Unsettled: Bali

The boundaries between work, life, and travel are becoming blurred, fundamentally changing how we live today. Unsettled brings together groups of travelers and professionals from around the world for uniquely co-created experiences. Each one-week, two-week, or one month retreat is designed to break your routine and inspire a renewed sense of growth, meaning and adventure through transformational travel and peer-to-peer learning.

Whether you're working full time, or going through an intentional career transition, our retreats are designed to help you break out of your routine and explore a new destination with an incredible group of peers.

Each destination and experience is different, however most one-month and two-week experiences include comfortable and centrally located accommodations, a coworking space, full-time staff dedicated to lead your experience, a productivity-driven environment, regular dinner parties and themed conversations, peer-to-peer workshops, curated events, epic adventures, spontaneous activities and hopefully one of the best experiences of your life. Our one-week experiences are more adventure driven, whether urban or nature focused -- and you can explore what each trip holds by visiting that particular retreat page.

You can learn more on Our Experience page.

Yes! In fact, most of the time while away is up to you. The Unsettled experience is your experience, don't forget! We create just enough structure so that you can plug into the different activities, workshops, and connect with people as you wish.

Nothing is required, and everything is voluntary; however, we do look for people who contribute, and highly recommend that you do. Typically, the more you put into your experience, the more you get out. Our role is to provide a platform so you are informed and can participate as you like.

Most days are unstructured work days, exploration days or adventure days (whatever your current activity!) You can work from our central coworking space, a coffee shop, the beach or a park, depending on the destination if you need to. Or, you can go explore with other participants to places we recommend or discover your own new secret spots. We tend to have a fixed family-style group dinner once a week where everyone can check in and catch up with each other, as well as numerous other dinners, events, activities and surprises throughout each week that everyone is welcome to join. You never know the kind of inspiration that can come through connecting with a community, so be sure to try and take advantage of it while you're able.

For our two-week retreats, these are focused a bit less on work, and much more around living in the moment for the two weeks you are there. Our two-week trips are specifically built to give you a personalized community experience -- one where you can sync up daily with a group of fellow participants, opt in or opt out of a shared calendar of cool happenings, and live alongside us as we visit the world's most vibrant cultural capitals or natural wonders.

Most people on an Unsettled retreat are professionals with multidimensional personalities and vast interests. This isn’t a post-college party trip. Our average age of participants is mid 30’s to mid 40’s, but we’ve hosted folks of all ages. Living Unsettled is truly ageless.

We’ve hosted remote works from all backgrounds, artists and designers, first-time entrepreneurs and professionals who are transitioning into new careers. You’ll find people with all kinds of passion from food and wine, transcendental meditation to CrossFit, Bikram yoga to kiteboarding, and diving to flying. On any given day, however, most of us are content hanging out with each other, exploring new places, and trying new things.

As soon as you pay your deposit, your spot for the trip is secured. This deposit remains refundable for 10 days following your payment, unless you pay within 60 days (no transfers or refunds within 60 days), subject to a $200 administrative fee. Should you need to transfer your payment, you can do so up to 60 days before the start date of your trip, also incurring a $200 administrative fee, and must use your credit within 12 months (void afterward). Please note that neither refunds nor transfers are available if there are fewer than 60 days remaining before your trip's start date. Additionally, all participants are required to obtain travel insurance. This insurance must cover trip cancellation or interruption, including cancellations made by you, as well as provide for emergency evacuation and international health insurance coverage throughout the duration of your travel with Unsettled. Participants must also sign Unsettled's Liability Waiver upon arrival.

It's best to arrive on the start date of your retreat, or a day or two before. Our accommodations are not open early, but there are plenty of hotels that you can stay at before the retreat begins. 

Our retreats takes place in Ubud, located in what we consider the heart of the island. It’s a quieter side of the island than compared to the hustle and party-vibes of the south. You’re more likely to meet people in Ubud who are here to take a yoga teacher training than they’re here to party on a vacation. 

Our villa is in a mixed residential neighborhood, just outside of central Ubud, and a 15 minute walk to our coworking space. We also have fiber optic internet running right into our villa, so you can work from your room or head over to our coworking space that’s open 24/7.

