The most reliable way to choose a Komodo yacht charter in 2026 is to verify the operator, not the photos: confirm a Labuan Bajo base, check whether the company owns the vessels it sells or merely brokers them, insist on published pricing, and read a dated review trail. Operators that pass all four checks —…
A Lombok to Komodo boat trip is a multi-day sea crossing — most commonly three days and two nights — that departs Lombok’s east coast, tracks along the north shore of Sumbawa with stops at Moyo Island’s waterfalls and the volcanic crater lake of Satonda, then crosses the Sape Strait into Komodo National Park before…
Choose by season and by appetite. Komodo is the accessible charter: one short flight from Bali, calm seas from April through November, and dragons, ridge hikes, pink sand, and manta rays packed into a sailing area compact enough to cover properly in two to four days. Raja Ampat is the expedition: two or three flights…
Yes — a Komodo boat charter is safe, and as of this week we no longer have to argue the point in theory. On August 15, 2026, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck roughly 200 kilometers offshore of the park. The wave that followed peaked at 0.36 meters on the tide gauges — knee-high water, not…
A workation boat in Komodo works for one simple reason: Starlink. A private charter fitted with a marine Starlink terminal holds a usable 40–150 Mbps connection with 25–60 ms latency almost anywhere in the national park — enough to take video calls from the aft deck at anchor. Add Labuan Bajo’s UTC+8 time zone, which…
A wellness yoga charter in Komodo is the hire of an entire crewed boat — that is what charter means — run as a floating retreat: mat work on the foredeck at a silent anchorage, breathwork before the heat arrives, cold-water swims instead of cold plunges, and a digital detox that needs no house rules…
A sustainable Komodo boat charter in 2027 comes down to three things: working inside the national park’s 1,000-visitor daily cap, in force since 1 April 2026; planning your route around the park’s zoning system instead of against it; and sailing with a crew that runs the vessel responsibly — picking up mooring lines rather than…
Four kinds of vessel work the waters of Komodo National Park: the traditional wooden phinisi, built by hand in Bulukumba, South Sulawesi; open-water speedboats running day trips out of Labuan Bajo; modern crewed yachts chartered privately for luxury itineraries; and twin-hulled catamarans, the stability specialists. The hull you choose decides nearly everything downstream — how…
Manta season at Manta Point Komodo runs from November to March, when the north-west monsoon pushes plankton-rich water through the park and reef mantas gather at the cleaning stations in numbers the dry season never matches. If you want the best odds with the fewest compromises, charter in November or December: the mantas have arrived,…
Straight answer: October is the finest all-round month to charter a boat in Komodo. The dry-season trade winds are easing off, the crossings through the Linta Strait turn to glass, and the July–August crowds have gone home. December is a different prize entirely — it opens the heart of manta season, when plankton-rich water pulls…
