Sample proposal · Northlight Collective · prepared by Tirta Sembilan
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Tirta Sembilan
Ubud · Bali
Retreat proposal TS-2027-038
Sample proposal
A sample proposal. Tirta Sembilan, Northlight Collective and John Doe are invented. The Bali details are real.
Prepared for Northlight Collective

Seven nights in Ubud,
held for twenty four.

Exclusive use of the property from 12 to 19 June 2027, full board, your own programme in the shala, and a team that has run ninety one retreats on this site. Everything below follows the configuration on sheet three, so change it there and this page changes with it.

Per guest
$1,573
7 nights, full board, transfers in
Total
$37,752
Fixed for the configuration shown
To hold the dates
$11,326
30%, refundable to 120 days
Prepared by
Tirta SembilanJalan Raya Sayan, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali
Prepared for
John Doe, Northlight CollectiveBreathwork and movement retreats, Lisbon
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Sheet 2 · What we heard

Before the numbers, what you told us on the call

Two calls and the photographs you sent from last June. If any of this is wrong then the configuration on the next sheet is wrong too, so it is worth reading first.

01

The room allocation is what turns a good retreat sour

Last year four people who had paid for a private room were moved into twin-share on arrival, and you spent the first evening of a seven day container resolving it. You asked for the allocation to be fixed in writing before anyone flies, with the price of each room visible to you while you decide.

02

Transfers are a programme problem, not a logistics one

Twenty four people landing at Ngurah Rai across nine flights is a day you cannot teach into. The transfer runs ninety minutes to two hours depending on where the traffic sits at Sukawati, and a group that trickles in until midnight cannot open together the next morning.

03

The kitchen has to hold the dietary list without being asked twice

Nineteen of your twenty four last year had something: coeliac, two nut allergies, one managed histamine intolerance. You do not want to negotiate it meal by meal with a kitchen that is hearing it for the first time on day three.

We are not shopping for a venue. We are shopping for a week where the only thing I have to hold is the group.

John Doe, Northlight Collective, second call, 4 September 2026
Everything on the sheets that follow is built around those three. Where we could not solve something, it is written into the exclusions on sheet seven rather than left for you to discover in June.
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Sheet 3 · Configure

Build the week you actually wantInteractive

Set the group, the nights and the room mix. The rate per guest, the week on sheet four, the payment ladder on sheet five and the figures on the cover all follow from here. Nothing on this sheet is an estimate; these are the venue's 2027 rates.

Group size
Nights
Rooms
Pool villa
$340 per guest per night · sleeps 2 · 3 on site
2
guests
Private garden room
$255 per guest per night · sleeps 1 · 8 on site
6
guests
Twin share
$185 per guest per night · 10 rooms, 20 beds
16
8 rooms, none single
All three rates include full board, the shala for your own programme, and daily housekeeping. Twin share fills with whoever is left after the private rooms are taken.
Add to the week
✓
Private transfers, both ways$38 / guest
Met at arrivals, one vehicle per flight window, water and a sim card in the car.
✓
Sound healing evening$650 flat
Two local practitioners, gongs and bowls, in the shala. Usually night two or the night before departure.
✓
Excursion day$95 / guest
Tukad Cepung waterfall and a water temple, guides and lunch included. Takes a full teaching day out of the week.
✓
Videographer, two days$1,450 flat
For next year's marketing. Edited reel plus raw footage, delivered within three weeks.
✓
Juice and cleanse programme$45 / guest / night
Replaces the standard menu. Cold press, broths and a supervised reintroduction on the final two days.
✓
Exclusive use below 20 guests$4,800 flat
Only relevant under 20. At 20 and above the property is yours at no supplement.
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Sheet 4 · The week

What the days look likeFollows sheet 3

Your programme, our container. We hold arrivals, food, cleaning and the two fixed anchors of the day so that the only thing on your side is what happens in the shala. Change the nights or the excursion on sheet three and this redraws.

The shala is yours from 06:00 to 21:00 daily. Meals land at 08:00, 13:00 and 18:30 by default and move with an hour's notice. A silent morning is the one thing we ask you to tell us about the day before, because the kitchen and the grounds team have to work around it.
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Sheet 5 · Investment

What it costs, and when it is dueFollows sheet 3

Total for the configuration on sheet 3
$37,752
24 guests · 7 nights · full board
Per guest
$1,573
$225 per night
1
On signature
30%. Holds the dates and the room allocation. Refundable in full to 120 days out, less $600.
$11,326
2
At 120 days, 12 February 2027
40%. Invoiced the same week your guest numbers are confirmed.
$15,101
3
On arrival day
30%. Settled with the property manager before the opening circle.
$11,325

In the fee

  • Exclusive use of the property and grounds
  • Rooms exactly as allocated on sheet three, fixed at signature
  • Three meals, afternoon tea and filtered water throughout
  • The shala from 06:00 to 21:00, with mats and props for 32
  • Sound system, two radio mics and a technician on arrival day
  • Daily housekeeping and laundry twice in the week
  • Fourteen staff on site, including two who stay overnight
  • Dietary handling against the list you confirm at 30 days

