Angelica

The 2024 newcomer

Angelica is a 38 meter ironwood phinisi finished in 2024, one of the newest hulls working Komodo’s shared and private trips. The pitch is quiet, natural-material comfort, and the build backs it up: calm interiors, ironwood underfoot, and a boat that hasn’t had years to wear yet.

The signature feature backs that quiet pitch up. The bow-deck Jacuzzi is the fact every trip sheet leads with, and it’s built into the deck itself rather than dropped in as an afterthought, ringed by daybeds with an open view over the anchorage. It reads less like a spa add-on and more like the boat’s main social space, especially once the sun starts going down.

Four balconies and a bathtub

Most phinisis don’t give guests a balcony at all. Angelica gives four: the VIP cabin Candi and all three Master cabins, Batik, Keris and Wayang, each open onto their own private balcony, and Candi goes a step further with a bathtub next to the sea view. The remaining cabins, Tenun and Tari on the lower deck plus the family cabin Sasando, keep ocean views and ensuite bathrooms without the balcony, and Sasando’s extra beds sleep up to four.

Even the names carry the same thought-through feel. Every cabin on Angelica borrows its name, and its interior mood, from an Indonesian cultural reference: Candi for a temple’s stillness, Batik, Keris and Wayang for textile, blade and shadow-puppet motifs, Tari for dance, Tenun for handwoven cloth, and Sasando for the stringed instrument from East Nusa Tenggara. It’s a small detail, but it runs through all seven cabins rather than stopping at one.

Shared cabin or the whole boat

Angelica runs both patterns. Book a shared cabin and join other travelers on the open-trip route through Komodo’s headline stops. Charter the whole boat and the itinerary bends to your group, from a single day up to eight, with room for up to sixteen guests plus extras across all seven cabins. Either way it’s leisure cruising: no dive product, and no dive gear beyond snorkel sets.