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A 50 to 60m yacht Komodo in the dry-season window (April through December 2026) runs $265,000 to $385,000 per week plus 25 to 32 percent APA, takes 10 to 14 guests across 6 to 8 cabins (the phinisi motor-sailor pool runs the higher-cabin layout), and carries 14 to 20 crew. Komodo at this LOA is an Indonesian Lesser Sundas dry-season product on the Komodo National Park UNESCO footprint between Sumbawa and Flores at 8 degrees 30 minutes south, with the active 50 to 60m fleet at any peak-season week sitting at 4 to 8 hulls on the phinisi-and-motor-yacht mix with prior positioning from the wider Indonesian or Southeast Asian basin. The bracket runs the destination on the Labuan Bajo port-of-entry base on Flores, the Komodo and Rinca dragon-shore product on the central park, the Padar viewpoint and Pink Beach central anchorage, the Manta Point Karang Makassar daylight on the southern park boundary, and the wider Sape Strait routing on the Sumbawa western extension. The Indonesian KKPI cruising permit and the Komodo National Park entry-fee framework (the standing 2026 schedule on the Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam Nusa Tenggara Timur structure) run the bracket's clearance through the prior Labuan Bajo harbour master coordination.
Why the bracket calls Komodo specifically
The Komodo and Rinca dragon-shore product. The Komodo National Park covers 1,733 square kilometres across Komodo, Rinca, Padar, and 26 outer islets between Sumbawa and Flores. The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) population of roughly 3,000 individuals on the wider park footprint runs the bracket's marquee shore programme on the prior ranger-coordinated guided walks at Loh Liang on Komodo and Loh Buaya on Rinca with the prior commercial-tender daylight permit through the park office. The Rinca Loh Buaya programme runs the structurally tighter-encounter window and the more compact shore route, and the Komodo Loh Liang programme runs the longer hike with the higher midday dragon-encounter probability on the dry-season calendar.
The Padar viewpoint and Pink Beach central anchorage. Padar Island in the central park at 8 degrees 39 minutes south holds the bracket's structural sunrise daylight on the 45-minute climb to the Padar viewpoint (the three-bay panorama with the white, black, and pink-sand beach exposure on the radial geology). The Pink Beach (Pantai Merah) southeastern Komodo face holds the bracket's day-anchor swim product on the rose-coloured sand (the Foraminifera red-coral fragment basis) and the protected hold on the central park anchor. The Padar viewpoint and Pink Beach pair runs the bracket-fit central-park 24-hour daylight pattern.
The Manta Point Karang Makassar daylight and dive product. The Karang Makassar manta-cleaning station at the southern park boundary on the Lintah Strait at 8 degrees 35 minutes south runs the bracket's central dive product on the manta encounter (the seasonal manta ray Manta birostris and Manta alfredi aggregation on the prior tide-window check), and the Batu Bolong central-strait pinnacle and the Crystal Rock and Castle Rock northern-park pinnacles round the bracket-fit Komodo dive programme. The Komodo current structure runs the structurally strong tidal stream on the Lintah Strait and the Manta Point dive product runs on the PADI Advanced-grade dive-team handling on the wider drift-dive routine.
The Labuan Bajo port-of-entry base on Flores. Labuan Bajo on the western Flores face at 8 degrees 30 minutes south handles the bracket clearance through the Indonesian KKPI and CAIT framework on the prior agent coordination through the Labuan Bajo harbour master. The Labuan Bajo Marina Waterfront and the Komodo Yacht Club outer anchor handle the bracket-fit guest embarkation on the captain's-tender shore shuttle from the LBJ Komodo International Airport dock (the LBJ recent runway extension on the 2,250-metre standing capacity handles the bracket-fit fixed-wing guest transfer). LBJ takes the daily-rotation from Bali Denpasar (DPS), Jakarta (CGK), and Surabaya (SUB) on the Garuda Indonesia, Lion Air, and the AirAsia Indonesia connection structure with the wider international routing on the Bali DPS hub from JFK, LHR, FRA, DXB, SIN, HKG, and the Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways, Emirates, and the KLM codeshare structure.
Weekly rate map for dry season 2026 to 2027
Rates below are firm dry-season pricing (April through December 2026), before APA at 25 to 32 percent and gratuity at 10 to 15 percent. The Komodo National Park entry-fee structure (the standing IDR 750,000 per foreign guest per day on the wider 2026 schedule with the additional ranger-shore and tender-permit tag), the KKPI cruising-permit fee, the Manta Point and Karang Makassar dive-permit coordination, the Labuan Bajo harbour master clearance, and the Sape Strait national-park Sumbawa-side coordination run through the APA on the daily basis. The Indonesian VAT structure on the chartering activity applies through the captain's-agent prior coordination.
| LOA bracket | Motor yacht (low to high) | Phinisi motor-sailor (low to high) |
|---|---|---|
| 50 to 53m | $265K to $295K per week | $210K to $245K per week |
| 53 to 57m | $295K to $335K per week | $240K to $285K per week |
| 57 to 60m | $335K to $385K per week | $280K to $320K per week |
The peak dry-season window runs late June through mid-October on the structural southern-Indonesian dry-season calendar and pulls a 6 to 12 percent premium against the April and the November to December shoulder edges. The August central-peak runs the structurally tight phinisi-pool allocation. The December shoulder window runs the early wet-season-transition edge and reads structurally short on the daily rain-frequency. The Komodo all-in week at the bracket runs roughly 10 to 18 percent below the equivalent Raja Ampat dry-season week on the wider remote-routing fuel-and-provisioning cost, roughly 4 to 8 percent below the equivalent Thai Phuket dry-season week, and roughly 18 to 25 percent below the equivalent Maldives dry-season week. For broader context see 50-60m Raja Ampat, 50-60m Thailand Phuket, and the Southeast Asia charter season how-to.
