Bali, First SUP Trip, Any Top Tips ?

Just about to plan my first SUP trip to Bali with the family for November and wanted some local advise on 4* accommodation and best areas to stay which are in close proximety to suitable SUP beaches.

Also is it best to rent or take my own board, if it's rent can anyone reccomend any good rental outlets ????

Thanks in advance
Phil

I hired a Jimmy Lewis 8'6 Quad from Jankie [Bali Kite and SUP]earlier this year,good value.
His hire paddles are a bit suss,I'd take my own paddle next time.You would be better of on the Nusa Dua side in November.

Hey Rossall, we went last Jan which is wet season like November and stayed at Nusa Dua - the Grand Hyatt actually. If you want the ultimate spot to stay on the east coast of Bali this is it I reckon. Straight in front of the Hotel are about 5 different breaks ranging from Waikiki type rollers (depending on the swell size) to North Shore Hawaiian outer reef monsters. Wind is pretty much offshore most of the time and the beach is immaculate. We had no crowds except for the left right next to the headland which is full of beginners and a couple of locals.

My kids could surf out the front in waist/chest high cruisey waves and I could paddle 15 mins to the south and surf double overhead bombs.

This part of the east coast gets all the swell unlike Sanur which is much further north.

You can also escape all the craziness of places like Kuta which would do my head in if I had to hang out there too long.

Fly Virgin and take your own SUP, we took 2 SUPs 3 surfboards and assorted crap with no excess - also take your own wine (for the misses) and pay someone to get you through customs.

Hello guys, yes November is definitely East Coast time.
Nusa Dua area waves are bigger. Hotels generally are more expensive except if you start to go toward the Benoa area.... I don't like much Nusa Dua as it doesn't really feel to be in Bali and everything is expensive there.. Sanur you have more choices of waves and close by you can go to Serangan (turtle island) where waves are about the same size of Nusa Dua OR travel North toward Keramas where there are few new interesting spots...
FYI paddle we rent are Jimmy Lewis Kanaha full fiber paddles with paddle guard.
We have about a dozen cut every 5 cm to accommodate everyone height (same as QuickBlade).
Paddle are good, quite more flexible then Carbon (we like for waves), about 150 grams heavier then the same model Carbon but pretty much indestructible..
Only broke 3 in 4 years!!
That is why we rent them out without big fuss...
Bye Jankie

Just return yesterday,I saw one sup'er out at Padma St and I saved a sorry arse at Kuta reef lefts snapped his leggie and could not swim WTF.

Wave Hunter Bali,big shop on Sunset Road.

I met a guy named Ketut when I was over there - really helpful.
Just ask around for Ketut.

Ha ha Scotty.

Seriously though I don't get why everyone goes to Sanur when going in Wet season.

If you got kids who surf like me the breaks at Nusa Dua are literally 100 meters off the beach and are safe as. We could walk 50 m from our hotel room and be straight in the surf with a choice of 5 breaks (more if you count diff peaks). Didn't drive once for a surf. We also had swell everyday. The smallest the outer reef got in 2 weeks was 5 foot (10 foot face) but out front was still 2 foot. Best part was though - absolutely no crowds even on the main break you just sat one peak down, and this was the Jan school hols!!

You don't ever eat in the hotels but if you walk 10 min up the road you leave Nusa 'Disney Land' Dua and are in a 'typical' Bali villiage with markets, cheap food, etc (choice of 2).

Jankie offered to deliver me a board as well when I was thinking of hiring one for my eldest son so you can rent boards there as well. PM if you want the details of a good driver.

Yeah when I go to Bali I like to stay in a $2 a nite accom with the locals and there family on the cliffs ... wouldnt be caught staying in the likes of nusa dua... As not my thing but I'm a single guy with no kids ...if I was traveling with the family I would do what goatie did as that way there is something for everyone !!
You should defiantly go exploring if you get free time ?? Turtle island is a super fun wave and you could find a peak to yourself early and look further away the more the look the more you find in Bali !!
Mate where ever you end up will be a super fun trip Bali rocks!!

Yeah no worries with Air Asia, pretty basic, no movies, alcohol etc but it's only a 4 hour flight from Perth and you can pick up flights real cheap.
I forget what size SUP they would take but know it would have covered my 10'2 if I had decided to take that for I think it was $20 extra each way for 15 kg of sporting goods, as I said I paid more but took a ship load.

I stayed at Balian which is a couple of hours up the coast from Kuta, the main break there and up the road at Medewi is pretty packed with surfers though, but we went for a couple of long paddles and found a way of carrying the SUPs on motorbikes and managed to find a couple of quieter breaks up around that area.

I put a couple of photos here www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/Review/82-Jimmy-lewis-Stun-Gun/, lovin the new Stun Gun.



I think you would be better off on the other side of the Island at Sanur or Nusa Dua as others have suggested in November though, more chance of clean offshore conditions and a bit more for the family to do.

Hyatt or Mecure hotel in Sanur any preference same price, both look good, has to be family friendly

phil

Just planning my 1st trip to Bali also never been before always wanted to...

Probably just take my 9'5 Hokua should be perfect

Running a solo trip so far over xmas & NY 2-3 weeks to SUP, chill and party a bit.

Will likely stay in Sanur looking at the Villa Puri Ayu rent a motorbike

Any other tips, suggestions or good breaks would be great

Cheers

i only dropped in on ya once.... get over it
oh.... you mean the continental gentleman?