Magika — Komodo Liveaboard Profile, Cabins & Booking

Who the Magika Liveaboard Suits

The Magika liveaboard is one of the newest hulls working Komodo National Park — a traditional phinisi built of ironwood and Balau, launched as a new build in 2025 (one listing shows 2026; our desk confirms the exact delivery year on request). At 26.74 m long with a 6.03 m beam, nine air-conditioned cabins and space for 22 guests plus 6 crew, it sits firmly in the premium bracket of the shared-departure fleet without jumping to full luxury-charter pricing.

We recommend Magika to three kinds of travelers. First, mixed-budget groups: with seven cabin categories spread from $310 to $520 per person on the same departure, friends can share one boat without sharing one price. Second, families — the Family Ocean cabin sleeps four with a king bed plus two bunks, rare on Komodo boats. Third, couples who want the top of the shared market: the Master Ocean cabin has a private balcony and a bathtub, which almost nothing else at this price point offers.

Magika at a Glance — Verified Specifications

Those numbers put Magika among the larger boats running weekly shared departures out of Labuan Bajo. If you want to see how it stacks up against every vessel class on the water, our Komodo liveaboard guide compares budget, mid-range and premium phinisi side by side, with the same honest “from” pricing we use here.

Cabin Classes & Open-Trip Rates (3D2N Shared)

Magika runs its signature shared trip as a 3D2N sailing with weekly departures — the 2026 calendar is published, typically in Friday-to-Sunday blocks. Per-person rates depend entirely on which of the seven cabin categories you pick:

An additional person in an eligible cabin is $280. Aggregators quote an IDR entry point of roughly IDR 5,000,000 per person for the cheapest berth, which matches the $310 Studio rate at current exchange rates. Budget a further $40–50 per person for Komodo National Park fees over a 3D2N: foreigner entry is IDR 250,000 (~$16) per day, the ranger trek is IDR 200,000 per group of up to five (Padar IDR 150,000), and harbor fees add IDR 25,000.

Facilities On Board

Trip Types: Open Trips, Private Charter & Diving

Open trip (shared), 3D2N. The core product: weekly departures, per-person pricing by cabin as above. You share the boat with up to 20 other guests and a fixed route — the best value way to sleep inside the park on a boat of this class.

Private charter, Full Day to 6D5N. The whole boat, your route, up to 22 guests. Verified 2026 whole-boat ranges: Full Day $4,400–5,050; 2D1N $4,700–6,200; 3D2N $5,750–7,750; 4D3N $7,050–9,950; 5D4N $8,200–12,350; 6D5N $9,600–13,850 — the band depends on group size (tiers from 1–5 up to 16–20 pax, extra guest $350–500). In rupiah, aggregators quote 3D2N charters at roughly IDR 72–104 million per boat. For a walkthrough of how charter tiers and routes work across the fleet, see our private charter Komodo page.

Diving packages, 3D2N–5D4N. Magika carries dive gear and sells dedicated diving departures with rental included; published dive-package prices come from a single source, so treat them as indicative — rates on request via our booking desk. Note the park’s dive surcharge of IDR 25,000 per day on top of entry fees.

Only have one day in Labuan Bajo? A speedboat Komodo boat trip from $120 per person covers Padar, Komodo Island and Pink Beach without an overnight — a different product, but the honest answer for tight itineraries.

Sample 3D2N Itinerary — Magika’s Signature Route

Day 1 — Sebayur, Manta Point & Taka Makassar

Check in at Labuan Bajo Harbor in the morning, then motor out roughly two hours to Sebayur Island for the first snorkel — an easy reef to shake off travel legs. The afternoon is the highlight pairing: a drift over Manta Point, where reef mantas feed in the channel current, then golden hour on the crescent sandbar of Taka Makassar before the boat anchors for the night.

Day 2 — Padar Sunrise, Pink Beach, Komodo Dragons & Kalong Bats

The big day starts early: wake at 04:45, tender ashore, and start the Padar climb by 05:15 so you top out before the sun and the heat do. Mid-morning is Pink Beach for snorkeling, then the licensed-ranger dragon trek on Komodo Island itself (ranger fee IDR 200,000 per group of up to five, paid at the gate). At dusk the boat positions off Kalong Island, where thousands of flying foxes stream out of the mangroves around 18:15.

Day 3 — Kelor Hill, Manjarite & Return

A short, steep 15-minute climb up Kelor Island for the classic ridgeline photo, a final snorkel over the Manjarite coral gardens, then back alongside in Labuan Bajo around midday. Private charters from 2D1N to 6D5N extend this framework with Gili Lawa, Mawan, Long Beach and Rinca Island.

One 2026 practicality: the park now enforces a 1,000-visitor daily cap for the Komodo–Padar zone through the SiOra reservation system (from April 2026). We lodge SiOra reservations for every Magika guest at booking, so your Padar sunrise slot is confirmed before you fly.

How to Book Magika Through Komodo Trip

Straight framing: we do not own Magika. Komodo Trip is a Labuan Bajo booking desk — operated by Komodo Luxury since 2015, a licensed Indonesian tour operator — and we arrange this vessel the way a good desk should: we confirm live cabin availability with the boat’s operations team on WhatsApp, hold your cabin, handle the SiOra park reservation and fee payments, and brief you on harbor logistics the day before departure. You pay the published boat rate; our value is that the paperwork, park caps and cabin allocation are handled by people standing 200 m from the harbor. Start on the book now page or message +62 811 3823 875 with your dates and preferred cabin class.

Where does Magika sit against the sister vessels we arrange? Most mid-class phinisi on the shared-trip market run five to seven cabins, so Magika’s nine cabins and 22-guest capacity make it one of the roomier shared boats in the harbor, and its 2025 build date makes it one of the newest. Guests who want a smaller boat, a lower entry price or a dive-first program will find better matches on our boats fleet page, where every vessel gets the same verified-spec treatment as this profile.