Sleep at anchor inside the park. Ten ensuite cabins, four decks and a whole-boat charter that belongs to your group alone.
A LASHA liveaboard is a private, whole-boat charter on which up to 26 guests sleep aboard our 52.5-metre phinisi at anchor — the Komodo · Alor · Sumbawa · Bali cluster (minimum 2 nights) and Raja Ampat · Banda Sea · Wakatobi expeditions (minimum 5 nights), rates published in full on the rates page.
Liveaboard is the operative word. The ship is the hotel: you board in Labuan Bajo, the harbour noise falls away within the hour, and for the next two, three or five-plus nights every meal, swim, trek and sleep happens on board or by tender from it. There is no checking in twice and no racing back to port before dark.
We are also new, and we say so plainly. LASHA was built in 2023 from Ulin ironwood and teak, carries 466 gross tons across four decks, and begins her maiden public Komodo season on 17 August 2026 — Indonesian Independence Day — from her home port of Labuan Bajo. No season means no guest reviews yet; what we publish instead is the hard data a charter decision actually needs.
Bookings run through one door: Komodo Luxury, the official marketing and booking partner of LASHA Phinisi Cruise, on WhatsApp +62 811-3823-875. The desk quotes from the same rate file this page cites, and confirms every figure in writing before any deposit moves.
Tides and ranger schedules write the timetable; the crew rebuilds the day around them while you are still asleep. A representative dry-season day in Komodo runs like this.
The day starts at 4:45 am on purpose. Because we slept inside the park, the tender puts early risers on the Padar ridge before the day boats have left Labuan Bajo — the sunrise most visitors see in photographs, from the trail rather than from a queue.
Manta Point on the right tide: reef mantas hold at 10–20 metres, so divers work the drift while snorkellers ride the same current from the surface. Most charter days carry two to three dives or swim sessions, set by the tide tables rather than a fixed count.
The hours day-trippers spend commuting, you spend at anchor: a proper siesta in an ensuite cabin, the sun-deck jacuzzi, or a ranger-guided dragon trek at Loh Liang timed against the heat. The ship repositions to the evening anchorage while you rest.
Flying foxes stream off Kalong Island at sunset, watched from your own deck with dinner to follow at anchor. Then comes the part no day format can sell: a protected bay, a dark sky, and ten cabins already made up one deck below.
Hour-by-hour route plans for the 1-Day, 2D1N and 3D2N formats are mapped on the Komodo itineraries page.
Liveaboard comfort is decided at 2 am, not at the brochure stage — which is why all ten cabins are ensuite, air-conditioned and finished with marble bathrooms and rain showers. On a private charter every cabin belongs to your group; nobody shares with strangers, because we never sell LASHA by the cabin.
Two Deluxe twins and two Grand Deluxe twins with extra beds sit closest to the waterline, where motion is gentlest at anchor — the deck light sleepers and first-time sailors should claim first.
Four Junior Suites with double beds and private balconies — two of them with an added extra bed — share the deck with the living room. The two Master Suites each carry an in-suite jacuzzi bathtub and a balcony over the water.
The Lounge & Resto and chill area take the upper deck; the sun deck and bar take the top. Four separate levels means divers rinsing gear, teenagers on the PlayStation 5 and grandparents reading in the shade never compete for the same square metre.
The full comparison — bed configurations, extra-bed rules, balcony and jacuzzi flags for all ten cabins — is on the cabins & suites page, and the deck plans sit with the complete specifications on the yacht page.
One galley serves three rooms: the indoor Lounge & Resto on the upper deck, the alfresco table in the open air, and the stern lounge for the slow end of the evening. On a liveaboard the meal rhythm follows the sailing plan rather than the clock — breakfast lands after the sunrise activity, not before it, lunch falls between water sessions, and dinner is served at anchor once the ship has settled for the night.
Dietary requirements are provisioning decisions at sea, so they travel with the booking: tell the desk when you reserve and the galley loads accordingly in Labuan Bajo. There are no supermarkets at anchor inside a national park, which is exactly why we ask early rather than improvise late.
