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. My favorite item up for auction is the 4-night stay for up to 8 guests in a luxury 4-bedroom beachfront villa in Koh Samui, Thailand. Sounds pretty awesome to me!

  4. Already planning a trip to Indonesia for next year. Two nights at the Viceroy would be fantastic.

  6. This is crazy! Viceroy Bali looks beautiful, and set in a location with lots of activities nearby. I’m headed to Bali in April, so this would be great if I won!

  7. I would choose the 2 Nights At Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We are going to Bali in december and could just add on to our trip!

  8. I would choose to stay at the Viceroy because it offers private villas and basically looks nicer than anyplace I have ever stayed!

  9. Bali is on my bucket list
    Like this offer and anything in the Hilton family (like Hampton Inn)

    Thanks

  10. Southeast Asia is my favorite place to travel. Great hospitality and great food.
    Viceroy Bali looks awesome. I would love a stay there. Also, Luxury Travel Diary has other interesting Indonesia and Malaysia hotels up for auction, that may help me break my addiction to hotel loyalty programs.

  11. The 7-night Adriatic sailing cruise looks amazing. But the Viceroy Bali would be paradise for my wife & I.

  14. My favorite item up for auction is the 7 day Croatian sailing cruise. I’ve always wanted to explore that coast and doing it on a boat for 200 GBP is a heck of a deal!

  15. I took my mom on our first trip ever together to Asia last November, and Bali was on our destination. My mom is extremely hardworking and rarely ever gets a treat, so she was raving to her coworkers about how she was going to be in paradise for a few days. But on arrival in Asia, there was a volcano eruption off Bali and all flights to Bali were grounded for days and ours were canceled. We never made it to Bali… I’d love a stay at the Viceroy to make up to her for that disappointing trip.

  16. Wow–I could spend hours going through that site and dreaming. I did put a bid in on a tour in London! Fingers crossed.

  17. I’ve never been to Bali or stayed in a private villa, so this would encourage me to try both out in one trip!

  23. Send me to paradise. The Viceroy Bali sounds like paradise. Favorite thing: gorgeous villas in excellent location.

  24. I would bid for the watch on the auction site, and If I win this hotel stay, after or during my stay I would present it as a gift to a member of staff who made my stay memorable.

  25. My favorite item up for auction is the 2 Nights At The 5-Star Grand Hotel Kronenhof In Switzerland. Never been to Switzerland (or Europe at all), and it looks MARVELOUS!

  26. I would choose to stay at the Viceroy because I spend 80 hour a week talking to people and coordinating issues, it looks relaxing and QUIET!

  29. This hotel looks amazing! I have a trip coming up to Bali in July, and would love to experience my first time Viceroy. Pick me, pick me!

  30. Thanks for the giveaway. Would love a visit to Viceroy Bali, to soak in the natural surroundings.
    The spa would be an extra nice treat for my over-worked/stressed partner.

  32. I like the Klip farmhouse stay in South Africa. It’s a beautiful country sand I want to go back

  34. Why stay at the Viceroy Bali? Because we’ve never been there! It’d be a heckuva getaway with my wife.

  35. Totally would love to explore Ubud, Bali. Away from the usual Kuta, Jimbaran and Nusa Dua regions.
    Viceroy looks amazing!

  36. Could this hotel look any more amazing? I am going to Bali to relax for a few days, and this looks the a terrific place to do just that! Please choose me! As for the item I’d likely bid for, it would definitely be the 2 nights at Bartholomeus Klip Farmhouse, South Africa. That looks beautiful as well!

  37. My favorite auction item at Luxury Travel Diary is 2 Nights At MesaStila Resort, Java, Indonesia.
    It competes with the Bali villa.

  40. I would stay at the Viceroy because I just came back from a small resort with all villas in Bali and already can’t wait to go back!

  41. Favorite item up for auction. So many… 3 Suite Nights At Bond Movie “Spectre” Location, Austria. Thanks Gary!

  43. Looking to make one last F class trip on CX to Asia 2 before the AA devaluation, and then use Avios to hop around. Haven’t decided on destinations but Bali is definitely in the top 5. Awesome accommodations like this will make a Bali stop a no-brainer! The Viceroy looks absolutely beautiful.

  48. I have checked out this hotel and it def looks awesome, I would love to win because i like cheap and free travel, If i didnt i wouldn’t be following this blog!

  49. My favorite auction is the one in Greece because that is where my husband is from and I’m trying to win it!

  50. if i had to pick one auction it would be the 7 NIGHT CROATIAN ADRIATIC SAILING CRUISE. always wanted to do something like that

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