Shared open trip
Priced per person on a scheduled departure. The cheapest way in, and perfectly good — you just enter and leave when the group does.
Charters · Overview
Every way to reach the mantas
Shared open trips, private day charters, phinisi cruises and liveaboards all end up in the same water. What changes is who else is on the boat and how long you can stay.
Ask for a quoteIn short
A boat trip to Manta Point or Manta Alley to snorkel or dive with reef mantas, usually paired with Padar and Pink Beach in a day, or run as a private multi-day charter.
- Shared trips are priced per person
- Private charters are priced per boat
- The park fee is separate either way
At a glance
The shape of the trip
Figures that hold across operators. Prices move, so ask rather than trust a blog.
- Shared open trip
- Per person
- Fixed departure days, fuller boat
- Private day charter
- Per boat
- Your schedule, your group only
- Multi-day
- 3D2N to 11D10N
- Sleeping aboard between sites
- Liveaboard
- Per cabin or per boat
- Reaches sites day trips cannot
- Phinisi charter
- Per boat
- Traditional rig, cabins, crew
- Catamaran
- Per boat
- Steadier for groups prone to seasickness
The cost logic flips around four to six people. Below that a shared boat is cheaper; above it a private one often is not.
What you get
The formats, honestly
Same reef, different day. Pick on group size and how much control you want.
Private day charter
One boat for your group. You set the departure hour, the stop order, and how long you stay if the mantas are working.
Phinisi charter
A traditional two-masted wooden vessel refitted with cabins and a dining deck. Slower to the site, and the crossing becomes part of the trip.
Liveaboard
Sleep aboard between sites. The only format that reliably reaches Manta Alley and the north-Komodo dive sites.
Shared or private?
Priced
- Shared open trip
- Per person
- Private charter
- Per boat
Departure
- Shared open trip
- Fixed days
- Private charter
- Your choice of day and hour
At the site
- Shared open trip
- You enter with the group
- Private charter
- Stay longer if it is worth staying
Stops
- Shared open trip
- Set route
- Private charter
- Reordered around what you came for
Breaks even at
- Shared open trip
- 1–4 people
- Private charter
- Roughly 4–6 and up
A private boat does not make the water better. It makes the day yours, which matters most to families, photographers and anyone with a fixed flight.
Questions about this trip
Which boat, and who is on it?
Send Komodo Luxury your group size and dates. Those two numbers decide shared-or-private faster than any price list.