Field notes, host stories, and slow dispatches from our editors. Published when there is something worth printing — never to a calendar.
A seven-bedroom estate in Pererenan for fourteen: a long pool with a jetted spa pool, warm timber rooms, staff at the door, and the beach about five minutes away. Book direct for guest privileges at Riviera Pererenan, Shelter Bali, 7.00 AM and Rite Gym.
Six new villas and two yachts — the 2026 launches worth knowing. Dates and rates on request; most will not appear in public search.
A large central-Canggu house where the architecture, not the room count, is the reason to book — long sight-lines, water through the plan, rooms that open rather than divide.
Canggu’s quieter north-western edge: a black-sand beach with a river mouth, rice paddies running to the road, the tables worth driving for, and the houses we book there.
A traditional phinisi, the Flores Sea, and the slow way into the dragons — Padar at dawn, manta channels, empty anchorages.
The Lombok wedding-grade estate. A tower the architect put in because he could, a lawn that holds an evening, and the southern coast at your feet.
An architect-led plan, a quiet interior, and a lawn the wedding bands borrow — a beach-to-bed Canggu address that runs as easily as a family residence or a wedding venue.
A hillside above Tampah where every villa is a different architect’s answer to the same view — and the 18 architect-designed villas you can book.
Lombok's quiet southern coast, a peak position, and a plan that wakes you with the sun. An hour by air from Bali.
West of the crowds, in the rice country, an estate that keeps the whole of Bali at arm's length.
How to spend one full day on the Bukit without driving past the good part.
We do not list everything. We list the ones we would put our own family in.
"We don't write to a publishing schedule. We print when a house, a boat or a table is worth telling you about — and we print only what we can check."
Founded in Bali in 2013, the Journal has run as a quiet sidebar to the curation — field notes, host stories, the occasional long read. Most pieces stay relevant; a tide chart from 2022 still tells you when the mantas will be at Manta Point.
Read the Journal →The villas we've just visited, the houses that opened bookings, one essay we're proud of. From The Luxury Bali editorial desk; written in Bali, read where you are.