Yenaduak Homestay

Sam and his family are the best!! Everything was great, food great, people great, amazing coral. We wrote a longer review on stayrajaampat. My fingers tired from writing so read there if you want or just go to yanaduak, it’s the best and you won’t regret it! We stayed 2 weeks, next time will probably be 2 months!

Great place to stay, I can recommend it very much. Very friendly Family, good Food, great Snorkelling and very quiet .

Best homestay ever

Die war einer unserer schönsten Aufenthalte auf unserer 4 Wochen Radja Ampat Reise. 🎖
Ein wunderschöner Ort auf Birie bei Batanta. Die hübschen und großzügig und aus natürlichen Ressourcen gebauten Bungalows haben eine hübsche Veranda mit Hängematte und Sitzgelegenheiten und einen wundervollen Ausblick aufs Meer. Besonders hat uns das Badezimmer mit Mandi im Bungalow gefallen! Der Internet Empfang ist sehr schwach aber für Textnachrichten brauchbar. Hinter der Anlage fängt schon ein tiefer fast undurchdringlicher Dschungel an und berauscht morgens und abends mit einer tropischen Melodie von Vögeln, Fröschen und Grillen. Es gibt ein sehr hübsches Korallenriff ! Die Besitzer Familie ist sehr nett und das Essen gut und frisch. Besonders kann ich die Manta Tour empfehlen. Da das Homestay direkt am Dschungel liegt, genügend Moskito Creme mitnehmen.
Uns hat es wirklich gefallen und wir empfehlen diesen rückgezogenen Ort gerne weiter. Die Preise für Touren sind verhältnismäßig günstig. 🌞🖒🌺

Semi - uzasny domaci. Vyborna kuchyna. A neskutocny koral pred "domom"

Great Homestay. Stayed five nights in February/March 2017. I wanted peace and solitude and I got it; I was the only guest. Quiet, beautifully thatched cabin on the beach with a great home reef right in front. I counted 50 species of fish in the first hour (I timed it) on my first day in the water. Countless spectacular corals and other marine invertebrates including giant clams with iridescent neon blue edges. No need for costly, time-consuming, additional boat rides to reach world-class snorkeling; just walk into the water here.

This is a safe place for solo snorkeling. Because it is inside a large bay there is almost no current. This increased my safety since I was in the water alone every day. (It is on the same bay as the Eco-Resort, which you can see, but Yenaduak is more affordable.) Day trips to other locales are available if you want them. The owner, Sam, and his nephew took me on a 40-minute boat trip one day, including up a jungle river, to a nice 2 km waterfall hike. He took me to see dugongs on the way back. We also saw manta rays breaching (now that's a wow) and flying fish and numerous dolphins, including a pod of 12 breaching endlessly, on the boat crossing from Waigeo to Birie Island. Sam's 36-foot wooden longboat (a dugout canoe with a powerful outboard engine) is a special boat to experience on the hour-long crossing to Birie from Waigeo Island. You are not likely to ride in a handmade wooden boat of this size many places in the world.

Food was plentiful, nutritious, and simple. Tofu dishes were good. My only criticism of my entire stay is that I would have preferred locally caught fresh fish to the dried-out fish that was served with red sauce that was too sweet. I also did not care to have doughnuts for breakfast most days. Less sugar would be better.

The salak (local fruit that you peel yourself) were delicious. There were also bananas for snacking, unlimited filtered water for drinking, tea and coffee 24/7, a simple indoor shower and toilet, and electric light in the cabins and on my porch from 6:30 p.m. to past midnight. I read a 950-page novel, The Goldfinch, sitting on the porch overlooking the ocean day and night when I wasn't snorkeling or hiking.

Yenaduak Homestay is remote and worth the time to get there. No noise except the birds. I was awakened by the most wondrous bird call every morning and went to sleep to the cacaphonous sound of thousands of birds calling in the wetland behind the homestay each night.

Sam and his very friendly family worked hard to accommodate and make my stay comfortable. Except for the too-sweet red sauce, dried fish instead of freshly caught, and doughnuts for breakfast, I would rate Yenaduak a 5-star. I would stay there again.

5 stars for the homestay, 1 start for the agent managing their Whatsapp. But step by step ;)
We spent there more than 2 weeks in April 2019 with 2 small kids and one baby. 3 days before our arrival we stopped to get an answer to our Whatsapp messages. When we get out of the fast boat in Waisai, there was nobody who knew about us despite the fact we did agree on the transfer. Fortunately, from the info center, they were able to call directly the homestay and we were transferred by another boat. In the HS they did know about us but they had no clue that we wanted also transport from Waisai.
In HS was everything perfect. Great food, quiet place, no rats just tarantulas ;) and beautiful reef to swim. A small problem was at the end with a payment again because of a useless agent. But we solved it without any problem. So, great place and we would like to come back also in the future if …
… it looks like they are starting to grow. We read here about 2 bungalows some months ago. When we came there, there were already 4 bungalows and the fifth one was finished during our stay there. They have a clear plan to build a couple more. So what will become from a tiny lovely HS in a few years it is difficult to say. Of course, I do understand them but I did decide for them because of the status in 2018. Anyway, now it is still one of the best in the area (opinion of other nomads we met there) and I can just recommend …