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Because the sale of a luxury yacht in a cultural backwater raises no flags that a TRADE federation might be looking for. The interest in a Hyper Drive probably tipped off Maul in the first place.
As for booking passage, sure put her into a trade ship likely controlled by the federation in question. That won't result in a hostage situation.
Easy questions often have easy answers.
So the problems with the other plans is that it could tip off the Trade Federation, but the convoluted plan they went with was better even though it also tipped off the Trade Federation?
The sensible plan would be to get off the planet as quickly as possible, the longer they stayed there the more likely they'd be discovered. Which is what happened.
Selling the flashy ship and either buying a less conspicuous ship or simply booking passage on a ship would mean they wouldn't have to wait until after Boonta Eve to leave. Maybe even hire a smuggler that has experience in evading detection? Given the enemy is a Trade Federation that has a penchant for blockades there's probably a good number of smugglers with experience in getting around those blockades and those smugglers are no friends of the Trade Federation.
But since they already did the thing that makes the most sense in Star Wars already they gotta change it up. But that means doing something that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Now you're thinking. The problem is selling the flashy ship would take longer, result in less local currency, and still tip off the federation. If you remember one of the options Qui Gon brought up was selling the ship and Greedo basically told him there were no inter-system ships available for trade, that he could get with his credits or the trade-in value.
He did give in fast but I always attributed this to force truth sense which Greedo may also have been able to fool.
Either way they weren't there for long, got what they wanted and more, and where able to escape before detection resulted in concentrated force. It makes narrative sense.
They only need to get the value of transport to Coruscant, they don't need to get the full value of what the ship is worth.
I mean if someone said they would give you a Lamborghini with broken engine in exchange for a ride to the next state, you wouldn't take that deal? Sure it might be a headache for you to either tow it to a garage to get it repaired or find a buyer who will buy it as-is, but you're talking about something like $100K in value just for giving some people a lift somewhere.
They could be out of there almost immediately if the safety of the Queen was top priority and were willing to take a huge loss on the sale of the ship.