Dec 20, 2024
Incredible experience! 🤩🤩🤩 - Incredible experience on the Leong the Explorer. ❤️
Great atmosphere with a crew at our disposal and Djul our guide always at the Top! ❤️
We have seen so many amazing things along this journey, shared some wonderful moments all together.🤩🤩
It was so perfect that I only want to repeat the experience soon! See you soon and again thank you for this magical experience. Hugo 🤟
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Dec 13, 2024
One of the coolest things ever! - One of the best things I have done yet. So many beautiful places and animals. The crew is just so lovely and nice. Everybody on the Boat was so cool!!
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Dec 13, 2024
Amazing 4 days - Great time on the trip around some beautiful islands. Boat is very basic but crew were great and food was super yummy! Highly recommend going on the trip.
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Dec 13, 2024
Komodo Tour - Super Crew! The guys know their stuff and are super friendly! She tour was worth every penny! We have seen whale sharks, rays and Komodo dragons. Just hammer!
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Nov 25, 2024
Brilliant! Couldn’t recommend more - Amazing time agus and the crew were very caring kind supportive I had a broken foot due to an accident in Bali and they made me feel very comfortable it wouldn’t have been the same without Agus and the crew! Thanks!
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Nov 23, 2024
4 days 3 nights around the komodo islands - We had a great time with all the crew. Everything went very well, the boat was very nice!!!!
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Nov 15, 2024
Fantastic. - Best experience I could have had. Fantastic team, I highly recommend it to everyone. If you have a few days off this is the best company
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Nov 2, 2024
Great experience - Great crew, heaps of fun, great experience. It caters for young and old we had a young family with 3 boys on our boat and it made it A lot of fun, by the end everyone had really bonded well and crew where always there when we needed
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Dec 8, 2024
Overall great, but read re: whale sharks - The staff are fabulous and the boat, while budget, is nice overall. You do have to be comfortable with close sleeping quarters and the onboard bathrooms. Overall the trip is magical. We saw dolphins swimming besides the boat, manta rays jumping out of the water, sunsets, komodo dragons, and whales sharks. The komodo dragon part was a bit of a short walk through the park, I wish we did the longer one. We also stopped with 2 other boats at the same time, so there's about 100 tourists all staring at the same komodo dragons. The whale shark part was a massive draw for me, BUT I did not know that you are guaranteed to see whale sharks because they feed them. It's not really ethical. A group of us were upset by this and decided NOT to swim where they were feeding the whale sharks, we just wanted to swim. However, we didn't figure (stupidly in retrospect) that the whale sharks would swim by to get to the food. Had I known that this was how we'd see whale sharks, I would not have gone on the tour as I don't support it.
However, if you're ok with that, the staff is fabulous (again, they really are that great) and the overall experience is amazing. Just bummed I didn't see that part about the whale sharks on any of the reviews I read before I booked.
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Dec 31, 2024
Awful mass tourism - It would have been such a nice experience if it wasn't for a few things that are just annoying:
1. The communication was awful. Nobody knew before we got on the boat, how many people booked the trip, how many meals were included, how many nights you spent on the boat... It says something different on every booking platform. I booked a tour with max. amount of 10 people on board, in the end we have been 16.
2. There is NO wifi on board, even though they tell you so.
3. You are NOT going to the Manta Point, even though they say so.
4. Yes, snorkeling gear is included, but in an awful quality. It's no fun at all having to rinse the mask every minute. Fins are NOT included.
5. To see the whale sharks, they are fed with fish waste, so you basically swim in a big pool of stinky waste and hope to see a whale shark underneath you. We saw none, since again there are at least 50 people jumping in the water at once which scares every animal off.
6. On Komodo island, we only had 1 hour of time. We were promised to do the "medium walk", but apparantly the Komodo guide was only paid for the "short walk", so after 20 minutes we had to stay on the beach area again and buy souvenirs instead of watching the animals. A waste of time.
7. The motor of the ship is running ALL THE TIME, which means it is always loud and there is always this smell of gasoline all around you. Even during the night when everyone is sleeping. It is absolutely not sustainable.
8. One time we were snorkeling to a spot where the corals are just around half a metre under the surface. Luckily enough all of us refused to enter the water because it would mean stepping on the corals and destroying them. Our crew guide got out, stepped on the corals and pushed the boat back to a point where we had more space to swim.
9. I saw at least 1 rat and loads of ants on board. Even though the food they prepared was excellent, my stomach got very ill after half of the trip... And the ants crossed my sleeping mattress, which was really annoying.
10. We didn't see the sunset on Padar island because the guide said there is a "cloud". Yes, there was a cloud, but still the sunset had to be amazing! We just couldn't enjoy it because we were chased back down the hill again way to early...
Apart from that, be aware of loads of small jellyfish in the water that sting you a lot. A wet suit would be very helpful.
One girl sleeping next to me was vomiting all night because ahe got seasick
Also the way they treat the dragons on the Komodo island is horrible. We saw a local hitting one of the dragons with a stick after he had turned asound to us saying "no photo, no photo".
Summing up, the way the environment is treated AND the way the tourists are led through this trip is just horrible. I would not recommend it to anyone.
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