Bali has thousands of hotels calling themselves romantic, and a depressing number of them are a concrete block with a plunge pool photographed from its one good angle. We booked and stayed in eighteen over two years. These six are the ones we would go back to, ranked.

A note on how we picked: we paid full price at every property, we never told them we were writing, and we scored each one on privacy from neighbours, whether the pool is usable at midday, how far you really are from somewhere to eat, and the quality of the bed. Ratings and prices below were checked in August 2026.