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Magika Liveaboard — Komodo Premium Phinisi

26.74 m ironwood phinisi · 9 cabins · 22 guests — private charter from $4,700 (2D1N), the quiet dive favourite of the Labuan Bajo fleet

At a Glance

Magika at a Glance

Magika is a 26.74 m premium phinisi liveaboard sailing Komodo National Park from Labuan Bajo, carrying up to 22 guests in nine cabins across five classes. Whole-boat private charters start from $4,700 for a 2D1N sailing (≈ IDR 74 million); shared-cabin dates are quoted by the Komodo Trip desk — operated by Komodo Luxury since 2015.

26.74 m length · 9 cabins · up to 22 guests · 8-knot cruise

Magika liveaboard — magika phinisi 2, Komodo National Park
Verified Specs

Magika Phinisi: Verified Specifications

Two of those numbers matter more than they look. Five tons of fresh water is what keeps 22 guests showering comfortably across a multi-day sailing — smaller boats ration it; Magika doesn’t have to. And the 30 kVA Mitsubishi generator with a separate 7,500 emergency set means air-conditioning and camera batteries run through the night at anchor, with a backup if the main set ever falters. We publish the operator’s sheet as-is rather than rounding numbers up, which is the same verified-spec treatment every hull gets on this site.

SpecDetail
Vessel typeWooden traditional ship (phinisi), ironwood & Balau construction
Length × beam26.74 m × 6.03 m
Cabins9, in five classes (see cabin plan below)
Guest capacityUp to 22 guests
Cruising speed8 knots
Main engineMitsubishi 6D22
GeneratorsMitsubishi 4D, 30 kVA + 7,500 emergency set
Fresh water5 tons
NavigationGPS
Home portLabuan Bajo Harbor, East Nusa Tenggara
2026 Rates

Magika Rates 2026: Charter From-Prices & Cabin Classes

The operator’s standing sheet prices Magika from $4,700 per night, and the 2026 update expresses the same entry point as a from-price of $4,700 for a 2D1N private sailing — roughly IDR 74 million at current rates. Longer charters (3D2N through 6D5N appear on her itinerary sheet) are quoted by the desk on the same from-basis, priced to your group size and route. As everywhere on this site, every figure is a “from” rate: high season, route length and group size move the final quote.

Cabin classCabinsLayout notes
Master Ocean1Top cabin; listed with a private balcony and bathtub — confirm at booking
Signature Ocean1Large ocean-view double
Deluxe Ocean3Queen-bed doubles, the workhorse couples’ class
Family1Sleeps four — king plus bunks, rare on Komodo boats
Superior2Bunk-bed twins, the value berths on board

Sharp-eyed readers will count eight cabins itemized against a nine-cabin spec sheet; earlier published plans list the ninth berth as a twin Studio cabin, and our desk confirms the live cabin plan before any booking is taken — we would rather flag the discrepancy than paper over it. Per-person open-trip pricing for Magika is issued by the desk against live availability rather than published here; for context, premium-class shared cabins across the Labuan Bajo 3D2N fleet run $600–900 per person, with the wider shared market starting from $220. Budget a further $40–50 per person in Komodo National Park fees on a 3D2N: foreigner entry is IDR 250,000 (≈$16) per day, the ranger trek IDR 200,000 per group of up to five (Padar IDR 150,000), plus IDR 25,000 harbor fee — never bundled into any boat’s headline price, ours included.

Two Ways to Sail

Open Trip or Private Charter on Magika

Magika’s operator sheet lists both formats, which is part of why she books out: the same hull serves two different budgets. Open/share trips put you in one cabin on a fixed-route sailing with other guests — the classic 3D2N Komodo circuit, which across the shared fleet departs Labuan Bajo weekly year-round, typically in Friday-to-Sunday blocks on the published 2026 calendar. It is the best-value way to sleep inside the park on a boat of this class. Because Magika’s shared berths are allocated against live availability, the desk quotes cabin and date together rather than listing a static per-person price; if a fixed published rate matters more to you than this specific hull, our Komodo shared trip page lists sister boats with itemized cabin pricing.

