Gili Air from the air, with Lombok behind

Gili Air · Lombok · Indonesia

An island with no cars.
A whole house on it.

Private pool villas on a coral island you can walk around in ninety minutes, looked after by the people who live here. Book direct and the platform’s commission is your discount.

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On the island it is — · —

We look after a small number of houses on Gili Air, each with its own pool, its own garden and its own keys. We live five minutes from every door and answer every message ourselves — and when you book with us, the commission a platform would take stays in your pocket.

The villas

Whole houses, private pools, a short walk apart.

Every villa is a home someone built to live in. We look after it while they’re away — and each one is minutes from the beach, and from our team. Keep scrolling: they come one at a time.

Book direct

The same villa, ten percent less.

There is no platform between us, so the commission it would charge becomes your discount. You book with the people who hold the keys, and we hold your dates while the transfer arrives.

  1. 01
    Pick your datesLive availability and real prices, straight from our calendar.
  2. 02
    Send a requestWe hold the villa for 48 hours. No card, no platform fee.
  3. 03
    Transfer the depositHalf now by bank transfer, the rest at the villa — cash or card.
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Example · 4 nightstropikvillas.com

On Airbnb or BookingRp 10,000,000
Here, directRp 9,000,000−10%
Deposit now, by transferRp 4,500,000
At the villa, on arrivalRp 4,500,000

Example figures. Real prices come from the live calendar, taxes included, nothing added at checkout.

What our guests say

★★★★★ 5.0 on Airbnb · word for word

A day here

Nothing to do, all day long.

Gili Air is a village on a reef: no cars, no scooters, a path around the shore and the sea on every side. This is roughly how a day goes.

Turtles, before breakfast

Walk into the water on the east shore. The turtles graze on the seagrass a few metres out — no boat, no tour, no fins needed.

Breakfast by the pool

The team drops by while the coffee is on. The day’s plan, if there is one, gets made here.

Bikes, and no traffic

The loop takes forty minutes with stops. The north is quieter, the south-east has the cafés, and every sandy path ends at the sea.

The pool hours

The island goes quiet in the heat. So do you. This is what the pool, the shade and the daybed are for.

Sunset behind Agung

The west shore faces Bali’s volcano. Beanbags, a fresh coconut, and the sun going down behind it — every evening, on schedule.

Dinner on the sand

Fresh fish on the grill, feet in the sand, then the walk home with nothing to hear but the reef.

A thatched villa terrace on Gili Air

Who we are

Run by the people who live here.

TropikVillas started with a handful of villas and a simple idea: manage them the way we would want our own home looked after. We live on Gili Air, we answer the messages ourselves, and we built our own software so nothing slips through the cracks.

  • A short walk apartEvery villa within minutes of the next, all looked after by the same local team.
  • We answer, every timeThe same people before, during and after your stay — usually within the hour.
  • Nothing by memoryBookings, cleaning and accounts run through our own system, so nothing is forgotten.
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For villa owners

Own a villa on the Gilis?

We take on a few villas a year: a private pool, a real garden, and an owner who wants the house cared for rather than squeezed. A live portal shows you every booking and every rupiah.

How we work with owners