Capella Ubud, Bali is a tented camp in the forest of Keliki, north of Ubud: 22 tents and one lodge, each with its own pool, laid out by Bill Bensley as the camp of 19th-century European settlers.
It suits a couple who want 3 or 4 nights in the forest, with dinner cooked over fire, rituals at the river temple and a Culturist planning each day. It suits less anyone who struggles with stairs or travels with children under 6: the camp steps down the valley, and the hotel itself says so.
Official siteWould you go?
Keep it among your hotels and see it on the budget globe, month by month.
A camp on a slope of forest above the Wos River, where the day runs on rituals: tea at 3pm, a blessing at dusk, dinner round a fire.
Capella Ubud opened in 2018 in the village of Keliki, in the district of Tegallalang, and turned 8 in July 2026. Bill Bensley designed it as the camp of European settlers of the 1800s; the hotel’s own page says not one tree was cut and the tents were moved around them. There are 23 keys: 22 one-bedroom tents of 173 m² and a Two Bedroom Lodge of 217 m², counted in the fact sheet. The MICHELIN Guide gives it Two Keys, and Travel + Leisure named it the best resort in Indonesia in 2026, as the fact sheet records.
Each tent has a theme and a name of its own: guests write of the Carpenter’s Tent, the Archivist and the Panther, with antiques, a hammered-copper bath and a deck over the trees. The day has a shape. Breakfast is at Mads Lange; afternoon tea and the evening cocktail are served free in the Officers’ Tent, a lounge kept for guests; Api Jiwa cooks one dinner a night on fire made of rice straw from the paddies; the Campfire shows silent films of 19th-century Bali with hot chocolate and marshmallows.
The price of the setting is the slope. The camp runs down to the Wos River on steps: one guest counted about 120 between tent and reception, another the equivalent of 6 flights of stairs. The accommodation page advises against it for children under 6 and for anyone with mobility problems; the Forest Tents sit close to the camp’s facilities and are reached by buggy, and the Lodge is near the restaurants and spa. Ubud is about 10 km away by road, with a free shuttle 3 times a day.
Lumina Guide 2027
We choose the hotels of this guide ourselves, one at a time: no one pays to be in it.
How we choose the hotelsWhat we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
Keliki, in the forest about 10 km north of Ubud’s palace by road: quiet, with a free shuttle to Ubud 3 times a day and the airport 46 km away.
A tented camp of 23 keys by Bill Bensley, opened in 2018, built around the trees, with a Culturist for every stay and a lounge kept for guests.
22 tents of 173 m² and one lodge of 217 m², each with its own pool, heated in the Keliki Tents and the Lodge; copper baths, open bathrooms.
Breakfast at Mads Lange included; Api Jiwa’s dinner cooked on rice straw at IDR 1,850,000 plus 21%; tea and cocktails free in the Officers’ Tent.
Auriga Wellness, 3 treatment tents and treatments in your own tent; the 20-metre heated Cistern; a 24-hour tented gym and daily yoga.
Google Hotels’ calendar, read on 16 October 2026: IDR 14,566,912 to IDR 28,769,790 a night for 2 between October 2026 and September 2027, tax and service included.
What do Capella Ubud’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write of the quiet of the Keliki forest and its sounds at night; the less happy mention the steps between the tents and the rest of the camp, and one guest, in September 2026, finds the hotel a little far from the airport.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write of large tents, each with a theme and a name, the copper bath and the private pool; the less happy describe the toilet behind a curtain and the stairs to reach the tent.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write of staff who call them by name and remember each day’s plans, of the Culturist who looks after them from arrival and of tea and a snack left in the tent at turndown; one guest, in July 2026, describes the courtesy room given for a shower before a late flight.
Nearly every guest who mentions it is happy with it. Guests write of breakfast at Mads Lange served at the table, with plenty of choice and the valley in front; one guest, in April 2026, remembers the table looking over the pool and the palms.
6 in 10 guests who mention the price find it fair. Those who are happy write that dinner at Api Jiwa and the service are worth the price; those who are not find the massages dear next to the rest of Ubud, and one guest, in November 2023, found lower rates through travel agents.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.8 | 161 | 94% |
| Room | 8.3 | 108 | 88% |
| Staff and service | 9.1 | 282 | 94% |
| Breakfast | 8.4 | 33 | 97% |
| Price | – | 25 | 64% |
The scores come from 500 Google reviews with text, left from 11 July 2020 to 9 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Ubud: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 16 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Ubud:
Price: for two on the night of 2 March 2027, from 14,566,912 IDR (seen on Google Hotels on 16 October 2026).