Private charter gives your group the whole boat, the crew and the route. The sheet runs from a 2D1N escape (from $4,700) through 3D2N — the sweet spot — up to 6D5N expeditions that reach the park’s far corners. With 22 berths, Magika is one of the few premium phinisi where a genuinely big group — three generations, a dive club, a full wedding party — fits on one boat instead of splitting across two hulls and two anchorages. Charter guests set the pace with the captain: more time at Manta Point, a second dragon trek on Rinca Island, or a photography-first schedule built around the 05:15 Padar light. How the tiers, routes and deposits work across the whole fleet is laid out on our private charter Komodo guide.

Some guests search for the Magika yacht or Magika cruise — to be precise, she is neither a motor yacht nor a cruise ship but a gaff-rigged wooden phinisi, and travelers comparing a Magika boat charter against modern fiberglass options should expect timber character: the creak of ironwood at anchor, wide teak-toned decks, and a silhouette that photographs like the nineteenth century. That is the point of chartering in Komodo.

Charters from $4,700 (2D1N) — dry-season weeks go first. Same-day confirmation from the Labuan Bajo desk.

Sample Route

Magika Komodo Route: Sample 3D2N Itinerary

This is the framework sailing we brief guests on — the classic circuit, run at Magika’s 8-knot pace. Private charters bend it freely; shared departures follow it closely.

Day 1 — Kelor Island, Manjarite & Kalong’s Flying Foxes

Check in at Labuan Bajo Harbor at 09:00 and motor out across a short stretch of flat water to Kelor Island, where a steep 15-minute climb buys the first ridgeline photograph of the trip. After lunch on deck, the boat repositions to Manjarite for the first snorkel — an easy, current-light coral garden with a long jetty reef, the right place to test masks and fins before the bigger water to come. By late afternoon Magika anchors off Kalong Island, and at about 18:15 the mangroves empty: thousands of flying foxes stream across the sunset toward Flores to feed, one of the park’s great free spectacles, watched from the sundeck with tea in hand.

Day 2 — Padar at 05:15, Pink Beach, Dragons, Taka Makassar & Manta Point

The alarm goes at 04:45. The tender runs ashore in the dark so you start the Padar climb by 05:15 and top out ahead of both the sun and the heat — the three-bays panorama at first light is the photograph everyone flies here for. Mid-morning is Pink Beach, where crushed red foraminifera shells tint the sand and the house reef is a genuine snorkel, not a photo stop. After lunch comes Komodo Island itself: a licensed-ranger walk among the dragons (IDR 200,000 per group of up to five, paid at the gate), then the afternoon doubles down on water time — the bone-white crescent sandbar of Taka Makassar, followed by a drift over Manta Point, where reef mantas hold station in the channel current at cleaning stations a few meters down. The boat anchors in the lee for the second night.

Day 3 — Sebayur Snorkel & Return

A final morning snorkel at Sebayur Island — sloping reef, turtle traffic, roughly two hours’ motoring from the harbor — then Magika comes back alongside in Labuan Bajo around midday, in time for afternoon flights to Bali. Charter guests extending to 4D3N–6D5N typically add Gili Lawa’s ridgeline, Siaba Bay and Rinca Island to this frame.

One 2026 practicality the brochures skip: the park now enforces a 1,000-visitor daily cap for the Komodo–Padar zone through the SiOra reservation system, live since April 2026. We lodge SiOra reservations for every Magika guest at booking, so your Padar sunrise slot is confirmed before you fly. Drone pilots need a BTNK permit at IDR 2,000,000 per day — ask the desk before you pack one. Season-wise, the dry months from April to November bring the calmest crossings and the clearest water; our best time to visit Komodo guide breaks it down month by month.

Sister Boats

Magika vs Her Sister Boats

Magika’s closest comparisons in the fleet are Catnazse — the other dive-identity phinisi — and Pinta, the small-group hull that sits nearest her price point.

BoatFrom-priceCabins / guestsLengthBest for
MagikaCharter from $4,700 (2D1N); shared on request9 / 2226.74 mBig groups on one hull; dive-leaning charters
CatnazseOpen trip $430–680/pp; charter from $5,900/night8 / 1834.4 mDive-focused shared departures with published cabin rates
PintaCharter from $4,900/night (IDR 77 million)5 / 1330 mSmall private groups, private-only calendar

Read it this way: if you want a fixed per-person price and a dive-first shared program, Catnazse liveaboard publishes exactly that. If your party is under 13 and wants a private-only boat, this 30 m five-cabin phinisi — Pinta — is the tighter fit. Magika wins when the group is big: nobody else near this from-price puts 22 guests on one premium deck.

