Seminyak & Southern Bali holidays

For a little more low-key beach break, the golden sand beaches of Jimbaran and Sanur are hard to beat on a Seminyak and southern Bali holiday. Jimbaran sits just south of the airport, meaning it's the quickest option for a flight to hotel flop, with some of our favourite hotels perched on the golden arc bay. The southern end of the beach hosts the famous Jimbaran pop-up seafood restaurants each evening, for a fresh-off-the-line mahi mahi to be enjoyed with greasy fingers, a chilled beer and plastic seating. The beach at Sanur is protected by an offshore reef, meaning calm paddle-friendly water, as well as some charming boutique hotels.

At Bali's southern tip, you'll find the Bukit Peninsula, home to laid-back surf spots and some of the island’s most exclusive clifftop hotels. This is the spot to lock yourself away in a luxury villa, but venture out (if you can bear to) to explore some of its picturesque surf spots and powdery sand beaches. Some of Bali's most beautiful (and most visited) temples are also tucked away in the south, including the clifftop Uluwatu temple and the coastal temple of Tanah Lot, which is only accessible at low tide. It's also the spot to learn to surf, kite surf or scuba dive with mola mola during the summer months. We can think of many more reasons to entice you into Seminyak and southern Bali holidays, but sometimes the best things in life have to be seen to be believed…