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Tropical Bali Retreats

7 days, 6 nights. Ubud and Sanur. Gentle, 2 bases.

The 7-Day Reset

Ubud, the Sidemen valley, the Jatiluwih terraces, Sanur and the Uluwatu cliffs over six nights and two bases. No early starts unless you want them. The right first trip when a week is all the leave you have.

From [[NEEDS INPUT: price]] per person, twin share. Return flights, every stay, every meal, private car and guides included.

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Is this the right trip for you?

Seven days is enough to sleep properly, eat well three times a day, sit in a temple pool before the crowds arrive, and come home rested rather than needing another holiday. The 7-Day Reset is our shortest trip and the one we point first-timers to. You unpack twice: three nights in Ubud, among the terraces and temples of the centre, then three nights in Sanur, on a calm beach a short drive from the airport. In between, one day east to the Sidemen valley, one morning at Jatiluwih, one sunset on the Uluwatu cliffs, and one day where nothing is planned at all.

Who this trip is for

  • You have never been to Bali, or you went twenty years ago and only saw Kuta.
  • A week is all the leave you can get, and you do not want to spend two days of it organising.
  • You want the terraces, a temple, a real village and a beach, without a 5am start to get them.
  • You would rather see five places properly than twenty from a bus window.
  • You want an Australian on the phone if anything goes sideways, and a real dinner table every night.

Who it isn’t for

  • You want nightlife. Ubud is quiet by 10pm and Sanur is quieter. Seminyak and Canggu are not on this route.
  • You want to tick off thirty places. We go to six, and we stay long enough to sit down at each one.
  • You need to be on the move every day. Day five has nothing planned, on purpose, and you will be glad of it.
  • You want the north, the east coast or the islands. That is the 10-day or the 14-day, and we will say so if it fits you better.

If any of these sound like you, the 10-day or the 14-day may be the better fit. Call us and we will tell you honestly.

How much walking is there?

Less than you might think. Here is the honest scale for this trip, the longest walk on it, and how long you are usually on your feet at once.

Pace and mobility

Gentle

Longest walk on this trip:
900m on a flat path [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm]]
Time on your feet
Most days involve less than 20 minutes on your feet at any one time.

Where a walk is longer, the car is parked where we started and anyone who would rather sit has the same view and a coffee. Nobody is hurried and nobody is left behind.

Day by day

Every day, in the order it happens. Open any day to see the morning, afternoon and evening, what is included, and a note from your host on why we do it that way.

Day 1: Fly out, and someone is holding a sign with your name on it

Tonight’s base: Ubud

Morning

You fly out of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide on the flight we have booked and paid for. Your bags are checked through and your seat is beside the people you came with. Nothing to arrange at the airport except a coffee.

Afternoon

You land at Denpasar. We talked you through the visa on arrival before you left, so it is a queue and a stamp. Past customs, a local guide is holding a sign with your name on it, and the air-conditioned car is right outside. The drive up to Ubud takes about an hour, and you do not have to think about a thing.

Evening

Check in, unpack for three nights, and take a breath. Dinner is at the hotel tonight, early and easy, because nobody wants a big night after a flight. Your host runs through tomorrow over dessert. It is a late start.

Included today

  • Return flight
  • Airport meet and greet
  • Private car
  • Dinner
I don't book anything for the first evening. You've been travelling since dawn. A good dinner, a proper bed and no alarm is the best thing Bali can do for you on day one.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 2: A slow first morning, and Ubud town once the heat has gone

Tonight’s base: Ubud

Morning

No alarm. Breakfast runs late, and the pool is a few steps from your room. If the birds wake you early, the garden is a good place to sit with a coffee and get used to the warmth before it counts for anything.

Afternoon

After lunch, most people swim or sleep. Around 4pm, when it is cooler, we go into Ubud with the guide: the lotus pond at Saraswati temple, the palace gate, and the market across the road if you want it. The temple and the palace are a couple of hundred metres apart on flat footpath, and the car meets us at the other end.

