Komodo honeymoon boat: Madiun's balcony, the tub and what two people pay

Of the 6 doors on this boat, two open onto a balcony: Malang and Madiun. Only one of those balconies carries a bathtub. The tub is Madiun's, a wooden tub in the open air on the balcony.

Madiun sits on the upper deck. It has a window wall, a wooden floor and a double bed. Malang is on the main deck; its balcony is a covered stretch of side deck with two grey bean bags and a white rail. No table. No chairs. Both cabins have a private bathroom with a black rain shower and a small window.

Both cabins are air-conditioned, with sockets, towels and linen. On the open trip Malang costs IDR 5,150,000 (≈ USD 316) per person and Madiun IDR 5,400,000 (≈ USD 331), for two paying guests at least.

The open-trip fare is per person, so a couple pays it twice. In Madiun that is IDR 5,400,000 (≈ USD 331) each for three days and two nights; in Malang, IDR 5,150,000 (≈ USD 316) each. On the 2D1N version of the same sailing, Madiun costs IDR 5,000,000 (≈ USD 307) and Malang IDR 4,750,000 (≈ USD 291) per person. Departures run every Monday & Friday, and the pickup comes to your hotel between 10:00 and 11:00.

The other route is the whole boat. With five or fewer aboard, the 3D2N charter is IDR 47,500,000 (≈ USD 2,914), which works out at IDR 23,750,000 (≈ USD 1,457) each for two of you. That buys all 6 cabins, the dining room, the roof deck and the bow nets with no other guests aboard, and a start day you choose instead of a Monday or a Friday.

The sum is short. Take twice the Madiun fare, set it against the whole-boat price, and the gap is what privacy costs. Park entry, charged to foreign visitors at IDR 250,000 each per day, sits outside both figures. Read both numbers in the table below, then pick your date.

With the open trip, the other five cabins go to other travellers. Meals are served at the dining-room table, with the dishes set down the middle to share. You share the roof deck, the nets and, after dinner, the karaoke. The balcony is yours. The rest of the boat is common ground.

Honeymoon extras are services, not fare items. A private dinner on an island, a seafood dinner, cabin decoration or a cake for the table are arranged on request and quoted in writing within hours; nothing reaches your bill without that written quote.

Photographs are easier on the open trip than you would expect from a shared boat. The documentation crew, with a GoPro, a mirrorless camera and a drone, is part of the open-trip fare, and so is the tenun ikat cloth guests borrow for pictures. On a whole-boat charter neither the guide nor the photo crew is included, though either can be booked on request and priced on its own. Decide which matters more to you, privacy or the camera crew, and book the version that carries it.