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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Sydney to Bali, Starting at Around A$199 I nearly skipped the trip. The date had been circled for months — a week in Ubud, rice terraces, that long sunrise walk up to the Campuhan Ridge — but when I finally sat down to book, the Jetstar fare I’d seen a fortnight earlier had disappeared. Vanished. The next tier up was A$389. I refreshed, muttered, waited three days, and it came back at A$219. I booked in under four minutes. The lesson cost me nothing but a slightly elevated Tuesday evening. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Sydney, Without the Rookie Mistakes We landed in Sydney in January, the very middle of the southern-hemisphere summer, because that’s when we could get the time off back home. A mate who’d moved out there just laughed: “You’ve picked the hottest, priciest, most crowded week of the year — and you’ll spend the first day sweating in a queue for the wrong harbour cruise.” He wasn’t wrong on either count. We came back the next time in October, and the city felt warmer in spirit and far easier on the wallet. ...