🇮🇩 Indonesia · SE Asia
Sanur
Bali’s gentle sunrise side — reef-calm water and a 5 km beach path.
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The Sanur guide
Inside the premium guide
A preview of the real thing — a detailed premium guide, researched and checked in 2026. Click a page to enlarge.
THE COMPLETE CITY GUIDE
INDONESIA · RESEARCHED 2026
Sanur
Bali’s gentle sunrise side — reef-calm water and a 5 km beach path.
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The cover
What this guide covers
38 pages, A4 — cover to back. A phone edition comes with it.
What’s inside + how to use
The place & what a day costs
City at a glance — the best-of snapshot
What & how to eat
Where to eat — cheap & local
Mid-range & special occasion
Sweets, cafés & coffee
Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Supermarkets & typical prices
Markets & food halls
Souvenirs & shopping
Where to stay — neighbourhoods
Budget, boutique & luxury stays
Hostels — the backpacker shortlist
Six big things to do
Top 10 experiences — book & compare
Nightlife & after dark
Best day trips
Insider tips + safety & scams
Ready-made day plans
Getting around
Arrival, tickets & transport cheat sheet
When to go + best time to visit
Cash, cards & tipping
Connectivity & insurance
Health, safety & entry
The travel toolbox
Every link, one place
Sama·Sama · Sanur guide38 pages
Everything it covers
STRAIGHT FROM THE GUIDE
Designed cover to cover
One real entry from the Sanur guide
The price tables further down give you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — 30 of them in Sanur, each priced, each one tap from Google Maps.
€1.50–3Nasi Bali Men WetiA tiny, legendary Sanur breakfast spot near the beach — nasi campur ayam with shredded chicken, egg, lawar and a fierce sambal, all wrapped in banana leaf. Queues form early; go before it sells out mid-morning.📍 Open in Google Maps →One of 30. The rest are in the guide.
Everything. Two files. One price.
This isn’t a blog post saved as a PDF — it’s a detailed, premium, 38-page A4 magazine — researched and checked in 2026, designed to be used. And every purchase comes as two files: the A4 edition for your laptop, tablet and printer, and a phone edition laid out tall and narrow so you never pinch or zoom — the same guide re-flowed into 99 phone-sized pages. Keep it on your phone or print it, open it at a street corner in Sanur and it answers the question you’re standing there with.
38A4 pages — cover to back
99phone pages — same guide, re-flowed
267+researched prices in €
242live, verified links
113jump straight to Google Maps
61hand-picked photos
Add it up: 570+ researched details — every price checked, every venue placed, every link live. More usable information than a week of blog-tab hopping, in one beautiful file.
- Made for the phone in your pocket — as well as the A4 magazine you get a phone edition: one attraction per screen, nothing cut, every link still live. No pinching, no sideways scrolling.
- Every venue is one tap from navigation — 113 Google Maps links mean you never type an address on holiday.
- Real prices, not vibes — three honest daily budgets (€24 / €52 / €130) and prices on everything from a dorm bed to a splurge dinner.
- Zero sponsorships — nobody paid to be in this guide. If it’s in, it’s in because it’s good.
- Book everything from the page — stays open on Booking.com & Hostelworld, experiences on GetYourGuide, Trip.com & Klook, transport on official operator sites.
- Plan-it-for-me included — ready day plans, a Top 10, a best-of snapshot, and neighbourhood “best for” labels that choose your base with you.
Buy the Sanur guide — €9.95 →Or buy Sanur on Etsy ↗
Was €14.50 — now €9.95, every city the same.
This page gives you the ranges. The guide gives you the places — every venue named, priced and linked.
