Bungalow in Misool Timur

This homestay is highly recommended for backpackers who want to get an affordable stay yet comfortable at the same time. For you, travelers who wish to travel comfortably on a budget, our Homestay is the perfect place to stay that provides decent facilities as well as great services. This accommodation is the perfect choice for couples seeking a romantic getaway or a honeymoon retreat. Enjoy the most memorable nights with your loved one by staying at private island. The space Important updates: As per 1st January 2026. Local Raja Ampat entrance fee is 1,000,000 rupiah per person. For marine park card is 700,000 rupiah per person (valid 12 months) Please arrive in Sorong one or two day to match ferry schedule and book a flight from Sorong to Bali/Jakarta next day after you arrive in Sorong. PRICE INCLUDED: + Accommodation with fan (extra charge for AC) + Full meals during stay. (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner). + Free-flows mineral water, coffee and tea provided at homestay (self-service). + Private beach. PRICE EXCLUDES: - Flight & ferry tickets. - Personal travel insurance. - Raja Ampat Entrance fees (all guests must have before entering Raja Ampat areas). - Alcoholic beverages, gratuities & personal allowances. Additional charge may apply, such as (please notice in advance): • YELLU Pickup/drop: 1,000,000 per boat per transfer (3-4 people) • FOLLEY Pickup/drop: 1,300,000 per boat per transfer • Starlink WiFi start from 6 pm to 6 am with extra charge 100,000 per stay per person • Diving rental: IDR. 750,000 per dive per person (dive-gears) • Diving equipments (let me know if you want to rent). • Snorkeling gears rental: IDR. 50,000 per day. • Sea-kayaking: tailored made trip (ask for price) Note: You can pay cash-only at the homestay. Please bring enough of money. If you plan to have a long-term stay, staying at our Homestay is the right choice for you. Providing wide range of facilities and great service quality, this accommodation certainly makes you feel at home. While traveling with friends can be a lot of fun, traveling solo has its own perks. As for the accommodation, the bungalows is suitable for you who value privacy during your stay. This accommodation is the best spot for you who desire a serene and peaceful getaway, far away from the crowds. That is the ideal choice for you who are looking for a comfortable yet affordable accommodation. The Homestay is one of the best local accommodation in Misool Islands, It’s has perfect location, beautiful beaches, spectacular bay, beautiful underwater and brand new homestay. Guest access Guest can access everything in this island. Enjoy the stay like your own the island. Other things to note Other IMPORTANT information to plan for an amazing Raja Ampat adventures• 1. Find out if traditional Papuan homestay accommodation is really for you by reading this important introduction. 2. Raja Ampat homestays are not homestays in the western sense. You won’t be sharing a family’s home if you stay at one. You will however, be the guests of a Papuan family, staying on family owned land in what was once the only type of housing built in the islands. We’re going to continue using the term “homestay”, because that’s how this type of accommodation is referred to by both their owners and Indonesian tourism promotion agencies. 3. Before deciding to stay at Raja Ampat homestays, there are a few things you should know: • Homestay room construction and amenities are basic. • Electricity at most homestays is only available at night. • Very few homestays are able to provide WiFi access. • Homestays do not offer the level of amenities and service you might expect when comparing prices with other destinations. • All homestay prices quoted on this website include 3 meals a day and unlimited drinking water, tea and coffee. • The following are not available at the majority of homestays: - Air-conditioning (Not all homestays provide air-conditioning). - Internet connections. - Spotless, insect-free rooms - Showers (Most homestay bathrooms have what we refer to as “dip mandi” bathrooms: - A tub of water with a ladle for washing). - Restaurants with a-la-carte menus and drinks lists. - Room service - If you regard any of the above as essential, then homestay accommodation is definitely not for you. • Read on for a more detailed description of what to expect, or skip straight to the accommodation page to check out individual homestay amenities. 4. Raja Ampat Homestay construction style A completely traditional homestay, whether it’s a stilt house over the ocean or a bungalow on dry land, will be bush wood or sawn timber framed, floored with sawn planks and have palm thatched walls and roof with no ceiling. A few have sand floors. Construction styles of the typical traditional homestay range from a single room with one window, to large four-roomed multi-windowed bungalows with verandahs and perhaps a common room. Windows are openings with thatched panels hinged at the top and held open with a stick. Doors are sliding thatched panels. (There’s no locking your room in most homestays.) Fully traditional homestays have bedrooms and living areas only – you won’t find a kitchen, bathroom, toilet or laundry in a traditional Papuan house. Photos of each homestay’s bungalows and rooms are provided in the gallery on individual homestay pages. The construction materials and style means you’ll be sharing your room with the local wildlife. Insects and small lizards inhabit the thatching, termites will be quietly moving in somewhere and the buildings’ many small gaps and cracks allow easy access for all kinds of tiny critters. It’s best to keep food in sealed containers to avoid attracting native rats and any other opportunistic scavengers that may live nearby. Take care if using portable stoves or other naked flames indoors, and be extra careful if you leave mosquito coils burning unattended – palm thatch huts are obviously eminently combustible! NOTE: Some homestays offer more upmarket bungalows with glazed windows, lockable doors and ensuite bathrooms. We refer to those as “VIP” bungalows. Select the “Has ensuite bathroom/toilet” checkbox in the accommodation page advanced search to quickly find those. 