The welcome with incense, a Keliki Tent and the deck of another tent, the Campfire, dinner at Api Jiwa and a blessing in the forest.
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
YouTube
The camp’s living room, for guests only: blue armchairs, a billiard table, books and board games. The compendium sets the free rounds: morning coffee from 6:30 to 9:30, afternoon tea from 3 to 5, the cocktail and canapés from 6 to 7pm.
A tented dining room of 44 seats named after the Danish trader known as the White King of Bali. Breakfast, included, runs from 6:30 to 10:30 from a menu of Indonesian and Western dishes; lunch and dinner from noon to 11pm.
One seating a night, at 7pm, round an open kitchen that cooks on straw left from the paddies. The menu costs IDR 1,850,000 a person, or IDR 1,150,000 plant-based, plus 21%; 10 seats at the counter and 6 at private tables, from age 8.
A fire in an iron bowl on a stone base, cushioned benches and a screen among the ivy that shows silent black-and-white films of Bali in the 1800s. Open from 6 to 11pm, with hot chocolate and marshmallows.
3 treatment tents in the middle of the camp, open 9am to 9pm, and therapies in your own tent. The menu follows the moon: a New Moon or Full Moon massage costs IDR 1,900,000 for 75 minutes, plus 10% service and 11% tax; from age 18.
The temple beside the Wos River holds daily blessings for guests and villagers, says the compendium. The Melukat, a water purification at the Beji spring below the camp, ends with a lucky-charm bracelet, the Tridatu, as the spa menu explains.
The camp is a slope of steps. The accommodation page says some tents sit high on steep ground and advises against the camp for guests with mobility problems; in May 2026 a guest wrote of about 120 steep steps between tent and reception, and in April 2026 another of the equivalent of 6 flights of stairs. The Forest Tents are reached by buggy and the Lodge sits by the restaurants and spa.
The hotel advises against the camp for children under 6, because of the terrain, on its accommodation page. Booking.com accepts all ages; Api Jiwa takes children from 8 and the spa guests from 18.
Only some private pools are heated: the infinity pools of the 6 Keliki Tents and the 19 m² pool of the Lodge. In the Valley, Forest and Terrace Tents the water is at natural temperature, as each tent’s page says; in May 2026 a guest wrote that the pool of a Valley Tent was very cold, deep in the valley under the canopy. The shared Cistern is heated.
The bathroom is open to the room. In April 2026 a guest wrote that no door separates it from the bedroom; in September 2025 another, that the toilet sits behind a curtain. Each tent has a copper bath with indoor and outdoor showers.
The airport transfer is free only from 4 nights. The accommodation page includes the return trip with a Camp Navigator for stays of 4 nights or more; the hotel puts Ngurah Rai at 1 hour 45 minutes by car.
Menus and treatments are quoted before 21% tax and service, as the bar’s menu and the spa menu say. The nightly prices Google Hotels shows in Indonesia already include it: the hotel’s own listing for 17 October 2026 read IDR 22,401,466, tax included, on Google Hotels.
No pets: Booking.com says pets are not allowed, and so does Google Hotels. The camp also forbids drones, says the accommodation page.
The Officers’ Tent is kept for guests, says the hotel’s page. Visitors book dinner at Api Jiwa or Mads Lange or a treatment at Auriga; 2 visitors who called in to look round, in August 2025 and May 2022, were not allowed to.
| Ngurah Rai airport | About 46 km by road; the hotel counts 1 hour 45 minutes by car |
|---|---|
| Airport transfer | Free with a Camp Navigator for stays of 4 nights or more; for shorter stays the hotel’s car is charged, at a price the pages do not give |
| The Ubud shuttle | Free, from the camp at 10am, 1pm and 4pm to Dalem Puri Temple in Tebesaya, back at 10:40am, 1:40pm and 4:40pm; book ahead |
| Ubud by car | About 10 km to the palace, Puri Saren; the hotel puts Ubud centre at 20 minutes’ drive |
| Temples to the east | Gunung Kawi and Tirta Empul, at Tampaksiring, about 9 and 10 km by road |
| Inside the camp | Steps down the valley; a buggy runs to the Forest Tents, and in September 2025 a guest wrote that a walking stick is given when needed |
Services read on the hotel’s pages and compendium on 16 October 2026. Distances are calculated on OpenStreetMap’s roads from the hotel’s point on Google Maps; the times by car are the hotel’s.
