Monaco, Cannes, Saint-Tropez and Antigua. The weeks when every boat in the harbour wants flowers on the same two mornings, and the ones we plan months in advance rather than on the day.
A normal delivery is for the people living on the boat. A show delivery is for several hundred people walking through it in a day, most of them deciding whether to charter it or buy it. That changes what you put on board and it changes where you put it.
It also changes the logistics completely. In show week the harbour is full, the roads around it are closed or one way, the quay has a queue of vans on it, and every florist on this coast is at capacity. A forty-five minute run becomes two hours. That is why we take a limited number of boats for those weeks and book them months ahead, rather than saying yes to everyone and letting half of them down.
Monaco is the show we know best and the one we plan hardest. Port Hercule fills, the Quai Rainier III and the Quai Antoine 1er are solid with boats, and delivery slots are the whole problem. We are forty-five minutes away in Antibes, which helps, and we still book the week months out.
If your boat is being shown in Monaco, the conversation to have with us is in spring. By the first week of September the week is gone. Monaco delivery in general is here.
Most of the fleet doing Monaco does Cannes first, across two ports, the Vieux Port and Port Canto. The sensible thing is to plan both at once, because the boat that has thought about Monaco in July has usually not thought about Cannes at all.
The Antigua Charter Yacht Show is the Caribbean version and it matters more than people expect, because the entire charter fleet is alongside in Nelson's Dockyard and Falmouth being walked through by brokers. The flowers on your table that week are being looked at by the people who decide whether your boat gets chartered.
Antigua requires an import permit and it takes 5 to 7 working days, granted before anything is bought, so this one is planned in October rather than December. Antigua is here, and the winter shipping in general is here.
Dates move a little year to year. These are the ones that matter to a boat with an interior worth showing.
| Show | When | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monaco Yacht Show | 23 to 26 September 2026 | Port Hercule | The one we know best. Every berth in the harbour full, every boat wanting flowers on the same two mornings, and half the roads closed. We cap the number of boats we take and book them months ahead. |
| Cannes Yachting Festival | 8 to 13 September 2026 | Vieux Port and Port Canto | Two ports, two weeks before Monaco, and most of the fleet does both. Worth planning the two together rather than separately. |
| Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez | Late September, early October | Saint-Tropez | Quay access is restricted through the regatta and everything works around the racing schedule rather than the galley. Planned in spring. |
| MYBA Charter Show | 3 to 6 May 2027 | Portosole, San Remo | Moved to San Remo. Brokers walking through boats all week, which is exactly when the interior is being judged. A road delivery from Antibes with no paperwork. |
| Antigua Charter Yacht Show | 4 to 9 December 2026 | Nelson's Dockyard and Falmouth | The Caribbean equivalent, and the week the whole charter fleet is alongside being shown. Antigua needs an import permit and it takes 5 to 7 working days, so this is planned in October. |
| Fort Lauderdale | Late October, early November | Bahia Mar | We do not have a workshop in Florida, but the shipping lane works the same way it works into the Caribbean. Ask early. |
Yes, and it is the show we know best. We cap the number of boats we take for that week because taking more than we can deliver properly is how a supplier loses a client permanently. Book months ahead, not in September.
Because every boat in the harbour wants flowers on the same two mornings, every florist within an hour is at capacity, and half the roads around the port are closed. The constraint is not the flowers, it is the delivery window.
More than for a normal week, and different. Show flowers are seen by hundreds of people walking through in a day, so they are built to look right from the passerelle and to still look right on the last day. Long-lasting material, a heavier hand on the main saloon and the aft deck, and a refresh midweek.
Yes, to both the Vieux Port and Port Canto. Cannes is two weeks before Monaco and most of the fleet does both, so it is worth planning the two together.
Yes, flown from the Dutch auction. Antigua requires an import permit which takes 5 to 7 working days and must be granted before anything is bought, so the planning starts in October rather than in December. Once it is on file the later orders take about three days.
That is most of the fleet during a show, and it changes the brief rather than removing it. Nobody is living with the flowers, so the job is to make the interior photograph well and hold for the week.
Show weeks are capped and they fill early. Tell us the show and the vessel and we will tell you straight away whether we still have room.