Culinary Academy is a deeper, more technical cooking programme. It’s built to rapidly improve your cooking level — flavour, technique, speed, structure, and consistency — in real, demanding environments.
Croatia: professional restaurant kitchen (Fort George, Vis)
BVI: onboard a sailing yacht (galley-based)
It’s ideal if you want to become a stronger cook for yachts, villas, chalets, or restaurants, or if you simply want serious kitchen skills that translate anywhere.
Host Academy is yachting-specific and role-focused. It’s designed to train and assess you for working as a professional yacht host with Quarterdeck. The week mirrors a real charter week and covers the full host role: provisioning, onboard standards, guest experience, service flow, teamwork with the skipper, and keeping everything running smoothly.
Host Academy is high pace and assumes you already have a solid starting level — we mostly coach, streamline, and evaluate your existing skills against Quarterdeck standards.
When Culinary Academy is the better choice
If you don’t yet have enough kitchen/service experience to be admitted to Host Academy
If you want to enter Host Academy later with stronger confidence and fundamentals
If your goal includes non-yacht work (restaurant, chalet, villa) or you’re doing it for personal development
In short:
Choose Culinary Academy to level up cooking properly and open broader opportunities.
Choose Host Academy if you’re ready for a fast-paced, yacht-host career track and want to be trained/evaluated on the full role.