Aug 28, 2025
Beautiful experience, great boat, great team - Trip of a lifetime! Superb organisation and flexibility around our needs. Food was top notch - lots of local seafood and fruit etc. Fantastic team on the boat that looked after our every need. Traditional boat was simple but some great spaces to hang out, plenty of shade and overall a very well run and maintained vessel. Highly recommended overall!
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Aug 10, 2025
Really fantastic 3D2N Komodo tour with kids (12 & 9) - This tour was really amazing, and not only because all the great nature we have seen (most beautiful subsets and sunrises, flying foxes, Komodo dragons, many many turtles and dolfines, all under water life, etc).
But also because of the boat and the crew. The boat, the Mata Komodo” was really nice, probably one of the smaller boats in town, but 4 bedrooms of which we only needed two. Below enough space to sit at the table or relax at the deck. A slide for the kids to slide in the sea, to only boat that has this.
And the crew was so friendly and calm. Really didn’t feel like a tourist or a number. Yohan, our guide, also very friendly and chill with the kids, he seemed to still really enjoy the trip after being a guide for 10+ years.
The only thing we missed were the manta’s ;) but you can’t win them all. We will be back! Same boat, same crew!
We really recommend this tour and you can easily book with this operator!
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Jul 23, 2025
Fantastic highly recommendable tour - Fantastic tour. The crew was very friendly and attentive. The food was delicious and the varied. There was constant access to tea, coffee, water and fruit. The boat was spacious and very clean - we did choose the 3 bedroom boat for the 4 of us so our teenage boys had room each. The organisation was impeccable from pick up to drop off.
The excursions were amazing - we saw lads of fish, turtles and other sea life and even a black tip reef shark and off course Komodo Dragons.
Can highly recommend.
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Jun 23, 2025
unforgettable boat trip through the island world of Komodo National Park - My family and I did the 4 day/3 night boat tour with the boat Nalorina 02.
Flores Fantastic Tours has organized everything to our complete satisfaction, the communication in advance worked excellently and during the trip the crew and our guide took excellent care of us! Especially the incredibly delicious food on board was awesome.
We had a wonderful time and really enjoyed the incredibly beautiful scenery, the unique wildlife and life on the ship!
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Aug 27, 2024
Unforgettable and wonderful experience - A fantastic experience, a wonderful to have a typical boat Phinisi for ourselves, family of 5 adults. Our Guide, Roberto, Captain Agús and all the crew have made us a wonderful stay, facilitating everything, visits to Komodo, Padar to see the sunrise and the three beaches (of course, up to people), pink sand beach and snorkeling in several wonderful places, my daughter could see a blanket. We loved having the fun Alfi who was interning. And the meals have been delicious and abundant with fish, rice and vegetables in different varieties and preparations. Fully recommended.
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Jun 23, 2024
Unforgettable cruise, magnificent snorfling islands and dream beaches - Excellent circuit highly recommended with a very helpful and friendly crew and with very good food on board
Accompaniment with a very professional guide and fluent in Portuguese which was a pleasant surprise The company was highly professional
Not being a luxury cruise be aware of the conditions of the same
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Aug 6, 2024
Wonderful experience! - We did a 3 day 2night trip around the Komodo Islands and it was truly wonderful. The crew took great care of us and even changed the itinerary to take us home early as I was sick. The food they prepared was the best we had in Indonesia. The boat was simple but clean and looked after. The only reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is the bathrooms which did not have enough water pressure for us to shower. This was ok for 2 nights but for longer trips would not be great. The activities were as promised on the itinerary on the website with some scheduling changes based on the wind etc and were truly spectacular to experience.
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Jul 7, 2024
Fun and inspiring trip to the Komodo Islands - The views of sunrise and sunset are amazing. Learned a lot about Komodo dragons. The best part for us is the snorkeling - vibrant coral colony with hundreds of different kinds of fish and coral - different sizes, shapes and colors. The crew and guide are nice and friendly. Chef prepared different breakfast, lunch and dinner each of the four days. How he managed in that tiny kitchen was unbelievable!
