The floating tray
Breakfast in the pool
Breakfast, or a bottle of something cold, floated to the middle of your own pool. The slow start to a slow day, or the way to mark a very good occasion.
From your own pool to the open ocean, here's what a stay on Gili Air can hold. We arrange any of it before you arrive, so you just show up.
Gili Air isn't a surf island, but the reef breaks around it, and a short boat to the better waves off Lombok and the other Gilis, keep the surfers among us very happy. We point you to the right break for the swell and your level.
The Gilis are famous below the surface: turtles on almost every dive, healthy reef, and the wall and drop-offs the area is known for. Beginners learn here; experienced divers come back for it. The schools are a short walk from your door.
You don't need a tank for the best of it. Slip in off the beach or take a boat around the three islands: turtles, coral and clouds of fish, a mask and fins all it takes.
Meno for a quiet afternoon, Trawangan for a night out, the south-Lombok islands for near-empty snorkelling. Your own boat, on your schedule, we arrange it.
Past the beach bars there's a real island: the mosque, kids on bikes, warungs where lunch costs next to nothing. The part of Gili Air most visitors never see.
Breakfast, or a bottle of something cold, floated to the middle of your own pool. The slow start to a slow day, or the way to mark a very good occasion.
After dark, the private pool becomes a mirror of stars. You lie back, you float, and the silence does the rest: the kind of quiet you book a whole island to find.
A lounger in the shade, a book, the pool a step away, and birdsong instead of traffic. Some guests barely leave, and call it the best holiday they've had.
Tell us what you fancy and your dates, and we sort the boats, the guides, the timings and the price. You just turn up.
Your own boat around all three Gilis and the best snorkelling spots. Mask, snorkel and fins included, and turtles all but guaranteed; it's their reef.
Out on a little local fishing boat with your own captain: a snorkel stop or two, then the sun going down over the ocean. Hard to beat for two.
The Gilis are famous underwater. First time or your hundredth, the dive schools are a short walk from your door, and we'll point you to the good ones.
No engines, no noise, an island made for it. Ninety minutes of yoga as the light comes up, beginners and old hands alike.
An hour of stillness beside your own water, together, at the same time, if you like. We bring everything; you don't move a muscle afterwards.
A speedboat across, then your own driver: monkey forest, a traditional market, a Hindu temple, waterfalls. As much or as little as you want.
Lesser-known, emptier islands off south Lombok: Nanggu, Tangkong, Sudak. Snorkelling somewhere almost no one else is.