What the bracket buys you in this bracket
Cabins. Six standard on the motor-yacht layout. Eight to ten on the phinisi motor-sailor pool. The Komodo dry-season pool at the bracket runs the on-deck master plus VIP plus four to six guest doubles as the layout, calibrated to the multi-couple Lesser Sundas dry-season week pattern with the dragon-and-dive product on the daily structure.
Crew. Fourteen to twenty. The Komodo call rewards a captain bench with prior Labuan Bajo harbour master clearance routine, prior Komodo National Park ranger-coordinated guided-walk routing through Loh Liang on Komodo and Loh Buaya on Rinca, prior Lintah Strait and Sape Strait drift-current routing on the tide-window structure, prior Manta Point and Karang Makassar dive-permit coordination, and prior KKPI cruising-permit handling. The chef bench runs the Indonesian and Nusa Tenggara pool with the Labuan Bajo wet-market provisioning, the Flores aquaculture and the Bali DPS outbound restock on the wider 7-day cycle, and the Komodo-park-ranger-coordinated shore programme on the Loh Liang and the Loh Buaya tender daylight. The dive-team bench with PADI Advanced-grade certification on the wider Lintah Strait drift-dive routine is the structural question.
Tenders. Primary 10 to 11m fast tender plus a 7 to 8m beach tender plus a chase boat plus a dedicated dive tender plus a tender garage water-toy load. The Loh Liang Komodo ranger-shore landing, the Loh Buaya Rinca ranger-shore landing, the Padar viewpoint shore call, the Pink Beach southern Komodo day-anchor tender, the Manta Point Karang Makassar dive-entry tender, and the Crystal Rock and Castle Rock northern-park dive routing run tender-heavy on the wider daily programme. The Labuan Bajo Marina Waterfront outer-anchor takes the primary on the LBJ dock-to-yacht transfer.
At-anchor stabilizers. Recommended on the motor-yacht pool, not load-bearing on the phinisi pool. The Komodo central-park protected anchorage (Pink Beach southern face, Padar central, Gili Lawa Darat northern) runs the structurally light-swell window through the central dry-season calendar (the 0.5 to 1.5 metre residual Sape Strait swell on the open western reach and the zero-swell hold on the inner-park footprint). The 2018-and-newer motor-yacht hulls running the zero-speed product hold the bracket fit on the wider dry-season corridor.
Beach club. Load-bearing at the bracket. The Komodo water temperature runs 26 to 29 degrees through the central dry-season window and the beach club open-platform daylight runs the structural day-anchor swim and dive-entry programme. The bracket-fit guest dive and snorkel routine runs the open beach-club deck on the Manta Point pre-dive briefing and the Pink Beach at-anchor hold on the daily structure.
Helipad. Structurally short at the bracket. The Komodo regional Labuan Bajo helicopter infrastructure runs on the thin standing-commercial basis, the cross-park shore daylight reads the structural tender-and-overnight transit shape on the wider routing, and the Cat A helipad reads as structurally light at the bracket relative to the wider Komodo product. The bracket-fit Komodo week routes the cross-park programme on the prior captain-and-tender coordination rather than the helicopter shuttle.
Trip shape that fits the bracket
The bracket's Komodo call sits inside a 7 to 10 night Indonesian Lesser Sundas dry-season programme on the structurally compact 60-kilometre central-park footprint, with the optional 14-night Lesser Sundas extension on the wider Bali-Komodo or Bali-Komodo-Maluku routing. The 7-night Komodo Park structural week runs Labuan Bajo embarkation, one night at the Labuan Bajo outer-anchor for the clearance and the dive-team briefing, one night at the Rinca Loh Buaya ranger-shore with the central park transit, two nights through the central park on the Padar sunrise viewpoint, the Pink Beach southern Komodo day-anchor, and the Komodo Loh Liang ranger-shore on the wider midday window, one night at the Gili Lawa Darat northern-park anchor with the structurally photogenic sunset hike and the Castle Rock pinnacle dive on the northern boundary, one night at the Karang Makassar Manta Point southern-park drift-dive routine, one night on the Labuan Bajo return with the disembark.