SHOESTRING
€24/day
dorms, street plates, transit
COMFY
€52/day
private room, sit-down meals, a treat
FLASH
€130/day
nice hotel, good dinners, no maths
🧮 Trip maths
€365 total
What Sanur costs, day to day
🛵 Getting around
Gojek
Grab
Bolt — not in Indonesia
Uber — merged into Grab across SE Asia in 2018
Scooter rentalper day€4.3–€6.9
Trans Metro Dewata busper ride€0.3
Fast boat to Nusa Penidaround trip€10–€17
Airport taxi, fixed boothone-way€8.7–€12
🛏 Stays
Per night
Guesthouse double w/ breakfast€16–€26
Hostel dorm bed€6.9–€12
Airbnb 1-BR villa€35–€69
Beach resort double€52–€104
Monthly
Studio near the beach path€304–€477
1-BR villa w/ shared pool€391–€651
🛒 Groceries & daily life
Pepito / Grand Lucky — proper supermarkets, fair prices
Indomaret / Alfamart — minimarts on every corner
Sindhu morning market — produce at local prices — go before 8 am
Water 1.5 L€0.3–€0.5
Milk 1 L€1.5–€1.9
Eggs ×10€1.3–€1.7
Bread loaf€1–€1.6
Rice 1 kg€0.8–€1.2
Chicken breast 1 kg€2.4–€3.3
Bananas 1 kg€0.7–€1.1
Local beer 0.5 L (shop)€1.5–€2
🍜 Eating out
Warung nasi campur€1.3–€2.6
Smoothie bowl€3–€4.3
Beach-path breakfastper person€3.5–€6.1
Seafood dinner on the sandper person€8.7–€17
Resort fine diningper person€26–€52
🎡 Things to do — with kids
Reef-calm lagoon swimmingNo waves — Bali’s kid-friendliest waterfree
Turtle conservation centre (Serangan)donation€1.7–€4.3
Bali Safari & Marine Park (45 min)entry€25–€39
🌙 Things to do — grown-ups
Sunrise on the beach pathfree
Nusa Penida day tourincl. lunch€30–€48
Lembongan snorkel tripper person€26–€35
Balinese massage hour€6.9–€13
🌤 Climate
Day °CSea °CRain
Best: May – Sep · Wet: Nov – Mar
Dry season May–Sep is breezy and sunny; the wet season means hard afternoon bursts, rarely all-day rain. Budget the $35 visa-on-arrival + $10 tourist levy.
✈️ Getting there
AirAsiaScootVietJetJetstarKuala Lumpur€35–€74
Singapore€39–€82
Perth€78–€139
Fly to DPS — Sanur is 30–45 min from the airport.
🏧 ATMs & money
Fees: Most big-bank ATMs add no local surcharge — your bank's fee is the whole cost. Limits per pull are modest (2.5 M Rp on 50k-note machines).
Limits: 1.25–2.5 M Rp on 50k-note machines; look for 100k-note machines (marked on the slot) for ~3 M Rp pulls.
Best machines: BCAMandiriBNI
Use ATMs attached to real bank branches, never lone boxes in tourist lanes. On Gili Air, machines run dry and offline — carry cash over from Bali/Lombok. Exchange only at authorised 'PVA Berizin' offices; street 'no commission' boards are sleight-of-hand counters.
🩺 Health & safety
Vaccines: Routine, Hepatitis A, Typhoid. Bali has rabies in dogs and monkeys — admire, don't touch; any scratch (looking at you, Monkey Forest) means a clinic that day.
Health: 'Bali belly' is mostly avoidable: sealed water, hot cooked food, peeled fruit. One serious rule with a simple fix: drink only sealed, branded spirits — informal arak has caused methanol poisonings. On Gili Air, cuts from coral are the main 'injury' — pack reef shoes and antiseptic. BIMC and Siloam hospitals in Bali are solid.
Tap water: ❌ Never drink the tap (Bali belly's main culprit). Sealed bottles only; on Gili Air, carry enough over.
Safety: Homicide rates here are among the world's lowest — day-to-day Bali and the Gilis feel gentler than most European cities. Petty theft from parked scooters is the main nuisance: use the seat lock. Volcanoes occasionally grumble; if Agung is active, flights reroute and the authorities are well-drilled.
Emergency: 112 general · 118 ambulance
🌱 Vegan, veggie & gluten-free
Plant-based: Tempeh and tofu are national treasures — gado-gado, urap, nasi campur can all go plant-based. Warung 'vegetarian' signs are common in Bali.
Gluten-free: Rice-centred and largely GF by default; kecap manis (sweet soy) contains wheat — ask for plain sambal instead.
'Tanpa terasi' skips the shrimp paste · Ubud is one of Asia's vegan capitals — entire raw/vegan menus.
🛂 Visa & entry
For most short tourist trips, citizens of the US, UK, EU/Schengen, Canada, Australia and New Zealand either enter visa-free or get a simple online authorisation (an eVisa or eTA) before flying. Typical visa-free stays run 30–90 days. Some countries want a visa arranged in advance, and a growing number ask you to fill an online arrival or eVisa form even when 'visa-free' — so always check the official portal for your exact nationality before you book.
Rules change — always verify with an official source for your nationality before you book.
💬 Traveller tips & reports
Bali on grandma mode — Sanur is flat, calm and asleep by ten — that’s the charm. The 5 am beach-path walk to the sunrise, a warung coffee, swim before nine. Repeat forever.
@sunrise.side · Jun ’26 · ▲ 110