In Reply to: How far out to you generally book? posted by Madness on Sunday, 3. June 2007 at 14:58 Bali Time:
We know exactly how you feel. And started our plans to go back next year lol.
However if you book the hotels this far in advance you will generally be paying full price, the better deals come a lot closer to the dates you want to go as the will take less money just to have the rooms filled.
None of the travel agents will want to know that you exist yet as their packages for next may wont be released until late feb or early march.
Sign up with all the airlines newsletters, and wait for a great deal to come up for the time you want to go, then get online and be patient as there will be 200,000 other people on there trying to get the good deals too. Your only problem with this is wanting to go during school holidays as they generally make the best deals outside of school holidays.
Good luck, and no matter how good a deal you get you will still have a fantastic holiday in Bali :)