About this site

Dikky Travel covers one small stretch of Indonesia in detail rather than the whole archipelago badly: the three Gili Islands off north-west Lombok and the surf coast around Kuta in the south. Every property listed here was checked against its own live listing before it went on the page.

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Hi, I'm Alexandra Beaumont. I write and edit Dikky Travel, a guide to one small stretch of Indonesia rather than the whole archipelago: the three Gili Islands off north-west Lombok, and the surf coast around Kuta in the south.

My background is eight-plus years writing about hotels and independent travel, mostly across Europe and, more recently, South-East Asia. The Gilis are an odd case to write about — no cars, no motorbikes, three islands close enough to see each other and different enough that picking the wrong one actually changes your trip. That's the gap this site tries to close.

The one-word verdicts, the island comparisons and the notes under “Alexandra's take” on each hotel are mine: judgement built on top of already-checked facts, not new claims layered over them. Where the figures themselves come from is covered below.

Where the numbers come from

Every property on this site has a page on Trip.com, and that page is the source for its name, street address, star rating, guest score, number of reviews and lowest advertised nightly rate. Those figures were read on 3 September 2026 and are printed with that date attached, because they move.

The bullet points under each property — the cleanliness and service standings, the breakfast percentages, the facilities — come from the same listing. They are rewritten for readability but not embellished. If a property has no such information, its card is short rather than padded.

What is opinion and what is not

Four things on this site are editorial judgement and are labelled as such: the one-word verdict on each place, the quiet-to-loud scale on the home page, the comparison article, and Alexandra's take under each hotel. Everything else is either a figure from a listing or a fact about the islands themselves.

Crossing times, boat fares and departure schedules are deliberately absent. They change often enough that a static page would be wrong most of the time, and a wrong number is worse than no number.

How this site makes money

Some links on this site go to Trip.com or Expedia. If you book through one, this site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It does not change which properties are listed, the order they appear in, or what is said about them — the ratings and prices come from each property’s own live listing.

Corrections

If something here is out of date or wrong — a property that has closed, a name that has changed, a figure that no longer matches the listing — write to hello@dikky-travel.com and it will be fixed.