Perhaps because hotels are highly commercialized, tourists looking for a vacation to the Island of the Gods, Bali, Indonesia often overlook the many benefits of renting a luxury villa for their vacation abroad.
Hotel marketers have done such a good job that official statistics show that over 70% of visitors to Bali choose to stay in luxurious hotels and only 16.4% decide to experience the unique benefits of a villa holiday. luxury.
Hotels are generally owned by multinational companies that have developed a formula to run their business. While there are some notable exceptions, all too often they build hotels based on building templates that have proven popular elsewhere. Their goal is to cram as many guests into their establishments as practically possible and space is at a premium. Some even build smaller pieces of furniture to fit better and give the illusion of a larger space.
Villas, on the other hand, are mostly owned by individuals who have designed their building from their hearts, as their home. Many spend time living there when the villa is not rented, so they work hard to ensure that the decor, furnishings, ambience, and facilities are top notch.
Hotels offer single rooms for their standard rate and anyone wanting more will pay a hefty additional fee for a suite. Most of their business is couples or individual travelers. They have strict rules and regulations related to meal times, facility use, and specialize in adding additional costs for any service you use, such as room service, laundry, phone, and internet.
The hotel’s business model is based on booking a single room (usually one double or two singles) and extending your booking fee as much as possible with added extras. The cost per person will usually be much more than what you would pay to book a luxury villa in Bali for your vacation.
Many luxury villas in Bali have four or more bedrooms and can sleep up to eight people. This makes them ideal for a group booking, whether for a family having a special gathering (anniversary, birthday, wedding), a club (book club, walking club, gastronomy club, wellness club or SCUBA club) or maybe a company. running an annual corporate planning break.
The pool booking factor is where the costs of renting a villa can really show great value, compared to the higher costs of hotels. For example, if the villa charged $340 a night it would, on its face, be on par with some of the more expensive hotels. However, when you calculate the actual rate per head, that is where the value of the villa shines. For a villa that sleeps eight and charges US$340 per night, the cost per person would be just US$42.50 per person per night, much cheaper than a hotel rate.
The value of the villa does not stop there. Many of Bali’s estimated 10,000 private villas will offer additional discounted rates for longer stays of a week or more.
When it comes to service, the villas also shine ahead of the hotel experience. Many Bali villas employ local Balinese as on-site helpers to cook, do laundry, clean the rooms, and serve guests drinks. Villa meals can be prepared to a guest’s precise requirements and can even accompany helpers when they go to the local markets for groceries, a great introduction to local Balinese culture.
Villas will often employ three or four helpers and these may even outnumber guests ensuring great service as needed. Helpers are typically coordinated by a villa manager who is on call 24/7 to quickly handle any issues that arise for guests. He can be sure that he will develop a special friendship with the villa managers and helpers, far beyond what would be possible if he stayed in a hotel.
Unlike hotels, which are often built in busy city centers close to the noisy action of nightclubs, great restaurants and late-night shopping, villas are more likely to be in rural Bali, specifically to escape the chaos of the city. From your Denpasar hotel window you are more likely to have a view of half-built hotels, construction cranes and traffic jams. You can expect to share your hotel pool, if you have one, with crowds of fellow vacationers and have to put up with potential late-night parties, splashing and shouting, because Denpasar has become very popular with the younger generation looking for party time.
Unfortunately, South Bali has too often lost its spirituality, peace and tranquility. Sometimes he has become a victim of his own popularity.
From the patio of your Bali villa, and patios with panoramic views are a common feature of the villa, you can expect instead to see the wide ocean, with the illusion of a curving horizon, or a mountain valley and plain. coastal, with bright night lights below. .
Villas are sometimes built in the middle of villages, giving guests the chance to talk with local people and learn about the community culture that is very special in Bali. The villas have private pools for your exclusive use and generally have lush gardens where you can enjoy peace and privacy.
Would you rather spend your vacation in a luxury home or a small hotel room? Would you prefer beautiful natural landscapes instead of construction cranes? Your choice for your next vacation should put booking a Bali luxury villa at the top of your list if you want to discover the “real” Bali.