**As of 2026, a whole-boat overnight charter from Labuan Bajo runs roughly USD 400-700 per night for a deck-sleep wooden boat, USD 700-1,200 for a standard cabin slow boat, USD 1,100-2,000 for a mid-range phinisi, and USD 2,200 to beyond USD 10,000 per night for boutique phinisi and sailing superyachts, per Labuan Bajo Luxury’s published luxury band.**
Those bands are assembled from figures that named operators and marketplaces actually publish, not from a single price list, and every number in this guide is dated 2026 and subject to change. Overnight pricing is where quotes get vague fastest — Booking.com’s Labuan Bajo Boat Charter listing on Jalan Soekarno Hatta will not even show a figure until you pick dates — so this piece lays the classes side by side. For the complete matrix covering day hire as well, our charter rates per night page holds the full per-boat tables.
How Much Does Each Boat Class Cost per Night in 2026?
Five classes cover almost every overnight-capable hull working out of Labuan Bajo harbor. Speedboats are excluded here: they are day boats without sleeping arrangements, and overnight pricing starts with wooden slow boats that carry mattresses or cabins.
| Boat class | Sleeps | Per-night band (as of 2026) | Typical 2D1N whole-boat total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deck-sleep wooden boat (open deck, mattresses) | 4-8 | USD 400-700 | USD 800-1,400 |
| Standard cabin slow boat (fan cabins, shared bath) | 6-12 | USD 700-1,200 | USD 1,400-2,400 |
| Mid-range phinisi (AC cabins, en-suite) | 8-14 | USD 1,100-2,000 | USD 2,200-4,000 |
| Boutique phinisi | 8-12 | USD 2,200-4,500 | USD 4,400-9,000 |
| Sailing superyacht | 6-12 | USD 10,000+ | USD 20,000+ |
The anchors behind that table are public. Best Komodo Tour puts a private Komodo charter at USD 800-2,500 per boat depending on capacity and facilities, which brackets the deck-sleep, cabin-boat and lower phinisi rows. Labuan Bajo Luxury pins the top end at USD 2,200 per day for a boutique phinisi rising past USD 10,000 per day for a sailing superyacht. Sailo’s Labuan Bajo fleet spans a USD 500 minimum to a USD 9,510 maximum across its eight listed boats, confirming how wide the spread genuinely is.
One honesty note before you screenshot the table: these are market bands drawn from those sources, not our own tariff. Final per-boat quotes are confirmed in writing by the Komodo Luxury reservations team via WhatsApp at 628113823875 or sales@komodoluxury.com, itemized per boat and per date.
What Do the Charter Marketplaces Say About Overnight Pricing?
Marketplace data mostly reports day rates, but it frames what overnight boats charge because the same hulls serve both markets.
According to Click&Boat, a Labuan Bajo rental typically runs USD 950-1,700 per day, with a quoted average of USD 1,992 per day and a full spread of USD 1,025-3,068 across its roughly four listed boats. Its seasonal split matters more for overnight planning than any single average: about USD 2,885 per day in high season against USD 1,154 in low season — a 2.5x swing on the identical boat. Click&Boat also notes a skipper averages around USD 100 per day and that fuel or skipper fees can be billed separately, which is exactly the kind of line item that inflates a “cheap” overnight quote after booking.
Sailo’s picture is similar: day charters average about USD 1,100, the average across its eight motor, party and sailing boats is USD 2,411 per day, and a full week averages USD 13,784 — which works out cheaper per night than stringing together single nights, a pattern that holds for direct phinisi hire too.
Where marketplace boats cluster at USD 1,000-2,400 per day, overnight-capable boats sit toward the upper half of that range. Sleeping infrastructure — cabins, bedding, a galley crew, a generator that runs until morning — is what separates them from the day fleet.
What Does an Overnight Rate Actually Add Over a Day Rate?
An overnight charter is not a day charter plus parking. The per-night premium over the same boat’s day rate typically buys:
- A crew on 24-hour rotation. Someone stands anchor watch while you sleep; on day boats the crew clocks off at the dock.
- Three additional meal services. Dinner, breakfast and a second lunch come out of the galley, versus one lunch on a day trip.
- Overnight anchorage positioning. The boat moors near Padar or Komodo so you start the sunrise hike from the anchorage instead of burning two-plus hours steaming from Labuan Bajo.
- Generator hours. Fans or air-conditioning, cabin lighting and charging run through the night — a real fuel line, not a rounding error.
- Linen, cabins or deck bedding. Even deck-sleep boats supply mattresses, pillows and blankets under the stars.
That last point explains the class ladder: each step from deck mattress to fan cabin to en-suite AC cabin adds hardware and crew, and the per-night band steps up roughly 60-80 percent per class in the table above.
Which Fees Sit on Top of the Overnight Boat Rate?
Komodo National Park charges are almost never inside the boat price. Best Komodo Tour breaks them down, as of 2026, like this:
| Fee | Amount (as of 2026) | Charged per |
|---|---|---|
| Park entrance | IDR 150,000-250,000 | person |
| Ranger escort | IDR 80,000-100,000 | group |
| Snorkeling/diving activity | IDR 50,000-100,000 | person |
On a 2D1N itinerary these apply for each park day, so a family of six should budget roughly IDR 2-4 million on top of the hull rate. Treat every fee as additional unless your written package explicitly states otherwise.
When Does a Private Overnight Beat a Shared 2D1N Tour?
This is the arithmetic that decides most bookings. Best Komodo Tour prices shared 2D1N Komodo trips at USD 250-350 per person. Now split a whole boat instead: a standard cabin slow boat at a 2D1N total of USD 1,400-2,400 divides among eight passengers to USD 175-300 each — under or inside the shared band, with every cabin, the schedule and the route entirely yours.
The break-even generally lands at six or more passengers. Below six, shared 2D1N tours usually win on pure cost; from six up, the whole boat costs the same or less per head and stops being a compromise. The same logic holds on day trips — Nera Wela’s medium speedboat at USD 830 whole-boat splits to about USD 104 per person with eight aboard, inside Best Komodo Tour’s USD 60-150 shared day band — and it only strengthens overnight, because shared liveaboard cabins are priced per bunk while a chartered boat is priced per hull.
At the top of the market the calculation changes character. AYANA Komodo’s Waecicu Beach resort offers boat charter strictly on a contact-the-team basis with no published day rate, and superyacht owners quote the same way. Above roughly USD 4,500 per night you are buying privacy and service depth, not per-head savings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do deck-sleep wooden boats really cost less than half a cabin phinisi per night?
Yes, as of 2026 the gap is that wide. Deck-sleep boats sit around USD 400-700 per night at the floor of Best Komodo Tour’s USD 800-2,500 private-charter band, while mid-range phinisi with air-conditioned en-suite cabins run USD 1,100-2,000. You give up walls and AC, and sleep on covered deck mattresses instead.
Why is the per-night rate higher than the same boat’s day rate?
Because the boat keeps working after sunset. An overnight rate covers a crew standing anchor watch, three extra meal services from the galley, generator fuel for lights and fans until morning, bedding for every guest, and anchorage near Padar so you skip the two-hour dawn steam from Labuan Bajo harbor.
How much does high season change overnight charter prices in Labuan Bajo?
Substantially. Click&Boat’s 2026 data shows the same Labuan Bajo boats averaging about USD 2,885 per day in high season against USD 1,154 in low season — roughly two and a half times more. Expect July-August and year-end overnight quotes at any class to land near the top of its band, sometimes above it.