The 10-night Komodo Park plus southern Flores routing runs Labuan Bajo embarkation, one night at the Labuan Bajo outer-anchor for the clearance, two nights through the central Komodo Park on the Rinca Loh Buaya, the Padar viewpoint, and the Pink Beach pair, two nights through the northern Komodo Park on the Gili Lawa Darat, the Castle Rock, the Crystal Rock, and the Manjarite dive product, the eastbound transit along the southern Flores coast with the Sebayur day-anchor, two nights through the Riung 17 Islands National Marine Park on the central Flores coast (the structurally protected at-anchor hold on the lesser-trafficked extension), one night at the Karang Makassar Manta Point southern-park drift-dive on the westbound return, one night on the Labuan Bajo return with the disembark.
The 14-night Bali to Komodo full Lesser Sundas routing runs Bali Benoa embarkation, one night at Benoa for the clearance, the eastbound transit through Lombok Lombok with the Gili Trawangan and the Gili Meno daylight, two nights through Sumbawa northern face with the Moyo Island Foundation Aman Wana resort shore call and the Saleh Bay whale-shark daylight (seasonal), the southbound Sape Strait transit, two nights at the Sangeang Volcano daylight and the Banta Island northern-park-boundary anchor, the central Komodo Park 5-night programme on the Rinca-Padar-Pink Beach-Gili Lawa-Manta Point pattern, the eastbound Komodo-to-Labuan-Bajo passage, two nights on the Riung 17 Islands Marine Park extension, one night on the Labuan Bajo return with the disembark. Fourteen nights. The bracket-fit Bali-Komodo-Riung structural shape that holds the destination's strongest product separation.
What the bracket does not do well at Komodo
The January through March wet-season plan. The Komodo wet-season runs the structurally heavier rainfall on the central park, the wider Lintah Strait visibility reduction on the dive product, and the dragon-encounter window on the reduced midday activity. We would pass on any January through March Komodo plan and route the bracket on the Bali Benoa wintering or the wider Indonesian dry-side rotation for the same calendar.
The non-park-ranger walk-up dragon-shore plan. The Komodo National Park ranger-coordinated guided-walk framework runs the load-bearing prior coordination on the Loh Liang Komodo and the Loh Buaya Rinca shore daylight, and the walk-up tender shore without the prior ranger allocation reads as the structural blocker on the bracket-fit dragon-shore product. We would pass on any non-coordinated dragon-shore plan and require the prior ranger-shore allocation in writing through the captain's office at the contract.
The non-PADI Advanced-grade dive-team on the Lintah Strait drift product. The Komodo Manta Point, Crystal Rock, and Castle Rock drift-dive product runs on the PADI Advanced-grade dive-team handling on the structurally strong Lintah Strait tidal current. The non-Advanced-grade dive-team plan on the bracket-fit Komodo week reads as the structural blocker on the wider drift-dive routine. We would pass on any non-Advanced-grade dive-team plan and route the central dive product through the bracket-fit team complement.
The walk-up Labuan Bajo alongside plan. The Labuan Bajo Marina Waterfront and the Komodo Yacht Club outer anchor handle the bracket-fit guest embarkation on the prior coordination, but the walk-up alongside plan without the prior agent allocation reads structurally short on the seasonal-peak congestion. We would pass on the walk-up Labuan Bajo plan and route the guest embarkation through the prior outer-anchor allocation with the LBJ tender shore shuttle.
What to book
For two couples, 7-night Komodo Park structural week in mid-August with Labuan Bajo embarkation, one night at the Labuan Bajo outer-anchor for the clearance, one night at the Rinca Loh Buaya ranger-shore, two nights through the central park on the Padar viewpoint, the Pink Beach day-anchor, and the Komodo Loh Liang ranger-shore, one night at the Gili Lawa Darat northern-park anchor with the sunset hike and the Castle Rock pinnacle dive, one night at the Karang Makassar Manta Point drift-dive routine, one night on the Labuan Bajo return: a 53 to 55m motor yacht or upper-end phinisi, 6 to 8 cabins, twin tenders plus chase plus dive tender, load-bearing beach club on the Lesser Sundas swim and dive product, captain bench on the Lintah Strait drift-current routing and the Loh Liang ranger-shore allocation. Budget $310K per week, all-in roughly $415K including APA at 28 percent. Lead time 8 to 14 months for the August central-peak window.
For a family of 10, 14-night Bali to Komodo full Lesser Sundas routing in early October with the structural-fit motor-yacht hull, the Bali Benoa embarkation, the eastbound Lombok and Sumbawa transit with the Moyo Aman Wana shore call, the Saleh Bay whale-shark daylight on the seasonal-window check, the Sape Strait transit and the Sangeang Volcano daylight, the central Komodo Park 5-night programme, the Riung 17 Islands marine-park extension, the Labuan Bajo disembark: a 56 to 58m motor yacht with the Advanced-grade dive team and the full dive-tender complement, 6 to 8 cabins, captain bench on the Sape Strait drift-current routing and the Komodo Park ranger-shore allocation. Budget $360K per week, all-in roughly $480K. Lead time 12 to 18 months.
Inventory
The live 50 to 60m Komodo dry-season inventory updates weekly through the April to December calendar.. For broker-side inquiry, see the brokers pillar and the Southeast Asia charter season how-to.