Who Wants a Free $2500 Stay in Bali?

by Gary Leff

Bali is one of my favorite relaxing places in the world. I go to the Maldives often, but it can be tough to get to and tough to get awards to. When folks come to me looking for French Polynesia and can’t find awards I’ll often suggest Bali.

It’s an interesting place with good food, cultural activities, and some of the world’s friendliest people. And there’s fantastic luxury accommodations available at reasonable prices for those spending US dollars.

Viceroy Bali is a family-owned resort with just 25 private pool villas. It’s in the artistic region of Ubud, so a nice departure from the more sterile Nusa Dua area of Westernized resorts. It’s a TripAdvisor 5-star and 2016 Travelers Choice award winner. I’ve seen very few properties with reviews this good. In fact, It’s TripAdvisor’s #11 of top 25 luxury hotels in the world.

And I’m going to give away a couple of nights there, with some fantastic inclusions, thanks to Luxury Travel Diary.

Luxury Travel Diary is a high-end travel blog with great reviews based in the UK that has a bunch of travel auctions with real bargains.

As I’ve said before, folks who already know about these auctions don’t like this added attention, because there don’t seem to be enough bidders relative to the value of the offerings and some of these items go way too cheap.


Seriously, a hotel night in the Maldives for an auction ending in about 8 hours going for 28 British pounds as of this writing…

Luxury Travel Diary wanted to highlight some of their deals, and offered to help organize a giveaway of a 2 night hotel stay at the Viceroy in Bali.

What’s included?

  • 2 night stay in a Garden Villa for 2 people
  • Roundtrip airport transfers
  • Daily breakfast
  • One candlelit dinner for 2
  • One couples spa treatment for 2

The hotel lists the value at $2500. It’s being given away by the hotel and Luxury Travel Diary, I’m just helping to highlight it and randomly select the winner. The stay can be taken through July 14, 2017 with July 15-30 and December 20-January 6 excluded.

To enter: leave a comment on this post with your favorite item up for auction at Luxury Travel Diary, or why you would choose to stay at Viceroy Bali. You may enter two times if you wish and answer those two questions one time each in separate comments.

Contest deadline and drawing winner: Entries close Friday, March 4 at Noon eastern. I will draw winner with the assistance of random.org.

The fine print: Advance booking is required and it’s subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply.

For avoidance of doubt, I have no affiliation with Luxury Travel Diary or Viceroy Bali. I am not getting anything in exchange for running this giveaway other than an opportunity to share the place with readers.

I will put the winner in touch with the hotel for booking. They are solely responsible for providing prize to winner. All decisions made in the course of running this giveaway are final and unappealable and your entry signifies your acceptance. The goal here is to make readers aware of a pretty cool auction opportunity, and to give away a stay. So please don’t make it hard on me for doing so!

You probably won’t fly to Bali and back for a 2 night stay, though you might add onto it and do other things in the region and it’s a great opportunity to spend American AAdvantage miles at just 55,000 miles each way in business class or 67,500 in first class before the March 22 devaluation.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. I would choose to stay at the Viceroy Bali because I have never been to Bali before and it seems like a good gateway to the island.

  5. The item I would want is one of the luxury hotel packages at the Maldives. I’m not picky…

    I’d like to stay at the Viceroy b/c I have a large collection of AA miles I’d like to use before the devaaluation and flying there in Cathay pacific or JAL or Malaysian would be a great way to use them.

  9. 4 nights for 8 in a luxury beachfront villa in Thailand would be great. Our son just got married in Tokyo and it would be fantastic to have a whole family vacation on his side of the world this year!

  10. Item I’d most want on the auction would be one of either stays in Indonesia – it’s next up on my bucket list!

  14. Staying at the Viceroy Bali would be wonderful. We love that part of the world and the resort looks utterly amazing.

  18. favorite item up for auction at Luxury Travel Diary: 2 Nights At Hide-Away Guest House In Knysna, South Africa

  20. So many great options – I would have to choose 2 Nights In A Suite At Relais Villa Roncuzzi In Italy! Looks amazing! Thanks Gary!

  22. I’d love to go to Bali. It is peaceful and relaxing, I love the fact that it’s not in the westernalized part. I actually liked the wide selection of vacations on the luxury website.

  24. I’m planning a trip to Bali for this summer, and 2 night at the Viceroy in Ubud fits perfectly with my plans.

  26. Planning a trip to Indonesia in October so this might work out great for us 🙂 few days in denapasar, couple days at Viceroy..

  27. I would stay here because I’d love to take my mom to such a beautiful place and enjoy it together!

  30. Been to Bora Bora and already have plans for Maldives, hence Bali would be the next one to check off the list.

  43. Favorite item up for auction at Luxury Travel Diary – 7 Night Croatian Adriatic Sailing Cruise With A2A Yachting.

  44. The viceroy bali looks amazing. My wife and I will be in bali for 2 nights in may, this would be perfect. I also like the auction for 2 nights at the mesastila resort in central java.

  47. I’ve been thinking about going to Bali this winter. I’d love to stay at Viceroy Bali because of the gorgeous views, and because they have everything on-site that you’ll need for a relaxing vacation.

  48. My favorite item up for auction is the stay at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, because I have friends in Singapore that I’d love to visit again! (Plus I stayed at the Grand Hyatt on my last trip, and it was fantastic.)

  50. The Viceroy package looks great!! I would love to have the chance to win that and go to Bali. I would bring my mom who has never been to Asia.

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