Grand Deluxe Cabins (103 & 104)

Set on the lower deck, each Grand Deluxe pairs twin beds — plus an optional extra bed for a third guest — with portholes just above the waterline and a marble ensuite with rain shower.

Down here the ship feels most like a ship. You are inside the Ulin ironwood hull itself, closest to the waterline on a 52.5-metre, 466 GT vessel with a 2.7-metre depth, where motion is felt least and the loudest sound at anchor is water moving along planking. For guests who measure a cabin by how well they sleep in it, the lower deck is not the compromise — it is the pick.

Grand Deluxe at a glance

Why choose a lower-deck cabin?

Three honest reasons. Stability: low and central is where a hull moves least, which matters on crossings between anchorages. Quiet: the lower deck sits apart from the social spaces stacked above — the Lounge & Resto, the alfresco table, the Sun Deck jacuzzi at the top of the ship — so early sleepers and late readers get their own timezone. And the beds themselves: twin configurations are what dive pairs, friends and teenagers actually ask for, and cabins 103 and 104 add an extra berth apiece when a group needs to sleep three.

The dive logic runs deepest here. Dive operators such as Scuba Junkie Komodo describe central Komodo sites as workable year-round, northern sites at their best from roughly March or April to October or November, and the southern Nusa Kode sites strongest from October or November through February or March — a well-planned charter finds good water in any month. Season data from Samara Liveaboard puts peak visibility at 30–40 metres between June and September, and most reef-manta encounters at Manta Point happen at 10–20 metres, per the same operator consensus. LASHA’s Dive Deck is one companionway above these cabins; the commute to your fins is measured in seconds. Route your charter around specific sites via the diving page.

What is inside cabins 103 and 104?

White-and-ivory joinery, brass-gold detailing and a marble bathroom with rain shower: LASHA does not thin her finish standard on the lower deck. The twin beds sit near portholes that frame the water almost at eye level, and the extra bed folds a third guest in without crowding the room. The hull around you was built in 2023 from Ulin ironwood and Jati teak in the Buginese phinisi tradition — a craft UNESCO inscribed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017.

Who sleeps best in a Grand Deluxe?

Dive buddies who want twins and a two-minute route to the gear. Teenagers on multi-generation charters — close enough to parents on the main deck, far enough to feel sovereign. And the third-guest cases every large booking produces: a cousin, a nanny, an odd-numbered friend group, all absorbed by the extra berths in 103 and 104 without anyone drawing the short straw. Two-guest parties who never need a third berth are usually assigned the twin-bed Deluxe cabins 101 and 102 on the same deck. The full plan — ten ensuite cabins, up to 26 guests — is mapped on the cabins & suites overview.

What about safety on the lower deck?

Parents ask, so here is the plain inventory. LASHA carries two lifeboats, four 20-person liferafts, 75 life jackets, 30 fire extinguishers, twelve ring buoys and a 54-channel CCTV system, with Garmin GPS, Samyung AIS and an EPIRB distress beacon on the bridge. The point of listing it: a lower-deck cabin on a modern 466 GT vessel is engineered, monitored and crewed around the clock — the romance of sleeping inside a traditional wooden hull comes with current-generation systems standing watch above it.

What does a dive charter cost?

LASHA books as a full-boat charter with leisure and dive rates published side by side — rare transparency in a tier where the largest phinisi are typically quote-only, according to charter-market guides. Her maiden public sailing departs Labuan Bajo on 17 August 2026, inside the June–September clear-water window.

Bookings for LASHA Phinisi Cruise are handled end-to-end by Komodo Luxury, the vessel’s official marketing partner.