Bali for Big Groups: Villas That Sleep 14 to 16 (Without Splitting Up)

Samastiti by the Beach Lovina

Organizing Bali for a big group usually ends one of two ways: everyone scattered across separate hotel rooms coordinating by group chat, or one giant villa where half the party got the bad bedrooms. There’s a third way — and we run both versions of it. Here’s the honest comparison. Option 1: The Beachfront Compound […]

Where to stay in Uluwatu: Bingin vs Padang Padang vs Uluwatu village

Street view of the white three-storey building at Bingin with arched timber doors and external stairs up to the Media Suite, scooters parked outside

The Bukit Peninsula hangs off the southern tip of Bali like an afterthought — dry, cliff-lined limestone where the rest of the island is green and volcanic. It’s a different microclimate, a different pace, and in many ways a different Bali: scrubby clifftops instead of rice terraces, a string of world-class surf breaks stacked one […]

Bingin & Uluwatu surf guide

The Penthouse Samastiti Bingin

A surf guide to Bingin, Uluwatu and the Bukit Peninsula – the reef breaks, the tides that make them, and how to read Bali’s south coast with respect.