Hotels in Ubud – Budget and luxury hotels are abundant in Ubud, a town considered as the cultural centre for Bali. Hotels are scattered throughout Ubud, with some having views overlooking its lush paddy field, majestic mountain views and other scenic parts of Ubud. Budget hotels usually take up locations near the village and the town's outskirt area, providing spacious and clean rooms with good amenities and basic toiletries. There are a number of restaurants and café's around but it would be helpful to decide if you ask the tour guide in advance regarding the taste and quality of the eateries around here. This is because cheap restaurants do not guarantee tasty foods and vice versa.Read More

There are quite a number of Ubud hotels near Ubud market and hotels in Jalan Monkey Forest Ubud Bali are quite popular too among tourists. Apart from that, Jalan Campuhan accommodation is much sought after too.

Luxury hotels however, occupy more strategic locations where views are much spectacular and picture-perfect, some at hillsides with views overlooking the paddy fields, or at edge of Ayung River valley with Mount Agung as backdrop where views of those active volcanoes are simply majestic. Offering spacious and lavish rooms, premium amenities and toiletries, these posh hotels emphasize on rich and fresh natural surroundings as a gateway from busy city life. Coupled with unmatched premium spa treatment, you will feel that your perfect little escape to Bali is complete.

The village surrounding the hotels and spas here are famous for woodworks and crafts with plenty of shops and workshops scattered throughout the village and town. If you're planning to buy woodcraft, this is the best place to buy as this is where most of the woodcraft products of Bali are made from, thus you can get good price too.

Ubud – Renowned for its rich arts and culture, Ubud is considered as the cultural centre of Bali with reputation to have the best woodcrafts and wood arts in entire Bali. Originally an agriculture based village with paddy as main crop, now the entire village has extensively grown to become a village-town with plenty of shops, workshops and other business outlets crammed inside limited area of Ubud town and making it one of the busiest tourist-bound town in Bali.

qNUbud has a population of about thirty thousand people, and being located in central region of Bali, Ubud is rather far from trendy and party live hood such in Kuta. A famous arts and crafts hub, there are many remarkable architectural crafts scattered throughout the town, giving an ambience that arts and crafts are highly regarded and appreciated in this part of Bali. The town may seem to be rather small compared to other town in Bali but apart from its size, Ubud actually consists of fourteen villages where at most of these calm and tranquil communities, life is as peaceful and ever going as usual.

Most of the attractions in Ubud are at located outskirts of the villages where you will need to travel at least twenty kilometres from the town to reach the nearest attraction site. It's also advisable to hire a tour guide, because attractions like the Goa Gajah, Gunng Kawi, Pura Kehen and Tirta Empul has deep cultural, spiritual and historical significances which may be lost without proper explanations from these highly knowledgeable local guides.

While you're still in the town centre, take a visit to Puri Saren Agung, the royal palace of the kings of Ubud where the monarch stayed until the 1940s. Some of the royal descendants are still living there up to this day, in parts of the complex where it's off limit to the public. Entry to the rest of the palace is free and if you're timing is just right lucky, you may just be able to watch the famous Ubud traditional cultural dance, normally performed on auspicious occasions.