Guest User
January 10, 2024
We booked a Junior Suite for eight days over New Years Eve - this was our first time staying in Pemuteran, so were not certain what to expect. As soon as we arrived, we feel in love with the resort. It is in a great location, well laid out, with huge, landscaped grounds, and right on the beach. The suite was centrally located, near the pool, the restaurant and the beach. It had a deck/verandah looking out towards the pool. The room was fully airconditioned, with large bed, complete with mosquito nets. It had a small bar fridge, television, room safe, and plenty of wardrobe space. The suite had an outside bathroom, with a sky shower. It also had a Balinese gazebo/day bed to the side with a surrounding fishpond (full of very healthy-looking goldfish/carp). The staff are so polite. welcoming and helpful, with the gardening staff, constantly maintaining the grounds in perfect condition. Breakfast and other meals are provided at the resort's beachfront restaurant, Poleng. It was so relaxing sitting under the trees with the sand beneath your feet every morning. The sea view pool, next to the bamboo bar, had a separate shallower kid's pool with a longer deeper pool adjacent. There were always enough pool lounges, most of them were hardly used whilst we were there. The 'compulsory' New Year's Eve celebration was so well organised - with a large buffet, including suckling pig, sates, seafood, duck and traditional dishes. More food then could be consumed by the guest. The band, the traditional Balinese dancers, the fun competitions and door prizes kept everyone entertained. The finale watching the fireworks explode over the bay, from my beach beanbag was so memorable. We so enjoyed the ability of being able to walk down to the beach and go snorkelling on the offshore coral reef and Biorock project any time we wanted. You can easily hire googles, snorkels and fins from the adjacent Karang Dive shop if you haven't brought your own. We found the Taman Sari resort to be a peaceful oasis away from the noisy crowds down in the southern part of Bali. Suggested improvements: * drawers/cupboard space with more coat hangers; * a ceiling fan in the outside bathroom to circulate the air, as the outside bathroom had privacy walls around which trapped in the heat, with hot humid days and nights, meant that at times the bathroom was a bit stifling (appreciated the extra mosquito coils to keep the bugs at bay during the night); * early evening mosquito fogging of areas around the villas (not that mosquitoes were much of an issue) though that might be hazardous to the local frog and mosquito population * a ceiling fan in the bedroom, would help circulate the cool air-conditioned air; * changing the variety of the breakfast menu - using more seasonal fruit in the juices.