Capella Ubud, Bali · Jl. Raya Dalem, Keliki, Tegallalang, Gianyar
Loading map…
Recommended for you
Mads Lange serves from 6:30 to 10:30, from a menu; on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday Surya yoga starts at 9.
The free shuttle leaves for Ubud at 10, 1 and 4; on Fridays at 4pm a Camp Ranger leads a walk in the Keliki rice fields.
Afternoon tea is free from 3 to 5; the Cistern’s bar serves until 8pm.
The cocktail and canapés from 6 to 7 in the Officers’ Tent or the Sandikala ritual at the camp temple at 6, then Api Jiwa at 7 or the Campfire until 11.
On 16 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 822 ratings. The figures by topic come from the latest 500 reviews with a text, from July 2020 to October 2026. They describe stays we have not checked, and some are about a dinner at Api Jiwa.
5 guests writing on Google between April and September 2026.
GoogleGuests told the staff that the sounds of nature had been loud on their first night, soothing as they were; after that day’s turndown there were earplugs on the bedside tables.
GoogleA family stayed in the Two Bedroom Lodge with their children and none of them wanted to leave; they remember the heated plunge pool and the little surprises that made the stay feel personal.
GoogleA guest found the tents the most memorable rooms of any hotel, with 2 practical notes: the equivalent of 6 flights of stairs every time you leave, and a bathroom with no separating door.
GoogleGuests leaving on a late-night flight, already checked out of their tent, were given a hospitality room to shower and rest before the drive to the airport.
GoogleA guest on a first trip to Bali stayed in Valley Tent no. 27, The Panther, in the middle of the valley, and advises walking down to the temple straight after breakfast.
A 5-star tented camp of 23 keys in the forest of Keliki, in the Tegallalang district north of Ubud, opened in 2018 and designed by Bill Bensley as a camp of 19th-century European settlers. The fact sheet counts 22 one-bedroom tents of 173 m² and a Two Bedroom Lodge of 217 m², each with a private pool.
The MICHELIN Guide gives it Two Keys; in Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards 2026 it is the first resort in Indonesia and the fifth hotel in the world, as the fact sheet records. It celebrated 8 years in July 2026.
5 categories, all listed on the accommodation page: 6 Keliki Tents on the valley’s edge with a heated infinity pool; 7 Valley Tents deep in the forest; 6 Forest Tents near the camp’s facilities, reached by buggy; 3 Terrace Tents on the outer edge, one over rice fields. All are 173 m², for 2 adults, with a king bed.
Every tent has a hammered-copper bath, indoor and outdoor showers, a deck with daybeds, an Illy coffee machine and a trunk of free drinks, including Bintang and infused spirits, replenished daily. Air conditioning is manual, without a thermostat, says the compendium; a television comes only on request.
Every tent and the Lodge has its own pool. The 6 Keliki Tents have a heated infinity pool and the Lodge a heated pool of 19 m²; in the Valley, Forest and Terrace Tents the plunge pool is at natural temperature. The Cistern, the shared pool, is heated.
The only key with 2 bedrooms: 217 m² with a living room open onto a heated pool of 19 m², a king bedroom and a twin bedroom, each with its own bathroom, near the restaurants and spa, says its page. It takes 4 adults, or 2 adults and 2 children; the Jungle Family Escape sells it for 3 nights with a family blessing at the Wos River Temple.
Breakfast is included, at Mads Lange from 6:30 to 10:30, ordered from a menu of Indonesian, Asian and Western dishes; the same tented room serves lunch and dinner from noon to 11pm. Api Jiwa has one seating at 7pm.
The Mortar & Pestle Bar by the pool opens from 10am to 8pm and the Campfire from 6 to 11pm; in-tent dining, served in stacked tiffin boxes, runs 24 hours. Menus add 21% tax and service: a Bintang at the bar costs IDR 90,000, a nasi goreng in the tent IDR 320,000, on the bar’s menu and the in-tent menu.
A dinner of several Asian courses cooked on an open fire of rice straw from the nearby paddies, at one seating a night, at 7pm; it begins with a cocktail at the Campfire. The menu costs IDR 1,850,000 a person, or IDR 1,150,000 plant-based, plus 21%. There are 10 seats at the chef’s counter and 6 at private tables, and children are welcome from age 8. Visitors from outside book it too, by WhatsApp.
3 treatment tents in the middle of the camp and treatments in your own tent as well, says the wellness page; the spa opens every day from 9am to 9pm. The menu follows the phases of the moon and uses natural products blended for the hotel; the hotel’s pages list no sauna or steam room. The Armory, a tented gym, is open 24 hours.
