Princess Lala
Princess Lala Phinisi
Four guides for the days around your Komodo trip
Updated 11 October 2026
Our four guides cover what guests ask us after they have chosen a date: eating on board Princess Lala, which cabins suit three generations, how to photograph Padar and Kalong without a drone, and the last day and getting home. The journal is called From the galley.
Four guides, written for the table
A fare table tells you what a cabin costs. It does not tell you what the cook does when a child will not eat fish, who sleeps where when a grandmother comes, or when to book your flight home. These guides do. They are written by our reservations team, and each one answers the questions that arrive in our messages after a date has been chosen.
- Eating on board. What the galley sends out, how the two tables work, diets, and children at the table.
- A three-generation family trip. Which cabin for whom, who takes the single bed, and what the stairs, the shade and the tender mean for a grandparent.
- Photographs without a drone. Padar at first light, the bats off Kalong, and what the bow sundeck gives a camera. The open-trip fare includes a photographer with a drone; this guide is for your own camera.
- The last day and getting home. When the boat is back in Labuan Bajo, which flights fit, and why the two-day fare means a night in town.
The last day and getting homeThe three-day open trip docks mid-morning on day three, the two-day trip in the evening of day two. Plan your flight around it.
A three-generation family tripGrandparents on the main deck, parents and children three to a room, one long table for all: how a family shares out the cabins on Princess Lala.
Eating on board Princess LalaWho cooks on Princess Lala, which of two tables you sit at, every meal day by day and what to tell us about diets when you book.
Komodo photos without a droneWhere to stand on Princess Lala and ashore for good photographs: Padar at first light, Kalong at sunset and the bow sundeck. No drone needed.
From the galley, our journal
The guides stay put; the journal moves. It is called From the galley, and it holds shorter notes from the boat and the crew, together with news about hotels and flights in Labuan Bajo, which change faster than a cabin or a fare does.
On cabins, fares, dates and rules, the fare tables and the guides are the reference. If your question is in neither, ask us.
Check availability — Princess Lala
Princess Lala is sailed by her own crew; bookings and payments are handled by PT Komodo Explorer Indonesia.