Plataran Komodo Resort & Spa
Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo, Flores, Indonesia
Location
Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo
The resort sits on a leafy hillside over the Flores Sea at Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo, West Flores, ten minutes by boat from town and the gateway to Komodo National Park. It shares the bay with the much larger Ayana but is small, secluded and couples-focused — the romance pick of Komodo.
Transfer
A Labuan Bajo transfer
Fly into Labuan Bajo, around a one-hour flight from Bali, then a roughly ten-minute boat from town. The resort is the gateway to Komodo National Park.
Villas
Around 18 villas & cottages
Around 18 villas and cottages across some eleven categories — garden-view cottages, Javanese-style beachfront houses and Grand and Hanging Pool Villas with private pools and outdoor baths — in Indonesian-heritage design with ocean views.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples, honeymooners and adventurers who want the romantic, intimate Komodo leg — ocean-view villas, phinisi excursions and seclusion — the small counterpoint to resort-scale Ayana on the same bay.
Board Basis
B&B
Booked on bed and breakfast. Xanadu, Atlantis on the Rock and the Atlantis Beach Club lead the dining, with starlit beachside dinners on the sand.
About the Resort
The romantic Komodo leg
Plataran Komodo Resort & Spa is the romantic, intimate counterpoint on Waecicu Beach — a Michelin One-Key villa resort on a leafy hillside facing the Flores Sea and its dramatic islands, ten minutes by boat from Labuan Bajo town and the gateway to Komodo National Park. Where the neighbouring Ayana is resort-scale, this is around 18 villas and cottages across some eleven categories — one- and two-bedroom, from garden-view cottages and Javanese-style beachfront houses up to Grand and Hanging Pool Villas with private pools, outdoor bathrooms, large verandahs and beach sunbeds — in Indonesian-heritage design with ocean views. Dining runs through the open-air Xanadu, the sunset spot Atlantis on the Rock and the Atlantis Beach Club a short ride away, with starlit beachside dinners. Days are for Komodo — dragons on Rinca and Komodo, the peaks of Padar, the Pink Beach and the sunset bats of Kalong Island — and phinisi yacht excursions, with a seafood-market cooking class and the Cunca Wulang waterfall canyon nearby. Small, secluded and couples-focused, it is the romance pick of Komodo.
Accommodation
Villas & cottages
Around 18 villas and cottages across some eleven categories, in Indonesian-heritage design with ocean views — one- and two-bedroom, from garden-view cottages and Javanese-style beachfront houses up to Grand and Hanging Pool Villas with private pools, outdoor bathrooms, large verandahs and beach sunbeds.
Entry
Garden View Cottage
Sleeps two. Indonesian design and a private terrace, with garden views — the entry cottage.
Private terraceGarden view
Beach
Beachfront House
Sleeps two. A Javanese-style house near the sand, with sea or garden views.
Javanese styleSea/garden view
Pool
Hanging / Pool Villa
Sleeps two. A private pool and an outdoor bath, with ocean views.
Private poolOcean view
Apex
Grand Pool Villa
Sleeps two to four. Around 93 square metres with a private pool, beach sunbeds and a butler — the signature villa.
~93 sqmOcean view
Food & Drink
Dining
A few intimate settings on and above the water. Xanadu is the open-air restaurant and bar, Atlantis on the Rock is the sunset spot, the Atlantis Beach Club sits a short ride away on Pantai Pede, and starlit beachside dinners are set on the sand, with afternoon tea.
All-day
Xanadu
An open-air restaurant and bar.
Sunset
Atlantis on the Rock
The sunset spot, set on the rocks.
Beach club
Atlantis Beach Club
A beach club a short ride away on Pantai Pede.
Private
Starlit beach dining
Starlit beachside dining on the sand.
Wellbeing
Plataran Spa
The Plataran Spa runs Indonesian treatments in an ocean-view massage shala. Alongside, private villa pools and a communal beach pool, a jetty, and phinisi yacht excursions into Komodo National Park.
Plataran Spa
Indonesian treatments in an ocean-view massage shala.
Pools
Private villa pools and a communal beach pool, with a jetty.
Phinisi excursions
Phinisi yacht excursions into Komodo National Park.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
Komodo at its most romantic. Take a day trip into the national park for dragons and Padar's peaks, sail a phinisi yacht, watch sunset from Atlantis on the Rock, join a seafood-market cooking class, and dine under the stars on the beach.
Komodo day trips
Komodo National Park day trips — dragons on Rinca and Komodo, and Padar Island's peaks.
Padar & Pink Beach
Padar Island, the Pink Beach and the sunset bats of Kalong Island.
Phinisi excursions
Phinisi yacht excursions across the Flores Sea.
Atlantis on the Rock
Sunset from Atlantis on the Rock.
Cunca Wulang
The Cunca Wulang waterfall canyon.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By boat
Around a 10-minute boat from Labuan Bajo town
Around a 10-minute boat from Labuan Bajo town, and around a one-hour flight from Bali.
From Bali
Around a one-hour flight
On a hillside over the Flores Sea at Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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★★★★★
“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Plataran Komodo Resort & Spa. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Board basis
- Booked on bed and breakfast, with starlit beach dining and sunset cocktails on the rocks.
Setting
- On a leafy hillside over the Flores Sea at Waecicu Beach — an intimate, romantic villa resort.
Komodo
- The gateway to Komodo National Park — dragons, Padar and the Pink Beach — ten minutes by boat from town.
Getting there
- Around a 10-minute boat from Labuan Bajo town, and around a one-hour flight from Bali.
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