Evening

Dinner at a warung your host has been going to for years, ten minutes from the hotel by car. Table service, no menu to decode. We order for the table and tell you what everything is.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Private car
  • Guide
Day two is nearly empty on purpose. You've changed time zones and the humidity takes a day to make friends with. Nobody remembers what they saw on the second day. They remember whether they were tired on the fifth.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 3: Tirta Empul before the buses, then lunch in the Sidemen valley

Tonight’s base: Ubud

Morning

We leave at 7:00, the one early start on the trip, and it earns its place. By 7:30 we are at Tirta Empul, the spring-water temple, an hour before the coaches. You can bathe in the purification pools if you like, or sit on the stone edge and watch the families who have come to pray. Sarongs are hired for you, the entry fee is paid, and the guide explains what is happening and why.

Afternoon

From Tirta Empul we drive east into the Sidemen valley, about an hour, and it is a different Bali: rice, river, and Mount Agung standing over the lot. Lunch is at a restaurant on the edge of the terraces, looking straight at the mountain. Afterwards there is a short walk on a flat farm track through the paddies, 15 minutes at most, and you can turn back whenever you like. The car is parked where we started.

Evening

Back in Ubud by late afternoon. Dinner is early, at a restaurant near the palace, and then it is your call: an early night, or the Legong dance at the palace at 7:30 with your host. It is an hour, seated, and the car drops you at the gate.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Private car
  • Guide
  • Entry fees
  • Sarong hire
We go to Tirta Empul at 7:30, an hour before the buses. You'll have the water almost to yourself. By ten it's a queue, and it stops being what it is.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 4: Jatiluwih's terraces on the way south to the beach

Tonight’s base: Sanur

Morning

Bags outside your door by 8:30, and we leave at 9:00. It is a bit over an hour to Jatiluwih through clove and coffee country. The path along the top of the terraces is flat and paved; we walk about 900m to a shelter with a view and back, which is the longest walk on the trip. The café where the car is parked has the same view, so sit with a coffee if you would rather.

Afternoon

Lunch overlooks the terraces, then it is the drive south to Sanur with a coffee stop on the way. You check in mid-afternoon and unpack for the last time. The beach and Sanur's flat, paved beachfront path are a short walk from the hotel.

Evening

Dinner is at a restaurant on the beach path, with nothing to book because we have done it. Sanur faces east, so the sunset happens behind you and the sunrise is the show. Early night if you want one.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Private car
  • Guide
  • Entry fees
People ask why we finish in Sanur and not Seminyak. Sanur is flat, calm, quiet at night, and closer to the airport than anywhere else with water this still. It's the right place to end.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 5: Rest day in Sanur. Nothing planned, and that is the point

Tonight’s base: Sanur

Morning

Nothing is planned today, and we mean it. Sanur faces east, so if you are up at 6:00 the sunrise over Nusa Penida is worth the walk out the door; if you are not, breakfast runs late. The beachfront path is flat and paved for as far as you want to go, with a café every few hundred metres to turn around at.

Afternoon

Your included spa treatment is booked for today, at the hotel [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm the included treatment type and length]]. Otherwise it is pool, book, nap. Your host is at the hotel all day if you want company for lunch or a hand with anything.

Evening

Dinner is at the hotel tonight, or at a warung along the path if the group feels like a walk. Either way it is booked and paid for. Tomorrow starts after lunch, so sleep in.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Spa treatment
A rest day isn't a gap in the itinerary. It's the reason the rest of it works. On a seven-day trip it lands on day five, when you're properly relaxed and could easily overdo it.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 6: Sunset on the Uluwatu cliffs, then seafood on the sand at Jimbaran

Tonight’s base: Sanur

Morning

Free until after lunch. Sanur's morning market, Pasar Sindhu, is a ten-minute stroll at 7:00 if you want to see how the island shops, and the guide will walk you through it. Or do not. Lunch is at the hotel.

