We have loved this resort despite a few hiccups. We booked a swim-up suite – if you can book room 115 do so.
It’s a little noisy as others have said. Music from the beach and children having fun. I like the music. Kids at 8am not so much but it’s OK. We are here Christmas week and it’s to be expected.
The beach area: we don’t go to Bali for the beach. It’s been red flagged half the days we’ve been here (7 nights). I didn’t see rip currents though. The beach and ocean are great to look. The lobby has an expansive view.
Pools: I don’t know why but when I get up around 10am every chair is taken. Book the swim up room. In the early afternoon the beach chairs free up. It reminds me of cruise ships until they started the no saving chairs programs.
Hot tubs: same temp as the pools but with jets.
Work out room: I’m lazy and didn’t do it but normally I work out. It’s a really fantastic site.
Food: we ate ate the Shore most days. The food is great and reasonable. You can check the website for menu and prices.
For Christmas Eve we ate at the Grain. They had carving stations for Turkey and Ham. They had corn fed Ribeye, lots of prawns, oysters and other things. It was about $30 USD pp. Drinks were not included. It looked like they were but they aren’t.
For Christmas Dinner tonight we are going to a seafood fest. I think it was about $65 USD each. I’ll update.
Wine is super expensive here. A bottle I buy at home for $12 (Lindemans Pinot Gregio) is 830,000 IPR ! I bought the same in Ubud for 320,000.
My complaint is that we were somehow assigned a concierge who did nothing expect harass us. I had asked for some dining reservations a couple weeks before arriving and hadn’t heard back. I brought it up during check-in.
We were exhausted checking in. I’m not kidding I had several whatsapp text messages followed buy numerous messages and FOUR calls the next morning. She insisted I drop everything to meet her for the dining receipts. I’m exhausted and she gave me a lecture.
She didn’t produce the receipts. She continued to harass me for two more days. If we didn’t go to breakfast, she’d send ne texts asking why. This was after I told her numerous times we don’t eat breakfast.
I finally had to tell her to leave me alone. I felt like a time share salesperson was harassing me. I’m not paying $2400 for 7 nights plus food and drinks to be harassed.
Yeah so we get breakfast for free at the lounge (we don’t ear breakfast) and evening cocktails (I’d rather be at the pool). The lounge is not close.
Regardless, we’ve loved this resort.