5. Homestay furnishings Chairs & tables: With the exception of bedding and a (usually separate) dining area with bench seating, many new homestays have very little furniture except for a couple of chairs or bench seats and a small table. This varies from place to place. Bungalow verandah furniture is always provided in established homestays. Some homestays have plenty of chairs and perhaps hammocks. Many provide beachside table settings with seating and dining shelters with a large tables and benches. Some have decks over the water with hammocks and table settings. One even has a lounge room with armchairs and occasional tables! Each homestay page and photo gallery shows what was available at our last visit. Storage: There might be some simple shelving in your room, or there might not, but don’t expect to find cupboards or wardrobes. If you want to guarantee being able to hang stuff inside you’d best bring a line with you. There’s also no secure storage for valuables at any of the homestays we know of, but we’ve never heard of anyone losing anything either. The highest risk of theft is almost certainly from unscrupulous other travellers. You’re unlikely to have a problem in a private bungalow of your own where local people are always around, but if staying in an isolated homestay you might be more comfortable keeping your valuables with you. Bedding: Most homestays don’t have “real” beds – just mattresses on the floor or on a fixed platform raised above the floor. Mattresses are usually equipped with a sheet, pillows and bolsters. Mosquito nets in good condition are almost always provided, but you might want to have a needle and thread with you in case mending is required. Some homestays have rooms with mattresses on freestanding wooden bases, but you won’t find any with hotel style mattress and base ensembles. There’s quite a lot of variation in how rooms are furnished. Some homestays have floorcoverings, mirrors, shelves and bedside lamps and fans. Individual homestay page descriptions and photo galleries will show the details. 6. Bathroom and toilet facilities With the exception of homestays with VIP bungalows, toilet and bathroom facilities are housed in timber-framed palm-thatched huts which are shared by all guests. Some huts combine bathroom and toilet, some have them in separate rooms. Floors in bathroom buildings may be sand, timber, crushed limestone or (less commonly) concrete. As mentioned above, several homestays now provide ensuite private bathrooms. Individual homestay page photo galleries illustrate the available facilities. Bathrooms: Bathing is almost always by bucket and ladle, using fresh water drawn from a large container. This style of bathroom is referred to in the accommodation detail pages as a “dip mandi” bathroom. Many homestays have piped water to replenish the large container. Waste water from most bathrooms is not plumbed, but channelled away to seep into the ground, so try to stick to environmentally safe biodegradeable soaps and shampoos. Very few homestays have real showers. A note about bathing water: Most homestays are on islands that have fresh groundwater, but on some of the smaller islands (Kri for example) the groundwater is brackish due to proximity to the ocean. If you can’t bear the thought of bathing in slightly salty water, avoid these islands. Toilets: Homestay toilets will be either western pedestal or squat style and are flushed by hand, using a bucket and ladle as in the bathroom. Toilets are connected to septic tank systems in all the homestays we’ve visited. Toilet paper is usually provided, but it’s a good idea to have some with you in case supplies are low and you can’t cope without it. 7. Kitchen and dining facilities Most homestays have communal dining facilities that also provide free drinking water, flasks or urns of hot water and tea and coffee making supplies. Dining rooms are usually roofed areas or huts with bench seats and tables. Some new homestays serve guest meals on bungalow verandahs until they are able to build dining shelters. All homestays have flasks or urns of hot water and free tea and coffee making supplies available around the clock in the dining shelter. Drinking water is also always freely available. Note that lack of a permanent electricity supply means that very few homestays have refrigerators. See this Raja Ampat homestay food and drink article for details of what to expect regarding meals and drinks. 8. Electricity and internet All Raja Ampat homestays supply electricity for lighting and charging devices, but they do so from their own generators. Because of fuel prices in Raja Ampat, this means that most can only afford to operate the genset from sunset until around midnight. Bring LED light sources with you if you want room lighting outside that period. A few homestays supply electricity all night, but almost none have it available around the clock. Some homestays have supplementary solar power supplies that allow room lighting after the genset is switched off. Power points for charging devices may not be present in your room, but will be available elsewhere if not. See this Raja Ampat electricity, telephone and internet information for details about standard electricity voltages and plug types and internet access in the islands. 