Bali guides
Practical
Questions we get asked
What are the FirstBali guides?
Long-form answers to the questions guests ask the concierge most: where to stay, how table bookings and guestlists really work, which club for which night, how to plan a week around the traffic. Written from what we book every day, not from a press kit.
Are the venues in the guides bookable?
Yes. A venue named in a guide links to its live page on FirstBali, with photos, opening hours from its Google listing and the booking request — and the guides embed those live cards, so the facts come from the same place as the rest of the site.
Why do the guides never give prices or opening times?
Because both change. Table minimums and deposits depend on the venue, the night and the season, and hours move with the calendar; a figure printed in a guide would be wrong within weeks. Amounts are confirmed by the concierge with the venue, and hours live on each venue page, refreshed nightly.
Who writes them, and how often are they updated?
The FirstBali concierge team, in English and French, then translated into the site’s ten other languages with every heading and link checked. A guide is revised when the island changes — a venue closes, a scene moves — rather than on a calendar.