Komodo National Park Tour on Akassa: Padar at Dawn, Jacuzzi at Dusk

A three-day Komodo National Park tour on either of two boats that sail the same route. Akassa is 25 metres of wooden phinisi launched in 2021 with three suites, so it never carries more than ten guests. Semesta is 32 metres and eight suites, launched in 2023, and takes eighteen with Starlink aboard. The itinerary below is identical on both. What changes is the boat you sleep on and what a berth costs, which is why you pick the boat first and the room second.

The route covers everything the park is known for and then keeps going. Kelor and Manjarite on the first afternoon, the flying foxes lifting off Kalong at dusk, Padar before sunrise, the dragons at Komodo Village, Pink Beach and a drift over the manta cleaning station. The third morning is the one most two-night trips skip: the Taka Makassar sandbar, which surfaces on the falling tide, and a last long snorkel at Kanawa before you are back alongside.

Choosing your suite

Book by the suite rather than by the boat. On Akassa, Bumi sits on the upper deck with an ocean-facing window and is the least expensive way aboard, Langit is the room above everything with a balcony and a bathtub facing the water, and Laut is the largest, on the middle deck, with a jacuzzi in the bathroom. Laut and Langit each take two extra beds, priced well below a berth, which is how families of four travel here without booking two rooms. On Semesta the ladder runs from Moon, the owner's suite with its own balcony and jacuzzi, down through Earth, Mars and Sun to the four lower-deck doubles, and those lower rooms cost the same in August as they do in February.

Seasons and price

The operator runs two rate cards. January to May and September to December are the lower ones and the prices on this page are those. June to August costs more, and each suite shows its high-season rate next to the standard one so you are not quoted a surprise after you enquire. Semesta's two lower-deck tiers are the exception: they do not move at all.

A note on the park fee

Park fees are paid at the park and sit outside the price above, so we cannot collect them or pre-pay them for you. The tariff is set by Government Regulation No. 36 of 2024: IDR 250,000 per person per day for foreign visitors, and IDR 50,000 on a weekday or IDR 75,000 on a public holiday for Indonesian citizens. On top of the ticket sit a harbour fee of about IDR 25,000 and, for the dragon walk, a ranger charge commonly quoted at around IDR 200,000 per group of up to five, which is why two people travelling alone carry far more of it per head than a full boat does. Trekking, wildlife watching and snorkelling are already inside the ticket; only diving adds anything, at IDR 25,000 a day. For this three-day trip, operators currently quote about IDR 650,000 in park fees per foreign visitor.