The 22 Best Places to Drink and Stay in Badung

The facade is wrapped in over a million hand-pressed Balinese temple bricks, which sets the tone for what Desa Potato Head actually is: a resort that treats sustainability as a design brief, not a footnote. Six restaurants, a beach club built from reclaimed window shutters, sound stages, and art installations fill the grounds. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, and the globetrotting creatives who fill it look exactly like you'd expect.

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Perched on a clifftop nearly 500 feet above the Indian Ocean at Bali's southern tip, this Forbes Five Star resort makes the setting the main event. Sixty-odd villas and mansions blend Milanese furniture and traditional Balinese craft in a way that somehow doesn't feel like a mood board. Frangipani-scented paths wind down through volcanic gardens to the water, and the buggy ride to your villa is its own quiet ritual.

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Every villa comes with its own private pool, which does make the infinity pool overlooking the bay feel almost unnecessary. This Forbes Five Star resort sits just across the bay from the airport, so the beach begins almost immediately. Complimentary water sports and beachside dining fill the days, and the place manages to feel romantic and family-friendly at once, a trick most resorts attempt and few pull off quietly.

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The penthouses here come with private rooftop pools and a direct sightline to Echo Beach's left-hand break, so you can assess the surf before committing to standing up. COMO Uma Canggu is a beachside resort that puts a polished frame around Canggu's famously relaxed tempo: 52 rooms and 55 residences arranged around a long lagoon pool, with spa and wellness programming running alongside it all. Forbes Four Star.

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The Mulia's name means "noble" in Indonesian, and the property commits to that brief with what feels like religious conviction, starting with an actual chapel surrounded by reflecting pools at the entrance. This Forbes Five Star all-suite resort sits on a beachfront stretch of Nusa Dua, where every suite has a Jacuzzi balcony and a butler on call round the clock. Six pools and four restaurants are shared across the neighboring sister properties, so leaving your room is at least logistically encouraged.

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Three-tiered lampshades shaped like Balinese temples hang against a gray, futuristic interior, which tells you exactly the kind of resort W Seminyak is: stylish enough to take seriously, loud enough to keep you up. Woobar pulls the party crowd for sunset DJ sets and the annual Silent Disco, while W Lounge faces the pool and ocean for mornings when you're pacing yourself. A Forbes Four Star property that never pretends it's a quiet retreat.

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Perched on the cliffs of Uluwatu, this luxury resort was designed by Singapore firm WOHA using recycled railway timber, lava rock roofs, and bamboo ceilings, so the sustainability talk actually shows. Each villa comes with its own pool, a butler, and an indoor-outdoor flow that makes the whole cliff feel like yours. A Forbes Four Star property, and the infinity pool at the edge of the Indian Ocean is the kind of thing people move their flights for.

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A 64-villa Belmond resort on Jimbaran Bay's crescent shoreline, where the infinity pool is tiled in Javanese stone and the cottages are thatched in alang-alang grass. The low-rise compound sits under frangipani and palms close enough to the beach that the fishing village still feels present. Balinese and Indonesian design run through every detail, and the grounds are generous enough that you forget the airport is fifteen minutes away. A Forbes Four Star property.

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The resort sits on 222 acres of private tropical forest in Jimbaran, so large that no neighboring property is visible from anywhere on the grounds. Cotton trees occasionally dust the jogging paths white. Guests come for the cliff-side Rock Bar and the Spa on the Rocks, both built into volcanic sea rock above the Indian Ocean. A Forbes Four Star resort that earns its space with serious landscaping and unhurried service to match.

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The misted drive to the entrance, lined with dense foliage and washed in blue light after dark, sets the tone for this beachside luxury resort in Nusa Dua. Javanese shadow puppets, intricate woodcarvings, and geometric patterns drawn from Balinese Hindu offerings turn up everywhere, from the carpets to the elevator walls. It holds a Forbes Four Star. The St. Regis butler service keeps things quietly seamless, which is the brand's whole argument.

