Atlas Beach Club in Berawa, Canggu, claims to be the world’s biggest beach club, and since our original review, this beach club has undergone many different changes to both the beach club and the associated properties.
This week, it announced that it would relaunch as Atlas 2.0, so we thought that we’d send our review team back to have another look and see what’s changed and whether it’s for the better or not.
After a few hours studying the new beach club and sampling everything it has to offer, this was our conclusion.
Please Note: We have updated this review on 10/05/26 due to major changes at the beach club
Introduction – Getting To Atlas Beach Club
Atlas is easy to find, and it’s on the main beach road for Berawa Beach in Canggu. There’s a single entrance way for the beach club, and you should be able to find it easily enough by following the signs to the entrance.
There is parking at the club, and you can also easily get a Grab or a Gojek to drop you off at the front door, and there won’t be any problems getting home at the end of the night.
Where Is Atlas Beach Club? Jl. Pantai Berawa No.99, Canggu, Kec. Kuta Utara, Kabupaten Badung, Bali 80361
Website: Atlas Beach Club
Booking: Day Passes & Daybed Bookings
Opening Hours: Open daily, every day except Nyepi, from 12 p.m. to midnight.
When you arrive at the club, you can expect to be searched by security, and if you have any forbidden items, you must leave them at the front desk to be collected later.
There is an entrance way to Atlas on the beach itself, but you can only use this if you have a hand stamp from within the club. You must enter the club from the main entrance the first time you visit.
What’s Inside Atlas?
Atlas claims to be the world’s biggest beach club, and we should note that we have no way of measuring the area that they cover to verify this claim.
Currently, there is one main bar and table service for food and drinks for those on daybeds, plus a large dance floor and some swimming pools.
Our Review Breakdown For Atlas Beach Club
We use a consistent set of rating criteria for every beach club that we review. There are 20 criteria, each ranked from 1 (worst) to 5 (best), offering a maximum score of 100.
Our team votes on each review and the marks given before we go to press to ensure that our scores are representative of everyone’s feelings about a club.
Once we’ve given a review, it will remain in place for at least a year until our next review, at which time, we may or may not revise the scores.
Pre-Club Advertising
When we did our original review of Atlas, we felt that though they do online advertising, it was far behind their nearest competitor’s efforts at FINNS Beach Club, next door.
This hasn’t changed in the last 18 months. After their hilarious campaign at New Year, “Who is Swae Lee?” (Well, if they don’t know, it seemed that nobody else did, either).
They followed this for their relaunch with a bunch of people being asked what their favourite French Montana song was (French Montana was the DJ for their soft opening), and they didn’t seem to know, either.
We also regularly see ads with the club completely empty, though based on the realities of the last year, this seems to be an accurate representation of the club for much of the time.
Their blog is no longer updated, but remains full of inaccurate AI-driven nonsense and overall, while we applaud efforts to try and bring business through the door, Atlas needs to really rethink its marketing strategy. 2.0 looks every bit as bad as 1.0 here.
Location
This beach club is part of the coastal paradise of Berawa Beach, and it’s right next door to the world’s best beach club, FINNS. It’s in the Canggu area, which is now the most popular part of Bali, having displaced Seminyak from that position.
Canggu is usually considered to offer the best combination of traditional Bali and the modern face of things. You can still find rice paddies and temples among the hotels and beach clubs here.
Berawa Beach itself is one of the top spots for surfers on the island, and while its black sands aren’t as striking as the beaches in Nusa Dua, they look amazing at sunset.
Having said that, you shouldn’t plan on swimming at this beach and should use one of the pools that Atlas Beach Club offers, instead. The current is strong and unpredictable, and riptides are a real danger.
You will also find that this part of the island is within a short walk of stores, a pharmacy, a supermarket, and other restaurants and bars.
By the way, if you want to find hotels near Atlas, we’ve got this list of the best hotels near Atlas Beach Club for you.
Of course, this score hasn’t changed with the rebranding of the club; it remains in the same position on the island as it always has.
