Review: St. Regis Bali Lagoon Villa

I would have assumed you don't like swimming anyway?!

Does the $20 (or $100) trick ever work at these types of hotels? Particularly in areas with lower wages?

Looks like a perfect resort. Thank you for the review!

Omg Ben, i absolutely love this property! Might have missed you since I left the day the volcanic activity started. Kayuputi is such an amazing restaurant!

I LOVE the St Regis Bali. We were there in May and also stayed in suite 802. The extra cost for the lagoon villa is definitely worth it. They are amazing and the resort is one of the best ones I've ever stayed at in my opinion. The people, the food, the scenery was absolutely amazing. I'd go back in a heart beat!

Ford's name seems to have been completely dropped after featuring in almost every post for some time...

While hotel-relatively it is a "huge" fridge, for those of us that live in homes its quite a normal size;)

Will your last night will be refunded to your Citi Prestige card?

Your photos sparked my memory of our time in this villa. In fact, I remembered that my profile photo used here was taken by my wife in that villa (as part of a fun photo shoot). Funny how memory works. My first recollection of the time at the St. Regis wasn't as positive as it has become looking over our photos from there. We had a good time, and it was a beautiful property. Here's a link to some of those photos from that 'photo shoot' of my wife and I (also some others of the property, as well as a shot of the live music to be had at a certain restaurant - I can't recall the name - in the Bali Collection mall, just a short walk away). http://1drv.ms/1mIuRkp

I LOVE the guest bathroom pic! One of those classic peek-a-boo pictures. Hahaha

From your previous installment, you said "...Then there was a dining table, two chairs for lounging, and also a beautiful padded 'hut' you could relax on."

Just FYI, the padded hut is a lounging pavilion usually referred to as a "balé."

The lagoon villa does indeed look wonderful, but as others have mentioned, Nusa Dua is not to everyone's taste. We did stay there a few years ago at the Conrad and loved it, but this was before the new highway and transport from that area was abysmal.

Back in '88 (don't do any math please) I stayed at the Tanjung Sari in Sanur, and then went down to Nusa Dua for a couple of nights. At the time the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel was the only hotel there (this was at the beginning of the planned Nusa Dua tourist area), and there were literally no restaurants available within walking distance, so one was captive of the hotel's restaurants. I tell this story apropos of nothing, other than memories and living in the past. 🙂

And this place tops the Ritz Carlton?

Ben, Not sure if I missed this, but are you able to access your villa from the lagoon side? e.g. can you lock all the access-ways to your villa, and access them via room key without having to walk to the front door? Not to be untrustworthy, but that is always my concern about having a pool/lagoon/beach access suite/villa/room.

@Trevor: Yes, you can. The doors looking out toward the lagoon can be locked and accessed using your room's swipe card.

@Zzap - Thanks! I find that not to be the case at far to many resorts! Thanks for the clarification!

Thanks for taking 'one for the team' to get a look at the villas on the property. 🙂 I was struck by how incredibly similar this product was to the one bedroom villas at the Shangri-La Boracay - and would be curious to see you do a comparison! While access to the Lagoon is an awesome feature, I liked the total and complete privacy (and private pool) of the Shang.

My husband and I were there in 2013 during APEC and it was awesome...totally empty as all the guests were at the conference all day. My ambassador got us into a lagoon villa (without using SNAs or extra points). The lagoon was basically our second private pool as we saw 3 people in it the entire week. And the chief butler, Carlos, was fantastic...bottle after bottle of champagne kept appearing since it was our honeymoon.

We requested a late check-out and it was granted, but we had to move to a sky suite (I think) in the main building.

I would absolutely pay for the lagoon villa if we were not able to secure it in advance.

For me, not at all impressed. Could be the photos but everything looks rather dull

Yeah... this is def not a $650USD room .. esp not in Bali... I think better value could have been gotten for the money.....

Staying a at villa at the Laguna which has its own 40sq meter pool for 8000 pts a night plus $250. While I'm sure the st Regis public spaces are nicer, the Laguna is a much much better value and when you hav your own pool, who cares about the public spaces?