Most people who stay for months live just outside the centre, in Penestanan, Nyuh Kuning, Sayan or Mas. Pick your neighbourhood and the list sorts by the drive from there at rush hour.
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Lodtunduh · Indonesian tasting menu and food lab
The Locavore team's tasting menu and food lab, ranked 44th in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026, cooking with Indonesian ingredients it forages, grows and ferments itself.
Sri Wedari · Indonesian heritage tasting menus
Indonesian heritage cooking from Syrco Bakker, who earned two Michelin stars at Pure C in the Netherlands, with a botanical cocktail bar and KU, a 12-seat chef's counter.
Central Ubud · massage spa with a hot and cold plunge circuit
Massage and body treatments at two central Ubud spas, each with a hot plunge, cold plunge and steam room, and 30 minutes in that circuit comes with every treatment.
Central Ubud · yoga school with its own vinyasa style
A Yoga Alliance school with its own method, RA Vinyasa, and more than 40 class styles across a jungle shala and an upper shala.
Nyuh Kuning · yoga centre with its own sauna and cold plunges
A yoga, breathwork and meditation centre opened in May 2026 with the Yoga Barn family, running 38 classes a week, with its own sauna, cold plunges and warm mineral pool.
Central Ubud · regional Indonesian cooking
Regional Indonesian cooking from the Locavore Group, with each dish researched in its home region, cooked only with Indonesian ingredients and served family-style.
Sayan · indoor padel, tennis and gym club
A racket and fitness club with three indoor padel courts built to World Padel Tour standard, two covered ITF tennis courts and an air-conditioned gym.
Peliatan · reformer Pilates studio with a heated mat room
Reformer Pilates taught in three levels with small classes, and mat and barre in an infrared-heated room.
Sanggingan · dessert tasting menu
Will Goldfarb, formerly of El Bulli and Tetsuya's, serves a tasting menu built around dessert in a garden compound, with cocktail, natural wine or spirit-free pairings.
Petulu · degustation menus at Viceroy Bali
A 1920s-style dining room above the valley at Viceroy Bali, where executive chef Nic Vanderbeeken cooks seasonal degustations and a sommelier looks after more than 500 wines.
Sri Wedari · sauna and plunge recovery club
A contrast-therapy club of saunas and hot and cold plunges, with steam rituals in the evening and therapists for massage and facials.
Jalan Sandat · wood-fired banya
A wood-fired Russian-style banya a few minutes from the palace, run by steam masters, with an ice plunge, a pool and an open-air bonfire between rounds.
Singakerta · padel academy with indoor courts, a gym and recovery
Four indoor panoramic courts and Spanish coaches, among them former Premier Padel players ranked 60th and 96th in the world, with the gym, pool, sauna and ice bath included in a court booking.
Sri Wedari · strength gym with sauna, plunges and co-working
A strength gym with more than 80 machines from Hammer Strength, Life Fitness and Rogue, plus a Harvia sauna, hot and cold plunges, a pool and its own co-working space.
Monkey Forest Road · modern Indonesian restaurant and cocktail bar
Chef Blake Thornley's modern Indonesian restaurant, with an open kitchen and a cocktail bar, named Best Modern Indonesian Restaurant at the Exquisite Awards 2025.
Nyuh Kuning · Pilates, GYROTONIC and Rolfing studio
A fully equipped Pilates studio with 12 reformers and two GYROTONIC machines, and Rolfing Structural Integration alongside group and private Pilates.
Mas · cedar dome sauna with ice baths
A cedar dome sauna, raised by hand and heated over stones from Mount Batur, where you brew your own löyly from 17 herbs and cool off in two ice baths.
Sri Wedari · air-conditioned gym with sauna, hammam and cold plunge
An 850 m² air-conditioned gym floor zoned by muscle group, with coached classes every day and a sauna, hammam and cold plunge for afterwards.
Kedewatan · riverside tasting menu at Mandapa
Tasting menus by the Ayung River at Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, where nine of the 52 seats are in private bamboo cocoons by the water.
Mas · covered padel club with a recovery spa
Five roofed panoramic courts with coaches from Barcelona and Madrid, and a full recovery spa that comes with every court booking and is open to non-players too.
Teges · eight-reformer Pilates studio
A studio of eight reformers, so no class goes above eight, taught by STOTT and BASI-trained instructors, with private sessions on the Cadillac.
Pengosekan · yoga centre with eight studios
Eight studios and more than 180 drop-in classes a week in yoga, Pilates, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and ecstatic dance, at a centre running since 2007.
Andong · bouldering gym
A bouldering gym with walls for every level, climbing shoes and chalk included in entry, and outdoor rock-climbing and Batur trips.
Penestanan · rooftop coworking with a pool
Coworking on the roof of Outpost's Penestanan coliving, with an air-conditioned focus zone, call booths, and a pool and yoga deck on site.