Booking Process & Seating Options
Somehow, Atlas managed to take a reasonably decent booking system with a few flaws and make it more confusing and less user-friendly over the last year.
You used to click on the part of the beach club that you wanted to sit in, then pick a seat, get told the offers available and then click to book.
Now, you’re presented with what feels like an endless doom scroll of furniture descriptions, and while there is a map, it’s not clear how these items are actually connected to it.
And then there are a bunch of numbers that don’t seem to mean very much, but which lay out the cost of hiring the daybed and then the cost of the food and beverage credits you have to buy, which, when put together, become the “price” of your booking.
It also exhorts you that if you don’t turn up before 3 p.m., they will then charge you the walk-in rate on top of what you’ve already paid.
This seems both hostile and unnecessary. We prefer the deal at other beach clubs where you can either get a discount for early arrival or pay a little extra and turn up at any time.
They’ve also instituted a 300,000 IDR fee for sitting down at an ordinary restaurant table, and that seems pretty steep. Note: There does seem to be a plan to restore the map-based booking engine at some point, but for now, this is what there is.
Entry Fee
Atlas Beach Club continues to be one of the only beach clubs in Bali to charge an entrance fee. This fee has gone up to 200,000 IDR (that’s about $12 USD or $20 AUD).
Now, in fairness, when we visited for the relaunch week, they waived this fee but only for the production of a passport, which our reviewers don’t carry, but fortunately, one of their friends did.
Unlike in the past, this entrance fee no longer seems to include a free drink or a free towel, which means that this deal has got worse than it used to be and is more expensive at the same time.
The entrance fee allows you to sit at the newly placed seafront bar, which is now between the main pool and the dancefloor. (More on that location later).
You are welcome to walk around the rest of the club, but if you want to sit anywhere else, you will need to pay to use a daybed or restaurant table.
We don’t like entrance fees at beach clubs, and this deal is substantially poorer value than it was under the previous set-up. Another fail for Atlas 2.0.
Minimum Spend
Well, it had to come at some point; the majority of beach clubs on the island have now instituted charges to use their daybeds. While we are a little sad about this, we realise that it reflects how the industry works everywhere else on Earth, and it makes sense.
However, Atlas’s daybed charge is higher than their competitors, and you’re required to commit to a fairly substantial minimum spend (now phrased as “food and beverage credit”) on top. We like the rephrasing, as it makes it clear that you either use it on the day or you lose it.
They still haven’t managed to come up with a ticket that allows you access to all their properties at this location, though, so if you intend to go on to the Superclub at night, you will need to endure their booking engine for a second time.
It’s important to note that Atlas does not allow cancellations, so once you’ve booked, if you don’t go, you lose your money.
Sadly, you can no longer buy discounted tickets from other websites for Atlas, as they appear to have cancelled their partnerships with sites like Klook.
So, once again, we find that Atlas 2.0 offers a worse deal than the original version.
Welcome And Security
We weren’t impressed with the welcome to Atlas last time around, and well, we remain unimpressed this time.
Their roadside security guard made us walk down a set of stairs, after we’d asked if we were meant to walk down the road, despite the two places ending up in exactly the same place.
The lady at the door insisted on a passport to let us in, even though we were clearly more than of legal age.
The second security guard was polite and friendly, but if I’d wanted to smuggle something into Atlas in my bag, it would have been child’s play to do so, which is worrying from a personal security perspective.
And while the walk is less confusing from security to the club, you walk past the trashed remains of the Atlas Beach House (a project that lasted 2 months), and it’s not clear you’re heading in the right direction, there are no signs, etc., to help.
One improvement, at last, for Atlas 2.0 was that when we reached the venue, there was a very helpful lady who actually showed us where we could sit.
We would also note that the welcome at the bar was far more enthusiastic than it was previously.
Overall, this experience was about the same as last time, and it still needs work. We’re not sure how it’s possible to offer a substandard arrival experience given the hospitality expertise on this island, but Atlas 2.0 is succeeding at it all the same.
