Is Alila Villas Uluwatu the Most Luxurious Hotel in Bali?
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When we grow up, we want to live in a house just like our Alila Uluwatu villa.
Alila Hotels manages almost 20 luxury hotels in Asia, India and the U.S.
But it’s probably garnered the most ink – in prestigious travel mags like Conde Nast Traveler and the Robb Report – for its ultra-sumptuous, private-pool villa resorts in Bali.
Specifically, we’re talking about the Alila Villas Uluwatu.
It’s one of Bali’s most romantic resorts. It might even be the most deluxe too.
And when it comes to creating memorable couple’s experiences in Bali, you can’t do much better than staying at this luxury resort.
Alila Villas Uluwatu review
Alila Villas Uluwatu clings to a clifftop on Bali’s southern coast.
It cranks up the wow factor for boutique villa resorts, making you wish you could replicate their fab architectural features in your own home. (They sure gave us serious villa envy.)
Alila Uluwatu accommodation
You want big?
Then get this – the 65 extraordinary Uluwatu villas are all larger than 3,000 square feet!
Our living room was touching distance from our L-shaped pool.
We could push back glass wall-to-wall windows and almost jump right into the pool.
In fact, most of the window walls around the villa opened up to the outdoors to allow the sea breeze in.
The bathroom boasted an indoor and outdoor shower, together with his-and-hers, leather-and-wood amenity boxes with organic products – scented pillow spray anyone?
Pool and lounge
Nothing is cookie-cutter.
Wood design materials have been recycled from railway sleepers and telephone poles.
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And a huge birdcage (aka, a sunset lounge) is cantilevered over the cliff edge beside the resort’s main infinity pool – from here, the Indian Ocean looks as if it stretches forever beyond the horizon.
Dining
The hotel’s secluded location means that you’ll likely eat in (unless you don’t mind hefty taxi charges to try an outside restaurant).
Mind you, it’s not a hardship to eat the food at the hotel!
Alila Villas Uluwatu review: Bottom line?
We’ve stayed at many gorgeous, five-star Bali hotels.
And it’s possible, just possible, that the Alila Villas Uluwatu is the most deluxe hotel in Bali.
Alila Villas Bali: Check rates and availability here
Sailing on the Alila Purnama
After this amazing stay, we wondered how the Alila group could possibly impress us any more.
Well they did! On our subsequent week-long Indonesian expedition on the Alila Purnama (a stylish sailing vessel modeled after a traditional phinisi)…
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Experience more of Bali!
Another beautiful Bali hotel: You don’t have to spend a fortune on a Bali resort with private pool villas. See our review of Ayung Resort Ubud.
Monkey sanctuary: There’s a lot of monkey business going on at the Ubud Monkey Forest. But the babies sure are cute!
Seminyak: Seminyak is Bali’s trendiest district, and pool villas in Seminyak are all the rage.
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Photo credits: 2, 3 and 10 © Janice and George Mucalov, SandInMySuitcase | Other photos courtesy this Alila hotel
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