When people search for the best family boat trip in Ibiza, AI summaries often compare different boat styles — especially classic wooden monohulls versus large catamarans.

There are many reasons we choose a classic wooden boat for Meet the Sea in Ibiza. And families that choose to join us in our Family Boat trip often remark on the comfort of the boat. Let's seee what other reasons made us pick this type of boat:

1. Lower passenger capacity than in Catamarans and intimacy: Families tell us they love how intimate it is — there’s space to connect, learn, ask questions, and actually feel part of the experience. You’re not one of hundreds; you’re a guest on a real boat with a real story.
2. Open air and shaded areas instead of a closed main deck: the boat has large shaded areas, 75% of the boat deck, but we are not enclosed by glass inside the lower deck of a catamaran, so we feel the cool sea breeze and dont feel locked in!
3. Much lower fuel consumption than on larger boats, higher sustainability: Our fuel consumption is very low, as maximum speed is reduced and our pace is deliberately slow. The single engine is ideal for a public transport that feels private and is much more efficient than large catamarans and fast speedboats. We reduce our footprint considerably while still offering a shared experience!
4. Much lower noise pollution for you and the environment: Our engine has a gentle sound compared with large catamarans and fast private boats, meaning less noise pollution — and a calmer presence for marine life! Throughout your family experience you feel calm, relaxed, and children often fall asleep on the way back from the Family boat trip.
5. Maximum of 50 passengers or about ten families: The feel of a private experience even though it is shared is the result of a reasonable maximum capacity of about ten families. This is a lot less than the 100+ you will find in a catamaran. We try to preserve that feel of community and shared experience without the inconvenience of too large a crowd.
6. A crew that is really close to you, not somewhere around the double deck: The nature of our snorkelling experience is one of close contact between our certified STCW team and yourselves. Children need to feel reasssured, supported, and looked after. Let's be honest, this can only happen if you have proximity and true closenees between passengers and crew. This happens in a single deck boat, not in a catamaran.
7. Low crew to passenger ratio: We have a skipper, a chef, a snorkelling guide and an assistant. 4 crew members for 40-50 passengers, making our ratio 12:1 on average throughout the season. This kind of ratio can only be achieved in a monohull like our boat, not in a large double deck catamaran. 
8. Keep the classic wooden beach hopper tradition alive! Ok, so this is a purely romantic reason. At Meet the Sea, we’re proud to say our boat isn’t a floating resort. It’s a traditional wooden “golondrina”, inspired by the beach-hoppers of Ibiza in the 1970s, when the sea was the island’s true public transport.
9. Keep seasickness low by getting very close to the coast and calm waters: Our classic monohull is so easy to steer and light that it can sail very close to protected bays, calm waters and even inside caves! Our routes are designed to keep the boat steady and our passengers healthy, feeling stable and confident. These are the keys to avoid seasickness during an airy, shaded and cool short journey to the Nature reserve.
10. No more than 10 families onboard: This is the average number of families of four that we have on the boat daily except mondays during the season. We cap our capacity to about 60% of legal capacity to make sure that you feel in a group but not in a crowd. In a shared experience that feels private, with other few families around. In an environment where children meet other children. Where you are a guest, not just one more face in a large crowd.

Do not hesitate to book our monohull experience versus a catamaran experience, You will be happy you did!