Bali Trip is on any budget, the wonder island of bali offer many resorts, each resort offer something different, To enjoy your Bali Vacation you must choose the resort you would like to stay as mentioned below depend on your budget.
Kuta and Legian Area
Kuta and Legian, beautiful beach,white sand,1 of bali's best surfing beach, the busiest tourist resort in bali, kuta and legian dedicated to all bugdet, they offer cheap hotel and expensive hotel, many back packers, they have a few shoping malls. Kuta and legian also famous for it's night life, most young Australian like to stay here, alot of party, good shoping for branded item, along Legian street there are some discoutique, bars, and night club.You can see the sunset from Kuta beach. About 15 minutes from the airport.
Sanur Area
Sanur, more quite than Kuta, located in east side beach of Bali, white sand, you can see sun rise from here, take about 25 minutes from the airport, they have many middle class hotels cost around US$ 60 per night, most europians like to stay here, for the surfing only good during rainy season (Dec-Feb).
Nusa Dua Area
Nusa Dua, most luxury tourist resort in bali, beautiful garden along the street, golf courses, located in the south of Bali, about 20 minutes from the airport, Nusa Dua offers many luxury 5 stars hotels with their own private beach, dominated by Japanese tourists, also famous for the marine sport,diving, and turtle island snorkling tour, started from Tanjung Benoa beach (paninsula) in northen side of Nusa Dua.
Jimbaran Area
Jimbaran, located in the south part of Bali about 15 minutes from the airport, they have some 5 stars hotels like Ritz Carlton hotel, Four Season, Intercontinental hotel, Jimbaran very famous for the seafood cafe along the beach, with it's fresh grilled seafood with the sunset, the people said, romantic dinner.
Seminyak Area
Seminyak , in the north of Kuta, white sand beach, 20 minutes from the airport, there are some famous restaurants and bars here, Seminyak offers some 5 stars hotels and a lot of villas, a litle bit more quite than Kuta, 15 minutes from Kuta by car.
Tuban Area
Tuban, in the south of Kuta,is the the area where the Bali international airport located, Tuban have many big hotels and middle class hotels, white sand beach, in Tuban there is 1 of bali's bigest mall, Discovery mall, 10 minutes from Kuta by car.
Ubud Area
Ubud, Come deep inside to the Balinese way of life, culture and tradition. Ubud is a district, well known as the center of the art of Bali, such as dancing, painting, wood carving and alot more, Ubud can be divided in to many villages, most of the village there have their own arts speciality, it's about 1 hours drive from the airport to Ubud, Ubud is a very peaceful area, no beach, located in between beach and mountain, 1 hour from the beach and 1 hour to the mountain, nice weather, green area, the hotel here offer a very nice situation, many people come for learning Balinese arts or learning yoga, some hotels have nice rice terrace view and some bulit in the valey of Ayung river (the river have very deep valey and very famous for white water rafting) Ubud also good for shopping, but for the Balinese arts handicraft only. In the town of Ubud you can visit the monkey forest, Ubud palace, and Ubud art market.
Lovina beach Area
Lovina beach, located in the north of Bali about 3 hours by car from the airport, quite and peaceful beach, black sand, Europians like to stay here, no 5 star hotel, they offer the smaller and cheaper hotel, Lovina beach famous for the morning dolphin watching tour.
Amed and Tulamben Area
Amed and Tulamben, located in the north east of Bali, 3 hours drive from the airport pass the town of Amlapura,situated behind of Bali's highest volcano "Agung Volcano" black stony beach, good for snorkling and diving, they have the American ship wreck, from the second world war, about 25 meters deep in side the sea.
Candi Dasa Area
Candi Dasa, located in the east Bali, about 2 hours from the airport,you can see black sandy beach during the low tide, when high tide you can't go to the beach because they built a wall to protect the land from the abrasion, most of the tourist here is a diver and some transit tourist if they do the Bali round trip.From here you can see the beautiful view of Padang Bay ferry harbour.
Padang Bay Area
Padang Bay, is the harbour for the ferry going to Lombok, about 1,5 hours from the airport,there are some small hotel for the tourist going to Lombok or coming from Lombok, the beach here also good for snorkling and diving, going to Lombok using ferry from here take about 4 hours crossing the Lombok strait.
Medewi beach Area
Medewi beach, located in the west of Bali about 2,5 hours from the airport, Medewi beach is a black sandy stony beach, there are not many hotels here, most of the tourists here are the surfers, because Medewi beach offers big long wave.
Created to help people planning to visit Bali get a general idea of the major hotel areas where most visitors stay, each area map of Bali includes restaurants, temples, tourist attractions, important landmarks and government buildings, some shops together with links to better hotels in the area. That said, the maps are not intended to be street atlases and are not always to scale but you will get a good general idea of what is to be found in the area you plan to be staying in and you will find no shortage of good street maps available upon arrival.