PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended

This hotel is slightly more upscale than your typical Novotel. Public spaces are grand, and the design throughout reflects Bali. The resort straddles the main street: The ocean side is more expensive and has better beach access, while the \"garden\" side is quiet and secluded. Better still, for the price, are the \"beach cabanas,\" even bigger suites in semiprivate bungalows (two per pavilion), complete with outdoor stone tubs -- most of them honeymoon-worthy. Rooms throughout are big, bright, and airy, decorated in a minimalist Asian style with coconut wood. Each of the three pools has its own flair, though none is very big. Lots of activities, including aerobics, soccer, a kids' club, and dance and cooking lessons, will keep you on the run, if you like. The free shuttle to Nusa Dua is convenient for touring, but given that this is the best of both worlds -- a terrific resort and authentic Bali -- it's hard to see that you would need it. The ocean up this way is much deeper and better for swimming, too.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Southeast Asia, 5th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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