Unprofessional Operation – Plenty of Alternatives

A group of six of us chartered a five cabin Fountaine Pajot Saona 47 for seven days in January 2023 from Queensland Yacht Charter and encountered many boat problems along with unprofessional & hostile charter management.
1. Lost a day because the generator was faulty. Partly because of this, the boat briefing was spasmodic and disjointed (briefer claimed first time to brief on this boat) as he was also dealing with the tender’s fuel tank not being full, replacing the missing ice chest, filling the boats water tank and agreeing the BBQ was unclean but didn’t have the time to address it.
2. Rain leak in starboard saloon and the boat was delivered with tarpaulin that had to be rearranged to slow the leaks. (Cushions sodden wet, had to be stripped and dried over following 2 days)
3. Dead and live cockroaches in cabins, saloon, and cockpit (6 instances)
4. Main outhaul was chaffed, unsafe to the extent we stopped using the sail.
5. Forward port cabin hatch also taped up to prevent rain from entering.
6. Shore power leads (all three connectors) were full of water and tripped the dock relay. We had to disassemble, dried and taped with plastic. (QYC accuses we dropped in the water, we did not)
7. 2 x AC’s not working (stern port cabin front saloon unit) and both fail to cool air.
There were several other more debatable issues but given Dream Yacht Charter’s blameless responses and complete unwillingness to take any responsibility we let these issues speak for themselves.
We were offered a refund for 1 ½ days rental, which we declined in preference for sharing our experience in the hope others reconsider using such a shoddy operator as Dream Yacht Charter their other brand, QYC (Queensland Yacht Charters)