Private Water Taxi in Gujan-Mestras (Larros)
Board at the most emblematic of Gujan-Mestras' seven oyster ports and cross Arcachon Bay in comfort — Arcachon, the Île aux Oiseaux, the Dune du Pilat or the Cap Ferret shore, without ever driving around the lagoon.
Indicative pricing.
Prices from, for 1 to 12 guests — firm quote within hours (captain, fuel, insurance, fees included).
The oyster-port gateway to Arcachon Bay
Gujan-Mestras est la capitale de l'ostréiculture du Bassin d'Arcachon, avec sept ports ostréicoles alignés le long de son littoral — La Hume, Meyran, le port de Gujan, Larros, le Canal, La Barbotière et La Mole. Larros, le plus emblématique, concentre les cabanes de dégustation, la Maison de l'Huître et des chantiers navals réputés. Naviguer ici est un métier : la lagune découvre plus de 100 km² d'estran à chaque marée basse, les chenaux et esteys se déplacent au gré des courants, et la vitesse est réglementée par arrêté de la préfecture maritime de l'Atlantique — 20 nœuds au maximum sur le plan d'eau, 5 nœuds à moins de 300 mètres du littoral. Nos capitaines partenaires calent chaque départ sur la fenêtre de marée et suivent le balisage des chenaux gujanais comme le font les ostréiculteurs qui les empruntent chaque jour.
From Larros, skip the drive around the lagoon
From Larros, reaching Le Piquey or the Cap Ferret shore by car means looping around the entire bay through summer traffic — easily over an hour on busy days. By boat from Gujan-Mestras it is a direct crossing of roughly half an hour, with the oyster beds and the Île aux Oiseaux gliding past instead of a queue of cars.
Places a car simply cannot reach
The signature sights of Arcachon Bay — the cabanes tchanquées on stilts off the Île aux Oiseaux, the sandbanks facing the Dune du Pilat, the oyster parks off the Gujan channels — are only truly seen from the water. A private boat departing Larros puts you among them within minutes of casting off.
Depart from a working oyster port
Larros is no marina pastiche: it is the heart of France's oyster-farming capital, with its wooden cabins, tasting shacks and the Maison de l'Huître on the quay. Your skipper reads the buoyed channels and the tide the way locals do — the crossing itself becomes part of the experience.
Where we pick you up.
- Les 12 de Larros — waterfront residence directly on Port de Larros, steps from the boarding quay
- La Guérinière — Gujan-Mestras' renowned gastronomic hotel in town; short private transfer to the Larros quay
- Port de Larros quay, by the Maison de l'Huître (main pick-up point)
- Port de La Hume, the small pleasure harbour west of Larros (on request, tide permitting)
- Port de Meyran, a working oyster port of Gujan-Mestras (on request)
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