9. Laundry facilities No homestays have laundries and there’s only one we know of that has a washing machine available. You should be prepared to wash your own clothes by hand, although many homestays will perform the service for you for a small fee. As with bathrooms, laundry water is usually disposed of by ground runoff, so if you’re doing your own, be sure to use biodegradeable laundry detergents. 10. Homestay service Your Papuan hosts will almost certainly have had no hospitality training or experience of the expectations of tourists to more developed destinations, so you shouldn’t expect service like you might receive in a guesthouse or hotel in Bali or Thailand. Additionally, many homestay owners have very little English – although there’s almost always somebody around with enough to enable communication. If you don’t speak any Bahasa Indonesia, bringing a phrasebook will definitely help. Your hosts will want you to have a great holiday and all are able to organise guides, boat hire, transfers and excursions, but they won’t be available around the clock to cater to your every need. You’ll need to be fairly independent, especially when it comes to maintaining supplies of things like toiletries and any other consumeables you’ll need. It’s best to bring all those with you, as shops out in the islands are few and far between and only stock a limited range of basic supplies. In the event of a service problem that needs raising with your host, always do your best to stay smiling and polite. A rude or overbearing attitude or raising your voice is extremely unlikely to result in a positive outcome and will reflect badly on those of your nationality who come after you. (This is nothing more than common decency and really shouldn’t need to be said, but we mention it because we’ve seen a few instances of folks trying it on and finding that there’s very little you can do in Raja Ampat without the goodwill of your Papuan hosts!) 11. Sundays Sundays are a day of rest and church and community activities for your hosts. There are no organised activities available on Sundays. If you are at all culturally sensitive, you’ll want to resist the temptation to pressure your hosts to take you anywhere on Sundays. You should also do your best to avoid scheduling arrivals and departures on Sundays. Everybody deserves a day off! Read this Raja Ampat local culture article for more information to help ensure you have the best time at Raja Ampat homestays. 12. Check to see if it will fit your budget. Raja Ampat is great value but West Papua is more expensive than other regions of Indonesia. 13. Decide when to go. Check weather info page for the best time of year. 14. The best time of year to visit Raja Ampat is October to April, with best chance of perfect conditions from mid-October to mid-December 15. Raja Ampat climate statistics are based on long term observations taken at Sorong on the West Papua mainland. The Sorong averages don’t necessarily apply throughout the islands, as many (especially the big 4 of Waigeo, Misool, Salawati and Batanta) have microclimates that vary substantially from that of Sorong. There’s also a surprising variation in local weather conditions. It’s not unusual for example, to spend a beautiful sunny day on Gam, all the while watching stormclouds pour rain onto the Waigeo highlands a few kilometres away on the other side of the bay. 16. Temperature Raja Ampat lies on the equator and so enjoys a year-round day length of about twelve hours (~6.30am to 6.30pm) Air temperatures are also reliably constant with a daytime average maximum of 31oC (89oF) and a nightly minimum of 25oC (78oF) – although it can often feel hotter than that due to the region’s average relative humidity of 83%! The ocean is warm year-round too, having an average surface temperature of 29oC (84oF). 17. Rainfall Being a tropical environment, there are no days of the year where you can be sure it won’t rain, but there’s far less chance of rainy days during the northwest monsoon between October and April. Although this season sees the least rainfall, Raja Ampat’s heaviest rain usually falls in December and January, leading to those months often being referred to as a second wet season. The southeast monsoon months between May and September deliver the bulk of Raja Ampat’s annual rainfall. June and July are historically the wettest months. Even in the wet season though, it doesn’t rain all day, every day – rainfall is often shortlived and localised. As in the above image, it’s not unusual to find yourself afloat on a calm, sunny ocean while rainstorms pass by on the horizon. Don’t let the fact that it’s rainy season discourage you if you can’t organise your journey any other time – the wet season in Raja Ampat isn’t as dramatic or consistent as that affecting destinations like Bali, Thailand and Malaysia. 18. Windy Season The middle of the wet season (Mid-June to mid-September) sees days with strong winds which make sea conditions less pleasant. Again – that’s not every day! Underwater visibility isn’t affected, but choppy seas at this time of year can occasionally limit small boat travel between the islands. Locations on the northern shores of islands are the best protected at this time of year. 19. Choose your accommodation – here are all the Raja Ampat homestays we have details for and here’s our Raja Ampat maps page so you can see where they are and where you might want to go. 20. If you plan to dive in Raja Ampat, be sure to read this important diving safety information. 21. Boat travel in Raja Ampat is expensive! Plan your trips carefully to avoid backtracking. This article will help you estimate trip and transfer costs. 