This is a whole-boat charter, not fourteen cabin prices added together.
The structured range covers the phinisi for seven nights, up to fourteen guests, and states that tax is included. That basis is the first comparison line because the charter market often quotes tax differently.
The route stays with Dampier and Fam. Private control can change site choice and daily pace. It cannot shorten the distance to Misool.
Define the group before the boat
Tell us who travels, how cabins need to work, who dives, who snorkels and which activity cannot be compromised.
Divers supply certification, recent dives, current experience, rental needs and nitrox requirements. Non-divers rank snorkelling, viewpoints, paddling, shore time and rest.
Families need confirmed berth capacity and supervision. The owner's minimum-age and child-pricing policies remain unresolved, so the page does not invent them.
Our guide to booking a whole Raja Ampat charter turns those facts into the vessel and written offer.
What flexible really means
The group can choose a slower morning, revisit a regional site or give Piaynemo more of the day. Guides can split activities only when staffing and tenders support it.
Flexible does not mean every request operates. Current can remove a dive. Community access can change a shore visit. The captain controls navigation.
It also does not mean adding Misool. Seven nights is the focused Dampier-and-Fam product.
Diving profile
The design allows Open Water guests with no universal logged-dive minimum. That is a product entry position, not a statement that every regional site suits them.
The confirmed route must follow the least experienced diver. Stronger guests can use separate advanced sites only when another guide and tender keep both groups viable.
Three dives is the suitable full-day ceiling, with night dives where the group, site and movement support them. Nobody needs to make every dive.
The Dampier certification and current decision guide explains why an entry-level card cannot overrule site conditions.
Mixed groups
A whole boat gives divers and non-divers control that shared cabins cannot. It still needs the right operating systems.
If the only tender carries divers, the snorkellers wait. If one guide is expected to manage every water activity, the programmes run in sequence rather than independently.
Our private cabin or whole-boat analysis explains why control, not privacy alone, is the charter benefit.
Route shape
Days two and three use Dampier under different tides. Day four moves to Fam. Day five gives Piaynemo a real block. Day six is deliberately regional and flexible. Day seven stops diving before the return.
This is an original skeleton built from the fixed design, not a copied operator itinerary. Exact dive sites remain conditional.
Melissa's Garden can provide a broad-experience Fam option. Dampier jetties can support snorkellers where current and tenders allow. Offshore pinnacles remain for qualified groups.
Boat class
The placeholder is a phinisi chartered whole, seven cabins and no more than fourteen guests. We do not name a vessel.
The actual cabin plan, guide count, tender allocation, compressors, rental inventory, nitrox system, camera facilities and kayaks need confirmation on assignment. A phinisi label guarantees none of them by itself.
Price basis
The range is per boat and inclusive of tax. It is stored once in structured pricing and not printed into prose.
Guest count can still affect permits, rental equipment and provisioning needs. The written quote states what changes.
The environmental permit, gear rental and gratuities sit outside the basis. Nitrox and alcohol are also excluded. Tanks and weights are included for the confirmed dive plan.
Permit truth
The marine park authority publishes the permit at IDR 700,000 for international visitors and IDR 425,000 for Indonesian citizens, valid twelve months, with under-twelves exempt.
We do not call that a total entry cost while a possible separate ticket remains unresolved. Vessel operating permits are the operator's obligation and are not replaced by guest permits.
Who should charter
Choose the whole boat when a group needs control of cabins, pace and activity allocation. It becomes especially useful for a mixed group that can support two programmes properly.
Choose shared cabins when everyone wants the same dive schedule and whole-boat control does not justify the capacity.
Do not charter to force an unsafe site, guarantee wildlife or compress geography. Those remain outside the group's control.
Sorong and the final day
Boarding and disembarkation are in Sorong. Final flight schedules remain unverified at primary source, so arrive before day one and use the confirmed transfer plan.
Day seven carries the last diving. Day eight returns guests to Sorong.
The charter promise
The honest promise is exclusive use of the right boat class, a focused regional route and a written operating plan for the actual group.
Everything else waits for the vessel and confirmation rather than being borrowed from another boat's gallery.
Itinerary
01
Board in Sorong
Board in Sorong, confirm the group brief, complete safety and equipment checks and begin the focused route.
02
Dampier for the group
Select dive, snorkelling or surface blocks from the group's confirmed operating plan and current conditions.
03
A second Dampier day
Use another tide and split activities only when guides, crew and tenders support them safely.
04
Fam
Move to Fam for reef and surface variety without stretching the charter toward Misool.
05
Piaynemo
Give the group a viewpoint and lagoon block around any planned diving or snorkelling.
06
Flexible regional day
Use the charter's control to revisit the region that best fits the group and conditions, not to add a distant area.
07
Last dives and activities
Complete the last water activities, stop diving before flights and begin the return to Sorong.
08
Disembark in Sorong
Breakfast, disembarkation and the confirmed Sorong transfer.
What's included
- + Exclusive use of the boat for seven nights, up to fourteen guests
- + Meals, snacks, drinking water and soft drinks aboard
- + Sorong transfers on the first and last day
- + Up to three guided dives on suitable full days under the confirmed group plan
- + Tanks and weights
- + Guided snorkelling and planned tender activities
Not included
- − Raja Ampat environmental permit: IDR 700,000 for international visitors, IDR 425,000 for Indonesian citizens, valid 12 months. Under-12s are exempt.
- − Dive equipment rental
- − Nitrox
- − Alcohol
- − Crew gratuities
- − Flights and pre-cruise accommodation
Common questions
- Is the price per person?
- No. The structured range is for the whole boat, up to fourteen guests, for seven nights and is quoted inclusive of tax.
- Can an Open Water diver join?
- Yes at the product level, but that does not make every Dampier site suitable. The route and group split must follow certification, current experience and daily conditions.
- Can we add Misool?
- Not honestly inside seven nights. The charter can adjust local sites and pace, but Misool needs a nine-night south route or longer.
- Can divers and non-divers run separate activities?
- Only when the confirmed boat carries enough guides, crew and tenders. The operating plan must state how simultaneous activities work.
- Is tax included?
- Yes in this placeholder basis. That line matters because charter quotes in the market often present tax differently.
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