lifeisbubbles
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Hi there!
Working on booking my first liveaboard for our honeymoon in March/April 2020 in Indonesia. We found one in Raja Ampat (10 days, Sorong to Triton Bay) that works for our dates and is with a company that has consistently fantastic reviews, including on ScubaBoard. One thing that is strange is that there are currently no other bookings for this date, so we'd potentially be the only ones on the boat. A few questions:
Background on us: We're fairly adventurous travelers, still both under 100 dives (I'm advanced cert, he'll do his advanced on the boat). Our previous diving has always been fewer dives in a location. For example, I've dived around quite a bit of indonesia years ago but at the time could only afford 2-4 dives in any given location (Bunaken, Alor, Pulau Weh, Derawan, etc). However, I never got a chance to get to Raja Ampat, so we're super excited about the area and to get a bunch of diving in, though we expect to also hike, Kayak, etc as well!
Any other tips/advice welcome of course
Working on booking my first liveaboard for our honeymoon in March/April 2020 in Indonesia. We found one in Raja Ampat (10 days, Sorong to Triton Bay) that works for our dates and is with a company that has consistently fantastic reviews, including on ScubaBoard. One thing that is strange is that there are currently no other bookings for this date, so we'd potentially be the only ones on the boat. A few questions:
- As its still 4 months away, how likely is the boat to get additional bookings and potentially fill up? We're often last minute planners (still haven't started booking a Japan trip for 1 month from now), but we tend to be an exception.
- If we were to be the only ones on the boat with the crew, would that be fun and exciting or a little lonely? I'm guessing the crew members tend to be pretty social? Note that my Bahasa used to be good but has gotten rusty over the years.
Background on us: We're fairly adventurous travelers, still both under 100 dives (I'm advanced cert, he'll do his advanced on the boat). Our previous diving has always been fewer dives in a location. For example, I've dived around quite a bit of indonesia years ago but at the time could only afford 2-4 dives in any given location (Bunaken, Alor, Pulau Weh, Derawan, etc). However, I never got a chance to get to Raja Ampat, so we're super excited about the area and to get a bunch of diving in, though we expect to also hike, Kayak, etc as well!
Any other tips/advice welcome of course