Lodtunduh · tennis village with padel, pickleball and recovery
Ubud's biggest tennis venue, with seven courts, two of them clay, and Mouratoglou-method coaching, plus padel and pickleball courts in the rice fields.
Nyuh Kuning · coworking with a focus room and call booths
Outpost's first Ubud coworking, open since 2016 near the Sacred Monkey Forest, with an air-conditioned focus room, video call booths and private offices.
Kedewatan · Ritz-Carlton Reserve spa with Balinese healers
A Forbes Four-Star spa at Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, where the menu goes past massage to sessions led by local Balinese healers.
Sayan · Four Seasons spa with private spa villas
Four Seasons Sayan's spa, rated Four-Star by Forbes Travel Guide and rebuilt in 2024 around seven private spa villas, a sauna villa and a sound healing room.
Central Ubud · South American kitchen with a Peruvian focus
A small, chef-owned restaurant cooking South American food with a Peruvian focus, open since 2014.
Penestanan · hatha and tantra yoga school
A Yoga Alliance school teaching traditional hatha and tantra through its own system, in which every class is built on an element.
Central Ubud · specialty coffee roaster and café
The café of Bali specialty roaster Seniman, a short walk from Ubud Palace, with communal tables, plenty of sockets and a quieter air-conditioned room downstairs.
Pengosekan · rice-field yoga shala with a sauna and cold plunge
The open-air shala of the Lumeria retreat, looking over rice fields, with 35 classes a week and a Sauna Detox of hot sauna, steam room and cold plunge in two-hour sessions.
Central Ubud · garden spa and wellness centre
A garden spa and wellness centre with GP consultations, ozone therapy and colonic hydrotherapy on the same menu as massage, facials, reflexology and sound healing.
Penestanan · open-air garden yoga shala
Linda Madani's open-air garden shala by the jungle, with 90-minute classes in hatha, vinyasa, yin, restorative, Qi Gong and Yoga Nidra.
Mas · coworking space with phone booths and private offices
A coworking and coliving building opened in July 2026, air-conditioned throughout, with communal desks, four private offices, single and double phone booths and a meeting room.
Katik Lantang · tennis and padel club
A racket club opened in December 2025, with three indoor hard courts for tennis, three padel courts, a junior academy and a recovery room with an ice bath.
Mas · day club with a gym, pool, sauna and hammam
A day club where one pass covers a modern gym, a dry sauna, a hammam, cold plunges and a 22 by 7 metre pool that looks out over the jungle.
Lodtunduh and Sayan · sports physiotherapy inside two training venues
Sports-injury physiotherapy from clinics inside two Ubud training venues, the Ubud.Fitness CrossFit gym and the Mahima racket club, with dry needling and sports massage.
Mas · physiotherapy and sports massage
A physiotherapy clinic inside Bam Bam Padel for padel and gym injuries and the neck, back and shoulder trouble that long laptop days bring.
Mas · sports club with a 25-metre lap pool
A family sports club with a 25-metre lap pool, squash and basketball courts, and a co-working lounge upstairs.
Central Ubud · open-air yoga studio over the rice fields
Small morning classes with Yoga Alliance-registered teachers, in open-air studios that look over the Sok Wayah rice terraces and the jungle.
Peliatan · Muay Thai and boxing gym
Muay Thai and boxing classes on the top floor of Massa's Fitness Center, with an open gym for training on your own.
Nyuh Kuning · Muay Thai gym
Muay Thai, boxing, kickboxing and strength classes for beginners through to advanced.
Andong · coworking space with a private room
A coworking space in its own building beside Puri Andong Villas, with a large, quiet shared room, a private room and a restaurant downstairs.
Lodtunduh · CrossFit box with recovery and physio
Ubud's official CrossFit affiliate, also known as CrossFit Ubud, running coached classes on a 2,300 m² site with a sauna, ice bath, pool and physio.
Petulu · padel club with M3 Padel Academy coaching
Four floodlit panoramic courts from a group that runs eight padel clubs in Bali and Java, with international coaches and a kids' academy.
Sayan · covered padel club above the Ayung valley
Three roofed panoramic courts on Jalan Raya Sayan that look over the Ayung River valley, with a pro shop and a café.
Singakerta · martial arts gym for jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai and boxing
A martial arts gym teaching Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the gi, Muay Thai, boxing and capoeira, with every discipline open to all levels.
Central Ubud · coworking and coffee space
An air-conditioned coworking and coffee space in the middle of town, with small, medium and large meeting rooms you can book by the hour.
Sri Wedari · pickleball club with nightly open play
Pickleball on shaded, open-sided courts, with walk-in open play every evening and a round robin on Saturdays.
Sri Wedari · boxing, Muay Thai and MMA room at Gymnasium Bali
The boxing, Muay Thai and MMA room inside Gymnasium Bali, with a ring, coached group classes and private sessions.
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