LOTUS BUNGALOWS

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What you can expect during your stay

All linens sanitized in high-temperature wash
Face masks required for guests in public areas
Face masks required for staff in public areas
Floors marked for social distancing
Hand sanitizer available to guests & staff
Stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms

Updated 03/08/21 Safety precautions are provided by the property and are not checked by Tripadvisor for accuracy.

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4.5

Excellent

178 reviews

#12 of 24 hotels in Candidasa

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Set in a peaceful lush garden, Lotus Bungalows is located at the entrance of Candidasa. With a very high standard of service and comfort, it is the perfect place for nature lovers and diving enthusiasts. The Lotus Bungalows embrace mystique of Bali, with its bewildering natural charm, beauty and culture. The friendliness and hospitality of its people provides you with an exotic and relaxing holiday.

Property amenities

Free parking

Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)

Pool

Yoga classes

Free breakfast

Diving

Hiking

Babysitting

Secured parking

Wifi

Pool / beach towels

Infinity pool

Outdoor pool

Restaurant

Breakfast buffet

Snorkeling

Airport transportation

Spa

Couples massage

Foot massage

Full body massage

Hand massage

Head massage

Massage

Neck massage

Open-air bath

Currency exchange

Non-smoking hotel

Sun loungers / beach chairs

Sun umbrellas

Dry cleaning

Laundry service

Room features

Air conditioning

Housekeeping

Room service

Safe

Bottled water

Minibar

Refrigerator

Room types

Ocean view

Non-smoking rooms

Good to know

HOTEL CLASS

HOTEL STYLE

Romantic

Great View

Languages Spoken

English, Danish, German, Indonesian

Location

Full view

60Somewhat walkable

Grade: 60 out of 100

16Restaurantswithin 0.5 km

1Attractionwithin 0.5 km

Contact

Jalan Raya Candidasa,, Candidasa, Karangasem 80871 Indonesia

Getting there

Bali Ngurah Rai Airport51 kmSee all flights

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Nearby restaurants

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Nearby attractions

Ketut Sudarta Bali Driver

5 minBeaches

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178Reviews3Q+A22Room tips

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Ni Putu Sutramiani wrote a review Dec 2021

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Family gathering

we held a family gathering at lotus bungalow last weekend by booking 10 rooms. the service is very satisfying and the food menu is delicious, especially the BBQ package that we ordered. very good location with beautiful beach view. there is a large area for our activities and highly recommended for family or office events. Very happy to be able to spend the weekend here.

Date of stay: December 2021Trip type: Traveled with family

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Response from Adi Wijaya, Pengelola Penginapan at Lotus Bungalows

Responded 13 Dec 2021

Dear Sutramiani, Warmest greeting from Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. Thank you for your time to share your good experience at Lotus Bungalows Candidasa, we are glad to know that you have enjoyed your stay and have a very relaxing time with us. Our team would be very happy to hear your family member are enjoy the BBQ and the activities at the resort. We look forward to welcoming you again at Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. best regards, Lotus Team

Marcos F wrote a review Sep 2021

5 contributions

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Great spot for a peaceful getaway

We stayed at Lotus Bungalows this weekend. I mentioned it was my wife's birthday on booking, and they made her a cake! The welcome was warm, the place was spotlessly clean. Our room was stylish, clean and comfortable with fast WiFi fully serviced AC and a high quality mattress. All the staff were very attentive and sweet, breakfast was generous and the pool and garden were immaculate even though we had the place to ourselves. Will definitely be back :)

Date of stay: September 2021Trip type: Traveled as a couple

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Response from Adi Wijaya, Pengelola Penginapan at Lotus Bungalows

Responded 16 Sep 2021

Dear Marcos F Warmest greeting from Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. Thank you for taking time to write and share your great experience, the entire staff and management of Lotus Bungalows are very delighted to read your review. It’s a great pleasure to hear that you have enjoyed the facilities at Lotus Bungalows, thank you for highlighting our room, restaurant, staffs services, and other facilities. I have shared your exceptional review to entire staffs of Lotus Bungalows, I believe they will be very happy to hear their effort and services met your expectation. We are looking forward to welcoming you back into Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. Warmest Regards, Adi Wijaya Lotus Bungalows

