Services · Website development · Yacht charter websites
We handle yacht charter website development Los Angeles fleets use to win sunset cruises, proposal charters, film shoots and full day runs to Catalina. The site shows each yacht properly, explains where guests board, displays the full price California law expects, and turns a browsing visitor into an enquiry your crew can quote the same day. It is built to load fast with heavy video, rank in local search and handle California privacy rights without guesswork.
Our work here is the website: what it says, how it ranks, how enquiries arrive and how your team edits it. Booking apps for guests and crew are a different product, scoped on their own.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Website features
Charter guests in Los Angeles are a mix of locals celebrating something, visitors staying in Santa Monica or Venice, and production teams who need a yacht as a set for a day. They compare several operators on their phone in a few minutes, and they judge you on video, clarity of price and how quickly someone replies. California also sets rules that change how a charter site should present prices, collect data and serve visitors with disabilities. The features below reflect that mix. We pick the ones that match your fleet and your buyers, and we keep the CMS simple enough that a captain or office manager can change a photo, a policy line or a seasonal offer page without calling a developer.
A page for every harbor you sail from, such as Marina del Rey, Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach or King Harbor in Redondo Beach, with the dock name, parking structure, rideshare drop off, arrival time and a short note on what the first half hour on the water looks like. Weekend traffic on the 405 and the 110 is part of the advice, because late guests delay every departure after theirs.
Guests arrive at the right dock on time.
Separate pages for a two hour sunset loop, a Malibu coastline cruise, whale watching season trips and a full day to Avalon on Catalina, each with duration, what is included and suitable group sizes. Each itinerary becomes a page that can rank for the searches guests type.
Search traffic for specific trips, not just your brand.
California's Honest Pricing Law has required advertised prices to include every mandatory charge since July 2024, apart from government taxes. If your charters carry a required fuel, crew or service charge, the website shows it inside the headline figure. The CMS stores components separately and always displays the full amount.
Pricing that matches California's drip pricing rules.
A dedicated page and form for film, television, music video and photo shoots, asking for crew size, shoot hours, equipment, whether permits are being arranged and who carries insurance. Production coordinators get a specification sheet for each yacht they can download and share with their team.
Higher value weekday work arrives fully briefed.
Occasion pages that explain what the crew handles, what guests can bring and how decorations, catering and photographers work on board. The tone is written per occasion, because a proposal and a celebration of life need very different words on the page.
Personal charters feel considered from the first click.
Los Angeles has a large Spanish speaking audience, and many family celebrations are planned in Spanish. We can add translated pages for your main offers, with correct language tags and a switcher that keeps the visitor on the same page. Translation is done by people, then reviewed by your team. Policy wording is kept aligned in both languages, and your counsel signs off each version.
A second audience reached without a second website.
Drone footage and deck walkthroughs sell LA charters, but a raw video can wreck page speed. We encode clips for streaming, lazy load galleries, serve images in modern formats through a CDN and test Core Web Vitals on mid range phones before launch.
Rich media and fast pages on the same site.
A privacy policy that meets CalOPPA and the CCPA as amended by the CPRA where they apply, a request form for access and deletion, a link to opt out of sale or sharing, and tags that honor Global Privacy Control. Requests are logged so you can show how each was handled.
Clear privacy handling for California visitors.
California businesses face website accessibility claims under both the ADA and the state Unruh Civil Rights Act. We design to WCAG 2.2 AA, caption video, label every form field and add an accessibility statement with a contact route for guests who need help.
Lower legal exposure and a site more people can use.
Your Google and TripAdvisor reviews are displayed through approved integrations rather than copied text, so they stay current. Each yacht page can show the reviews that mention it, which helps a visitor choose between two similar boats. Review markup follows search engine rules, so nothing on the page risks a manual penalty.
Trust signals that stay fresh without manual work.
Who we build for
The Southern California charter trade covers very different operations, from one owner chartering a single motor yacht out of Marina del Rey to fleets that run scheduled harbor cruises and private events. Your website should reflect the scale you are at and the buyer you want more of. These are the setups we see most often, and the website priorities that change with each one. Many operators sit between two of them, for example a small fleet that also earns well from shoots, and the site structure can carry both without feeling cluttered.
One yacht, one captain and a busy phone. You need a short, beautiful site with a strong gallery, a page per trip, an honest price display and an enquiry form that sends straight to your mobile. Editing has to take minutes, because you are also the person washing the deck. We avoid features you will not use and spend the budget on photography handling and speed.
Good fit for owners moving off a marketplace only presence.
You run several yachts from more than one harbor, possibly across Los Angeles and Orange County. The site needs a filterable fleet section, harbor pages, staff contact routing by location and a CMS role setup so each harbor manager edits only their own content. Consistent design keeps the brand tight across every departure point.
Strong fit when each harbor currently has its own messy page.
Your income comes from corporate parties, product launches and studio events. Buyers are planners who want floor plans, catering partners, insurance documents and a fast proposal. We build an events section with downloadable packs, a detailed request form and CRM integration so every proposal is tracked from first enquiry to signed contract. Planners can also request a hold on a date through the form, which your team confirms by email once the yacht and crew are checked.
Best for teams selling to production companies and brands.
You have strong reviews and repeat guests, but the website is slow, hard to update and missing California privacy and pricing basics. We rebuild on a modern stack, carry over every page that ranks, set up redirects and fix compliance gaps as part of the move rather than as an afterthought. Old marketplace listings and directory profiles are updated to point at the new pages, so returning guests do not land on dead links.
Ideal when the brand is strong but the site lags behind.
How we work
We work with Los Angeles clients remotely, holding discovery, reviews and training by video call, with a shared project board for files and approvals. Codeeo has completed 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and is rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. Cost depends on the number of yachts, harbors and itineraries, video volume, translation, the depth of CRM and privacy request integration, and how much content we write. You get a written scope and estimate after discovery, before any design begins. If you later want ongoing SEO, content updates or a booking build, those are scoped separately, so you are never locked into a retainer to keep the site running.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Most LA charter sites we build run on WordPress or a headless CMS with a Next.js front end, hosted in your own cloud account. Forms connect to HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho or your charter system, and consent tooling is set to respect California opt out signals. We document the setup, hand over admin access on day one and keep a staging copy so your team can preview changes before they go live.
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It depends on scope, so we price after discovery.
The main drivers are the number of yachts, harbors and itineraries that need their own pages, how much video and photography we process, whether you want Spanish pages, how deep the CRM link goes and how much copy we write versus migrate. Privacy request handling and accessibility work are included in the build rather than added later. After discovery we send a written scope and estimate so you can compare it with other quotes on the same basis. Ongoing hosting and maintenance are quoted separately and sit in your own accounts.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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