A full year in Bali, held from your first decision to your last.
The flagship. Twelve months, the complete programme, timed to your school calendar — with the major decisions made and the practical arrangements underway before your family arrives.
The Annum fee covers the curation, Family Host, operating team and orchestration of the stay. Living costs — including the villa, school, household, healthcare and travel — sit separately and are scoped before anything is committed.
What the year holds, in brief.
Bespoke engagements are considered selectively and subject to senior team capacity.
Every Year, whatever its reason, follows the same underlying arc. Twelve months is long enough to change how a family lives — but only if the year is shaped, not merely filled. The ground is prepared before you land; the year itself then moves in four movements, roughly a season each.
- I Arriving & settling Landing. School begins, the household finds its feet, the family decompresses and learns the place. The work of the first season is mostly orientation — turning a move into a home, and letting the speed of the old life drain away.
- II Belonging Taking root. The place becomes home rather than a posting: friendships form, the community opens, the first of the regional journeys is taken, and the family steps inside Bali’s ceremonial calendar instead of watching it from the edge. A mid-year threshold marks the turn.
- III Flourishing Full stride. The children thriving at school, the parents settled into the year’s real rhythm, the second journey taken, and the family at its most immersed and most itself. The richest months, and the ones families wish would not end.
- IV Leaving well Carrying it home. The year is closed with the same care it was opened: what was learned is made portable, the decision about what comes next is made, goodbyes are given their due, and the family passes from residents into alumni — still held, after the year ends.
Whatever shape a family gives the year, it shares this four-part spine. What changes is the centre of gravity — where the weight of the year falls, and the particular thread of growth running through it.
The Year is the heart of what we do. From the moment you sign on — well before arrival — a single team takes up the work of moving your family across the world, and keeps it for the twelve months that follow. You meet one face — a Family Host who knows your household, organises and hosts the Annum dinners, and stays with you across the year; behind them sits the operations team and the network. Start dates flex to the family’s academic calendar, including January or February, mid-year and September intakes where appropriate.
For the months before you arrive, we prepare: school research and introductions, the appropriate visa pathway coordinated through qualified immigration advisers, a villa selected and inspected, a household team sourced, reference-checked, interviewed and vetted, healthcare providers identified and suitable insurance arranged through qualified providers, transport arranged, and the smaller details — sim cards, uniforms, deliveries, the household stocked — handled before they become questions. The practical burden is carried by one team, leaving your family free to live the year.
A fortnight gives a family a memory. A year gives it a different life to compare its own against.
Twelve months is the threshold at which a place stops being somewhere you visit and becomes somewhere you live. A family stops performing a life abroad and simply has one — and that shift, from visitor to resident, is the whole point. It cannot be rushed.
Settled, finished, and properly part of the child’s story — not a term dropped into the middle of one.
The festival calendar, the wet and the dry, lived once and understood the next. The second Galungan means something the first could not.
A real community, for the children and the parents both — which forms with time, and not before.
The quiet shift from performing a life abroad to simply living one — the change a year is long enough to make stick.
Time to answer what a family came carrying — could we live differently? is this the place? — and, very often, to act on the answer.
A year shaped, not merely filled.
Twelve months has a natural shape: arriving, belonging, flourishing and leaving well. We plan with that rhythm rather than filling the calendar against it.
Everything arranged in advance, then quietly kept.
Choosing a school in Bali is the decision most families find hardest to make from afar, and the one with the longest waitlists. We treat it as the first piece of work, not the last.
Before you land
We learn the child first — temperament, how they learn, what they have loved and struggled with — then, working from first-hand visits and direct relationships with the schools we recommend, identify those most likely to suit them. We arrange visits and introductions, support the application and assessment process, and keep the family across enrolment requirements, fees, uniforms and start dates. For younger children, we help arrange suitable daycare and early-years care. Admission decisions, places and start dates remain with the school and are subject to availability.
Through the year
We stay alongside the family through the settling period — the parent-teacher rhythm and the small administrative things that surface across a year — and keep the practical relationship with the school moving. A change of school, if the fit isn’t right, is subject to place availability and the school’s admissions process.
Indonesian immigration is less difficult than it is easy to get wrong, and a misstep can cost a family weeks. We work to have the right pathway identified and underway well before you travel.
Before you land
We work with qualified immigration advisers to identify the route that fits the family — the dependent and second-home pathways, the remote-worker options — coordinate the documents and sponsorship requirements, and remain across the application process. Eligibility, approval, re-entry rights and processing times remain subject to the visa category, current regulations and the Indonesian immigration authorities. Government and adviser fees sit separately unless expressly included.
Through the year
Renewals are coordinated so you are not tracking dates, shifts in the regulations are watched and managed on your behalf, and if your plans change — a longer stay, a family member joining — the paperwork is handled. Re-entry and travel remain subject to your visa category and the regulations in force.
Long-term villas in Bali often require a substantial proportion of the rent in advance, which makes the wrong choice an expensive one. We make sure the right house is found, checked, and waiting.
Before you land
We search against your family’s actual shape — the bedrooms, a safe pool, the right distance to school and the surf — and inspect shortlisted properties in person, not from a listing. We coordinate the commercial terms and arrange appropriate lease, title and property checks through qualified local legal or notarial advisers where required, then hold the house. It is stood up before you walk in: staff in place, utilities and internet live, the kitchen stocked.
Through the year
Maintenance, repairs and the landlord relationship are managed for you, so a failed pump or a power cut is a call you never have to make. If a material issue arises, we work to resolve it quickly and, where necessary, help arrange an alternative, subject to the lease terms, availability and associated costs.
A home in Bali runs on people — a team you trust with your house and your children. Who is in the household matters more than almost anything on the island.