Not in the fee

  • International flights and any domestic connection
  • Indonesian visa on arrival or e-VOA, currently IDR 500,000
  • The Bali foreign tourist levy, IDR 150,000 per visitor, paid once through the official Love Bali portal
  • Travel insurance, which we require of every guest
  • Spa treatments, massage and private sessions
  • Alcohol, which we will stock on request and bill at cost
  • Anything your guests spend in Ubud
One complimentary place sits on top of the group size above, at one per fifteen paying guests, in twin share. Take it as a private garden room for the difference in rate. It is for you and your team, not transferable to a guest. All figures are in US dollars and exclude Indonesian government tax and service, currently 21% combined, which appears as a separate line on the invoice.
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Sheet 6 · The property

What you are actually booking

Four hectares on the Sayan ridge, twelve minutes north west of Ubud centre and ninety minutes to two hours from Ngurah Rai depending on the Sukawati traffic. The site has held retreats since 2014 and nothing else runs here while you are on it.

21
Rooms across three types, sleeping up to 34
180m2
Open shala, teak floor, valley on two sides
91
Retreats held on this site since 2014

The rooms

Three pool villas sleeping two each, eight private garden rooms, and ten twin share rooms with twenty beds. That is where the mix on sheet three comes from, and it is why the configurator will not let you past 34.

The kitchen

Plant forward, largely grown on the terraces below the shala, with fish twice a week if you want it. The head cook has run the dietary list for every retreat since 2019. Coeliac and nut allergies are handled on separate boards and separate oil, not by omission at the pass.

Why 24 is the number we push

At 24 the group fits the shala in a single circle without a second row, every guest eats at one of three tables rather than four, and the two overnight staff can cover the property without a third. Above 28 the arrival day needs a second transfer wave and the opening circle slips to the evening.

Power and connectivity

Fibre to the property with a starlink fallback, and a generator that carries the whole site. Ubud loses power for an hour or two most weeks in the wet season and it has never cost a session here.

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Sheet 7 · Assumptions, exclusions and terms

The part most venues leave to the email thread

Every fixed price rests on assumptions. Ours are written here rather than discovered in June.

If you cancel

More than 120 days before arrivalDeposit returned, less $600
120 to 60 days50% of the total
59 to 30 days75% of the total
Inside 30 days100% of the total
Numbers can move, to a point
You may drop up to four guests at no charge until 60 days out. After that the fee is fixed at the number confirmed, because the rooms are held off sale and the kitchen orders against it.
The room allocation is fixed at signature
Not on arrival, and not by us. Who is in which room is your call and we will not change it without your written agreement, which is the first thing you asked for.
Currency
Quoted and invoiced in US dollars. If you prefer to settle in rupiah we use the Bank Indonesia middle rate on the invoice date and show both figures. We do not hedge, and we do not reprice a signed proposal if the rate moves.
The levy and the visa are on your guests
Every foreign visitor pays the Bali tourist levy of IDR 150,000 once per trip through the official Love Bali portal, plus a visa on arrival. We send your guests the instructions at 45 days so they arrive with the QR code rather than queueing for it.
Why we do not take March
Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, stops the island for 24 hours each March. Ngurah Rai is the only airport in the world that closes annually for a religious observance, no one leaves the property, and no lights show after dark. It is extraordinary to witness and impossible to teach into, so we hold retreats around it rather than through it. Your June dates are unaffected.
Weather
June sits in the dry season. From October to March an afternoon session in the open shala may move to the covered pavilion, which seats 26 rather than 34.
Insurance
Every guest carries travel insurance covering medical repatriation. We ask you to confirm it with the rooming list at 30 days. The nearest hospital with a full emergency department is in Denpasar, fifty minutes with a driver who knows the route.
What we will not promise
We do not guarantee a specific villa by number, a particular teacher from the local practitioner pool, or an exact meal time on arrival day. Everything else on these sheets we will put in the contract as written.
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Sheet 8 · Hold the dates

Put a hold on JuneInteractive

A hold costs nothing and lasts fourteen days. It takes the dates off sale, freezes the rates on sheet three, and gives you the room allocation in writing to circulate to your group. Nothing is payable until you sign.

This is a sample, so nothing is sent.

This is where the hold would go

In a real proposal, your configuration from sheet three goes to the venue with this request. This one is a sample, so nothing was sent and nothing is held.

Before you sign, ask this document anything. The Ask button at the bottom of the screen answers from this proposal and the property file behind it: what the levy covers, what happens if four people drop out in April, whether the kitchen can hold a histamine protocol, what the twin share rooms actually look like. If the answer is not in the file it will tell you so rather than guessing.
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Per guest
$1,573
Total
$37,752
To hold the dates
$11,326 30%