Inclusions
Atlas provides all the standard inclusions (as long as you’re paying for a seat) like towels, Wi-Fi, etc., but they’ve scaled back the inclusions across the board, even though their prices are higher than last year.
A free bottle of bubbles with VIP is nice, but it won’t be champagne and doesn’t really make up for the removal of butler service.
We find an offer of free cocktails for women only in the Atlas Super Club reasonably insulting and sexist. And while we know that nightclubs often run ladies’ nights, they don’t usually tend to start discriminating against you when you buy a ticket for something else entirely.
And a 30% discount at a Wellness Club, which, except for a padel court, is not yet open, is as worthless as the discount of 30% in the Holywings store, which sells overpriced Atlas merch from the parent group.
Once again, Atlas 2.0 is not as good as the original.
Service
On our original visit to Atlas, we were terribly unimpressed with the service, which left us wandering around like lost goats, hoping to catch sight of some seating.
Sadly, once again, the service was hit and miss, while the change in layout made finding a seat challenging, our first two interactions with staff were poor (the security and the front desk).
However, once inside the venue, this changed, and we felt that the staff here were very much interested in ensuring we had a good time.
I certainly appreciated the top-up of the ice when the ice in the beer bucket melted, and without having to ask for it.
The toilet situation has improved in that there are now toilets and there are enough of them, but… they’re as far from the beach club as possible, and even when you reach the building with the toilets in, it’s a long slog to the loo. You could easily get your daily 10,000 steps just using the toilet here.
Overall, 2.0 is a minor improvement on the service, but there’s still a lot of work to be done, particularly when it comes to making a good first impression.
Entertainment
One thing that we very much liked about the original Atlas was its entertainment, and we had been looking forward to seeing how that had evolved.
The new layout certainly makes it easier for walk-in guests to benefit from the dancers and various performers, and we felt that they were very much enjoying their job.
The new dance floor is clearly designed to bring people together, but sadly, as with many of our recent experiences with this club, there just weren’t very many people inside, and it felt lonely rather than fun.
While we didn’t attend French Montana’s soft launch reopening party, we also have to note that Atlas, which used to bring in megastar DJs and rappers, definitely seems to be moving to a B or even C-tier of artists nowadays.
We also have to note that while fireworks look great, they’re not very environmentally friendly.
Pool Quality
Atlas has moved from a series of stunning oceanfront pools to a couple of pools in the venue, with only one of them sitting directly on the oceanfront.
These pools have been recently renovated, so they’re in better shape than they have been in the past, but we have to note that, until the renovation, there have been regular reports of filthy pool water and poor maintenance standards in the pool areas at this beach club.
We hope that the club will take better care of these areas now that it’s moved to its 2.0 setting, but we’ll wait and see.
Overall, though, it would be hard to see Atlas 2.0 as an improvement when this “bigger” version of the club has fewer pools than the original version.
Menu/Drinks Pricing
If there’s something that we find hard to get our heads around with this club, then it’s the food offerings.
They regularly offer things that make no sense – like Indomie noodles (which cost 6,000 IDR in a Circle K) for 50,000 IDR or “endless babi guling” to a crowd that contains an awful lot of Muslims from Jakarta, who can’t eat pork.
They have cleaned up the menu for Atlas 2.0, and it’s an exercise in simplicity now, though the “world’s most expensive nasi goreng” – mainly because they dump a steak on top of it – remains.
However, overall, the new drinks and food prices are reasonably competitive, but we refer you to the next section on quality, so you can understand why we haven’t given a higher mark in this category.
Food And Drink Quality
One of us ordered spaghetti and meatballs, and it arrived looking like it had been microwaved, which just isn’t what we expect when paying for a premium service. We do need to add that it tasted OK, but we were still disappointed.
However, the bigger concern is that in the very recent past, Atlas Beach Club staff were caught on camera topping up spirit bottles from unmarked gallon-size bottles.
