Arriving alone, boarding with strangers, sleeping behind your own door

The pickup time reaches you in writing when you book. The fare pays for the transfer to the pier, whether you start from a Labuan Bajo hotel or from the airport. Other guests arrive from other hotels, and by lunch on deck you will have met most of them.

On board you get the cabin key and a safety talk, and the boat then heads for Kelor. The first afternoon is short and easy on purpose: a steep little climb, a reef, and Kalong at dusk with the flying foxes. Fly in a day early, and a late flight cannot cost you the boat.

Her open sailings run Mondays and Fridays, with Friday, 6 November 2026 the next on sale.

Dinner is at the dining table on deck, with sofa benches under a shade roof. The table is where a boat of up to twelve turns into a group, and you do not have to join it to enjoy the evening.

The booking runs in steps. Send us your date and say you are one traveller. We confirm in writing the cabin, the price for two and the deposit of 50 percent. A week before sailing you send passport or ID details, and the balance arrives 30 days before departure.

Ask us about vegetarian, halal or allergy needs when you book, so the kitchen is told before sailing. Alcoholic drinks are not in the fare; ask us first.

Open trips run from 1 March to 31 December 2027, on Mondays and Fridays, and the dates on sale are listed on the dates page. Choose a date that leaves a day to arrive, and pick a flight home that leaves later than 14:00 on the last day.

Two months are closed. January and February 2027 are annual maintenance, so no cabin is on sale then. For a solo traveller, Monday sailings leave the weekend for the flight in, and Friday sailings return on a Sunday.

A private charter is an option, but it costs the price of the boat. One traveller on the shortest route pays IDR 80,000,000 (≈ USD 4,908), and nothing in that figure is shared. Most solo travellers find the open trip the better fit.