Vhale Phinisi

A journal kept at the long table

Updated 4 November 2026

Notes at the Long Table is the journal of the Vhale reservation team: short essays on what a three-day voyage is like once the plates are down, and on the dull questions that decide whether it goes well, such as flights, park tickets and which stop comes first.

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Notes from the long table

A journal on a boat site has a bad habit of becoming a second sales leaflet, so this one has a rule. Every note starts from something a guest asked us or got wrong, and finishes before it turns into a pitch. The subjects are the ones that never fit on a price page: why the earliest flight to Labuan Bajo is a poor friend on the morning you sail, what a park ticket is and who holds it, how a table of twenty-odd people actually divides a day, and why the captain's choice of anchorage is a better thing to trust than a timetable.

The notes are short because the questions are. Each one can be read between the second coffee and the bill, and none of them promises a sea you cannot be promised. Where a note touches a price or a rule it uses the same figures as the rest of this site, and the figures move only when the rate list as of 4 November 2026 changes.

Recent notes

The newest notes sit below, each with its title, a line on what it covers and the date it went up. A guest asking the same thing twice is the usual reason a note gets written, so if a subject you need is missing, tell us on WhatsApp and it moves up the list. The ones that save somebody a bad morning at the airport are written first.

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Bookings for Vhale are made with the Komodo Explorer team in Labuan Bajo; the boat sails with its own crew of nine.

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