Komodo by phinisi, with the ledger open on the table

Most Komodo pages use the words all inclusive the way a hotel uses sea view, as a mood to be felt rather than a fact to be checked, and on Vhale we would sooner do the sums in front of you. The left-hand column first. A car brings you from hotel or airport to the quay and takes you back at the end; every meal on board is paid for, and so are the snacks, the snorkel gear, and the water, tea, coffee, milk and juice that keep coming without anyone keeping count. The right-hand column, what sits outside the fare, is shorter and just as firm: the park package, flights, hotels either side, alcoholic drinks and tips.

Beside that list sits one number. The whole boat for three days and two nights comes to IDR 148,000,000 (≈ USD 9,080), a single sum for a party of anything from one to 28, with no smaller tier and no charge for an extra head. Rent a berth instead of a boat and the seats begin at IDR 4,450,000 (≈ USD 273) a person. The private charter page writes the same ledger out line by line, so this one can afford to be brief.

Not everyone wants a boat to themselves, and not everyone has twenty relatives. The same three days are sold by the cabin on Monday & Friday, so a couple or a lone traveller can board and share the table with other guests. Seats start at IDR 4,450,000 (≈ USD 273) for a Coral sharing berth and reach IDR 8,950,000 (≈ USD 549) for an Atlantic cabin with the balcony.

Here the guide and the group's photographs and film come inside the seat; a private charter leaves both on request. There are 16 sailings listed ahead of you, the next on Friday, 6 November 2026, with dates per 4 November 2026. A listed date is not a held date: we confirm the cabin live on WhatsApp before you pay anything.

A boat with twelve cabins and nine crew finds its natural customer in a party that already knows how to argue about lunch, which in practice means three generations of one family or an office that has outgrown the minibus. Both do the same sum: one fare, divided by whoever sits down.

At twenty guests the 3D2N fare comes to IDR 7,400,000 (≈ USD 454) a head, at twenty-four to IDR 6,170,000 (≈ USD 379), and at twenty-eight to IDR 5,290,000 (≈ USD 325). A party of eight or twelve pays the same whole-boat fare as a full table, and for them a seat is the kinder sum. The occasions below show how each kind of party uses the same boat differently.

The grid below lists nine stops. Of those, the three-day route reaches seven: Kelor and Kalong, Padar and Pink Beach, the two snorkel stops of Taka Makassar and Manta Point, and Siaba or Sebayur at the end. The sample four-day route adds Kanawa. The dragons are met on Rinca, which is a separate walk with the rangers.

Padar belongs to sunrise, and in October the sun clears its ridge at 05:39; Kalong is a dusk island, with sunset at 17:55 that month, while Pink Beach and the snorkel stops ask for nothing more than daylight and a calm patch of sea. The order is a proposal, and the captain has the last word.

A fit check saves both sides an awkward letter later. The list below says who the boat does not suit. Vhale suits a party of twenty to twenty-eight that wants one boat and one written fare, and it suits a traveller content with one cabin on the Monday or Friday trip; either way the exceptions sit beside the inclusions.

The company behind the bookings is PT Komodo Explorer Indonesia, NIB 1805260128363, answering Daily 08:00–20:00 (WITA).