This is not a standard industry practice in beach clubs, and we cannot find a single other beach club in Bali using the same bottle packs, which the club says were provided by their drinks’ vendor (the same vendor used by the other beach clubs).
In turn, this raises the concern that they are using non-brand spirits to keep their prices down, a dangerous idea in Bali where low-quality spirits have been known to lead to methanol poisoning.
We can’t condone this practice, and while we cannot be certain that Atlas 2.0 is continuing in this vein, we also cannot be sure that it’s not and hence the lowest possible mark in this category.
Sunset View
Imagine that you have the finest sunset view in Bali, a magical place where you can see the sky change colour and watch it reflected in the azure waters of the Indian Ocean.
Well, Atlas had that, and then to our incredulity, they built a massive bar in front of it for about half the length of the venue.
While we do love the new, central, better-designed bar area, we cannot believe they put it where they did.
So, now if you want to appreciate this majestic sunset, you’ll need to head to one end of the beach club or the other and stand there. Atlas 2.0 chalks up another loss.
Music And Ambiance
Last time we came, we felt that the music in Atlas was generally good and seemed to take its cue from the Superclub and the top DJs passing through. Sure, it wasn’t the most memorable music of all time, but it was fun enough.
This time, we were bored, the music was dull, and with the exception of a single track, it felt like Atlas had been down to Potatohead to find out how to remove the energy from the place.
Which is odd, because now this venue has gone adults-only, it’s meant to be all about the parties, and frankly, we just don’t see it.
Payment Options
Apart from the peculiar insistence that you pay before anything arrives at your table, we found it easy enough to pay at Atlas.
They take all the expected forms of payment, and without any real issues. However, they really ought to be able to enable you to run a tab while sitting at the bar.
Exit Process
One place where Atlas 2.0 is actually better than Atlas, the original, is leaving the venue; that’s because you go back out the way you came in.
It’s still a fairly long walk, and they really need to make the pathway attractive, but at least there’s no longer a different exit that it’s mandatory to go through.
Transportation
Atlas Beach Club is not part of a taxi mafia location, and they also offer a free shuttle service to their partner locations for both local and foreign tourists to use.
You can also easily get a Grab or Gojek from the front of Atlas Beach Club, and getting home is relatively painless.
Their parking area, however, is quite a distance from the entrance; there’s no valet service, and you have to pay to park.
We had to revisit this review in the recent past, as we’ve noticed that Atlas are now using a shuttle service in this area, but the shuttles have Jakarta plates, which means they’re not paying tax on these vehicles in Bali.
We feel that beach clubs ought to make an effort to integrate properly with the community here, and this isn’t paying your fair share.
However, on this front, nothing’s changed for Atlas 2.0.
Social Media Presence
Atlas’s social media presence is confusing, to say the least. This club (as you’ll see in a minute) has launched and then killed more projects than most people have hot dinners, and they all have their own socials.
The ads they use are generally OK, though they don’t show the club in the best light a lot of the time and are often amusing shots of an empty club or empty dance floor, which may reflect reality but won’t do a lot to change that reality.
But, we’ve dropped a point for Atlas 2.0 because in recent months, we’ve been testing beach club social media accounts to see if we get replies to questions we ask, and we never do from Atlas, which is a real waste of opportunity for the beach club if they want to connect with their customers.
Other/General Comments
We really wish that the folks at Atlas would take a few minutes to decide what they want to be and who they want to be that for.
Our team feels it’s impossible to create a great experience for “everyone”, and Atlas has tried to be something different every week for the last year; their people never stick to anything long enough for it to become successful.
Atlas 2.0 is a cosmetic change that has made some aspects of the club better, but it’s made a lot of them worse, too.
In many cases, we felt like they were just emulating their next-door neighbours at FINNS, but never doing anything as well as FINNS does.
That’s because FINNS has been pursuing the same customers and the same overall objective for years; they’ve had a chance to get really, really good at what they do.
