Karma Kandara

“Super Luxurious, calm, Lovely and out of town.”

Located right next to the beach, over the cliff and with lovely views, karma kandara is One of the best resorts I have visited. Far from the city and need a car to visit nearby tourist places, bali is notorious for its traffic jams. Takes about 3 hours sometimes to reach hotel from airport / city… more

Located right next to the beach, over the cliff and with lovely views, karma kandara is One of the best resorts I have visited. Far from the city and need a car to visit nearby tourist places, bali is notorious for its traffic jams. Takes about 3 hours sometimes to reach hotel from airport / city We were given a villa, with 3 bedrooms. The villa was huge, clean and big hall with studio kitchen. We had a private pool with pool benches and a dining table outside. Luxury at its best. There are two restaurants, serving a-la carte and buffet breakfast. The restaurant overlooks the beach and it is wonderful.. it is open, airy and can feel the sea breeze. I thank karma for choosing this wonderful location. Very few choices for vegetarians, but they will provide one or two dishes like puri bhaji, parota, rice etc upon request. They arrange transport to the beach just below. There are stairs, but very difficult to climb up. The beach shack is lovely, close to the water, rocky cliff and sand, serving drinks and snacks. The beach closes at 10PM and the last bus is at 9.45 PM. Spa overlooks the beach and we took up two packages. Bit costly, but was worth, calming. Housekeeping was good, daily clean up and neat. All rooms had attached bathrooms with towels and soaps. Only problem is that the resort is far from the sightseeing places, nothing much outside the gates, isolated really, not even local shops. But, best place to relax and enjoy the huge resort. Will love to stay again.

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“Out of the world ambience, best facilities and the most efficient & polite staff makes holidaying an absolute delight”

Spent one full week at Karma Kandara with family, it was a blissful experience in the most tranquil and serene environment. The Resort is very well laid out with Villas spread around in the most picturesque setting, being a large property battery operated buggies with the most affable drivers are a… more

Spent one full week at Karma Kandara with family, it was a blissful experience in the most tranquil and serene environment. The Resort is very well laid out with Villas spread around in the most picturesque setting, being a large property battery operated buggies with the most affable drivers are always available to ferry the guests around. The entire staff is very efficient and goes out of their way to make the guests feel at home. The private beach, the dances and cultural shows every evening, four restaurants and bars and two spas provide more than adequate engagement to the guests. Would love to go back here time and again. A special mention of two of the staff , Soheli and Ary who made dining at Di Mare Restaurant the most pleasant experience

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“Karma Kandara worhty of 5 Stars”

Karma Kandara is truely a magnificent 5 Star property that has everything. You could stay there and not go outside the walls as everything is catered for, down to the buggies that ferry you around to all the venues, restaurants spars beach etc. Our family came home raving about the holiday and didn… more

Karma Kandara is truely a magnificent 5 Star property that has everything. You could stay there and not go outside the walls as everything is catered for, down to the buggies that ferry you around to all the venues, restaurants spars beach etc. Our family came home raving about the holiday and didn't want to leave. You must put Karma Kandara on your bucket list.

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“‘Villas’ where you can watch each other on the loo!”

We stayed here when our planned accommodation fell through. We got an amazing deal on a ‘2 bedroom villa with pool’ which was good enough for us to ignore our misgivings around location (too isolated from a more ‘real’ immersion in Bali and trepidation re monkeys)! The good stuff - the staff were… more

We stayed here when our planned accommodation fell through. We got an amazing deal on a ‘2 bedroom villa with pool’ which was good enough for us to ignore our misgivings around location (too isolated from a more ‘real’ immersion in Bali and trepidation re monkeys)! The good stuff - the staff were always responsive and helpful and cheerful and the bus to the beach mostly worked well. Yoga in the mornings was good and the view exceptional. The accommodation was clean and spacious and our little pool was a lovely sun trap. Not so good: Why someone thought this was a good idea I’ll never know - the bathroom in the master bedroom was glass walled - so if I sat on the loo, my husband could see me, if he was on the bed!? It meant I resorted to using the bathroom in the hall. I like walls on my bathrooms! Not my teenage kids seeing me in the bathroom if they enter our room! Out teenage children are too big (maturity and size-wise to want to share a bed, however there were no villas to move us to which had single beds as resort was busy. I would say it’s more likely that guests need two singles in the second room, rather than a second double? It meant my son had to sleep on the sofa bed each night. (The staff helpfully re made the bed to each night so we didn’t have to put up with the common area being a bed all day! The ‘villa’ was not a villa to me….it was a cluster of 3 (?4?) units! We could hear people above us walking about the first night (and subsequent nights) which alerted us to the fact that the villa behind us had accommodation above us! We also shared walls with the next door villa ans our pool areas where right next to each other and we could hear all their noise and conversation. This was disappointing and was a ‘hidden’ detail they don’t descirbe on their website . Food - no pool bar and no option to order casual food pool-side during the day (unless maybe you want the Indian theme food stall perhaps!?). You’re otherwise offered the more formal ‘dinner’ option menu. Breakfast is sooo busy. We opted to sit on tables below the restaurant next to the pool to avoid the noise, chaos and chair bumping as people pass each other. We opted to eat dinner out every night. Beach loungers - they sell them to external visitors - even the ones which are shown on their website as front row exclusive use for hotel guests. Total profiteering and unacceptable. The ‘map’ online for their beach bar loungers indicates an area reserved for hotel guests and stipulates that you can’t book them . I took the kids down to the beach first thing in the morning one day - there were no other people there yet - however I was told that all the beds were reserved but I was welcome to use soem of the beds in a back row if I wasn’t staying for long!? UNACCEPTABLE. We had visited on a previous day in the afternoon and beach staff kindly found us a few loungers (not enough for our party) as people were leaving the beach. We were lucky to be offered towels. Hotel guests who arrived shortly after us were told there were none left. Infinity pool - this is gorgeous - but only about 5 loungers beside it! I tried to use them one day (they were all empty late morning) however there were ‘Reserved’ signs on them! I was told they were for VIP’s due to arrive shortly so I couldn’t use them. So - would I stay here again? For a huge discount maybe, but unlikely as I much prefer other areas of Bali like Uluwatu. There’s no way I’d pay a premium price to stay here.

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