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A private plunge pool, an outdoor bale wrapped in tropical garden, and a bathtub aimed straight at the ocean: each of AYANA's 78 villas comes fully loaded. This clifftop resort-within-a-resort sits inside a sprawling Jimbaran Bay estate, and villa guests get their own lane through it, priority entry to the Rock Bar included. Forbes Four Star. The pampering is very much the point.

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Each of the private pool villas comes with a dedicated butler, which is either a luxury or a mild social anxiety depending on your personality. This Forbes Four Star villa resort is set into the hills of Nusa Dua, with the terraced landscaping echoing Bali's rice fields and the Indian Ocean filling in the view below. It sits within a larger resort complex but keeps its own quiet, unhurried rhythm.

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A cliff-edge resort on Bali's southern tip where the grounds spill down to a private white-sand beach, with an infinity pool and a seaside chapel doing most of the convincing for honeymooners. The kids' club, with daily Balinese cultural workshops alongside the latest PlayStation, keeps this from being purely a couples escape. The "tree of life" motif runs through the open-air lobby, the perfume shop, and the woodwork in your room. Forbes Four Star.

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Freestanding villas built as joglo, the traditional teak houses of Java, sitting quietly in the residential neighborhood of Umalas rather than jostling for beachfront. Each villa runs large enough to feel like a small hotel, with clover-shaped pools, lotus ponds, feng shui gardens, and outdoor showers off every bedroom. Seminyak's shops and cocktail bars are minutes away, though the design seems engineered to make you forget they exist. Michelin Key holder.

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A sandy beachfront on the Nusa Dua coast sets the tone at this sprawling luxury resort in Tanjung Benoa, where nearly seventeen acres of tropical gardens and pools back up against a genuinely calm stretch of sea. The staff tend to remember you, which at a property this size is its own small miracle. Cultural excursions, from purification ceremonies to private gallery tours, keep it from feeling like a generic beach escape.

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Each of the 72 villas at this cliff-top all-villa resort comes with its own infinity pool, jetted hot tub, and two automated Toto toilets, which is either pampering or a quiet statement about priorities. Perched 230 feet above the southern coast, Umana Bali looks out over Melasti Beach and the Indian Ocean, with sunsets that feel almost staged. The architecture draws from Balinese tradition, and the restaurants lean into local flavors alongside Western options.

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The name translates to "I'll live again," which sets the tone for this boutique wellness resort on the fringes of Nusa Dua. Where most Balinese hotels tack on a spa as an afterthought, REVĪVŌ organizes the whole stay around restoration, with a yoga barn, Pilates studio, boxing, and programs that run from drop-in classes to two-week boot camps. Suites are generous, some with private pools or gardens. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.

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A Mexican bar and dining spot dropped into Seminyak's party circuit, Motel Mexicola leans hard into the fantasy: tropical colors, agave spirits in several forms, and cocktails with names that dare you to order them out loud. The drinks list runs from mezcal to a coconut mojito served with a prosecco chaser on the side. Tacos and churros keep things moving. It's the kind of place that fills up fast and shows no signs of guilt about it.

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An amphitheater curve of antique shutters frames the Indian Ocean sunset, which is either a coincidence or the whole point. Potato Head is a beach bar in Seminyak where the cocktails are built to a precision you'd expect somewhere without sand between your toes, then quietly spiked with local ingredients to remind you where you are. They've cut all single-use plastic too, serving drinks in coconut shells and reusing citrus husks for syrups.

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Hand-cut ice and thirty-plus signatures behind a discreet door in Canggu: this is a serious cocktail bar run by the team behind Jakarta's Koda, and it shows. The room leans into caramel and chocolate tones with soft lighting and nothing decorative that isn't also doing a job. Pandan, lemongrass, and black tea turn up in the drinks with quiet intention, and the team will build something bespoke if you'd rather not choose.

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Perched on the limestone cliffs of Uluwatu, this clifftop villa resort sits directly above the Indian Ocean, with each private villa or suite styled around a different aesthetic, from Balinese open-plan to Hamptons colonial. Suites share a pool with no more than four other rooms, and book enough bedrooms and the grounds go entirely private. Waatu, the on-site restaurant, cooks over open flame with no gas or electricity, which feels very on-brand for somewhere this elemental.

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