The operator publishes the floor area of every cabin, from 20 square metres down to 9, so the grade gap is measurable rather than described

The operator publishes no rate card at all, so every Ananda charter is quoted from scratch

All three cabins sit above deck, which almost no phinisi this size manages

Only the master sleeps two; the other four cabins take three or four each

A full dive platform and its own tender on a boat with only three cabins

One scheduled departure a week, Friday to Sunday, and nothing in between

Bed width is the whole difference between grades here: 180 centimetres private, 150 sharing

Guaranteed 6D5N Komodo berths start from USD 2,455 per person including the published park fee

Two owner suites rather than one, each with its own terrace, so a second couple never takes the lesser room

Two nights is the shortest Komodo charter here, where comparable boats start at three and several at five

Private charter covers ten guests, then adds USD 250 a head per night, so an eleventh person is priced rather than refused

Two equal main-deck masters opening onto a shared terrace, with nitrox included in the rate

Thirty-five tanks and a personal gear-up station for the whole cruise, equipment over finish

The newest hull in the fleet, thirty-six metres carrying just five guests

The master runs the full width of the main deck, effectively the whole top floor of the boat

A second tender follows the dive groups all day, so non-divers snorkel and land where the divers do

The only single-cabin phinisi in the fleet, a 31-metre hull with seven crew for two guests

Every cabin converts and two take a child bed, which is rare on an eight-guest phinisi

Nine cabins for eighteen guests, so two families take the whole vessel without anyone drawing the short straw

North Atlantic schooner lines and Balinese carving throughout, a classic rather than a modern charter yacht