Private Boat Tour (Large Group - 12 max)

Welcome to our Project Hiu private day tours! An experience with Project Hiu that allows you to join our mission for a full day to experience our crew, their boats, their stories, and so much more. Let our crew take you out on a private experience where, different from our typical day trip, we'll have the chance to visit not just 2 but 3 locations. One with black tip reef sharks, one with a private beach, and another where we often see our local turtles. 

These trips run everyday, except for Fridays, with the minimum booking requirement being 2 people. If you book onto a day that doesn't meet that minimum requirement, you have the option to either move to another day or receive a full refund.  

Following that, participants must be a minimum age of 18+ years or older to join our trips. Failure to meet this age will result in a full cancellation with no refund. The day of your trip, if a staff member suspects you might be under the age, you will be asked to provide proof of age (government issued ID). 

Our trips leave daily at 7am sharp, therefore we ask our guests to kindly arrive 15 mins before 7am (6:45am) to be able to make any final payments and to also fill out the necessary waiver for our tour that day. With being a small team with little resources, we don't arrange any pick ups or drop offs, so we ask that all guests meet at our shop for 6:45am. From here we have a one hour drive to our boats (East Lombok), that way we are on the water from 8am till 2pm. At 2pm we arrive back to our port, and again head back to Kuta, where our guests will be dropped off at our shop which will conclude our trip for the day, ending at 3pm.

Once we get onto our boats at 8am, we start our 30 minute journey over to the first of three snorkel spots. At our first location we get right into it, getting you in the water as soon as possible! This is a guided snorkel that typically lasts about 40 minutes. We usually get very lucky at this location and can see our local black tip reef sharks, as they've begun to treat it as their nursery. In contrast, our second location is a nice relaxed snorkel, guests have more freedom to choose when they'd like to snorkel. Therefore you can hangout on the boat, jump in right away, ask to use our paddle board, explore the private beach, or relax and soak up the sun! 

At our second location, we also take the opportunity to teach you more about our project and mission, introduce you to more of our crew, help them share their stories as shark fishermen, and explore their boats a little more. This typically happens after our lunch break.

And our last location we stop at, it back in the direction of heading home - however this location is known for spotting our local turtles! A quick stop here to jump in, go on the hunt for turtles, and leave with memories of a great day in the water and with our crew!

The price of our tours include everything; transportation to and from our shop, drinks in the form of water, coffee, and tea, snacks and lunch on board (all vegetarian options and cooked by our crew), snorkel gear, fins, and all water equipment. 

As mentioned, the food on the boats that is offered is included in the price, and the food served usually consists of light snacks such as tempe and tofu, and lunch can consist of fried rice, fried noodles, light/local vegetable soup, gado gado, and more. All traditional Indonesian food. Often enough for most of our guests, however we do encourage guests to bring some of their own snacks if they usually need more fuel during long days such as this one!

Some things we don't offer and that we encourage you to bring is reef friendly sunscreen, towels, rash guards (protect from small jelly fish in the area), and refillable water bottles! We encourage our crew to not use plastic, therefore we ask the same of our guests!

From our family to yours, we look forward to having you join us on a mission to help us save sharks and give these men an alternative form of income! Thank you for wanting to support Project Hiu!