewsFrom Ao Nang
7 hPhi Phi Islands One-Day Tour by Speedboat or Catamaran + Lunch
★ 4.7 · 1,848 reviews
- Seven hours, Phi Phi Islands in one day
- Lunch included
- Speedboat or catamaran
- Free cancellation
$46$6.57 / hour
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Our top pick4.9 · 3,492
9 hPhi Phi Early Bird & 4 Islands by Speedboat
★ 4.9 · 3,492 reviews
- Nine hours, Maya Bay before the day boats
- Four islands in one day
- Departs from Phuket
- Free cancellation
$79$8.78 / hour
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Capped at 28Bamboo Island
9 hPhi Phi, Maya Bay & Bamboo by Limited-Group Speed Catamaran
★ 4.7 · 366 reviews
- Nine hours, Maya Bay and Bamboo Island
- Limited group speedboat
- Departs from Phuket
- Free cancellation
$98$10.89 / hour
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Private charterMax 8
7 hPrivate Luxury Speed boat to Phi Phi Islands
★ 5.0 · 4 reviews
- Seven hours, Private luxury speedboat
- Phi Phi Islands charter
- Departs from Phuket
- Free cancellation
$972$138.86 / hour
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Questions about the Phi Phi speedboat tour price
How much is a Phi Phi speedboat tour price for a normal day trip?
On this site a standard group day trip runs from $35 to $46, and that band includes a buffet lunch and snorkelling gear. $35 is the lowest full-day fare here and it also has the National Park fees already inside the booking. Below that band there is only $22, which is a forty-minute one-way crossing rather than a tour.
Why are some tours several hundred dollars more?
Because they are private charters rather than group tours. $972, $1,197 and $1,323 book the boat and crew for your party alone, with no other guests and a fully customised itinerary. That figure covers the whole boat rather than one seat, so for a group of six or eight the comparison with a group fare is much closer than the headline suggests.
Does the fare include the National Park fee?
It depends on the listing, and this is the item most worth checking. $35 states plainly that you travel with National Park fees already included in your booking. Other listings do not mention the fee, which normally means it is handled separately on the day. None of these listings publishes the amount, so we do not quote one — read the inclusions on the booking page before you compare two fares that look alike.
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