Fresh air, views, and room to celebrate
Open-air guest space will support relaxed cruising, conversation, cocktails, and memorable golden-hour service.
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One luxury yacht.One private party.One honest price.A new destination every day.
A Private Luxury ResortThat Moves With You
Most experiences are designed for 2–6 guests. Select local events may accommodate up to 12, and multi-day passages may accommodate up to 8.
Choose your experience
Find the experience that fits your group.
The yacht is always completely private. What changes is the reason for gathering—and the details we shape around the people you bring.
The Private Passage difference
More Than a Private Yacht Charter
Fully hosted yacht hospitality with new scenery every day.
Unpack once and enjoy your own luxury yacht, meals prepared onboard by a private chef, attentive service, scenic daylight cruising, and time ashore on your own terms. Nothing is shared, and no two passages need to be the same.
Time that brings people closer
Why we existMake room for the people who matter.
The Private Passage is built around something that matters deeply: family and friends need time together. Life gets busy, people drift apart, and even meaningful occasions can become rushed or distracted. The Private Passage creates a private, unhurried setting where people can step away from everyday demands, relax, reconnect, and genuinely enjoy one another—while experiencing coastal Virginia in a way that feels special and personal.
Your private space aboard
Room to gather. Room to step away.
The planned yacht will be reserved for one invited party, with an onboard chef, captain, and crew. The final layout will be selected to provide generous gathering areas, comfortable outdoor hospitality, climate-controlled interior space, and private overnight accommodations.
A salon for dining, conversation, and rainy days
The interior will provide a comfortable setting for family time, romantic dining, meetings, poker or casino nights, and entertainment in any weather.
Private accommodations for the people you bring
The planned configuration calls for four private en suite staterooms and overnight hospitality for up to eight guests.
Representative TPP hospitality imagery is shown. The final yacht, layout, accommodations, and capacities remain subject to vessel acquisition and approved operation.
Designed around you
01One private group. One personalized journey.
We begin with who is traveling and what would make the time meaningful, then shape the pace, meals, destinations, and special moments around your group.
Completely Private
The yacht and crew are devoted exclusively to your invited group—never combined with unrelated guests.
Chef-Created Dining
Your onboard chef prepares meals around your preferences and the rhythm of each day.
Made to Move With You
Enjoy the same private resort while a different waterfront setting unfolds each day.
The rhythm of a passage
Scenic mornings. Meaningful time ashore. Evenings entirely your own.
Cruise at an unhurried pace, explore places selected around your interests, and return each evening to the comfort, privacy, and service of your resort on the water.
Ways to experience The Private Passage
02Choose the experience. We personalize everything that follows.
$7,500 brunch · $8,500 dinner
Private Half-Day Experiences
Four hours with your own yacht, onboard chef, attentive crew, chef-prepared brunch or sunset dinner, and one complete price.
Explore half-day experiencesEight hours · $10,000 total
The Signature Private Day
Your private yacht, chef, and crew host one invited group from a personal welcome and brunch through golden hour and a second prepared meal.
Explore the Signature Private Day$13,500 onboard · $17,500 chauffeured · $25,000 up to 12
The Private Poker Passage
A professionally hosted private poker evening with an onboard chef-prepared dinner, drinks, exceptionally attentive service, cruising, and keepsakes for four to six invited guests.
Explore the Poker PassageCreated around the occasion
Milestones & Private Retreats
Anniversaries, honeymoons, family journeys, executive retreats, and client hospitality shaped around the people and moments that matter.
Explore milestones & retreatsFive days · Starting at $50,000
Virginia ↔ Washington, D.C.
A moving private resort with an onboard chef, distinctive waterfront stops, attentive service, and chauffeured return transportation included.
Explore the Washington journeyA limited signature journey
Virginia ↔ New York
Nine days and eight nights in either direction, with chef-created meals and a new waterfront destination, town, or anchorage every day.
Explore the New York journeyPlanned departure region: Hampton Roads and Norfolk, Virginia
Washington journey: Five days, starting at $50,000
New York journey: Nine days and eight nights, either direction, starting at $129,000
Voyage pricing includes the yacht, crew, chef-prepared onboard dining, fuel, routine dockage, tender service, and onboard hospitality. Gratuity, personal purchases, and guest-selected shore expenses are separate.
Discuss a Private ExperienceSelected 2027 dates
Private by designA date reserved for one yacht, one private party, and one remarkable experience.
Explore a limited collection of planned brunches, dinners, Signature Private Days, and Private Poker Passages. Each inquiry is for the entire yacht—never an individual seat or a shared departure.
View 2027 AvailabilityFor planners & advisors
03A distinctive private experience for your clients.
We collaborate with wedding and event planners, luxury travel advisors, executive planners, and concierge professionals. You remain the trusted advisor while we coordinate the yacht, onboard chef, crew, and passage logistics.
Our planned nine-day journey between Virginia and New York, in either direction, gives advisors a fully private, destination-rich alternative to a conventional charter or land itinerary.
View the New York Journey For Planners & AdvisorsThe founder & philosophy
04The idea is ambitious. The philosophy is simple: take care of people.
The Private Passage is not being built merely to place guests on an impressive yacht. It is being built around how they are cared for from the first conversation until they step ashore.
Founder Dave Fikel is a U.S. Navy veteran and former Hospital Corpsman, retired career firefighter and paramedic, mechanic, and experienced small-business owner. Each chapter required careful preparation, calm judgment, honest communication, and personal responsibility when circumstances changed.
Those standards guide TPP. Every experience is planned as the coordinated work of a licensed captain, onboard chef, and professional crew—with the route, dining, service, and details considered before the guest arrives.
Prepare before it matters
Routes, weather, guest preferences, menus, equipment, and contingencies deserve attention before departure.
Stay calm when plans change
Conditions can change on the water. Good hospitality responds quietly, safely, and without making the guest carry the stress.
Understand the vessel
A mechanic's attention to systems, maintenance, and small warning signs supports thoughtful operation and responsible ownership.
Communicate honestly
Clear expectations, transparent pricing, and straightforward answers matter as much as the yacht, meal, or destination.
Luxury should never mean formality without substance. At The Private Passage, it means privacy, preparation, exceptionally attentive service, and the confidence that someone is paying attention.
Now in development
Let's begin with the experience you want to create.
Early conversations with future guests, planners, advisors, and hospitality partners are welcome.
Contact Dave Fikel