Private Komodo Boat Charter — Catnazse Phinisi for Up to 18 Guests

The case for a private charter is arithmetic before it is romance. An open-trip cabin costs USD 490 to USD 680 per person for three days. Eight people in four cabins is roughly USD 4,000 to USD 5,000 — close enough to the USD 7,100 whole-boat rate that the extra buys you four spare cabins, your own departure date and a boat with nobody else on it. Past ten guests the private charter is simply cheaper.

2026 charter rates

2027 charter rates

Whole-vessel pricing. Komodo National Park fees, flights, drinks and gratuities are not included.

What a whole-boat booking changes in practice

Your date, not the calendar’s

Open trips run on published three-day windows. A charter runs when you want it to, which matters if your group is assembling from several countries or working around a wedding, a birthday or a corporate offsite.

Your pace

Nobody is waiting for you at the tender. If the snorkelling at Taka Makassar is good you stay; if the group wants a slow morning, the boat has one. Ranger-led activities and park zoning stay fixed — everything else is negotiable, agreed before departure.

No strangers

On a boat with a shared dining room, a lounge, a karaoke room and one sun deck, who else is aboard is not a small detail. A charter removes the variable entirely.

Vessel specification

Cabin allocation by group size

Full cabin detail on the eight cabins in detail.

Who charters the boat

Multi-family groups travelling with children, where the four-berth Grandis cabins solve a problem no hotel solves cheaply. Corporate groups of ten to eighteen who want two days off-grid with a dining room, a lounge and no venue hire. Milestone birthdays and anniversaries. And photographers and film crews, who value being able to sit at one anchorage until the light is right — the standard inclusions already cover drone, GoPro and mirrorless documentation with raw footage handed over.

Booking sequence

1. Send dates, guest count and duration to the booking desk.
2. Receive a written quotation including the current national park fee schedule for your dates.
3. Confirm cabin allocation, dietary requirements and any drone permit request — the permit needs at least seven days.
4. Pay the deposit on the terms set out in your quotation to hold the date.
5. Send passport details for park paperwork and confirm your Labuan Bajo hotel or flight for the transfer.

Included and excluded

What the price covers

• Accommodation on board for the whole trip
• All meals during the trip
• Mineral water, coffee and tea
• Premium photo and video documentation with drone, GoPro and mirrorless cameras (raw footage)
• Guide
• Snorkelling gear
• Life vest
• Pick-up and drop-off between your Labuan Bajo hotel or the airport and the meeting point, within the mainland area near the harbour

What it does not cover

• Flight tickets
• Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks beyond water, coffee and tea
• Personal snacks
• Crew gratuities
• Komodo National Park fees, subject to the regulation in force when you travel
• Komodo National Park drone permit, estimated at IDR 2,100,000, not mandatory, and requested at least seven days ahead

Komodo National Park charges are billed on top of the charter fee. The tariff has been unstable — sources through 2025 and 2026 quote anywhere from roughly IDR 150,000 to IDR 350,000 per person per day, higher at weekends and on holidays — so the booking desk issues a written fee schedule per departure rather than a fixed published number.

If your group is under eight, compare the per-cabin open trip instead. Travelling with children? See family charter set-ups. Catnazse also sails alongside sister phinisi on the same routes when a date is already taken.

Frequently asked questions