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Sep 15, 2025
It was OK, but not a recommendation - As we do this experience only once in a lifetime, here is a short summary:
Information given bevor the Journey was good. Except for the fact, that in the Morning of departure, we got the info to get additional 2 Mio in Cash. Why so Short notice.? Then a very warm
Welcome and well organisied boarding.
The boat on the pictures was taken a couple of years ago. Meanwhile there are two big holes in the floor which are really dangerous as you Are walking barefoot and you have do be a attentive all the time. The slide was painted several times and while using it you got the paint everywhere on your Skin. So the fun was Limited.
The staff were helpfull and the Food was very nice with a very good Choice for 3 Vegetariers. We really appriciated the Many different dishes.
Unfortunatelly our Guide Areo was lacking behind this. So we arrived at the first Spot and everybody in the water was snorkeling except for us. Areo did Not Tell to bring snorkelling Equipment. Why?
Also the Equipment did fit so well and was also Not well maintained. The fins hurted quite and injured my feet. The masks did Not fit my daughter, so bring our own Equipment for the fun.
At Night the Motor was started at 01:30 and with much Noise and Heavy Waves we drove the whole Night.
Weather was Bad, so the Captain canceld the First Spot on day two. Nobody can change the weather, but if you skip one Spot, Why Not offer something Else instead? But Areo was Not capabale. All Information we got, we had to ask for. What is Happening next? What Are we doing there? For how Long? What do we have to take with?…….
Not my idea of a Guide.
At the end of day two we did one Spot from day three without Knowledge.
It was Allready Late and the light was Not so good anymore, which was sad. Especially as we had enough time. But Areo obviously wanted the be at Home early.
The Motor started again Düring our sleep around 5 to Go to the next Spot. As we did the First Spot of day 3, allready at day two, there should have been much time for the last 2 Spots. But Areo urged us to hurry and insisted on going to the boat at his time and so we left the Place quite early.
For the last Place he planed one Hour, so we would be back by noon!!
I really had to complain, that we paid a three day tour and Not 2,5 days.
So we Stated at the Last Beach longer and the Girls went for an extra swimm.
We arrived back in Labuan Bajo around 3 o clock, but Areo was obviously in a Bad mood. as well as the Crew, as they obviously wanted to be Home earlier.
We did Not feel compfortable on the last day and Not Welcome on Board. We left with a Bad feeling.
Areo did Not provide pictures taken from us Surfing the Trip.
We had to ask for them from Flores Ship.
They sent them via WhatsApp, which means low Resolution. After one extra day we had them via Google Drive.
If you Look for a good Guide, nice sleep at Night and a well maintained boat and good snorkeling Equipment, this is Not your Choice. The nature was amazing, and the experinces also. But you can do this with everybody Else too, with less Money.
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Jul 28, 2025
Organizational chaos and hygiene deficiencies – not recommended - We booked a 3D2N.
We would particularly like to thank the crew of five for their hospitality, excellent performance and great food. Also, the destinations of the tour such as Komodo Island, Pink Beach, Padar Island and the snorkeling trips are an unforgettable experience.
However, the tour was unfortunately significantly affected by several serious organizational and hygienic shortcomings:
Unplanned boat change & poor communication: On the first day we were informed at short notice that a boat exchange was required. The pictures sent to us by the new boat did not match the reality, The originally mentioned handover time between 12:00 and 13:30 was not observed – without any information or explanation. Only after several frustrating phone calls, sometimes without feedback from the organizer, we were able to enter the new boat around 17:00. The unexplained situation and over 5 hours Waiting time were extremely stressful and largely invalidated the first day of travel.
Hygiene deficiencies: On the new boat there was no clean linen. Despite immediate notice, this has not been fixed. Unfortunately, this led to skin problems that required medical treatment after the tour. The dermatologist’s diagnosis confirmed a reaction to inadequate hygiene of the bed linen – absolutely unacceptable with such a high-priced travel offer.
We therefore made contact with the tour event during and after the tour. To date, however, all letters and inquiries have been left unanswered.
Conclusion: Unprofessional organization, poor communication, hygienic deficits. Very disappointing – especially at this price level. I can only recommend paying the last installment only after the trip.
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