Bali: Where to Stay: Luxury: Amanusa

Amanusa

It’s not easy to compete with the resorts on Bali’s southern coast, like the Four Seasons, the Ritz-Carlton and the Bulgari, but fifteen-year-old Amanusa, in the resort area of Nusa Dua on the eastern Bukit Peninsula, more than holds its own. The hotel’s thirty-five suites incorporate tropical woods and marble and romantic four-poster beds in a series of stone buildings that have thatched roofs and are framed by manicured lawns, trees and reflecting pools. Golfers should book the Golf Experience package that offers complimentary use of the Bali Golf and Country Club next door, considered one of Asia’s top five courses. For a fee, it also allows you access to the Greg Norman–designed course at the Nirwana Bali Golf Club, about an hour’s drive away, and the Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club (about a two-hour drive), an eighteen-hole course beside an extinct volcano. Amanusa is not on the beach, but there’s a private beach club with thatched-roof cabanas a quick shuttle ride away. Rooms from $700.