About Us

We've combined over 25 years of business experience in the Bali and Lombok region with 15 years of experience building highly professional websites. Our company is called Island Bookings BV, and our first website is Gilibookings.com, which is an easy way to book your holiday accommodation and transport between each of these paradise islands.

Having seen the whole region develop at an accelerating rate over the past few years, we realised that there was no easy way of booking trips between Bali, Lombok, Lembongan and the Gili Islands. Gilibookings was initially created for this very purpose, but as the idea developed, we realised that hotel, villa, and other accommodation bookings would go hand in hand with the fast boat tickets.
Our goal, therefore, is to provide you with the very best selection of holiday accommodation, hotel, villa, or homestay, as well as efficient and safe Fast Boat transfers between the tropical paradise islands Bali, Lombok, Nusa Lembongan and the famous Gili Islands, Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air. On top of this, we hope to get you the very best rates and are continually looking for new and improved special offers to bring you the biggest savings possible on your chosen activities.

We have also recently affiliated with both Agoda.com and Booking.com. This means that all of the hotels and villas available to be booked on these sites are now available via our website at the same rates and with the same booking conditions, including a lowest price guarantee.

After 18 months online with Gilibookings, we spent months of research and development on our second location, the Seychelles. We went live with our second site in July 2013: www.Seychellesbookings.com, which was the first website in the world that provided online bookings for the popular ferry crossing from Mahe to Praslin. The concept is exactly the same as Gilibookings, with online ferry tickets, activities and tours, recommended hotels and resorts for all price ranges, and a great variety of special offers for our guests that will make them save money while on holiday.

Since then, we visited the Caribbean in the first half of 2014 and, in early 2015, launched www.StMartinbookings.com to promote travel to the islands surrounding St Martin (i.e., St Barts, Anguilla, and Saba). We also visited the USVI and BVI and will launch www.Virginbookings.com.

We now also sell activities, Fiji boat tickets, and Bula (combo) passes on www.Fiji-bookings.com and launched our global ferry booking platform - Viaferry.com, in 2024.