Between meals, the ship absorbs a group the way a villa cannot: the living room and PlayStation 5 on the main deck, the chill area above it, the bar and open-air jacuzzi on the sun deck — separate rooms for separate moods, all within one hull.
Every published band carries two tiers — leisure and dive — because the dedicated dive deck on the main deck makes this a working dive liveaboard, not a boat that merely tolerates tanks. Free-of-charge (FOC) places scale with group size.
Full pax-by-pax rate ladders for both clusters — Komodo by trip length, Raja Ampat by nightly band — are on the rates 2026–2027 page, not duplicated here.
Published 2026 rate bands for the Komodo · Alor · Sumbawa · Bali cluster, minimum 2 nights. The Raja Ampat · Banda Sea · Wakatobi cluster has a minimum of 5 nights and its own dive tier above leisure. Park entrance fees are additional and vary by route. Every figure is a “from” rate: the charter desk confirms the exact band and a written quote before anything is paid. Full tables for both clusters are on the rates 2026–2027 page.
The FOC scale is worth reading twice: above 14 paying guests it adds roughly one free place per two additional guests, so an 18-guest booking sails 20 people while 18 pay — the mechanism group leaders and dive instructors usually use for themselves. Dive-site planning — Manta Point, Batu Bolong, the north–south seasonal split — lives on the diving page.
A liveaboard is only as good as its autonomy, and here the owner's published technical sheet says more than any adjective.
Tankage is sized so a five-night eastern expedition runs without a port call, and two generators keep ten cabins air-conditioned through the night at anchor. The safety inventory runs past what 26 guests and crew ever require. Deck plans and the complete specification tables sit on the yacht page.
Home waters. From Labuan Bajo the signature anchorages — Padar, Pink Beach, Manta Point, Kalong — are spread across hours of sailing, so two nights is the shortest window in which a liveaboard route makes sense rather than a rushed loop.
The Komodo charter page covers the full-boat format in detail; near-route sailings reach Alor, Sumbawa and Bali–Lombok, with any relocation confirmed at booking.
From roughly October to April we reposition east with the rest of the Indonesian expedition fleet. The eastern grounds lie well over 1,000 km from Labuan Bajo, and five nights is what that geography demands before the route repays the crossing.
Seasons, crossing logic and expedition planning are on the Raja Ampat & beyond page.
Run together, the two clusters give a LASHA liveaboard calendar the archipelago's strongest marine parks in their best months — Komodo through the dry season, the east through its inter-monsoon windows — with the same ten cabins, the same crew and the same rate logic on both sides of the map.
We sell both formats, so this is not a pitch for one against the other — it is the arithmetic the charter desk walks every group through before quoting.
| Liveaboard charter | Komodo day charter | |
|---|---|---|
| Time aboard | 2+ nights, sleeping at anchor inside the park | Up to 16 hours, returning to Labuan Bajo |
| Rate logic | Whole boat, priced by trip length (Komodo cluster) — see the rates page | Per guest, minimum 20 guests |
| What you reach | Padar at sunrise, Manta Point ahead of the fleet, Kalong at dusk, north and south sites by season | The central-park highlights in a single daylight loop |
| Cabins | All 10 ensuite cabins made up for your group | Day use of decks, lounge and dining spaces |
| Best for | Divers, multi-generation groups, full-archipelago routes | Groups based in Labuan Bajo hotels on a fixed date |
The deciding question is usually timing, not budget. The park's three signature moments — Padar at first light, an uncrowded Manta Point, the Kalong exodus at dusk — all fall outside day-charter hours. Sleeping on board is the only way to hold all three in one trip, which is the case for the liveaboard format in a single sentence.
LASHA operates from Labuan Bajo year-round — park permits, ranger-guided landings and dive or snorkel days are all arranged by the crew, with published whole-boat rates on the rates page.
Send the desk your group size, month and whether divers are aboard — the reply comes back with the exact band, FOC places and a written quote.
Official booking, one door: every LASHA Phinisi Cruise reservation is handled end-to-end by Komodo Luxury, the vessel's official marketing partner — one WhatsApp line, one charter desk, verified payment channels.
