Yesterday to book my friends on the C.Bali Cycling tour and was told that since their pick up is in Ubud they can have a discount, there is 4 of them and they got a 100,000 in total, not bad when they still haven't put their prices up since the fuel increase. I asked about this and they said unfortunately they will have to at some stage but it wont be much, maybe in the New Year.
And, just this minute spoke to my friend who lives in Ubud to check on the weather and he said that it has been perfect, he said there was a 1 minute light shower as I was talking to him but apart from that it has been sunny every day. So cant wait to tell my friends as I told them that Ubud was always wet at this time of year...oops.