Luxury Bali Tours

About Luxury Bali Tours

We create tailor-made journeys for you, whether you wish to seek thrills, reconnect or discover new things. We Support Fair Trade If there would be a ‘fair trade’ label for the tourism industry, we would have it. At Luxury Bali Tours, we deal with multilingual, trained and educated local staff directly. We do not white label our trips, unlike most other companies and we don’t have any middle man. We create jobs for the locals. 2. Licenced Guides & Drivers When booking a holiday with Luxury Bali Tours, you will have one of our licensed tour guides dedicated to taking care of you. Everyone in Bali claims to be a driver, a guide or both, and this can result in different horror stories. People have been dropped and left behind at tourist destinations by their driver, left without any transport or options to contact anyone because the driver was afraid to be caught by the tourist police, simply because they don’t hold the right licenses. The tourist police will chase non-licenced guides. Non licenced guides have to pay a fine up to 50 million to the government. Cases have been reported, non-licensed guides have been miss-informing tourists and bringing them to the wrong temples ‘because they paid cheap and the temple they were meant to see was too far away’ and required the guides to drive 2 hours further out of the villages. The country of Indonesia is trying to reduce its amount of bribery and we kindly ask you to contribute to this mission as well, if you can. 3. Chicken and mosque free zones (as far as it’s possible) Yes, it’s a thing. In Bali, every family has several chicken and cocks at home. They belong in every household in Bali. Cockfights are very popular, so that’s why every family has several cocks as well. Normally there is one cock per chicken crew, in Bali, they prefer to have several cocks in one group as they train them up for fights. It’s part of their culture. It creates income for a Balinese family. They also need cocks for their frequent ceremonies. And there are a lot of ceremonies in Bali. There are a lot of ceremonies in Bali, every new moon, full moon, every 210 days, every 6 months and so on and so on. Ceremonies are endless. For specific ceremonies, the Balinese use the blood from the cock who lost the fight to spill around the ceremony to keep away bad spirits. You will learn more about this in one of our guided tours. The cocks can make incredible noise and disturb your sleep, especially if there are several in one group. We will make sure you are well taken care of in the right type or resort, villa or hotel. While most locals on Bali follow the Hindu religion, this is different in the Gilis and in Lombok. The Gili Islands and Lombok are Muslims and therefore quite a few mosques will be present. Again, we will make sure you will be taken care of and will only recommend you to places where peace and a quiet environment is reassured for your maximum relaxation. 4. Inspections ONLY Every hotel/villa/resort which we recommend to our customers has been tested from by our staff first hand. We do not accept any collaboration with any property which we haven’t at least inspected. Only this way we are able to assure 100% top notch quality service and quality products to our customers. We have stayed in 5* resorts which had amazing reviews online and everything looked super clean from the outside, however, when we got there, we had cases happening of discovering bed bugs in our beds (and nobody took care of the problem, they just re-did the room for the next customer without seriously facing the issue), black water coming out of the sinks, terrible food and so on and so forth. We could write books about this, and we actually may one day. 5. Secret Places Bali is the number one tourist destination in Indonesia. We have A LOT of tourists coming, numbers progressing every year. This means, unfortunately, some destinations on the islands aren’t as enjoyable anymore as they used to be. This is where we come in. We will bring you to beautiful, secret and hidden places which some locals even didn’t know existed, and of course neither the average mainstream tour company doesn’t have a clue about (since they either don’t live here and white-label their tours and use illegal drivers). We constantly put the effort in and evolve our trips and tours – so you can have a tourist-free, off the beaten path, exclusively tailormade and enjoyable and relaxing time in Bali, should this be what you are looking for. And of course, if you wish to visit the main points of interests which attract many people, then we will bring you there. Mostly a nice healthy mix of both options can make a great holiday. 6. Liability Sometimes we use third party companies for activities like rafting, ATC and such. This means we only work closely with reliable companies, again, which we know very well, where we tested the activities ourselves beforehand and which can provide liability insurances, in case of an incident. Just in case, it’s always good to be covered. 7. Cruelty-Free Attractions Indonesia is a country where animals, unfortunately, aren’t always treated as well as in the west. Luxury Bali Tours does not support animal cruelty, caging or anything along those lines. Coffee Luwak, for example, is the most expensive coffee in the world, and it comes from Indonesia. The Luwak is an animal which lives around the coffee tree plantations. It comes out at night and nibbles on the ripe coffee cherries, poos it out in the mornings and that gives the coffee a very specific taste. Of course, many people love to see this animal, so most local people came to the glorious conclusion to cage up some of the animals to ‘showcase’ to the tourist. PLEASE DO NOT VISIT OR SUPPORT SUCH FARMS IN ANY CASE We have done our research and have found out about farms which produce Luwak coffee, yes, however, only in smaller portions as the Luwaks won’t be caged up but live free in the wild. Of course, every travel company claims to be the best. And so do we. But how do you know we actually are the best amongst all luxury travel companies? It’ simple. We are the best because we only focus on one country. Focusing on one region only allows us to stay the best throughout all times. 100% of our energy, resources, and focus goes into Luxury Bali Tours. We know every inch of the islands and have the best team on board. We offer the most exclusive experiences, which no other travel company can offer, simply through their lack of connections. Others outsource to mainstream DMCs (destination management companies), we operate ourselves. We do real stuff. We deliver authentic experiences. In one country, spread over a few islands only.