Until Atlas opts to stay the course with something, we don’t see it ever being much more than everyone’s second choice in Berawa and even further down the list when compared to clubs across the island, and that’s a pity, because there’s still real potential here.
Our Overall Opinion On Atlas Beach Club
We had high hopes for Atlas 2.0, but it’s really just more of the same and not quite as good. The management team really needs to pick a lane and then stick with it for long enough to do something well.
At Best Beach Clubs Bali, we want every beach club to succeed. There’s more than enough room for a rich, vibrant beach club scene here on the island.
However, at the moment, Atlas just doesn’t do enough to command the prices that it charges its guests.
And sadly for Atlas, they can be easily measured against their next-door neighbours at FINNS, the world’s best beach club. And Atlas is faced with a mountain to climb if it wants to even get in the ballpark of its much better competitor.
Atlas features on our lists of the top beach clubs in Canggu and in Bali. So, if you’ve found this review helpful, you can easily find other beach clubs in Bali to enjoy. You might also enjoy our reviews of Luna Beach Club and Mano Beach House.
A Quick Mention Of Atlas Beach Fest, Atlas Beach House, Atlas Bikini Club, Atlas Wellness Club, Atlas Padel, Holywings Store, And Atlas Superclub
Since our original review, Atlas has changed so many times that it’s made our heads spin. There was the ill-fated Atlas Bikini Club, which, despite offering unlimited free drinks, seemed to be unable to even draw in a few dozen people. It barely lasted a week.
Then came Atlas Beach House, where they offered an unlimited amount of food and drink (including alcohol) for 1 million IDR a day and a bunch of other facilities and again, they closed their doors rapidly after opening them.
Atlas Beach Fest, however, is simply the overarching brand for all the stuff they try to cram in on this site, particularly the Beach Club and the Super Club (Bali’s largest nightclub).
We should note that they’ve done a terrible job of integrating these two offerings, and mostly, you need to buy another ticket for the nightclub, even if you spend all day and a small fortune at the beach club.
There is also the Holywings Store. Holywings is the holding group that owns the Atlas property as well as many other nightclubs and restaurants in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta.
This store sells merch and beachwear to beach club guests, and it’s a very attractive place, but we find the prices a bit on the steep side, particularly for a Bintang shirt at 350K, when you can buy one on the road outside for 100K without haggling.
Atlas Padel recently opened, and given that padel seems to be the big sport in Bali right now, it seems to be doing OK. It will eventually be part of the Atlas Wellness Club, which hasn’t opened yet, seems a long way from opening, and they are already offering discount vouchers with their beach club tickets, which doesn’t make very much sense.
FAQs
What Is The Difference Between The Atlas Beach Club And Super Club?
Atlas Beach Club is a beach club on the oceanfront. Atlas Super Club is a nightclub next door to Atlas Beach Club. They are both adults-only venues.
What Can You Do At Atlas Beach Club?
Atlas Beach Club, like most beach clubs, is a place where you can swim, relax, eat, drink and party while being entertained by live performers and DJs.
Who Owns Atlas Beach Club?
Atlas is owned by a consortium of private investors under the banner of the Holywings Group. These are Indonesian investors mainly based in Jakarta.
Final Thoughts On Atlas Beach Club 2.0
Atlas 2.0 brings back the sadness that we feel every time we visit Atlas. This is a club with plenty of ambition, but without the planning, tactics, or perhaps skill to realise that ambition.
We always find it slightly amusing that taxi drivers in Canggu are always shocked if you say you want to go to Atlas rather than to FINNS.
It’s not that you can’t have fun here; you can. But you’re going to pay more for it than you would next door, and it won’t be as polished, and there will be far, far fewer people to share it with.
2.0 is not an upgrade on Atlas Beach Club’s original format. It’s more of the same, change for change’s sake rather than for a meaningful customer-oriented experience.
You will have fun at this beach club, but it’s going to cost more than elsewhere and the experience won’t be as polished.
