Candi Beach Resort & Spa

My boyfriend and I stayed here 3 times during our 3 week trip to Bali. We even checked out of one of our other hotels a day early and transferred back to Candi Beach Resort. All 3 restaurants at the hotel are fantastic, the grounds are kept very clean, and the staff is incredibly friendly! We stayed in 3 different type of rooms, the best being the rooms in building 5 by Basil Restaurant (Garden and Sea View rooms). The location of the resort is fairly secluded, but you can hit some really cool spots with a driver, a scooter rental, or the transport service that the hotel offers that goes in to town twice a day. Read less

We stayed here in a garden bungalow for 10 nights, mainly to scuba dive. We found the room to be in a quiet area, yet close to the pool, reception and restaurants. It felt quite private as tucked away in the gardens. We got a free gift of a sarong upon arrival. The bed was very comfortable, we slept very well here. Bathroom spacious with rainfall shower. Shampoo, shower gel and even a toothbrush were provided, but no body lotion. We had to keep requesting this nearly every day, which was quite annoying (we didn't bring it to save luggage space as hotels always provide it). They had it, but it wasn't put on the rooms for some reason.  It's a quiet resort, perfect for relaxing and a great base for scuba diving, with a dive centre in the resort itself. I did 12 dives with the dive centre and was very impressed, saw turtles, sharks and rays and dived the USS Liberty twice.  However we like our holidays to be quite action packed, and we felt a little bored here with the lack of things to do. There wasn't many excursion options at all, we like sightseeing and photography and the only sightseeing excursion was visiting the temple and water Palace, everything else was trekking,  cycling, or snorkeling, which didn't really appeal to us as divers. There were 2 free walking tours available from the hotel, but both of these were quite short. Everything also seemed to take place at around the same time in the morning, Tai Chi, Yoga, scuba diving, so didn't have time to do everything and was bored the rest of the day. There are also some short afternoon activities, like coconut tree climbing and a cooking demonstration.  Breakfast was good, an omelette bar, and a variety of hot dishes, fruit and fruit juices and pastries. I enjoyed the doughnuts. However hot chocolate cost extra, which is annoying, and the coffee was awful. It was nice to eat breakfast outside overlooking the beach.  There were 3 restaurant options. The Italian and Indonesian restaurants were quite good, very generous portion sizes and the price wasn't too high for most dishes. The Ocean Terrace restaurant was good for lunch (burgers, pizzas and sandwiches), but very disappointing for dinner. Considering that this was the more expensive restaurant, the food quality was poor. Both dinners I had here was disappointing, flavourless duck legs and a cardamom chicken curry which was a large piece of chicken in skin containing some bones drizzled in a tiny bit of curry sauce. One evening, they gave us a free appetiser of a ham sandwich which was just bizarre. All three restaurants had views of the beach, and were perfect for watching the breathtaking sunsets over dinner.  There is also free WiFi throughout the resort with excellent coverage.  There was a 50% off the spa offer if we didn't change our bedsheets or towels for a day, which was good, and allowed us to visit the spa on our final day for a reasonable price.  Pools are open to 9pm, which we liked as we could have an evening swim after dinner.  Read less