Anyone been to Bali?

[Auntlinny]

Any tips or ideas for a family trip to Bali. Kids are seven and eight. In particular, I am confused about the best part of the island for nice accommodation. Would like a nice beach, some cafes and restaurants, spacious accommodation with a pool. Don't want party central! Hoping to spend a few days in Ubud, but apart from that would like to be at the beach chilling out, swimming, visiting markets and temples.

Hi, We spent a month in Bali/Lombok 2yrs ago & celebrated my youngest 4th birthday (eldest was nearly 7).
We spent the first 5nights in Sanur - it was all low rise but moderately touristy. The beach was quite shallow going out and seemed safer than the waves/surf beaches on the west coast. We stayed at Paneeda sea view which was on the beach side, had 3 pools and close enough to walk to the restaurants and markets. We hired a driver on a few days and visited Ubud on day trips with him; we also had a day in Kuta which wasn't for me - very developed and westernised. We went to Lombok and Gili Air for about 12days, Lombok was much less developed than Sanur (we stayed on the West coast, can't remember the name) the snorkelling was good. Gili Air was very relaxing, lots of little Warungs, no cars/traffic just horses and carts & bikes. After that we went back to Bali and stayed in Lipah (Amed) on the east coast of Bali at Coral View villas - it was my idea of paradise. Very undeveloped, we visited a few places with a driver, did some amazing diving, the kids made loads of friends and my husband went fishing at sunrise. It was