Agus Mahaputra wrote a review Sep 2020

Denpasar, Indonesia20 contributions7 helpful votes

+1

Family short holiday

A good pleasant hotel for family holiday and honey moon for couple. Good manager and kindly staff. Clean pool also resaturant with good meal. Hopely someday will coming again for enjoyed the view and Balinese ambience at Candidasa area

Date of stay: September 2020Trip type: Traveled with family

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Response from Adi Wijaya, Pengelola Penginapan at Lotus Bungalows

Responded 22 Sep 2020

Dear Agus Mahaputra, Warmest greeting from Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. Thank you for your time to share your good experience at Lotus Bungalows Candidasa, we are glad to know that you have enjoyed your stay and have a very relaxing time with us. Our team would be very happy to hear your compliment highlighting the kind staff and clean of our resort, good meal at the restaurant. We look forward to welcoming you again at Lotus Bungalows Candidasa. Warmest regards, Adi Wijaya Lotus Bungalows Candidasa

SuzanneN wrote a review Feb 2020

North Andover, MA203 contributions112 helpful votes

+1

Nice accomodations, fantastic food, great Nusa diving

The Managers Henrietta and Yan were very responsive to our needs. They care for their staff and it shows that the staff loves their work. In addition to accomodations, we used their Spa, Diving crew, tour guide and restaurant while there. Accommodations: We were in 114. Very comfortable bed and room. A pitcher of water is refreshed every day so we had plenty of drinking water. AC worked great. It was nice to have a rack outside the door to hang wet bathingsuits or diving equipment to dry off before the ride home. Beautiful ocean front view close to the infinity pool which was very relaxing to lounge at on either their comfortable lounge chairs or their shaded beds on either side of the pool. Great place to hang with cocktails. The bathroom was entirely outside and is adjoining to the bungalow's bathroom next to the room but does have a high wall to separating the 2 outside bath rooms. Perhaps this is traditional in Bali? Not sure. It wasn't a big deal since we were never in the bathroom the same time our next door neighbors were. The other feature of an outdoor bathroom is an oportunity to see other life out there. A cool snail crawled along the top of the wall one time but mostly there were different types of bugs or just gecko poop. Not a big deal. Spa: Very convienient and responsive. I ordered a massage an hour before dinner and even though the masseuse was off-site, she came immediately for the appt. The room was clean and comfortable and the masseuse did a good job. Diving: Diving crew was friendly and helpful for getting in/out of the boat (back roll) and handing camera off. Most didn't speak English but dive master did. We had a junior dive master. He knew where the residents hung out on the wrecks but I spotted more critters than he on the current dives. Diving in Indonesia is different than anywhere else we just realized. Strong currents don't just go horizontal, they go up/down and change frequently on the same dive. I did feel mostly safe with the dive master although he lost us briefly on a very bad vis dive that apparently rarely happens. ...The first day we dove it was like a night dive. He did seem a bit bothered by bringing a flooded camera up although we weren't that far down before I realized it was flooded, and he was not helpful at all for a lost prescription mask.....just looking on the surface rather than taking a dunk under. ...Other dive masters have tried far harder to make these types of accomodations. Young guy though that I'm sure will get better experience as he progresses with his craft. Lunches on the boat are handled by the staff taking your order the night before for a noodle dish or sandwhich. Always choose the noodle dish! It's the standard Indonesian breakfast/lunch cuisine and yummy. Surface intervals are spent on the moorings catching some sun or eating their fresh fruit or homemade coffee type breads that are wonderful. Water is handled in a cooler with cups that have numbers for divers that corelate with their equipement box numbers. Good system. I recommend bringing your own water holder to make it easier and more accessible. Restaurant: Phenomenal. Order what you want for breakfast and they also had fruit and cereals to eat. They have different juice selections each day. Coffee is included but if you want cappaccino it's extra. I highly recommend it. For breakfast....the Famer's Breakfast (Not Farmer) It's a mixture of scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, but something else that makes it special. It's excellent Lunch we never had since we were on the boat. Dinner....every single thing we tried was excellent The Seasoned Shrimp, all though some work to take off the shell was wonderful, We tried almost everything and loved it all. BEST EVER: Chocolate Crepes with vanilla icecream. To die for. Even when we thought we were going to try a local recommended dine out night we planned to come back for the crepes. Never made it though since the restaurant was so good. The dark chocolate hardens over the icecream but remains soft and lucious on the crepes. The last day there was special as it was the annual ceremony to pray to the gods for the safety of the resort and staff. All guests were invited to it and were offered a sarrong to wear as it is the traditional dress for these events for men and women. Henrietta explained what was happening during each activity of the ceremony (placing the offerings, priest blessing, traveling to each of the temples to place the offerings) which was very helpful. It was a wonderful experience. At the end we all enjoyed the Balinese pig roast with the staff. The managers make it a point to close the restaurant for any other business to allow the staff to fully enjoy the ceremony. Tour Guide: Henrietta indicated to me that she is sensitive to the fact that tourists that may not be familiar with the chaotic traffic in Bali prefer to have transports with seat belts that work so she makes it a point to only hire drivers that have them. We appreciated it. Despite the chaos there was only one accident we passed in the 4 days of traveling around. The tour guide she set us up with was most excellent. Nengah Kari (+62 819-1565-0188) Nengah made it a point of indicating he wasn't a guide since he wasn't certified but he accomplished all the tasks we were looking to complete on our tour: Go to NON Touristy (when ever possible) Temple, rice terrace, monkey location, coffee plantation, knife purchasing site, wood carving store, Water Palace, Heaven's Gate, and location to purchase a big duffle bag to bring back all the coffee, knife, Bali snacks, wood carving, etc. we brought back. At Heaven's gate you get a ticket to line up to get your photo taken ....a 2hr + wait sometimes. We were 170 and were not interesting in the "Instagram" tour type pose in between the gate. Nengah was able to get us in a photo without anyone else in the picture without the wait. He took us to the location to feed monkeys and took photos of us at every site. Tip: The monkey site was not the Ubud Monkey Sanctuary (another Instagram Tour location) where the monkey's are trained to take tourist hats, glasses, cameras so the natives can charge you for getting them back. For lunch Nengah took us to a nice location overlooking fields and trees that had Bitang Radler orange beer. We grew quite fond of the Bitang Radler lemon beer at the restaurant and was pleased to see there was an orange flavor too. Nengah knew where there was a village that sold knives. I wanted to purchase a decorative knife for my son that loves to cook. He helped to take me to 2 knife makers in town where I was able to purchase exactly what I was looking for. He helped me barter the price down as well since they didn't speak English. We got the bag and at that same location found a unique wood carving that we hadn't seen anywhere else. It was oversized and would need to be packaged well to take on the plane back. As it turns out, Nengah had a friend in cargo that was on the way to the airport. We secured hiring Nengah for our next day ride back to the airport and stopped at the cargo site where they packaged it extremely well with a wood frame, foam, and plywood. It made it through the flight to Bali -Dubai-Boston without any issue. It would have been $310 to ship via ship. In any event...Lotus Bungalows came through on knowing who to call for guides. I'm glad we selected them. My son was thrilled with such a beautiful knife that he'll have to cook with.…

