3D2N essentials
3 days, 2 nights
$125–$200 per person
What is in it
- Guesthouse accommodation
- Fort and plantation walk
- One snorkelling trip
- IDR 2,000,000–3,200,000
Best for A first look on a short window
Reservations
Book a Banda Neira tour
Sample packages, current price bands, and exactly what happens between your first message and a confirmed booking. Banda forgives a tight budget more readily than a tight timetable.
- 3–7
- Typical trip length, days
- Oct–Apr
- Best months to travel
- 2015
- Brokering Banda trips since
- 6 islands
- On a full itinerary
- 640 m
- Gunung Api, last erupted 1988
- 18–28 m
- Typical visibility in season
- Ambon (AMQ)
- The only gateway
Figures indicative as of 2026.
In short
Most Banda operators quote per person on a shared basis and price charters per boat, so a booking starts with your dates and group size rather than with a price list.
- No instant checkout: schedules here shift, and a cart cannot see that.
- Say up front whether you dive — it changes the boat day and the quote.
- Get the timetable right before the budget. That is the part Banda punishes.
Sample packages
Three shapes, and what they run to
Ranges in IDR with a rough USD conversion at Rp16,000. Treat them as a sanity check, not a quote.
4D3N history + reef
Most booked4 days, 3 nights
$200–$300 per person
What is in it
- Everything in the 3D2N
- Hatta or Ai island boat day
- Gunung Api climb option
- IDR 3,200,000–4,800,000
Best for History and one proper day on the water
5D4N diver's trip
5 days, 4 nights
$406–$594 per person
What is in it
- Six to eight dives
- Gear and dive guide
- Full-board guesthouse
- IDR 6,500,000–9,500,000
Best for Certified divers based on the island
Ranges observed in 2026. They exclude flights to Ambon and the Ambon–Banda crossing, and they move with season, fuel and room availability.
How booking works
Five steps to a confirmed trip
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Step 1
Send dates and group size
Over WhatsApp. Include whether anyone in the party dives — it changes the boat day.
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Step 2
We check the crossing
Which of the three Ambon–Banda options is actually running your week, and whether your dates need moving.
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03
Step 3
Written itinerary and quote
Day by day, itemised, with the inclusions and the exclusions both stated.
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Step 4
Deposit confirms it
Rooms, boats and guides are held. On a small island these are the scarce part, not the seats.
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Step 5
Final logistics pack
Confirmed connections, accommodation details and a day-by-day schedule, before you fly.
One traveller put it plainly: the schedule advice mattered more than the price list — without it they would have missed the boat back to Ambon.
When should I travel?
Oct–Apr is the calm window: smoother crossings, better visibility, and the hammerhead season on the outer walls. Jun–Aug is the southeast monsoon, when access is unreliable. The season register on the homepage gives the month-by-month read.
How do I get there?
Ambon (AMQ) first, from Jakarta, Makassar or Surabaya. Then the Pelni ferry (8–10 h, multi-week rotation), a seasonal fast boat (5–6 h) or a charter flight (45–60 min). The flight distance from Ambon is about 90 km.
What does a meal cost on the island?
Small restaurants and warungs serve dishes such as ikan bakar and nasi goreng for roughly IDR 30,000–60,000, about USD 2–4. Nutmeg turns up in a surprising amount of it.
Is there anything to do besides diving and forts?
The Dutch cemetery, one of the oldest European burial grounds in Indonesia, the old governor's house, and the narrow streets of the colonial quarter. Gunung Api is a two to three-hour climb to a clear line of sight over Neira, Banda Besar and the open sea.
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Options, inclusions and trip styles side by side.
Price guide
What drives the cost, and what is in it.
Cost breakdown
Line by line, including what is never included.
Getting there via Ambon
Flights, the Pelni ferry and the charter hop.
Best time to visit 2026
Season by season, including hammerhead months.
Plan your trip
Start the booking
Dates, group size, and whether you dive. We come back with what is running that week and an itemised quote against it.
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