In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- If you want to maximise your privacy, go for the Seaside Corner Suites, numbers 222 and 225, which come with wraparound balconies, littered with chairs and daybeds for relaxing in the balmy Balian air.
- Packing tips
- Bring some good hand-moisturising cream, you’ll want to soothe your palms after digging around in the organic garden.
- Also
- Mount Agung, Bali’s most sacred mountain, looms over the hotel. Why not unleash your inner pilgrim and join in one of Alila Manggis’ organised treks up to Beaskih temple?
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A complimentary afternoon tea for two in the organic gardens
Alila Manggis
Bali, Indonesia[view map]
- Style
- Traditional thatched tranquillity
- Setting
- Soothing seas, soaring peaks
Sumptuous yet unassuming, this ocean-fronted retreat lies in the shade of Mount Agung, held up as sacred by Balians, though you’ll be glad to hear that it does get plenty of sun. Surrounded by opulent coconut groves, Alila Manggis boasts an award-winning cookery school, a beautiful natural spa and some wonderful snorkelling opportunities along the unspoilt East Bali coast.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 54, divided into Superiors, Deluxes and Suites.
- Rates
- Low season, $145–$320; high season, $175–$350. Includes breakfast, and 21 per cent tax.
- Check-out
- Midday, although a 3pm check-out can be arranged, subject to availability.
- Facilities
- Pool, spa, cookery classes, organic garden, WiFi, valet parking, laundry, leisure concierge, boutique, car and bike rental. In rooms: TV, minibar, safe, premium toiletries, day-beds.
- Poolside
- The unique inverted pyramid-style pool, which ensures shallow edges and a deep centre, is set beneath coconut palms in the landscaped gardens, and offers wonderful views out over the ocean beyond.
- Also
- The Alia Manggis is a Green Globe certified hotel, and is justly proud of its own organic vegetable garden and all-natural spa products.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Chef Penelope William dishes up gorgeous Modern Asian cuisine – organic Kusamba salt-crusted snapper, ginger flower salad with coconut and nam njihm dressing – in Seasalt, housed in a traditional Balinese pavilion over a lotus pond.
- Dress code
- Informal, but why not accessorise with a hibiscus flower in your sea-salt curled hair?
- Top table
- Confirmed romantics (and those not afraid of a mosquito bite or two) should ask for a table to be set up in the coconut grove.
- Last orders
- 10pm.
- Room service
- 24 hours.
- Hotel bar
- Alila Manggis doesn’t have a proper bar, but wine and cocktails are available in the lobby. Try the watermelon mojito.
Other facilities
- Children
- This hotel is better suited to couples - leave the children at home!
Smith card offer
A complimentary afternoon tea for two in the organic gardens
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Alila Manggis
Buitan
Manggis Karangasem