22. Consider organising a guide for your stay. A guide can be invaluable help when you are staying in a remote area. 23. Find your flights to Sorong, West Papua. Read our How to get to Raja Ampat page. 24. Organize your visa. A 30 day visa on arrival is available at all Indonesian ports of entry. If you want to spend longer than that in Raja Ampat we’d recommend getting a 60 day visa before leaving your home country. (That way you won’t have to hang around in Sorong trying to organise an extension.) 25. Converting the Indonesian Rupiah you’ll need before you get to Sorong. 26. Catch that plane to Sorong! 27. Get your Raja Ampat Marine Park entry permit tags. As of February 1, 2015 a new Raja Ampat Marine Park entry permit tag structure is in place. • The permit fee for Indonesian citizens is IDR 500,000 • Children under 12 years of age are not required to have a permit. • The permit is valid for 12 months from date of purchase. Where to purchase: • The only permit you need to visit Raja Ampat is the one described on this page. We’re often asked by international travellers if the special Surat Jalan permit required to travel in West Papua is needed for Raja Ampat. A Surat Jalan is not required to visit Raja Ampat. However: Staff at many Indonesian embassies are unaware of this, look up Raja Ampat’s location and then ‘do it by the book’, which says that all visitors to West Papua need a Surat Jalan. To avoid complications if applying for a visa at an embassy, you might want to consider not mentioning your plan to visit Raja Ampat. Nobody checks or cares once you are in Indonesia. (As long as you don’t try to enter a place that a Surat Jalan is required for!) The Raja Ampat Marine Park Entry Permit (PIN) Raja Ampat Marine Park entry permit fees are directed to the operational costs of Raja Ampat’s five Marine Protected Areas (patrols, administration etc) and to community conservation and development programs. Collection of the funds is the responsibility of a new organisation created to ensure the transparent disbursement of funds: The UPTD BLUD, an autonomous unit within the Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan (the local government Department of Oceans and Fisheries). The reason for the changes are twofold: 1) The organisation previously responsible for collection of the Marine Park fee was the Dinas Pariwisata – the local government Department of Tourism. The corporate structure of the Dinas Pariwisata provided no framework by which it could legally transfer funds collected to the intended recipients. The new UPTD, being incorporated as a BLUD entity, does. 2) The fees have been doubled in order to provide an income stream that will account for a larger percentage of the true Marine Protected Area operational costs and community development programs. Those costs are currently being funded by foreign donors – a situation which obviously isn’t sustainable in the long term. The Raja Ampat Marine Park Entry Permit tag (or PIN) has been renamed the Tariff to Support Environmental Services in Raja Ampat and must be paid by every visitor to Raja Ampat. Where does the Raja Ampat entry fee money go? The information below explains the changes, why the Tariff to Support Environmental Services in Raja Ampat is charged and shows how the funds collected are used. Raja Ampat Conservation & Tourism Information Center in Sorong • The Tourism Information Center is directly opposite the airport access road. • At the Waisai Port Office Ticket Booth If you’re pushed for time to make the ferry in Sorong, you can also purchase permit tags at the Waisai Tourist Information Centre on Waigeo. The Information Centre is in the building pictured below at the ferry port in Waisai. In the photo, the office entrance is at the left of the building. The office is open between 8am and 4pm Monday to Thursday and between 8am and 3 pm on Fridays. It’s closed on Saturdays and Sundays except for a half hour or so when ferries arrive, so you should always be able to get an entry permit tag there when arriving by ferry. • At the Marinda Airport terminal in Waisai If you are flying in to Waisai’s Marinda Airport you can buy the permit there. • At the UPTD KKPD Office in Waisai The UPTD Office address is Jalan Yosudarso, Siwindores, Waisai. Any ojek (motorbike taxi) or vehicle driver should be able to take you there from the harbour. The UPTD office is also the place to go to report any instances of environmental damage or illegal fishing that you may witness. • Marine Park Entry Permit This is what the 2017 international visitor permit card looks like. (There are a few different images used.) The 85x55mm plastic card will be punched to indicate its expiry (12 months from the date of issue) and your name, passport number, nationality and signature should be recorded on the back. You may be approached on arrival by men checking to see if you already have a permit. They’ll guide you to the office if not. Don’t pay anywhere except at the office counter. Permits must be paid for by bank transfer prior to pickup, or else in cash in Indonesian Rupiah at Sorong. 28. Don’t forget to observe cultural sensitivities and leave the islands as beautiful as you found them. 29. Please, leave feedback about your experience. 30. If you want to give back after you get home, consider supporting these great Raja Ampat conservation initiatives. 31. Tell your friends. A well patronised locally owned ecotourism economy is – provided that tourists visit responsibly and don’t overburden local infrastructure – the best chance Raja Ampat has of protecting its environmental treasures from the lucrative but incredibly damaging resource extraction and development pressures that could destroy it.