The Hotel Umana Bali, LXR Hotels & Resorts, Ungasan, Bali Check-in Umana Bali and its village-like setup. Located on Bali’s southernmost limestone cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean, Umana Bali is the Ungasan neighbourhood’s latest opening, or I should say reopening. The property, which has 72 villas, manicured grounds, five restaurants and bars plus pools, a spa, a wedding venue and kids’ club, owes its exceptional location and sprawling size to the original Banyan Tree resort, which was developed when space wasn’t at a premium on the island.
Now, newly branded under Hilton group’s LXR Hotel & Resorts, Umana can lay claim to being one of the area’s most generously spaced resorts. Golf buggies bring that message home. The look Neutral tones and a lux contemporary vibe.
Singapore-based WATG architect firm and Wimberly Interiors have given the resort, which had good bones, a lux contemporary vibe. Its neutral tones match the Indonesian-style architecture and creates a natural canvas to showcase Balinese art and cultural artefacts. In the ocean-view, open-air lobby, for example, ceiling woodwork resembles the dangling branches of a banyan tree, considered sacred in Bali, and art installations include an exquisite antique statue of a Balinese dancer decorated with ancient ceremonial kepeng coins.
The room A villa room and its pool. Mapped on a grid like a small village, the villas go from big (one-bedrooms villas start from 403-square-metres) to bigger (the three-bed.