Afternoon

We leave at 3:30, once the heat has gone out of the day, and drive about an hour south to the Bukit peninsula. Uluwatu temple sits high on a cliff above the ocean, and we do not queue on the temple steps with the crowds. We go to a quiet clifftop spot a little way along the coast with chairs, a table and the same view [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm the clifftop vantage point and how far it is from the car]]. The walk from the car is short and flat.

Evening

Sunset is around 6:15, give or take the season. Afterwards we drive down to Jimbaran, where the seafood restaurants set their tables at the top of the beach on firm sand and the car parks right behind. Grilled fish, corn, and a Bintang if you want one, which is the one thing on the trip you pay for yourself. It is the farewell dinner, and we are back in Sanur by about 9:00.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Private car
  • Guide
Uluwatu at sunset is one of the best things on the island, and the temple steps at sunset are one of the worst. Same cliff, same sky. We just sit a little way along it.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Day 7: Breakfast, a last swim, and the flight home

Tonight’s base: Your own bed

Morning

Breakfast at your own pace, and a last swim or a last walk on the path. We ask the hotel for late checkout so nobody is sitting in a lobby [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm late checkout is available at the Sanur property]]. Your host settles every bill; there is nothing to pay.

Afternoon

The airport is close, which is part of why we finish in Sanur. The car takes you to the door and the guide sees you to the check-in queue. Flight times vary by city, so lunch is either at the hotel or on the plane.

Evening

Depending on your departure city, you are home tonight or early tomorrow morning. Somebody will ask what the best bit was. It will be day five, and you will not have a photo of it.

Included today

  • Breakfast
  • Private car
  • Return flight
I put the last nights by the beach so the last morning is a swim, not a drive. You go home rested. That's the whole idea of a reset.

— [[NEEDS INPUT: founder first name]]

Where you'll stay

Two bases, two unpackings. Both chosen for quiet nights, a pool you will actually use, and an honest note on steps and lifts.

  • [[NEEDS INPUT: property name — 7-day-reset, base 1]]

    • 4-star
    • Ubud
    • 3 nights

    A 4-star garden retreat a few minutes' drive from Ubud's centre, on the quiet side of the river. Rooms open onto the garden, the pool is the kind you will actually use, and it is silent after 9pm. Close enough to town for a stroll, far enough that you cannot hear it.

    Getting around: Ground-floor rooms on request, garden paths lit at night, and some steps between garden levels [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm ground-floor rooms, steps and lift access with the Ubud property]].

  • [[NEEDS INPUT: property name — 7-day-reset, base 2]]

    • 4-star
    • Sanur
    • 3 nights

    A 4-star hotel a short, flat walk from Sanur's beachfront path. The water here is calm enough to swim in at any hour, the path is paved from end to end, and the airport is close, which matters on the last morning. It is where we would send our own parents.

    Getting around: Lift to all floors and ground-floor rooms available, with a level walk to the beach path [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm lift, ground-floor rooms and the walk to the beach with the Sanur property]].

The only money you'll take out of your pocket is for a Bintang and a souvenir.

What's included

  • Return flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth or Adelaide
  • All accommodation, 4–5 star
  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day
  • All private air-conditioned transport
  • Airport meet & greet, by name, with a sign
  • Every entry fee, donation, sarong hire and parking fee
  • Local guides throughout
  • Your Australian host, with you the whole trip
  • Bottled water, always
  • 24/7 support line in Australia and Bali

What's not

  • Travel insurance (compulsory — we'll help you choose)
  • Visa on arrival, approx [[NEEDS INPUT: current visa on arrival cost]]
  • Alcohol and personal spending
  • Spa treatments beyond the included one
  • Souvenirs

Pricing for The 7-Day Reset

Australian dollars. Return flights, every stay, every meal, private transport and guides are in the price.

Per person, twin share
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Single supplement
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Child rate
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Deposit
$500 per person
Payment plan
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What the deposit secures
Your seat on the flight, your room at every stay, and your place in a group of no more than 12.

A $500 deposit secures your spot. Fully refundable for 14 days, no questions.

Full change and cancellation terms are on our Terms and Booking Conditions page. Every departure is listed on Dates and Prices.