A Balinese, New Moon or Full Moon massage costs IDR 1,900,000 for 75 minutes and IDR 2,200,000 for 90; a 150-minute ritual IDR 3,500,000; the couple’s retreat IDR 6,900,000; therapies in the tent IDR 2,000,000 for an hour. The menu adds 10% service and 11% tax and recommends booking 3 days ahead; walk-ins are taken when there is room.
Auriga takes guests and visitors aged 18 and over; a visitor’s booking is secured by card. The day retreats of 240 minutes cost IDR 3,900,000 plus 21%, with 24 hours’ notice.
On Jalan Raya Dalem in the village of Keliki, district of Tegallalang, on a forest slope that runs down to the Wos River. Ubud’s palace is about 10 km by road; the hotel counts 20 minutes’ drive to the centre.
A free shuttle runs 3 times a day: from the camp at 10am, 1pm and 4pm, 30 minutes to Dalem Puri Temple in Tebesaya, and back at 10:40am, 1:40pm and 4:40pm, booked ahead, says the compendium.
No: the camp is inland, in the forest above the Wos River, with no beach of its own. The beach at Sanur is about 29 km by road on OpenStreetMap; the water here is the Cistern and the pool at your tent.
Ngurah Rai is about 46 km by road; the hotel puts it at 1 hour 45 minutes by car. The return transfer with a Camp Navigator is free for stays of 4 nights or more, says the accommodation page; for shorter stays the hotel’s car is paid, at a price not published.
Google Hotels and Booking.com list free parking on site.
Google Hotels, read on 16 October 2026, a night for 2 adults: IDR 22,401,466 on 17 October and IDR 19,411,920 on 25 October 2026; IDR 16,956,700 on 24 November; IDR 28,769,790 on 21, 22 and 23 December, the highest in the calendar; IDR 16,954,116 on 28 January 2027; IDR 14,566,912 on 2 March 2027, the lowest; IDR 19,250,176 on most nights from April to September 2027.
The amounts are in rupiah and include the 21% tax and service, as the sellers’ links on the card show: for 16 to 23 November 2026 the hotel’s own listing read IDR 22,750,982 a night. The calendar names no tent, and gave no price for 7 and 8 March 2027. Breakfast is included.
Included, on the guest benefits page: breakfast, afternoon tea and the evening cocktail with canapés, the drinks in the tent, 4 pieces of laundry per person a day, the Ubud shuttle, the weekly activities, the gym, a 30-minute photo shoot and, from 4 nights, the airport transfer; the Advance Purchase page adds mountain bikes.
Extra: Api Jiwa, lunch and dinner, the bar and the spa, all plus 21% tax and service. Booking.com lists an extra bed at IDR 1,420,000 a night for a child up to 11 and IDR 2,502,500 from 12; a cot is free. Cash is taken in rupiah only.
On 16 October 2026: Advance Purchase, 10% off when booked 14 days ahead, with a non-refundable 50% deposit and, once confirmed, the whole stay charged if cancelled; Third Night On Us, a third night free for stays of 3 nights until September 2027; Forest Calling, with no minimum stay and a 100% deposit; Jungle Family Escape in the Lodge; and A Season of Giving, from 1 December 2026 to 10 January 2027, with a 75-minute treatment and a firefly walk at Taro.
On the official site, through its booking engine, or on the travel sites. The public offers ask for a deposit that is not refunded, 50% or 100% of the stay. For its other rates the hotel publishes no cancellation terms.
Check-in from 3pm and check-out by noon, say the tent pages; a later departure is asked of the Culturist, says the compendium. A guest writing in July 2026 describes the hospitality room given for a shower after check-out, before a late flight.
No. Booking.com says pets are not allowed, and Google Hotels lists them as not allowed.
Children are accepted, but the hotel advises against the camp for children under 6, because of the steep terrain, on its accommodation page. Api Jiwa takes them from 8 and Auriga from 18. The Little Stars programme is free at 11 on most mornings, crafts, a walk in the rice fields with a farmer, planting a wishing tree; Keliki painting costs IDR 500,000 plus 21% for a child.
The Two Bedroom Lodge is the family key, and the compendium recommends asking for babysitting 24 hours ahead. A guest in November 2025 recommends the camp to families with older children, because of the steps.
Hardly: the hotel itself says it is not suited to guests with mobility problems, on a steep forest slope; the Keliki and Valley Tents are reached by steps. The Forest Tents are reached by buggy and the Lodge sits near the restaurants and spa. One guest counted about 120 steep steps to reception, another the equivalent of 6 flights of stairs; a guest writing in September 2025 says a walking stick is given when needed.
