There is no such thing as the Bali swing. There are roughly a dozen of them around Ubud, separately owned, priced differently and scattered in three different directions out of town.
Two of them are fighting over the name. One holds the trademark and trades as the official one. The other is called Real Bali Swing and says it was first. They are forty minutes apart, in different regencies, and a ticket to one buys you nothing at the other.
That is why so many guides print an address that does not match the brand at the top of the same page. Start with the village name, not the trading name.
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Who is who
| Operator | Where | Drive from Ubud | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bali Swing | Sidan, Gianyar, east of Ubud | About 30 minutes | ≈ $20 to $25 solo |
| Real Bali Swing | Bongkasa Pertiwi, Badung, south west of Ubud | About 25 minutes | ≈ $35 to $45 |
| Aloha Ubud Swing | Tegallalang area, north of Ubud | About 20 minutes | ≈ $19 to $26 |
| Tegallalang rim swings | Along the terrace rim, north of Ubud | About 20 minutes | ≈ $3 to $10 |
| Zen Hideaway | Near the Ayung, north west of Ubud | About 20 minutes | A room rate |
| Wanagiri Hidden Hills | Above Lake Buyan, far north | About two hours | ≈ $3 to $5 |
Bali Swing, Sidan: the name, not the address most guides print
This is the business that holds the registered trademark, which is why it ranks first on a search. It is not the site most travel articles are actually describing when they write about the official Bali Swing, and it is not the one over the river gorge. The ticket buys twelve named platforms, flying and panoramic swings, a tandem, a bed swing, a spinning seat, three nests and photo terraces, with no time limit on the visit and children from five admitted onto the swings, under fives free. As a couple it runs to roughly $38, and $65 for a family of four. The dress, from around $14, is a separate charge, and so is a car from Ubud at around $17 for up to six people and lunch ordered from a menu. The photographer costs from around $14 solo and more for a couple or a family, with drone shots priced per platform on top, and staff photographers cover the angle your own phone cannot reach.
Real Bali Swing, Bongkasa Pertiwi: the address in most guides
Most English-language guides describing the official Bali Swing print this address, on the opposite side of Ubud from the trademark holder. It claims to have opened the first swing and sells around fifteen single swings, three tandems and a dozen nests over the Ayung gorge rather than a field, with a buffet lunch and a free shuttle from Ubud already in the ticket. Entry without the swings runs closer to $10. Only the photographer, around $12, and a dress, rented at the gate if you want one, are still to pay for. A photographer walks the party between platforms, though the arc carries riders out over the gorge, so a friend on the ground gets the drop but rarely the face.
Aloha Ubud Swing: often listed as a Bali Swing, booked as a separate business
A smaller, quieter site near Tegallalang, sold on its single long swing and its nests rather than on the name. Short queues outside the middle of the day. Transport, dress rental and photography are all separate packages, and the site is small enough that a phone from the viewing side genuinely works. It is frequently listed as a Bali Swing in roundups, which is fair as a description and misleading as a booking: it is a separate business with its own gate and its own prices.
The Tegallalang rim swings: no claim on the name, the cheapest ride
Private businesses strung along the terrace rim, each with its own gate, separate from the terrace entrance fee itself. A few dollars buys one ride over the rice valley, a costume at some of them, and no ticket, waiver or queue system. The attendant usually shoots it on your own phone, which is the real difference: you keep the file and pay nothing for it.
Zen Hideaway: a stay that happens to own a famous swing
Near the Ayung, north west of Ubud. Half the images that make people search for a Bali swing were taken here, at a property most searchers will never book: the jungle shot with the volcano behind it. The rate is a room rate, and a high one, in exchange for near total privacy compared with the parks. There is no photography desk because there is no park, so the camera is yours.
Wanagiri Hidden Hills: a viewpoint with swings, not a swing park
Two hours north above Lake Buyan, too far from Ubud to be a swing outing on its own. It only makes sense inside a day already heading north to the lakes and the mountain temples. A few dollars per platform buys swings and nests framing the twin lakes, a different picture entirely from the jungle ones, shot by the attendant on your phone for a small tip. Several rival gates sit on the same stretch of road, and the cool air up there is a welcome stop on a north island driving day.
Price bands checked in September 2026, quoted as ranges on purpose: gate prices move with the season.
What a ticket actually buys
The two big parks sell the same afternoon in opposite ways, and the gap only shows up once you add the things you were always going to want.
Sidan posts the lower number. Entry there is around twenty dollars on your own, and it buys the platforms and nothing else. The dress has a price. The photographer has a price, and a different one for a couple and for a family. The car from Ubud has a price. Lunch is ordered from a menu like any restaurant.
Bongkasa posts the higher number and then stops charging. The package runs thirty five to forty five dollars a head and the buffet lunch and the shuttle from Ubud are already in it. Only the photographer, and a dress if you want one, are still to come.
So the answer to which is cheaper depends entirely on what you intend to do when you get there, and it genuinely flips.
| Sidan, bare entry | Bongkasa, package alone | |
|---|---|---|
| On your own | $20 to $25 | $35 to $45 |
| As a couple | $36 to $42 | $70 to $90 |
| Family of four | $64 to $72 | $140 to $180 |
Add a dress each, the operator's photographer, a car from Ubud and lunch, and the ranking flips.
| Sidan, with dress, photos, car and lunch | Bongkasa, with photos, dress paid at the gate | |
|---|---|---|
| On your own | $68 to $91 | $46 to $59 |
| As a couple | $109 to $143 | $81 to $104 |
| Family of four | $183 to $240 | $151 to $194 |
The pattern is consistent. Travelling alone, wanting nothing but the ride and arriving under your own steam, Sidan is the cheaper day by a clear margin. Adding a dress each, a photographer and a car, the unbundled gate overtakes the package and keeps going. Families feel it hardest, because three of those four extras are charged per person.
