Description

Bali airport, Ngurah Rai officially, sits close enough to Kuta and Seminyak that most people check into a hotel within 45 minutes of landing. Traffic, depending, always. That's rare for an island this popular. Changes how a first trip gets planned, too. No wasted day getting oriented. Land, drop bags, be on Kuta Beach by sunset, start the real itinerary the next morning. This is roughly where most versions of a Bali 7 day itinerary plan start pulling apart from each other. Some front-load beaches. Some rush straight to Ubud. The difference usually comes down to how much time gets burned driving versus actually being somewhere.