Attending the Monaco Yacht Show: tickets, access and rules

The one thing to know first

The Monaco Yacht Show is a ticketed trade show with luxury pricing, not a public harbour festival. A single day costs 700 €. Anyone who has read that you can wander the quays for the price of a museum ticket has been misinformed — there is no general-admission tier, and prices have never been in the tens of euros.

The 2026 edition runs 23–26 September at Port Hercule. What the show is and what is moored there is covered in the main Monaco Yacht Show guide.

Passes and prices

Official 2026 rates from the show's own ticketing, VAT included:

Two details matter more than the headline figure:

• The Wednesday pass is cheaper because it is smaller. Wednesday ticket holders are excluded from the Dockside Area — the quayside where the superyachts are actually berthed. Dockside access runs Thursday to Saturday. Buying Wednesday to save 300 € means paying 400 € to see the stands.
• Days are chosen when you book. Passes are sold for a selected number of days across 23–26 September rather than as an open run of the show.

Above the visitor tier sit the MYS VIP Pass (VIP entrances, the Upper Deck Lounge, a courtesy car service, a boat bay tour) and the invitation-led Prestige VIP Programme, which adds the Grand Opening Night on Tuesday 22 September, a personal concierge and airport transfers. Neither is publicly priced; both are sold to buyers and charter clients rather than to spectators. Accredited journalists apply for a press pass, and crew of non-exhibiting yachts use the Captains & Crew route.

Opening hours

• Wednesday to Friday: 10:00 – 18:30
• Saturday: 10:00 – 18:00

The show closes in the early evening. Plan an evening in Monaco around the port's restaurants rather than around the show itself.

The four public entrances

Entry is not from a single gate. The public entrances are:

• Quai Antoine Ier
• Parvis Piscine, off Boulevard Albert Ier
• Quai Chicane
• Quai Albert Ier

Two further entrances are reserved for VIP pass holders. The nearest heavy-rail arrival is Monaco-Monte-Carlo station, whose Sainte-Dévote exit drops you a few minutes' walk above the harbour — during show week this is consistently faster than arriving by car. See the public transport guide for CAM bus and Zou! coastal services.

What the pass includes — and what it does not

Included: the quaysides and their superyacht line-up (Thursday to Saturday), the exhibition areas and stands, the tenders and toys display, the conference programme, and the show's bars and restaurants.

Not included: going aboard. Yacht visits are by appointment only, arranged directly with the exhibitor and granted at their discretion. Crews are not obliged to admit ticket holders and generally do not.

Rules worth reading before you arrive

• Photography and video are allowed inside the show perimeter. Drones are prohibited.
• There is no luggage storage. No facility exists for suitcases, personal effects or professional cases — do not arrive from the airport with your bags.
• Children up to and including 8 enter free. From 8 upwards a ticket is required.
• No official dress code, but the organising committee can refuse entry on the grounds of dress or behaviour. Smart casual is the working standard; the quays are long, hot and hard underfoot, so shoes matter more than outfits.

Is it worth 700 €?

Honestly, that depends entirely on why you are going. For a broker, a supplier or someone genuinely in the market, the show is four days of concentrated access that would otherwise take a year of travel. For a visitor who wants to look at large boats, it is an expensive way to walk along a fenced quay without being allowed on board — and Port Hercule is free to walk the other 361 days of the year.

If you are in Monaco that week without a pass, the practical guide to show week covers what the closures affect and where the boats can still be seen from.

Related reading

• Monaco Yacht Show: the event itself
• Monaco's marine event calendar
• Port Hercule
• Autumn in Monaco