Your month
And how fixed it is. The crossing decides more about a Banda trip than anything else, and the month decides the crossing.
Contact
Talk to someone who knows the boats
WhatsApp is the fastest way through. Tell us your month, your group size and whether anyone dives, and you get a real answer — including "shift a week" when the crossing is going to be rough.
- WIT
- Eastern Indonesia Time, UTC+9
- 1 day
- Typical reply
- Ambon (AMQ)
- Every route goes through
In short
Replies move much faster when the first message already carries the basics: your travel month and how fixed the dates are, the size of the group, whether anyone dives and at what level, and how you plan to reach Ambon.
- If you are still choosing between months, say so — we would rather move you a week.
- The islands run on WIT (UTC+9). European and American evenings get a reply the next Banda morning.
- No call centre and no automated quote engine.
Three ways through
How to reach us
All three reach the same desk. WhatsApp is simply the one that gets read first.
Fastest
The fastest route. Send dates, group size and whether you dive, and you will normally have an answer within a day.
Better for anything with attachments, or a long list of questions you want answered in one place.
Corrections
Island logistics change fast. If something here is out of date, send the page link and we will fix it.
- Response time
- Answered daily. Messages sent overnight in Europe or the Americas get a reply the following Banda morning.
We are part of Juara Holding Group, operating from Bali across Indonesia since 2015.
Before you write
Four things to put in the first message
Group size
Boats and guides are charged per day, not per head, so the number changes the per-person price far more than the itinerary does.
Whether anyone dives
And at what certification level. It changes the boat days, the sites, and whether the quote needs a dive line at all.
How you reach Ambon
From where, and on which dates. We time the Banda crossing around that, not the other way round.
How fast do you reply?
Usually within a day. The islands run on Eastern Indonesia Time (WIT, UTC+9), so a message sent during a European or American evening gets its answer the following Banda morning.
Can you book the Ambon flights too?
We help time them and we can coordinate them as part of a package, but most travellers book the Ambon leg themselves. What we will not do is let you book it without checking the onward crossing first.
Do you take phone calls?
WhatsApp, and it is genuinely better for this route — schedules change mid-week and a written thread means nothing gets lost between the two of us.
What if my dates are bad?
We will say so. If your week falls in the Jun–Aug monsoon we would rather tell you to shift than have you spend two days seasick on the Banda Sea.
Plan your trip
Send the first message
Month, group size, whether you dive, and how you are getting to Ambon. That is enough for a real answer.
Fastest reply is WhatsApp. No spam, and we do not sell your details.