We typically have 12 - 15 participants stay onsite with us. Rooms have porches and we have a pool and common space to get together. 

Outside of our villa, we choose one local adventure for the group to go out and explore per week. We take you to our favorite spots to chill and decompress as well as some of the best experiences behind the tourist facades in Bali.

Yes. Unsettled Bali includes breakfast 2 to 3 days per week to get the community together in the mornings. Unsettled also takes care of a welcome dinner, a farewell dinner, a few lunches, and a weekly dinner on site. In general, plan to take care of your lunches and dinners throughout the month. A typical lunch around Ubud can go for $3-$10 USD. Dinner can go from $5-$50, depending on if you are eating local or at a name-brand western hotel.

Yes! We have a series of local adventures planned for the month that will be included as part of the program. These adventures are aimed to connect you with local culture by exploring some of Bali’s hidden gems. However, Unsettled is all about co-creation, so we encourage you to create and plan for your own adventures as you are there and we will be there supporting you to make them happen!

All the rooms have a private bathroom, A/C and  a mini fridge. 

The type of rooms mainly depend on where they are located in the villa and the type of design they’ve got. 

Both the standard and the standard plus are mostly balinese-type of rooms, with local furniture and decor, while the suites and premiums are more modern. The  main difference between the standard and the standard plus is that the latter are located above the common area and have a jacuzzi. 

Regarding size, the smaller rooms are the standard and the larger ones are the suites, with these ones being located further away from the main entrance of the villa. 

All the rooms are located around a main lawn with a pool. 

Visas (like travel tickets and insurance) are super dependent on your personal details and situation. We’ve had people from dozens of nationalities join us in Bali and visa requirements will vary from person to person, so we can’t know how visas work for every passport. It is 100% your responsibility to understand what visa type you need for your nationality. 

In general, most nationalities can get a 30-day evisa prior to departure. It is important that you check that you are eligible for this with your passport type. Your trip will be a lot smoother if your flights in and out of Bali span no more than 30 days. If you stay over 30 days, you will either have to apply for a visa extension or pay an overstay fee. For the visa extension, make sure to tell this to the passport control at entry so that they give you an extendable visa. You must initiate the visa extension process at the airport upon arrival. To complete the process, we can recommend a local professional halfway through the retreat who can help you get an extension for an extra fee. But to be clear, all things related to visas are your responsibility. 

If you are staying beyond 30 days and plan on paying the overstay fee, please note - the cost of an overstay recently increased to IDR 1,000,000/day - so factor this into your travel plans and visa needs. For some, this will make the airport visa extension the preferred option.

A transfer from the airport to Ubud is included for arrival day or one day before. We can only shuttle you from the airport to Ubud, so if you arrive early and stay on some other part of the island, you are responsible for making your way to our villa on arrival day.If you want to return to the airport to take the shuttle, please note that in the arrival survey or discuss it with the Experience Leader.

If you arrive on arrival day, the driver will take you to our villa. 

If you arrive one day before arrival day, the driver can shuttle you from the airport to your own accommodations in Ubud (see below for hotel recommendations) and then you can make your own way to the villa for Unsettled check-in on arrival day.

There are tons of options all around Ubud for you to choose from!

Here are some options people have stayed in before:

· Ubud View Bungalows 

· Putri Ayu Cottage

· Argasoka Bungalow on Monkey Forest 

All of these should cost $45 USD or less/night.

Great you asked!  When you are getting closer to the experience, we will send you a Packing List with our suggestions. 

For now, know that Bali and Ubud is a hip, laid back beach-y scene. Pack for a comfortable beach holiday, with a couple of outfits for going out (though nothing too fancy), and good sneakers for walking/trekking. Expect warm and humid to hot weather year round, and a chance of showers. Other than that, bring whatever you need to be comfortable. Most things are available in Ubud and Bali including clothing, toiletries, cosmetics, food items and so on... but be sure to bring anything you can't do without just in case. This also goes for any medicines you might need.

Keep in mind what you will need to be productive and get work done. Be sure to grab a plug adaptor so any electronics can fit Euro-style Type C plugs (2 round prongs).