Damai Lovina Villas
location : Pantai Lovina, Singaraja, Bali, Indonesia
Indonesia / Bali
The Damai - Hard to find, Hard to leave!
Hidden in the jungle-clad hills overlooking Bali’s North coast, you find a retreat dedicated to the finer things in life: beauty, tranquility and very good food. Here, just a few hours from the airport you feel light years away from the crowds, ready to experience the true Bali in all it’s splendor.
The Damai in Northern Bali. is a well-refined little boutique hotel that has been the well-kept secret of a crowd of foodie followers, returning year after year to experience the resort’s understated luxury, fantastic views and excuisite food.
Visit some of the island’s most iconic attractions or find your own hidden gems. Or maybe just lounge by your pool, enjoying views of volcanoes in distant Java as the tropical breeze brings you fragrant hints from nearby spice plantations.
Damai has 14 villas, varying in size from the intimate to the palatial. Each villa is decorated with artifacts from Bali’s rich cultural heritage to stimulate your dreams and discreet modern comforts to let you relax completely.
Sumptous, soft furnishings in vibrant colors contrast with black wall papers and saturated wood colors in a rich eclectic mix that would probably feel heavy in rooms less spacious than these sprawling suites.
The outside living quarters feature swimming pools of more than generous size with luxurious views of the surrounding valley and the North Bali sea. To complement it all, collections of books, art and rare antiques are on display in the villa, perfecting the sensation of staying not in a top resort, but in the house of a friend – albeit a very rich one.
With an attentive staff of 80, an award-winning organic restaurant, a full range of spa- and beauty services and the largely undiscovered splendor of North Bali on it’s doorstep, the Damai might persuade one or two of the white linen clad Seminyak-bound travellers to step off the beaten path.
Like staying in the house of a very rich friend ;) by Umar Akram If you want to find out how hotels are going to look five years from now you should go to Bali. The paradise island is the worlds trend-lab for luxury hotel, and here you find the properties that has inspired dozens of famous hotels all over the world, with their trademark serene pampering that so many resorts have tried imitating. And for once it is less expensive to try the original than the copy: these heavenly properties are often surprisingly affordable. One of these dream hotels is The Damai in Northern Bali. For a decade this refined little boutique retreat has been the well-kept secret of a crowd of foodie followers, returning year after year to experience the resort’s understated luxury, fantastic views and excuisite food. The resort’s new pool villas, however, can’t really be called understated: huge, sprawling rooms in a dramatic decor, filled with collections of antiques, etnographica and artifacts from the islands rich heritage. Most furniture and lighting has been custom designed for the property and some of the artwork gracing the walls could just as well be found hanging on the walls of a museum. The style is highly eclectic and personal and gives you the experience of staying in a private house rather than in a hotel room. A private house that belongs to someone with a world-class staff of cooks and butlers on call round the clock, mind you. The interiors are designed by the hotel’s owner, Nils Normann with the hotel photography/styling team of Jacob Termansen and Pia Marie Molbech. The pair has travelled extensively to the choicest hotels and most luxurious private estates in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres, and together with hotellier Nils Normann they have created an experience as far from the cookie-cutter chain hotel as you can possibly get, and also very, very different from the many me-too modernist villas that has been cropping up all over Asia. ”We definately tried to give the guest a highly personal experience and create a living experience where you felt like in a private house, a home while you are travelling,” says hotelier Nils Normann. ”Also, we tried to make the villas entertaining, with flamboyant use of color and material and little details you wont discover right away, like a hidden sculpture in the garden or a panel of buddhas high up under the ceiling. And then we put in features only few private homes can offer, like 24 hour butler service and our Mandi’s, which are baths, where our spa therapists will give you a pampering treatment in your own bathroom.” So, will all hotels be like this soon? This reviewer is crossing fingers.