Blacktip Homestay

West end - Kri - Mansuar


Rooms

3 x On beach - Private bungalow

A single room bungalow (no ensuite bathroom/toilet) Sleeps max. 2 persons / room.

Rates

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Twin share from USD 46.14 per person / night including 3 meals daily

Single occupancy from USD 46.14 per person / night including 3 meals daily

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Features

  • Reef dropoff
  • Coral
  • Good phone signal
  • Good house reef
  • IDR 700,000 to 800,000
  • Sandy Beach
  • Western style toilet
  • Near village
  • Has private bungalows

Details

Blacktip Homestay is located on the sheltered northern shore of Palau Ransiwor.

Ransiwor is the tiny island that lies between Kri and Mansuar.  At low tide, Ransiwor is connected to Kri and Mansuar by sandbanks.

Blacktip Homestay offers three private beach bungalows. The bungalows sleep two on mattresses on the floor. Sheets, pillows, bolsters and mosquito nets are supplied. Bungalow bedrooms are equipped with light switches and power outlets for charging devices.

Note that Blacktip’s bungalows do not have verandahs, so your bedroom or the dining room are the only under-cover options available for relaxing.

Meals are served at Blacktip Homestay’s sand-floored dining shelter. A table and bench seating is provided, and drinking water and tea and coffee making supplies are always available there.

Guests share a two-room bathroom building. A western style toilet and bucket bathing are provided. Note: As far as we know, there is no fresh water supply on Ransiwor.  Which means that, if the bathing water supplied is fresh, then it’s been hauled over from Yenbuba for you. Use sparingly!

Electricity is supplied by generator, and is only available from sunset to around midnight. (You can, of course, offer to buy more fuel if you want it on at other times.) Blacktip Homestay receives a strong 4G signal from the nearby Yenbuba tower.

Basic supplies are available in the village of Yenbuba, which is in easy walking distance at low tide. Be sure to keep an eye on the tide, and time your return journey well.

Please do take all your inorganic rubbish away with you when leaving Blacktip Homestay. There is no safe means of disposal of such trash in Raja Ampat.

Very little English is spoken at Blacktip Homestay. Bringing a translation app or phrasebook is recommended.

Transport / Getting there

Waisai transfers cost IDR 600,000. Transfers are by longboat, and the trip price is shared by passengers. (Maximum of four.)

Activities

Like all homestays, Blacktip Homestay can organise snorkelling and sightseeing trips to anywhere you want to go.

Be sure to bring snorkelling gear, because the reefs on the southern side of Ransiwor are fabulous. If you are a reasonably competent swimmer (and have fins!), Yenbuba Jetty and the reefs of southern Kri are close enough to swim to. Be sure to do it on the slack of the tide though.

Tidal currents in Raja Ampat are very strong, especially when flowing through narrow straits like the one between Mansuar and Kri.

If you want to dive, cross to Kri and ask one of the dive centers there about your options.

Yenbuba village is very close, and is a nice place to visit. Mansuar’s jungle paths make long walks possible from Yenbuba.

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