Komodo Land Based in January Recs / Experience

[John Trecker]

Dear Wise Scubaboarders: Anyone with experience doing land based diving in January from Komodo / Labuan Bajo for 4-5 nights. From what I have read, going south is best. Looking at Scuba Junkies which gets great reviews. But also looks like the boat trips to the January south dive sites are over 1.5 hours each way in a slower boat. Seems like then maybe only 2 dives per day possible. If anyone has experience or recs that would be greatly appreciated.
And, if the answer is doing a short liveaboard, I am open to being educated.

 

[John Trecker]

Seems the silence on Komodo in Jan speaks for itself unfortunately

 

[Cali_diver]

JAN in Komodo is awesome but mostly in the south which is kind of difficult to get to from a land based op. I would recommend doing it by boat. We are going in Jan but on a boat and we love Komodo in the off season! The south has really amazing diving but is usually cold and viz can be meh. In the off season it warms up and viz gets better. We went right before Covid and it was great with no other boats there, and we even had good conditions in the central part.