Bali
the TodayPicked team checks what goes on this site, by hand, against real sources. No AI writes copy without a human review gate, and nothing here is verified by an algorithm alone.
Each venue page can carry a check date once we’ve looked at it. We compare the listed agenda against the venue’s own website and Instagram, by name, never a vague “the venue’s own channels”. A check is only valid while it still matches reality: the moment an event at that venue is added, removed, moved, or changes price, the check expires immediately, whatever the date says. On top of that, a check that hasn’t expired from a real change still expires after 14 days for a venue with events coming up, or 90 days for one without. Those are two numbers we chose, not a documented industry standard we’re following. A stale check is never hidden: the page says so plainly and keeps the source links, it just drops the reassuring language until we’ve looked again.
The check date can only ever be set by a real re-check: the action that records “checked today” is the same action that captures the venue’s current agenda as the new baseline to compare future changes against. There is no button that moves the date without also refreshing what it’s checked against.
1 of 86 venues in Bali checked at least once · 0 checked this month
Area guides combine two sources. Where the TodayPicked team has written the text ourselves, it goes live as written, since we stand behind our own words directly. Where a guide is drafted with AI assistance, it is never published straight from that draft: it’s saved as a concept and stays invisible on the site until a human on the team reads it and explicitly approves it. A refresh never silently swaps approved text for a new draft; the new version waits as its own concept until it, too, is reviewed.
Every event on the calendar starts the same way, whether it was submitted by a visitor or a venue, pulled from a source we watch, or typed in by the team directly: it sits as a concept, invisible on the site, until someone on the team approves it. There is no path today where an event goes live without that human step, whatever its source.
The island-wide holidays and ceremony days on the Bali holidays page come from the official circulars for each year, the national holiday decree and the provincial circular, which the team reads. Days that follow the fixed 210-day cycle are checked against a calculation, and a date the circular for that year has not confirmed yet is marked as expected. Full and new moon days are only added from the official calendar of the year. It is not a list of individual temple (odalan) ceremonies: those are announced locally, often only days in advance.