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Charter planning written from the water: what the numbers actually mean, when to sail, and what the brochures leave out.
A Komodo charter is won or lost on routing, not top speed. The marquee sites sit unusually close together — park waters begin about 30 minutes from Labuan Bajo harbour — so the operators that deliver the best trips are the ones…
Read the article →For groups of 20 or more, the honest answer is short: very few phinisi in Komodo can take you at all, and the largest-capacity…
Read the article →Take the published whole-boat nightly rate — one rate for the entire vessel — and divide it by your headcount. That is the whole…
Read the article →Three relationships sit behind any Komodo charter: owned, managed or brokered. Komodo Luxury owns and operates nine vessels; every other boat it charters —…
Read the article →Peak season does not raise this vessel’s charter rate — the published card has no seasonal column. What peak season 2027 actually costs you…
Read the article →For 2027, April–June and September–November are the best all-round charter windows; July–August is peak demand with wind in the open straits; December–March is monsoon…
Read the article →Expect intermittent mobile signal inside Komodo National Park, reliable 24-hour power from two Mitsubishi generators (60 KVA and 40 KVA, three-phase), and unrationed fresh…
Read the article →Motion is felt least low and central — the lower-deck cabins near the middle of a 47-metre phinisi move less than the upper-deck balcony…
Read the article →The boat supplies all meals, air-conditioned en-suite cabins, fresh water from a 6,000 litre per day maker, dive tanks, weights, hooks, a night torch…
Read the article →Eight friends chartering the whole 47-metre phinisi pay USD 14,300 for 3D2N — about USD 1,788 each — against roughly USD 272 per person…
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Reservations
Send your dates and headcount and the reservations desk will come back with availability and a written rate the same day.
A booking is confirmed with a 50% deposit. The balance is due no later than 30 days before departure.
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