Sari Api Ceramic Studio, Ubud

I would not recommend the workshop or this studio. If you have done pottery before, as it is very basic (we did two hours hand building and 45 minutes on the wheel). Agus was nice and clearly very talented but class had a serious tone to it, and was perhaps a bit boring if you have done pottery before. The main disappointment was that we were told our pieces would be ready in roughly three weeks, but when I called the studio after 3 weeks Agus said there hadn't been enough business to do a firing and they were waiting for more pieces so it would be a further 3 weeks. He offered to ship them to Ireland for 50 dollars (!!!) which is as much as the workshop itself. I understand circumstances change but they easily could have emailed me about this or made some effort to contact me. I've done plenty of other courses in Oz, Canada and Ireland and they have been much cheaper and more fun!

Good 4 Weekend

Every Saturday we are there with kids! Friendly telanted Susana !

Girlfriend and I attended a class. I had never done pottery, so the guy was teaching me all about it. On the other hand my gf is quite competent and received little advice/help since the guy could see she knew what she was doing. At the end he says it's $80 (aus) (whatever that is in rupee, I'm from aus and everything was marketed towards australians/tourists), I try to reason that it was advertised as $40 for a beginner class, and $10 for a free session if you know what you're doing and don't need help. So $50 right? Nope, he won't take any of it, despite him barely talking to my gf. Anyway I'm not too fussed, it was near the end of our holiday and we were somehow under our budget so ok. Also he said he would post our works to us once they were fired so we left our addresses, and emails (we would have to pay for postage, he said once they were ready to be posted he would email us and we could pay with bpay or something, no problem, I thought my bowl was sick and just wanted to use it!). That was three months ago, since then I've sent them two emails, called numerous times but they rarely answer the phone. On two occassions they picked up, asked for my email and promised they would be in contact asap. Neither of us have received an email. I advise you find a better place for pottery because these guys are a joke. Their prices are just ridiculous too. Last week I attended a pottery class here in downtown Sydney, it was half the price for the same thing. How these guys in the back of Ubud can be more expensive is beyond me...