Before you land
We source, reference-check, interview and vet that team before you arrive — housekeeper, nanny, driver, gardener as the home needs — never taken on a smile. Appropriate family transport is arranged, including a driver and suitable vehicle where required; local banking and payment arrangements are set up where the family’s status allows; sim cards and the standing details of a running household are put in place. Scooters, where a family chooses them, are an informed adult decision, subject to licensing, insurance and safety guidance — The Annum does not transport children by scooter.
Through the year
We help establish clear terms, schedules, pay arrangements and leave expectations, and support the family with performance issues or replacement where required, so the household stays calm and you are not managing staff day to day. The people in your home are known, fairly treated, and engaged on clear terms.
Most of what worries a parent about Bali is medical — and almost all of it is manageable with the right preparation. The question of where to go is answered long before you ever need it.
Before you land
We help the family identify and arrange appropriate international cover through qualified brokers or insurers, establish the relevant provider contacts, and support registration with suitable clinics on the island. We help the family understand the route to specialist or offshore care — Singapore is around two and a half hours away — if it is recommended by qualified clinicians and the insurer.
Through the year
When something comes up — and with children it can — there are provider contacts already established rather than a search to begin. We coordinate appointments, transport, translation, records and communication with insurers, and support the practical response around care. The Annum does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or triage; clinical decisions are made by qualified healthcare professionals, and in an emergency families contact the appropriate emergency or medical provider directly.
A year abroad is made of a thousand small questions, and the difference between a hard year and an easy one is having somewhere to send them.
Before you land
The Family Host and team are already at work before arrival — the questions in the run-up, the logistics of the move itself, the airport and the first night handled, so you land into calm rather than into a list.
Through the year
From seven in the morning to nine at night, a single line takes the practical things: a booking, a repair, a last-minute guest, a school form you can’t make sense of. One number, people who know your family by name, and an answer rather than a runaround — with clear emergency escalation arrangements outside those hours. The daily line is not an emergency or medical service; for urgent medical or safety matters, families contact the appropriate emergency provider directly.
Living in the region puts some of the most remarkable places on earth within a short flight — and most families never reach them, for want of the time to plan. We make the journeys, so you only take them.
Included in the year
The planning and booking of two regional journeys are included in the Year, planned with you — threaded, where you want it, with the history that ties back to the region: Borobudur and Prambanan, the old spice islands, the temple cities of the mainland. You arrive to a journey already made — the route, the rooms, the guides. Flights, accommodation, guides, activities and all other direct trip costs are paid separately by the family and approved before booking.
Beyond the two
Further travel is arranged on request, at any depth — a weekend in the quiet north of Bali, a longer passage to Raja Ampat or Flores. The same hand that holds the year holds the trips, so a journey is a decision, not a project.
A year is richer for good company, but that company should remain small and outward-looking. Where timing and fit align, we introduce families to others spending a similar chapter in Bali; beyond that, the year is built to help each family form a circle of its own.
Each month there is a hosted Annum dinner — a long table at a restaurant we have chosen, arranged and styled, bringing families in residence together with the people of the island worth knowing. The room, the table and the evening are ours to arrange; the meal itself is at each family’s own account.
It is connective, not enclosing — the kind of company that sends a family further into Bali rather than walling it off. Not a club, simply thoughtful introductions where they genuinely add to the year.
A year away is often when the people you love come to see the life you’ve built — and a visit goes better when someone has already thought it through.
For your visitors
When friends or family visit, we can suggest and coordinate accommodation, dining, transport, guides and time away for the parents. All accommodation, transport, childcare, bookings and other third-party costs are paid separately.
And for the two of you
Time set aside for the parents, too: an evening out without the children, a night or two away as a couple while the household holds the fort at home. Where a visit requires substantial additional planning, that work is scoped with the family in advance.
Long enough that Bali stops being a place you visit, and quietly becomes a place you live.
The YearDifferent families, different reasons — and a single year shaped to yours.
Families tend to come for one of a few broad reasons, and are quietly more than one. We find which it is for you in the first conversation, and shape the year around it — these are illustrations, not fixed products.
The Relocation Year
For the family testing whether a different life — or this island — could be permanent, without burning the bridges to find out. The weight falls on settling deeply and living the real thing.
The World-Schooling Year
For the family treating a year, and a region, as their children’s classroom — and for those protecting a slow, golden stretch of early childhood. The weight falls on the children, on learning and growth, the world as curriculum.
The Sabbatical Year
For the family stepping out of a career for a year — to rest, then to make or think or simply become a person again. The weight falls on the adults, on space and renewal.
They settle into school, and into a wider sense of the world.
We focus on the child, not the prospectus, and aim to time the move to land cleanly in the school year. Many children grow increasingly confident in the classroom, in the community and with Bahasa across the year — though every child’s adjustment is individual.
If the year stretches into two, or settles into something longer, we continue on a time basis — your Family Host, the Family Host line, the network, all kept in place. For career sabbaticals, school years abroad and deliberate resets, the shape of the year is yours. The work of arranging it is ours.
A small number of families each year. Introductions and considered direct enquiries are welcome. · The idea, in full · On Indonesia
The Annum fee is USD 48,000, inclusive of any applicable tax. It covers the curation, Family Host, operating team and orchestration of the stay — the work of arranging and holding it end to end.
Living costs — including the villa, school, household, healthcare and travel — sit separately and are scoped before anything is committed, so you have a clear view of the expected costs. Where The Annum receives a partner fee or applies a coordination margin, it is disclosed; recommendations are always made on fit, not remuneration.
Read: What a family year in Bali costs, in full
Where a Bali year isn’t the right fit, we’ll say so kindly on the first call, and point you towards others who may serve you better. Not every family begins with a year — some come first for the Reset, a complete three-month season lived in full, and may continue into a Year afterwards if they choose.
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