Date of stay: January 2020

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Response from Henriette B, Manager at Lotus Bungalows

Responded 10 Feb 2020

Dear Suzanne Thank you for the review, we are happy you had a great time here and hope to welcome you back a other time. Warmest Regards Henriette Lotus Bungalows

Marcacer wrote a review Jan 2020

Beek, The Netherlands206 contributions46 helpful votes

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Lotus bungalows and ganga divers provided an excellent holiday for my family

Lotus bungalows are a well managed operation, the food is excellent, the rooms ( 2 rooms in a bungalow ) offer sea view and the outside bathroom is very nicely made. Everything is not brand new, but everything works and is comfortable. Airco is silent and provides good sleeping, as well as the peaceful distance from the main road, which makes the sound of the sea prevail over the buzz from the street. Breakfast as buffet is deliberately slim to prevent flies and food waste, everything desired is provided upon order and prepared quickly. The food is excellent and since you can not dive on a bali belly, its hygiene is of a very good level. Furthermore the Europeaan management is extremely careful with regard to allergies such as glutenallergy. We discussed this during our first visit and now during out second no reminder was required and everything was already set on point. The pool is nice and the benches around it provide a good lounge experience after diving. The diving with ganga divers is very well organised with precision. Lunch is provided on most ( longer ) trips. And the crew and local dive masters know the spots and create a safe dive. For each level of experience a dive can be organised, and the reefs around nusa penida are beatifull, tulamben with the liberty wreck provides a land based dives and padangbai provides very nice dive spots with many unexpected species like seahorses etc. The fellow divers provide good company and the staff is open to adaption to special wishes.…

Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Traveled with family

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