The photograph is the product
Nobody queues for ninety seconds on a rope. They queue for the file afterwards, and the operator knows exactly what that file is worth.
Every park of any size employs its own photographers, sells the results by the set, and prices drone shots separately per platform. None of it is included in the entry fee at either of the big two. This is not a scam and it is not hidden, but it is consistently left out of the number people quote each other before they go.
Your own phone is welcome and does most of the job. Where it fails is the shot the whole business is built on: the wide frame looking back at the seat from beyond the drop, taken from a platform you cannot stand on. That angle is the thing being sold. Everything else you can get yourself.
Two practical consequences. Travelling with someone, one of you on the ground with a phone covers most of what you want and you can skip the package. Alone and there for the picture, buy the photographer rather than the extra swings, because a second ride adds nothing you will keep.
How safe is it, honestly
The gap between the big parks and the roadside platforms is wider here than anywhere else on this page.
At a proper park the sequence is the same every time. You buy at a desk, you sign a waiver, somebody runs through the rules, and a member of staff straps you in and does the pushing.
Weight limits are posted at each platform, commonly around two hundred and fifty kilos on a single or tandem swing, more on a bed swing and less on a tree nest. Children are generally taken from five upwards.
The restraint is not the same everywhere and it is worth knowing which you are getting. Some sites use a full harness worn under your clothes, which is why they ask you to arrive early enough to put it on. Others use a lap strap, which is quicker and holds you in the seat rather than to the rigging. Both are a great deal better than the third option.
The third option is the roadside swing: a plank, two ropes over a branch, a man to push you and no paperwork at all. Some are perfectly well built. You have no way of telling which, because there is nothing to inspect and nobody to ask.
Which one suits which traveller
Once the names are sorted out the choice is straightforward, because these places are genuinely different from each other.
| If you want | Go to | Because |
|---|---|---|
| The whole day handled, with lunch and a lift | Real Bali Swing, Bongkasa Pertiwi | One package covers the swings, the buffet and the shuttle from Ubud, so nothing else is negotiated on site. |
| The most platforms for the lowest entry | Bali Swing, Sidan | Twelve named installations and a cheap gate, as long as you genuinely skip the dress and the photographer. |
| The drop over a river gorge | Real Bali Swing, Bongkasa Pertiwi | The rigging hangs over the Ayung valley rather than over a field, which is a different sensation entirely. |
| Rice terraces in the frame | Aloha or the Tegallalang rim | Both sit in terrace country north of Ubud and pair with a terraces morning without any doubling back. |
| A swing for the price of a coffee | The Tegallalang rim swings | A few dollars a ride, the attendant shoots it on your phone, and you keep the file at no extra cost. |
| Quiet, and the volcano behind you | Zen Hideaway | It is a property rather than a park, so in practice you are booking a room to get the picture. |
| Lakes rather than jungle | Wanagiri Hidden Hills | Two hours north above Lake Buyan, and only sensible inside a day already heading that way. |
Getting there, and when to go
The drive is the part of this day that goes wrong, mostly because people pick the swing after they have booked the car.
From central Ubud, Bongkasa Pertiwi is about twenty five minutes south west and Sidan about thirty minutes east. Those are opposite headings, so a driver hired for one is no use for the other, and the two are the better part of an hour apart from each other. North towards Tegallalang is a third direction again, roughly twenty minutes.
Bongkasa hangs over the same gorge the Ayung rafting trips run through, a few minutes from several put-ins, so it pairs well with a morning of white water rafting without crossing Ubud. Sidan does not.
Coming from Seminyak, Canggu or the airport rather than Ubud, add an hour and a half each way in traffic and treat the swing as the anchor of a full day rather than a stop. The Bongkasa shuttle only runs from Ubud, so from the south you are paying for a car regardless.
Timing matters less than at the terraces, because none of this is about light. It is about queues. The parks open between eight and nine and the first ninety minutes are the quiet ones. By late morning a popular platform can hold you up longer than the drive did. If you are combining the swing with anything else, do the swing first.
Bring cash. Card acceptance at the desks is patchy and every extra, from the dress to the photographer, is settled on the spot. Note too that Bali charges arriving visitors a tourist levy that has nothing to do with any of these gates and is paid once, on arrival.
The swings at the rice terraces
The cheapest swings on the island are the ones nobody markets, strung along the rim north of town.
Walk the rim at Tegallalang and you pass a run of swings, nests and photo frames, each a separate business with its own attendant. A few dollars gets you a ride, sometimes a costume, and the attendant shooting it on your own phone. You keep the file, which at the parks is the expensive part.
What you do not get is any of the rigging or the paperwork. These are the swings the safety section above is about. They are also entirely separate from the terrace entrance fee, which is one more payment in a place already known for asking several times.
As a plan this works well. Terraces at opening while the light is still low, a swing on the rim on the way back up, and you are finished before the parks have filled. It also leaves the rest of the day for the Monkey Forest or a temple, neither of which is in the same direction as either famous swing.
Bali swing questions
The ones that come up before booking, answered without the brochure language.
