Finns Beach Club — Berawa Sunset Deck

Finns Beach Club on Berawa Beach in Canggu, Bali, is an iconic bamboo beachfront venue visited by roughly one in four international tourists to the island. Founded in 2009 by Tony Smith and Ketut Subina, it relocated from Uluwatu to Canggu in 2016. The PBM Architecture-designed site features 170 meters of oceanfront, a 30-meter infinity pool with underwater speakers, eleven bars, and night-surfing floodlights.

Canggu, Bali · from the walk “Canggu Unlocked: Surf, Murals & Island Vibes” · audio ~3 min · Generated

Finns Beach Club, Jl. Pantai Berawa, Canggu, Bali

Who is Finns Beach Club in Canggu named after?

Alright, take a look around you. This massive bamboo structure stretching along the sand, the turquoise infinity pool seeming to melt right into the Indian Ocean... Welcome to Finns Beach Club on Berawa Beach — one of the most epic spots in all of Canggu.......... Here's something wild. Roughly one in four international visitors who come to Bali pass through these very doors. That's not a typo. One in Four! So if you're standing here right now, you're officially part of a pretty massive club.......... But here's the part most people never think about. A decade ago, there were endless rice fields here and just a handful of guesthouses for surfers. That's it. No infinity pools, no Djs, no swim-up bars. Just paddies, waves, and silence. The transformation is... kind of mind-blowing.......... So how did all this happen? Finns was founded in two thousand nine by Australian entrepreneur Tony Smith and Balinese local Ketut Subina. But get this — the Original Finns Beach Club opened in twenty eleven on the Bukit Peninsula down in Uluwatu, and it's named after Tony Smith's Son, Finn — yeah, a kid's name became one of the biggest beach club brands on the planet. By twenty sixteen, they moved up here to Berawa Beach, and the original site in Uluwatu? It's now Sunday's Beach Club.......... Now look at the building itself. This iconic bamboo structure was designed by Pbm Architecture to bring sustainability and Balinese culture to the forefront. Unlike many of the concrete monstrosities that have popped up across Bali, this place uses organic curves and traditional Alang Alang roof, blending with its natural surroundings. Pretty cool for a party palace, right?......... And that pool you're staring at? It's a thirty-metre infinity edge pool with state-of-the-art Underwater speakers. That means you can literally be floating on your back, gazing at the sky, and the music follows you Beneath the surface. The whole striking bamboo structure was specifically designed so that every single guest gets a guaranteed sunset view. Nobody gets a bad angle here.......... Across this place you'll find a hundred and seventy metres of oceanfront, three pools, eleven bars including two swim-up bars, three restaurants, and seven kitchens. It's basically a small town built for having the best day of your life.......... And here's a little insider secret. When the sun goes down, they switch on floodlights over the surf break, and you can actually watch night surfing from right here. Surfers riding waves in the dark, lit up like a movie scene... It's one of those moments you just have to see to believe.......... The black volcanic sand on Berawa doesn't have the instant wow of a white sand beach, but when the sun sets and light starts reflecting in the water on the sand... trust me, you'll understand why everyone in Canggu fights for a spot right here at golden hour.