Family travel guides
Honest, practical guides to holidaying in Bali with babies, toddlers and older children, written by the carers who look after them.
Bali's family areas are very different from each other. This guide compares them for beaches, swimming, getting around with a pram, things to do and the kind of holiday each suits.
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Bali's beaches range from lagoon-calm to surf-only. Here are the ones where children can safely paddle and swim, when to go, and the famous beaches best enjoyed from the sand.
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Water parks, animals, rice terraces, temples and beach days: the activities that keep children happy in Bali, with notes on which ages they suit and how to make each one easy.
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Bali is a wonderful place to take a baby, with warm water, friendly people and help close at hand. These are the practical things our infant carers wish every parent knew before they landed.
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Childcare in Bali is affordable and widely available, which makes it easy to book badly. Here is how the options compare, what good vetting looks like, how pricing works and how to hand over well.
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The admin, in one place: entry requirements for Indonesia, the Bali tourist levy, time zone and money, the dry and wet seasons, how long the airport drive really takes and what to sort out in the first hour.
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Our guides are written from experience: which beaches are actually calm, which villas are hard with toddlers, what to hire rather than carry, and how to get help so you come home rested. We update them as things change.
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