A figure needs a source
Prices, fees and payment terms are read off the operator's published commercial pages, and the URL is recorded next to the value. A number with no source does not go on a page, however reasonable it looks.
Where every number comes from
How We Source Figures
Every price, fee and payment term on this site is recorded against the page it was read from and the date it was checked. Where we have corrected ourselves, we say so on this page rather than quietly.
In short
Every commercial figure on this site — prices, park fees, deposit and balance terms — is held in a single reference file alongside the exact source page it was read from and the date it was verified, so a number cannot appear on a page without a source behind it.
- One figure, one source, one checked date. Nine pages quoting a price all read the same entry.
- Where the source contradicts itself, the more specific page wins and the disagreement is recorded.
- We would rather leave a visible gap than fill it with a plausible number.
- Corrections are listed below, including the ones that made us look worse.
The rules
Six things we hold to
Short, and each one has cost us a sentence somewhere on this site that read better before we applied it.
The workflow
How a number gets onto a page
Four stages. The point of the middle two is that the figure exists in one place, not nine.
Read from the source
Figures come off the operator's own published commercial pages — tier pages for charter rates, the package pages for per-person prices, the entrance-fee page for park charges, the terms and conditions for payment schedules.
Recorded with its source
The value, the exact URL and a short note go into one reference file. The note says what the figure covers and any caveat — for example that a park fee is a dated ticket valid only for the day printed on it.
Used, not retyped
Pages draw on that record rather than each carrying its own copy of a number. This is the part that prevents drift: a price cannot be right on the charter page and stale on the cost page, because there is only one of it.
Re-checked, and dated
The file carries the date it was last verified and an instruction to re-check before any campaign. Park fees and charter rates move; the honest response is a dated figure rather than an undated promise.
If a figure here disagrees with what you are quoted, the quotation is the one that binds. Rates are confirmed in writing, in USD, for your specific dates and vessel.
Three kinds of claim, three standards
Not everything on a site is the same sort of statement, and holding them all to one rule is how pages end up either useless or dishonest.
Documents
A licence class, a registry number, a vessel certificate. These are either produced on request or not claimed at all. The company registration and licensing details are on the who-we-are page precisely so you can check them without asking.
Figures
Prices, fees, payment terms, booking statistics. Sourced to a published page and dated, as described above. Where we quote the operator's own booking data — median lead times, source markets — we say it is their reservation record and give the sample size.
Judgement
Which month to sail, whether a charter beats a cabin, whether a week is too long. These are opinions from people who run the trips, and they are written as opinions. Several of them point away from the more expensive option, which is the test of whether they are real.
The failure mode we watch for is a judgement dressed as a figure — "guests rate this 9.2 out of 10 for romance" — which is the sort of sentence that reads like evidence and is not.
Corrections we have made
This site launched with content whose figures were not reliable. The park entrance fee is approximately USD 40–50 per international visitor and USD 20–25 per Indonesian visitor. The balance was published as due 14 days before departure and is due 30 days before. A day tour was priced at USD 150 per person and is USD 90; a private day charter at USD 1,200 and is USD 800. Charter entry was USD 1,400 a night and is USD 1,550.
A statistic reading "91% of open-trip guests book the 3D2N" appeared in ten places. The figure is real but it is a booking lead-time percentile — 91% of guests had booked at least a month before departure — and says nothing about which format anyone chose. Eight were prose; the last two were credential figures split across fields, so the string "91%" never appeared in the source and the first search missed them.
A page about park access described a daily visitor cap, a named registration system, a per-session cap at Padar and a night-navigation ban, and attached a deposit-refund guarantee to them. None of it could be found on any source we could check. The published constraint is an annual cap with mandatory registration, and the guarantee is gone.
A safety page claimed hull cover above USD 10 million, liability cover to USD 50 million, a named flagship and eight staff marine biologists. A methodology page published two incompatible scoring rubrics on the same screen. Both pages were rebuilt around documents a reader can ask to see.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why publish your own mistakes?
- Because a corrections list is the only part of an editorial standards page that can be checked. Anyone can write that they value accuracy. Naming the figures you got wrong, and by how much, is the version that costs something.
- Who writes this site?
- The reservations and operations team, working from the operator's published commercial pages, from park regulation and from Indonesian maritime regulation. We do not claim an editorial board or staff scientists, because we do not have them.
- How current are the figures?
- Each carries the date it was last verified, and the reference file instructs a re-check before any campaign. Park fees are set by government regulation and charter rates move with the season, so treat any figure older than a few months as indicative and ask us to confirm.
- What if a figure here is wrong?
- Tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Reader corrections are the fastest way this site improves. Message the desk on WhatsApp or email sales@komodoluxury.com with "Content correction" in the subject line.
- Do you accept payment for coverage?
- No. Placement on this site is not for sale and we do not accept payment for a recommendation. Where a third-party mention of us was itself a paid or syndicated placement, we say so — that is the whole point of the media coverage page.
- Which figure wins if two of your pages disagree?
- They should not, because they read from the same record. If you find two that do, that is a bug and we want to hear about it. In any case the written quotation for your dates and vessel is the figure that binds.
The rest of the record
- Who You Are Paying The licence class, the registry numbers and the named founder — all checkable.
- How We Pick Vessels The compliance gate every boat clears, and why there is no score out of 100.
- Media Coverage Earned coverage separated from bought syndication, including our own Forbes item.
- Guest Reviews What guests say on Google and TripAdvisor, and how to verify it yourself.
- Park Tickets & Cap Registration, the dated ticket, the visitor cap and the full fee table.
- Full Price List Every format and tier in one table, published rather than on request.
Found something wrong?
A stale price, a fee that has moved, a claim that does not match what you were told on the phone. Send it over. We would rather fix it than have it found by somebody standing at a jetty.
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