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.
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.
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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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Photo credits: 2, 3 and 10 © Janice and George Mucalov, SandInMySuitcase | Other photos courtesy this Alila hotel
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We seem to be in many of the same destinations lately and coming away equally impressed. My wife and I were in Bali earlier this and stayed at the new Alila hotel in Seminyak. We have been to Alila hotels in Ubud and Manggis, as well, but the Uluwatu facility certainly appears to be a step above. I remember seeing renderings of the proposed Uluwatu villas on another trip and the developers seemed to have exceeded their luxurious intentions.
My family also visited Tulum and Chichén Itzá in late 2015 and felt your post about Tulum captured well why one should visit these historic sites.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment :-).
Glad to hear the new Alila hotel in Seminyak is appealing. We stayed in Seminyak as well (in a couple of different villa properties) and the Seminyak vibe is definitely different than what you get at Soori and Uluwatu! (as in more happening!) The good thing about the Seminyak location would be the close access to all sorts of great restaurants, nightclubs, art galleries, etc., which you don’t get when you’re coddled in the private cocoons at Soori and Uluwatu.
Whooo!!!!
What am amazing place to be, just looking at the pictures made me stunned, I think this is the perfect place I have to visit with my fiancee ;-)
and yeah the pool villa over the rice paddies towards the mountains is just perfect.
Truly Awesome.. (kiss)
Janice and George really thank you for sharing this lovely post.
keep posting… :-)
Cheers!!!
Both of these Alila villa properties in Bali are honeymoon-worthy, so yes, you and your fiancee would be sure to love them :-).
I adored every minute of my time in Bali so am always up for hearing about great places to stay there and the Alila properties sound so relaxing and remote :) That body mask sounds utterly aromatic and wholesome as well!
We had an incredible stay at Alila Ubud and I would have loved to visit their Uluwatu property if we’d have had time – that birdcage lounge looks really unique
It’s hard to do everything on a trip, isn’t it? Maybe you’ll just have to plan another visit to Bali :-)
These Alila villas look amazing—and a great setting and bespoke service to boot! Would love to visit someday~
3000 square feet is 4 times the size of my Chicago apartment…I wouldn’t know what to do with all that space!
We didn’t either. We had to put all our stuff in one little corner – we were afraid if we spread it out (camera, laptop, backpacks, etc.), we’d lose it and forget to pack everything when leaving. The bathroom and closet area was humungous, so we kept all our clothes, shoes, hats, etc. there. There was certainly no issue of feeling cooped up! Most guests just stay in their villas (they’re obviously hard to leave), so even though the place may be full, it never feels busy – and you see very few people around :-).
Oh my goodness, what incredible experiences! I’m so jealous! The resort in Bali looks absolutely stunning.
Both resorts are stunning in their own way. It’s amazing that people can conceive of such luxurious places – and then have the vision to build them. We also liked knowing that Alila Villas Uluwatu was built from locally-sourced materials (the green roofs were interesting).