Book your water taxi, water limo or charter boat anywhere in Australia in under 30 seconds
Live fares · Instant confirmation · Licensed skippers around the country — plus a waterfront restaurant table or a waterfront hotel room on the same booking.
30-minute slots, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM AEST. Book up to 6 months ahead. NYE fireworks cruises: see our NYE page. New Year's Day — price on application.
6am – 10pm
Service hours, daily
Under 20 min
Average pickup
100% licensed
Skippers & insured
Live fares
No hidden extras
Free cancel
Per policy, to wallet
Australia's water taxi network — one account, every operator.
- 5.0★ rated39 Google reviews
- 9 regionsSydney to Tasmania
- 23 restaurantsTables by boat
- 22 waterfront staysBooked direct with the hotel
- QR boarding passScan & board, no paper
- Stripe securedApple & Google Pay
Three taps to the water
Booking a waterfront restaurant table or a waterfront hotel room as well? Add it in the same flow — we time the boat around your table or your check-in.
Enter your locations
Choose pickup and drop-off from any wharf, jetty or beach with water access — or pick a listed restaurant or hotel and we set the drop-off for you.
Get a live fare
See your exact price and ETA before you book. No surge, no surprises. A$0 is charged today.
Board & cruise
Your skipper confirms in seconds and your card is charged then. Track them in real time until pickup.
The boat, the table and the room — one place, one confirmation.
We only ever take payment for the boat, and never until an operator accepts your job. Tables and rooms cost nothing to request — the restaurant or the hotel replies direct.
Water taxi, water limo or charter
Live fare in seconds across nine regions, licensed operators, QR boarding pass by email and text. Nothing charged until a skipper accepts.
Get a live fare23 waterfront restaurants
Request a table at a restaurant, pub or club a water taxi can actually pull up to. Your boat is held until the venue confirms — so you never arrive with nowhere to eat.
Waterfront restaurants22 waterfront hotels & stays
Send your dates and the hotel replies with their own direct rate — no agency commission built into the price. Your water taxi lands you at their wharf or pontoon.
Waterfront hotelsRestaurant tables and hotel rooms are requests we pass to that business — they confirm, not us. Full detail in our terms & conditions and step by step on how it works.
Route drops, event slots & subscriber-only fares.
One thoughtful email at a time. New service areas, NYE & Vivid availability, and quiet discounts we don't publish anywhere else.
- First access to New Year's Eve & Vivid Sydney slots
- New wharves, new operators, new routes — the day they go live
- Subscriber-only fare drops on charter and limo trips
5.0★from 39 reviews
Water Taxis Australia holds a perfect 5.0 rating on our Google Business Profile. Every review is from a verified customer — no incentives, no filtering.
5.0★ from 39 Google reviews
Reliable & professional
"Skipper was on time, boat was spotless, fare was exactly what the app quoted. Booked another one for the way back before we'd even landed."
— Circular Quay → Watsons Bay
Saved our wedding day
"Shuttled 80 guests from Circular Quay to Cockatoo Island in perfect timing. The whole schedule was built for us and every run left on the minute."
— Cockatoo Island wedding
Beats the ferry every time
"Missed the last ferry to Palm Beach with a car full of luggage. Booked on my phone at the wharf and we were picked up in 15 minutes."
— Palm Beach ↔ The Basin
You never have to call anyone
Water Taxis Australia is a booking engine, not a call centre. Pricing, availability, confirmation, changes and your boarding pass all live in one place — so you can book a boat at 11pm on a Saturday without speaking to a soul.
100% online booking
No calls, no hold music, no waiting for someone to ring you back. Enter your two locations and you're booked.
We don't charge your card today
Your card is only charged once a water taxi operator or skipper accepts your job — or three days before pickup.
Written confirmation, every time
Booking confirmation, boarding pass and any change lands in your inbox and on your phone in writing.
Licensed operators only
Every skipper on the network is a commercially licensed, insured operator we have onboarded and verified.
Need a hand with something unusual? Write to support@watertaxisaustralia.com.au — we answer in writing, 6 AM – 10 PM AEST.
On the water, coast to coast.
We dispatch licensed operators in nine of Australia's busiest waterways — and we're expanding. Pick your region and we'll match you with the nearest available skipper.
Sydney Harbour
Circular Quay, Watsons Bay, Manly, Cockatoo Island, North Shore wharves and every jetty in between.
Whitsundays
Airlie Beach, Hamilton Island, Hayman, Daydream and the Cumberland Islands — fast tropical hops.
Gold Coast
Southport, Surfers Paradise, Sanctuary Cove, Hope Island and the Nerang River canals.
Pittwater & Hawkesbury
Palm Beach, Church Point, Scotland Island, Cottage Point and the Hawkesbury's hidden coves.
Lake Macquarie
Belmont, Wangi Wangi, Rathmines and the marinas around Australia's largest coastal saltwater lake.
Cairns & Tropical North
Cairns marlin marina, Fitzroy Island, Green Island and Port Douglas transfers on request.
Melbourne & the Yarra
Southbank, Crown, South Wharf, Docklands, Williamstown and Leonda by the Yarra — city transfers by water.
Noosa River
Noosa Sound, Hastings Street, Noosaville, Tewantin and Makepeace Island — riverfront restaurant runs door to jetty.
