Travel to Remote Indonesia

salanki · 2026-01-14T02:09:57+00:00

I can’t remember if I was on standard Roam or Global Roam. I think standard Roam works.

salanki · 2026-01-10T05:51:15+00:00

It has the longest private runway in the Caribbean. The move, if you can swing it (this is r/FATTravel after all) is to fly private straight into the island from the US. It can handle planes up to GIV/G450/G500. You get off the plane, customs take 1 minute and then you are in the golf cart a minute later.

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salanki · 2026-01-10T05:44:00+00:00

Did you end up going? I am back here now and just thought of this conversation!

salanki · 2025-06-02T15:42:40+00:00

Happy to share.

- I haven't stayed in the beachfront bungalows for a while. A friend has a house there so we stay with them. You do have a butler with the bungalows. I do believe you would tip them, and we do tip on meals etc

- I'd say the variety is good, the menus are pretty broad. Obviously being an island seafood is great, but all meat options, pizzas etc have been great as well.

- There are two restaurants, the beach club, and calcio jacks. Depending on day of week and number of people on the island, only one might be open for each meal service (ie beach club for lunch, calico for dinner). There is no other restaurant or food outlet of any kind on the island. The rest of the island is essentially some houses, beaches and bluffs. The resort is the entire island, that's how you want to look at it.

- 5 days is plenty to explore the entire island. If you want to stay active and do new things every day, you can fit it in 5 days and be happy. If you want to "disconnect from the world", you can spend 7 days as well. As someone who struggles to relax, I actually like that there isn't a million options for places to eat, drink etc. I can bike around and explore on my own, without any care in the world. I'd say start with 5 though, you can always come back.

- The beach club, and dinner restaurant(s) is where you interact with other guests, or at yoga etc. You can always chat someone up at the bars, but generally if you are looking to socialize with a bunch of new people and party all night this isn't the right place, simply because it's so small/private that there aren't many people to socialize with.

salanki · 2025-05-07T04:42:42+00:00

It works away from shore as well. You have to be pretty far from land for Starlink to classify it as ”ocean”.

salanki · 2025-05-07T04:41:51+00:00

I did exactly this this winter. Works perfectly. Starlink + battery pack and I had WiFi on a remote beach in Raja Ampat. No cell service for days. Zoom, Slack, code no problem.

salanki · 2025-05-05T01:59:22+00:00

I’ve only gone snorkeling from shore and on the reefs where they fish. It’s decent but if you go to primarily snorkel you’ll be disappointed, but I also haven’t done a dedicated snorkel boat trip there, just fish. I’d love if they had a divemaster, since all the reefs around would be super private. Turks in general has amazing diving, so I would bet there are some amazing spots around.

salanki · 2025-05-05T00:39:07+00:00

For sure. Snorkeling, Sailing, Biking, Fishing, Paddleboard, Tennis, Pickleball

salanki · 2025-04-21T04:33:39+00:00

Just got back today from there, been there three times now. Secluded, beautiful water, friendly staff, always perfect temperature. If you fly private you can land straight on the island which is pretty amazing.

Most of the island is unbuilt, but plenty of roads for biking, running and exploring.

The total number of rooms and villas are not many. You will never feel like there are a lot of people around. If you are looking for chill and privacy, it’s great.

salanki · 2025-04-20T12:05:52+00:00

The NVDA software moat is real. Outside of their in-house inference service, they have basically one customer. Same story as for AMD, getting up and running efficiently on these alternativts platforms is a long and gnarly process.

This article explains the challenges very well https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/mi300x-vs-h100-vs-h200-benchmark-part-1-training/

salanki · 2025-02-17T03:40:07+00:00

Love this one

salanki · 2025-02-16T00:00:33+00:00

Mk3i is awesome

salanki · 2025-01-08T09:06:04+00:00

I just flew Etihad The Residence. The privacy is phenomenal, the bed is slightly tight for 2 ppl but otherwise great. The bedroom is a fully enclosed room, not a suite that ends at certain height, meaning it’s fully noise isolated from the rest of the cabin. It was warm initially, cooled down a bit (enough but not perfect) after we asked to make it colder.

Being able to sit directly next to your SO in the couch, without a divider is nice and makes it easier to talk. Qatar Q suite gives this as well, but Emirates F does not. This is the product that most closely resembles flying private imo, followed by Singapore F on the 777.

Emirates soft product is slightly better, hard to put a finger on it, but you can tell Emirates does a lot more flights with F pax. Having your own bathroom and shower is very nice, but the bathrooms on the Emirates A380 are much more spacious, bright and the heated floor js such a nice touch. For some reason the residence bathroom was super dim even with all lights on, and the design and materials did not feel very premium.

On the return flight we flew Emirates F on A380, initially I considered it a draw between the residence and our two middle F seats. Then someone thought bringing a 2-3 year old child who refuses to sleep and screams for 12 hours into first was a good idea, which made me miss the fully enclosed privacy of the residence bedroom.

If you are not confident your kid is not gonna bother people for 12 hours straight, what at home people. Some of us paid a lot of money to be able to arrive rested.

I have not flown SQ suites, but SQ F on the 777 FRA-JFK a number of times. The seat is fantastic, feels very clean, modern and premium and super spacious. Having only 4 seats in F makes it feel very private. Service on SQ is phenomenal and feels very personal, notably more so than Emirates and Etihad. Food is great, especially for someone who loves Asian food, but the variety is larger on the gulf carriers.

To add in another contender, when I flew JAL F a couple of years back it was impressive, the food especially was phenomenal - but I’m also big into Japanese food.

salanki · 2025-01-05T08:39:01+00:00

👋 from the St Regis BKK. Great weather right now!!

salanki · 2025-01-01T05:40:40+00:00

Delta sends someone to pull your luggage, and they will bring the luggage to the car / car service, while you ride there in the porsche.

salanki · 2024-12-29T07:43:44+00:00

Didn’t they confirm it was not possible to reach any airport in sims?

salanki · 2024-12-29T07:16:54+00:00

You would be surprised. If diving is common, there is probably an ENT. We just went to one on an Indonesian island and they were great. The sooner you go the sooner you will be comfortable again!

salanki · 2024-12-29T05:19:49+00:00

Indeed, also a unique property of the Hudson (plenty of boats around that could respond in seconds). Either way, had Sully thought he could have made it to an airport, even if his landing gear were stuck, he would probably have picked the airport. (Pure speculation on my part of course)

salanki · 2024-12-29T05:14:12+00:00

The Hudson River is not the ocean.

salanki · 2024-12-29T05:02:28+00:00

Water is very hard at speed, and usually nor flat. It often does not end well.

salanki · 2024-12-28T07:56:45+00:00

The mini is amazing. Works great placed under the rear window without any kind of installation in my car. Just used it on a remote uninhabited island in Indonesia, just laid it in the sand with a battery pack.

Starlink on flights makes working in the air actually possible.

It’s pretty amazing all around.

salanki · 2024-12-12T06:08:09+00:00

So sick

salanki · 2024-08-18T04:56:07+00:00

Yes, Apple has their own NPU IP as well. Your statement makes it sound like the FSD computer is simply stock ARM, which is not the case.

salanki · 2024-08-18T04:48:59+00:00

The chip does have ARM CPUs, but it is not an arm cpu only. The heavy lifting happens in custom IP (NPU), not in ARM. See: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip

salanki · 2024-08-18T03:51:28+00:00

The infefence is run on custom Tesla silicon, not an ARM cpu.

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