Dates for this trip

Every departure for the 7-Day Reset, with what is left on each. If a date is sold out we say so. If you cannot see a date that works, ask us for the next ones.

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Departures for The 7-Day Reset
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Melbourne3 spots leftEnquire about The 7-Day Reset departing Sun 25 Apr 2027 from Melbourne
SydneyAvailableEnquire about The 7-Day Reset departing Sun 11 July 2027 from Sydney
MelbourneAvailableEnquire about The 7-Day Reset departing Sun 3 Oct 2027 from Melbourne

From guests who took the shorter trip

What people say about the 7-Day Reset, and about the things they were worried about before they came.

  • On a first trip with only a week of leave

    “First time in Asia, first time on a group trip, and we only had a week of leave. Seven days was exactly right. We came home rested, which has never happened on a holiday before.”

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  • On having to organise everything

    “I didn't look at a map, a menu or a receipt for ten days. I'd forgotten what that felt like.”

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  • On Bali Belly and dodgy food

    “My husband had Bali Belly for a week the last time we went and swore he'd never go back. This time, nothing. Not a twinge. Three meals a day and we never once wondered where the food had come from.”

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  • On walking too far and holding the group up

    “I walk with a stick and I was sure I'd be the one holding everyone up. Not once. There was always a car close by, always a seat in the shade, and nobody ever looked at their watch.”

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Questions about the 7-Day Reset

The things people ask before they book this trip in particular. The full FAQ covers everything else.

Is seven days really long enough?

Yes, if you spend them the way this trip does. You unpack twice, not five times. You see a spring temple before the crowds, a valley under Mount Agung, the big terraces at Jatiluwih, a real beach and the Uluwatu cliffs at sunset, and you get one whole day where nothing is planned. What you do not get is the north, the east coast or the islands. If you have ten days of leave, the 10-Day Island Loop adds those and we would honestly steer you there. If a week is what you have, this is the week to spend.

What time do we get to Ubud on the first day, and will I be wrecked?

It depends on your departure city and the flight we book, so we tell you the exact times before you pay a deposit. Most flights from Australia land in the afternoon, which puts you at the Ubud hotel about an hour after you clear customs. The first evening is deliberately empty: dinner at the hotel, an early night, no alarm. Day two has nothing before lunch. If you are tired, you sleep, and you have missed nothing.

Why does this trip stay in the south and centre?

Because a week spent driving is not a holiday. Ubud and Sanur are about an hour apart, and everything on this itinerary is within roughly an hour of one or the other. That means two bases, two unpackings and no day lost to a long transfer. The north lakes, Amed and Sidemen as an overnight stop are on the 10-day trip, and the islands are on the 14-day. On the 7-Day Reset you get a proper look at the centre and the south, at a pace that leaves room to sit down.

Can I skip the 7:00 start for Tirta Empul, or the walk at Jatiluwih?

Both. Tirta Empul is the one early start on the trip. If you would rather sleep, you stay at the hotel and the car comes back for you before we head to Sidemen for lunch, or you join us there by the second car [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm whether a second car is available on day 3]]. At Jatiluwih the walk is about 900m on a flat paved path and it is entirely optional. The café where we park has the same view, and half the group usually stays there with a coffee. Nobody is ever hurried and nobody is ever left behind.

How much free time is there, and is Sanur safe to wander on our own?

Day five is entirely free, and days two, six and seven have free mornings. Sanur is the calmest beach town on the island: a flat paved path along the water, cafés and small shops, and no scooters on the path itself. Guests walk it on their own at all hours and we have never had a problem. Your host is at the hotel and on the phone the whole time, and the guide can walk with you through the morning market if you would like company.

Can we add a few nights on the end?

Ask when you enquire and we will tell you straight. Whether your return flight can move to a later date depends on the fare we have booked, and a stay beyond the tour is not covered by the package price [[NEEDS INPUT: confirm whether extended stays and later return flights are offered, and on what terms]]. If it can be done, we will suggest where to stay and book it for you, so you are not back to organising things yourself on the last day.

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