AYANA Resort and Spa Bali
Sprawled across a 22-acre estate on Jimbaran Bay's cliff tops, this 290-room, 78-villa resort is regularly listed among Asia's finest. The grounds are so extensive and the resort so popular (especially with the Japanese), a 282-room sister hotel, RIMBA Jimbaran Bali, was added a short buggy drive away in the depths of woodland. The result is Bali's only integrated resort, totaling a whopping 650 rooms, with the island's most extensive on-site facilities. That may all sound rather impersonal (and just plain too much), but this honeymoon and family favorite is unobtrusively spaced amongst beautifully landscaped grounds, and armed with service levels that are remarkably individualized while at the same time slickly efficient.
Even without the RIMBA addition, AYANA boasted a dizzying amount of facilities and services; combining the two now borders on the staggering. AYANA has an 18-hole putting course, a perfume-making studio, a salt water ocean beach pool on a private cove, and the world's largest "Aquatonic Seawater Therapy Pool," part of the internationally acclaimed Thermes Marins Spa. There's also Rock Bar, one of the world's most dramatic nightspots. All this space and natural beauty makes for a premier wedding and meetings venue, with topnotch multifunctional facilities.
Broad-ranging accommodation options include luxurious guestrooms and suites, most providing roomy balconies for bay views. The units aren't exceptional, but they are nice and tastefully furnished, with warm woods, big balconies with daybeds, and sparkly refurbished bathrooms. Club Level rooms come with an exclusive Club Lounge and other benefits; mighty posh, ultra-private Ocean and Cliff Pool Villas are sited within high-walled gardens with a plunge pool, a 24-hr. butler, and other privileges. The spectacular three-bedroom AYANA Villa is a home away from home for celebs and presidents. Everything you would want in a resort is right here, so why leave? In fact, many guests don't—happily holing up at the AYANA.
Sprawled across a 22-acre estate on Jimbaran Bay's cliff tops, this 290-room, 78-villa resort is regularly listed among Asia's finest. The grounds are so extensive and the resort so popular (especially with the Japanese), a 282-room sister hotel, RIMBA Jimbaran Bali, was added a short buggy drive away in the depths of woodland. The result is Bali's only integrated resort, totaling a whopping 650 rooms, with the island's most extensive on-site facilities. That may all sound rather impersonal (and just plain too much), but this honeymoon and family favorite is unobtrusively spaced amongst beautifully landscaped grounds, and armed with service levels that are remarkably individualized while at the same time slickly efficient.
Even without the RIMBA addition, AYANA boasted a dizzying amount of facilities and services; combining the two now borders on the staggering. AYANA has an 18-hole putting course, a perfume-making studio, a salt water ocean beach pool on a private cove, and the world's largest "Aquatonic Seawater Therapy Pool," part of the internationally acclaimed Thermes Marins Spa. There's also Rock Bar, one of the world's most dramatic nightspots. All this space and natural beauty makes for a premier wedding and meetings venue, with topnotch multifunctional facilities.
Broad-ranging accommodation options include luxurious guestrooms and suites, most providing roomy balconies for bay views. The units aren't exceptional, but they are nice and tastefully furnished, with warm woods, big balconies with daybeds, and sparkly refurbished bathrooms. Club Level rooms come with an exclusive Club Lounge and other benefits; mighty posh, ultra-private Ocean and Cliff Pool Villas are sited within high-walled gardens with a plunge pool, a 24-hr. butler, and other privileges. The spectacular three-bedroom AYANA Villa is a home away from home for celebs and presidents. Everything you would want in a resort is right here, so why leave? In fact, many guests don't—happily holing up at the AYANA.
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