Tasmania
We now run in Tasmania on the Freycinet coast — Coles Bay and Swanwick Marina across Great Oyster Bay to Hazards Beach, Honeymoon Bay, Wineglass Bay and Schouten Island. Beach landings, no jetty needed.
Operating somewhere else? Get in touch — we add new regions as operators come on board.
New — waterfront stays
Waterfront hotels you can arrive at by boat — booked direct, not through an agency
Booking.com and the other agencies take a commission out of every room night, and it's built into the price you see. Send your dates through us and they go straight to the hotel — they reply with their own best direct rate, we add nothing to your price, and your water taxi lands you at their wharf. Nothing is charged to ask.
This is what lands on your phone.
Book in under a minute and a wallet-style boarding pass arrives by email and text — your reference, your wharf, your skipper and a scannable QR code. It's the only thing you need at the water's edge, and it's built for people who've never set foot on Sydney Harbour before.
Staying at a hotel? Stay put.
Finish your coffee in the lobby. Your pass sits in your phone with the exact pick up wharf, pontoon, berth and boarding time — no guessing which jetty is yours. If you booked your room through our waterfront stays directory, the pass names the hotel's own wharf or pontoon.
Dinner booked? It's on the same pass.
Request a table at one of our waterfront restaurants and your confirmation carries the venue, your seating time and the venue's phone number alongside the boat — and the boat is only locked in once the restaurant says yes.
One tap and we walk you there.
Press the orange directions button and live Google Maps takes you from wherever you're standing straight to the wharf, re-routing in real time if you turn the wrong way.
We'll find your boat for you.
The map on your pass shows point A to point B before you leave, and your skipper's direct phone number is right there. Can't see the vessel? One call, not a scramble along the seawall.
Board in three seconds.
The skipper points a camera at your QR code and you're checked in. No app to download, no login, no printed paperwork, no queue.
Nothing to remember.
Emailed and texted the moment payment clears, with a 15-minute grace period at the wharf and a reminder before departure — perfect if you're travelling in a group or landing from overseas.
Every genuine pass is navy and orange, carries a WTA- reference and comes from watertaxisaustralia.com.au. Show the QR code — never hand over credit card / debit card details at the wharf.
TRANSFERTap the button — Google Maps opens on your phone and walks you from wherever you are straight to the wharf.
Sample pass. Scan the QR with your phone camera to see the exact check-in screen your skipper uses. Your licensed operator's name and direct phone number appear on your real ticket once the job is confirmed.
Boats, waterfront restaurants and waterfront hotels — one national network.
Book a water taxi, water limousine or premium charter boat anywhere in Australia — and the table or the room at the other end. One account, one payment for the boat, one confirmation covering the lot.
Vetted operators
Every water taxi, limousine and charter skipper is fully licensed, insured and reviewed.
Real-time dispatch
Suppliers accept jobs in seconds — no calling around.
Transparent pricing
Fares quoted upfront. Wallet credit on every refund.
Tables & rooms handled
We send your table or room request to the venue or hotel and hold the boat until they confirm.
Your own booking engine, on your own website — branded as you, not us.
A native booking engine built for your site — not a link to Water Taxis Australia.
We install a white-label booking engine directly on your domain, in your colours, showing only your fleet and your service area. Customers book on your site — they never see ours. You keep 100% of your fare — no listing fees, no lead fees, no commission on your base rate.
- ✓ Lives on yourwatertaxi.com.au — your brand, your logo, your colours.
- ✓ Only your boats, only your zones — never mixed with other operators.
- ✓ Costs you nothing to install — one line of HTML.
- ✓ You keep 100% of your fare — see the fees breakdown on the next page.
- ✓ Stripe checkout, SMS dispatch, refunds and support all included.
- ✓Customers can install your booking engine to their phone home screen like an app.
<iframe
src="https://watertaxisaustralia.com.au
/embed?operator=your-company"
width="100%"
height="720"
style="border:0"
title="Book a water taxi">
</iframe>Get Water Taxis Australia as an app — no App Store needed.
Our whole site works as a Progressive Web App on both iOS and Android. Add it to your home screen once and you'll get a full-screen app icon, faster loading, and one-tap access to booking, tracking and your trip history — no downloads, no updates, no App Store required.
- ✓ Works on iPhone, iPad and every Android phone
- ✓ Launches full-screen like a native app
- ✓ Uses less than 1 MB of storage
- ✓ Updates automatically — you always have the latest booking engine
Point your phone camera at the QR code, tap the link, then follow the steps on the right to add Water Taxis Australia to your home screen.
- 1. Open watertaxisaustralia.com.au in Safari.
- 2. Tap the Share button (square with an up arrow).
- 3. Scroll and tap Add to Home Screen.
- 4. Tap Add — the Water Taxis icon appears on your home screen.
- 1. Open watertaxisaustralia.com.au in Chrome.
- 2. Tap the ⋮ menu (top right).
- 3. Tap Install app or Add to Home screen.
- 4. Confirm — it installs like any other app.
Sign up to our newsletter
Waterfront restaurant tables you can book in 30 seconds, monthly venue specials and live music nights, new routes and operators, NYE & Vivid availability, plus subscriber-only fare drops.