In Reply to: Personal Guide in UBUD posted by NewYork on Thursday, 8. September 2005 at 07:10 Bali Time:
Last Christmas-time, we had a driver/guide from our hotel who was just excellent. He was employed full-time by the hotel. We stayed at Alam Sari...excellent place, though outside of town. We found being outside of town preferable, but it's not ideal if you want to shop every day and be out and about at night. Whenever we went into Ubud they drove us and picked us up whenever we wanted.
I would suggest asking at your hotel, being very specific as to what you expect, as everyone will have a brother, friend, uncle. etc who can do the job :) Meet this person/people and have a chat to see if they seem suitable.