We make Bali work for groups.

A destination management company is a local operator that runs the ground side of a trip in its own destination: transport, arrivals and departures, activities, dining, coordination with venues and accommodation, and on-the-ground support while the group is there. A DMC is based where the trip happens, so it works from local knowledge and its own team rather than from a booking screen.

In Bali, most of the work is movement and timing. A Bali DMC meets every arrival at Ngurah Rai Airport (DPS), moves the group between areas whose drive times change with traffic and ceremonies, books group dinners at restaurants that are often small, plans excursion days around temple ceremonies and crowds, and absorbs changes such as delayed flights or closed roads without the group feeling them.

Mandara Bali does this with its own drivers, coordinated from Ubud by one team.

A travel agent sells and books travel, usually flights, hotels and packages, often from outside the destination. A retreat planner or event planner designs the program and looks after the client relationship. A DMC runs the trip on the ground in the destination.

They work together rather than compete. A retreat planner or travel company keeps the client and the program; Mandara Bali handles what happens once the group lands in Bali.

For a couple travelling alone, usually not. Once you have a group arriving on several flights, staying in more than one place, or moving around the island on a schedule, a local ground team saves the organizer a great deal of coordination and removes most of the risk of things going wrong on the day. The larger the group and the tighter the program, the more a DMC is worth.

Yes. We work as the Bali ground partner for organizations that bring their own groups: travel companies, retreat organizers and agents who curate the trip and often travel with it. They stay the group's main contact; we manage the on-island operation in Indonesia.

Transport is charged at our published rates: a private car with driver is $36 for a half day (5 hours) or $72 for a full day (10 hours); a Toyota HIACE is $179 and a HIACE Premio $225 for a full day. Time beyond the booked hours is 10% of the rate per hour. Prices are in USD, as of October 2026.

For groups, we usually quote one per-person, per-day rate covering the ground operation for the whole stay, so the organizer has a single number to plan around.

All of Bali. Our office is in Ubud, and we work wherever your group is staying or travelling: the Bukit Peninsula (Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua), the south coast (Seminyak, Canggu, Sanur), and the highlands and east (Sidemen, Munduk, Kintamani, Amed).

Mandara Bali was founded by Chandra Sahadewa, who was born and raised in Bali and leads ground operations from Ubud. He selects and works with the drivers personally. The company is PT Asta Mandara Nusantara, operating as Mandara Bali.