The canvas lets the forest in all night, which the hotel counts as part of the stay; guests who mentioned the noise, writing in September 2026, found earplugs left at turndown. The air conditioning is manual. Insects come with the forest: the welcome bag holds repellent and a rain poncho, and the hotel recommends non-slip shoes for the wet season.
The bathroom is open: several guests write that the toilet sits behind a curtain, one that no door separates bathroom and bedroom. Each tent has its own theme and name, after a tradesman, a soldier or an artist, as a guest put it in January 2026.
Free, on the weekly schedule: Surya yoga in the morning and Chandra yoga in the late afternoon, a botanical walk, eco-printing, Balinese dance and calligraphy, HIIT, the farming club, a group walk in the rice fields on Fridays and, at 6pm, the Sandikala ritual at the camp temple.
Paid: the one-hour Keliki rice-paddy trek on the spa menu (IDR 600,000 plus 21%) and the days out: a Melukat at the springs of Sebatu at IDR 2,500,000 for 2, Mount Batur by vintage jeep at IDR 5,100,000 for 2 or a 1970s VW through the villages. The hotel’s pages offer no golf.
On 16 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 822 reviews, Tripadvisor 4.9/5 from 658 and Booking.com 9.6/10 from 35. Guests name the staff who learn their names, the tents and Api Jiwa; what they warn about is the steps and the toilet behind a curtain, and those who find the bill high point at the massages next to the rest of Ubud.
Yes, on a small scale. The 2025 packages linked from the weddings page start at IDR 41,000,000 for a ceremony for the couple, with 2 nights in a Keliki Tent required; IDR 63,750,000 buys a ceremony for up to 16 guests at the Lodge, and a buy-out of the whole camp starts at IDR 1,185,000,000 for 50 guests, all plus 21%. Venues run from the Wos River deck for 6 to the Campfire lawn for 45, with a buy-out of the camp. Smaller occasions, a proposal or a candlelit dinner, are arranged by the hotel’s Wedding Whisperer, says the weddings page.
The 2026 programme was not on the site on 16 October 2026. For 2025 the festive page listed a 7-course dinner at Api Jiwa at IDR 2,500,000 a person with a glass of Champagne and a menu at Mads Lange at IDR 1,480,000, plus 21%. The A Season of Giving offer asks for 3 nights for stays from 20 December 2026 to 10 January 2027.
It is open; its pages on 16 October 2026 announce no closure and sell stays into 2027. The camp celebrated 8 years in July 2026, says the Keliki, Our Home page.
Bill Bensley, as a tribute to the European settlers of the 1800s, says the home page; the dining room takes its name from Mads Lange, the Danish spice trader called the White King of Bali. Not one tree was cut, the hotel’s page says: the tents were moved to keep the valley’s contours.
Small ones: the fact sheet lists the Wos River deck and a tent’s deck for 6, the Lodge’s deck for 14, the Cistern’s deck for 40 and the Campfire lawn for 45, the last 2 with a buy-out of the camp. Groups of more than 20 count as a buy-out, quoted separately; the 2025 wedding packages price a 3-course dinner at Mads Lange at IDR 750,000 a person, plus 21%. Wi-Fi is free in every tent and across the camp.
Suites and pool villas stepping down to the Ayung River, rice terraces of its own, a butler for each and dinner in Kubu’s bamboo cocoons.
59 villas and mansions with private pools on the Uluwatu cliffs, 160 metres above the ocean, a butler for each and a funicular down to a guests-only beach
Stone pavilions with gardens and pools in the Menoreh Hills, Borobudur at the end of the valley and the gamelan every evening.
The monorail back from Magic Kingdom, lagoon views and the Lava Pool; choose hotel rooms and villas separately.
3 ways back from Magic Kingdom, then spa and lagoon-side dining.
Savanna wildlife, pools and dining; buses take you to the parks.
Generous rooms, gardens and golf; Tower Suites changes the entrance, deck and service.
Ocean or forest rooms, warm pools and breakfast; fog remains part of the stay.
Fountain views, pools and central Strip; the spa is under renovation and extras add to the bill.
Shows, lazy river and remodelled rooms; scale, pool schedules and extras affect the choice.
A terrace on the central Strip; Fountain View depends on category, while music and extras affect the stay.
Spacious suites and canals on the Strip; enclosed bedrooms, views and Prestige require a specific choice.
This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