Who the Magika Liveaboard Suits

The Magika liveaboard is the boat we point at groups who keep asking the same question: how do we fit a lot of people on one good phinisi without paying superyacht money? At 26.74 m long with a 6.03 m beam and space for 22 guests, Magika carries more people than almost anything else in the premium bracket — most mid-class phinisi working the Labuan Bajo shared market run five to seven cabins, so nine cabins on one wooden hull is genuinely unusual. The build itself is traditional: ironwood and Balau timber worked by Indonesian shipwrights, the same materials the Bugis and Konjo builders have trusted for generations, paired with a Mitsubishi 6D22 main engine that pushes her along at a steady 8-knot cruise.

Three kinds of travelers get the most out of her. First, large private groups — extended families, wedding parties, company retreats — who want the whole boat to themselves; with a from-rate of $4,700 for a 2D1N charter, the per-head cost across 18–22 guests undercuts many smaller five-cabin boats. Second, divers: among the premium fleet Magika has picked up a reputation as the dive-leaning hull, and third-party dive listings market her specifically for Komodo dive cruises — more on that below. Third, cabin travelers who prefer a bigger boat: Magika’s operator sheet lists both private and open/share trip formats, so solo travelers and couples can join her calendar without chartering the entire vessel.

One housekeeping note before you search further: Magika the phinisi is not “Maika Komodo Tour & Diving”, a separate Labuan Bajo day-trip operator with a similar name. If a review or Instagram page spells the name without the g, it belongs to the other company. Every spec and price on this page refers to the 26.74 m Magika hull we arrange through our desk, and you can compare her against the full fleet on our Komodo boats & liveaboard fleet page.

Diving Around Magika: Komodo’s Current-Swept Sites

The dive angle is Magika’s quiet differentiator. Third-party dive platforms list her specifically as a Komodo dive-cruise phinisi — a niche most premium hulls in the harbor never claim — and dive-focused itineraries can be built on her charters. We are equally straight about the limits of what we publish: dive-package pricing and the current gear inventory come from the boat’s operations team, so our desk confirms both in writing before you commit, rather than quoting a number we cannot verify. Guests searching “Magika dive” should treat this page as the profile and the desk as the rate card.

What we can vouch for is the diving itself. Komodo National Park sits in the throat of the Indonesian Throughflow, and the current is the engine of everything: Batu Bolong’s pinnacle carpeted in fish where the flow splits, Castle Rock and Crystal Rock in the north where trevally hunt in the blue, and the manta aggregations at Manta Point that snorkelers on the standard route see from the surface. Water runs warm — typically 26–29°C in the central park — and visibility is best through the dry months. Divers pay the park’s dive surcharge of IDR 25,000 per day on top of entry and ranger fees. If you are weighing a dedicated dive boat against a comfort-first hull that dives, start with our diving in Komodo guide, then compare the Komodo diving liveaboard options the desk arranges.

Booking

How to Book Magika Through the Komodo Trip Desk

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 rated 4.8/5 from 150+ Google reviews — and we arrange this vessel the way a good desk should. Dewi on guest experience confirms live cabin availability with the boat’s operations team, holds your cabin, handles the SiOra park reservation and fee payments, and briefs you on harbor logistics the day before departure; Andi, our lead park guide, walks first-timers through the ranger-trek rules so nobody loses a morning at the gate. You pay the boat’s rate; our value is that the paperwork, park caps and cabin allocation are handled by people standing 200 m from the harbor.

Timing matters more than most guests expect. July and August sell out first every year, with Easter and the Christmas–New Year window close behind; for those weeks we advise locking Magika six to ten weeks out, while shoulder-season sailings can often be confirmed within days. Message the desk with your dates, group size and whether you want the whole boat or a cabin, and you will get a same-day answer — usually within the hour during Indonesian business hours.

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Rates checked & page updated: 26 July 2026 · Komodo Trip desk, Labuan Bajo

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