Full-day Komodo boat charter from Labuan Bajo

The rate card gives a price for the full day and no list of stops, so the table below is a sample, not a printed route. The sample is the near-islands loop: a hill walk and swim at Kelor, snorkelling at Manjarite, reef and beach at Kanawa, buffet lunch in between, and the pier in Labuan Bajo reached before sunset.

A sample turns into a plan in the quote. The stop list, the order we intend and the pickup hour are fixed there, and the crew sails that version. Whatever the quote leaves open, the captain decides on the day from sea, wind and tide. The table marks the one swap we have planned for: Manjarite and Kanawa can change places.

Pickup is at the hour agreed in your charter confirmation, from a hotel or the airport. No standard hour exists because no standard group does. A team that wants its first swim before the midday sun asks for an early start, and a family with small children asks for a later one. Carry a passport or ID.

From the pier to Kelor is 50 to 70 minutes of sailing, and Kelor to Manjarite adds 30 to 60. The legs table holds the planning ranges we have for pairs of stops on this loop, and its last column says how firm each figure is. Read every row as a range, never as a timetable.

The way back from Kanawa takes 60 to 90 minutes, so the last swim ends with that time in hand.

Guests board from a wooden platform on the starboard side, midship, with rails on it and a ladder down to the water.

For 16 guests the whole boat comes to IDR 55,500,000 (≈ USD 3,405), which is IDR 3,470,000 (≈ USD 213) each. At 20 guests the same boat price is IDR 2,780,000 (≈ USD 171) each. At 25 guests, with the extra amount for each guest above 20, it is IDR 2,520,000 (≈ USD 155) each.

Each guest from the 21st to the 25th adds IDR 1,500,000 (≈ USD 92) to the boat price. Smaller groups sit in lower bands: 11 to 15 guests pay IDR 53,000,000 (≈ USD 3,252) for the boat, and 6 to 10 pay IDR 49,000,000 (≈ USD 3,006). The table prints every band, and beneath the current list it prints the 2027 list for days from 1 January 2027.

Choose a smaller boat if you are 5 people or fewer. The whole boat for 1 to 5 guests is IDR 46,750,000 (≈ USD 2,868), which is IDR 9,350,000 (≈ USD 574) each at 5 and IDR 23,380,000 (≈ USD 1,434) each at 2, because the price is per boat and a small party pays for empty berths.

Three lines sit outside the boat price: park tickets, a local guide and the photo and video set. The guide and the set are quoted as separate lines on request, and the fare changes only by a line you have accepted.

Read the two lists below with one rule in mind. The boat, the crew and the day's meals are in. Whatever belongs to the park or to one person is out. Park tickets are never in the fare: each visitor buys one online, in their own name. The park-fees page lists the foreign, domestic and weekend rates, and the ranger fee is extra.

This loop has no Padar, no Komodo dragons, no Pink Beach and no Manta Point. If the group came for those, book the 2D1N route, which reaches all four. If it came for a day out together with a swim, a hill walk and a long lunch, the full day is the right length.

Send the date, the head count and the name of your hotel. The quote that comes back carries the stop list, the pickup hour and every line that is not in the fare.