Private villa – Canggu, 4 bedrooms.
Low: USD 450 High: USD 550 Peak: USD 595
The prices are nightly rate, subject to 15,5% government taxes and service charge
Location and distance: Pererenan – Canggu, The nearest beach is Pererenan, at a walkable 300m, while surfing spot, Echo Beach, is ten minutes by car. Bali’s premier sports and leisure club, the Canggu Club, is a 20-minute drive and offers upscale international-standard dining and leisure facilities. Bali’s most fashionable and cosmopolitan enclave, Seminyak, is around 25 minutes’ drive south; crammed with chic boutiques and hip n’ happening bars and restaurants. International airport is about 40 minutes drive.
Service and facilities: 4 air-conditioned bedrooms, ensuite bathroom, open living and dining, private swimming pool (18 m x 6 m), Baby cots, Fully staffed, IDD, Local call, International telephone access, fax machine, Safety deposit box in each bedroom, WiFi broadband internet connection (at additional charge-using vouchers), Media room featuring TV and satellite connection, DVD, CD and book collection, Yoga room
Detailed description; Nestled within a small village and surrounded by the rice fields of Pererenan, the four-bedroom Villa Canggu Pesona abounds with spirituality, culture and traditions. Built 2007, this eco-friendly riverside property blends contemporary and traditional Balinese styles and is filled with exquisite antique pieces. An 18m infinity-edge pool and yoga room offer distractions, while the location is just 300m from one of excellent surfing beaches along this beautiful coastline. Villa Canggu Pesona is also a short drive from Seminyak.
Contemporary Balinese style with traditional touches, Villa Canggu Pesona comprises a main open-air pavilion with serap (ironwood) roofing, containing the living-dining room, kitchen and adjoining staff quarters. This building looks out over lovely tropical gardens with infinity-edge pool, balé and wooden deck area. Just outside the pavilion, to the left of the kitchen, a stairway leads to the detached yoga room. Within the gardens and beside the pool, a detached one-storey wing contains bedrooms one and two. Further down on the same side, a double-storey, contemporary designed block contains bedrooms three and four.
The villa front entrance is accessed via an outer compound comprising manager’s office and parking area. Through traditional wood doors, stone steps lead down to a Balinese-style pond, filled with lofty lotus blooms and koi fish, surrounded by a moss-engulfed high wall with water feature. This section backs on to the main pavilion and living-dining room.
All four ensuite bedrooms are located in two, separate outdoor wings in the gardens, flanking the pool’s left side. Each is individually named after a Hindu god and varies in character and décor, but all are exquisitely furnished with antique pieces personally sourced by the owners.
Bathrooms, especially those of bedrooms one and two, are a strong feature. All are fitted with stylish stainless steel his n’ hers Grohe sinks, white stone floors and separate stone wall partitions disguising the toilet and shower. Centre-stage is an indulgent circular stone bathtub.
Bedrooms One and Two
Lying close too the main pavilion and right beside the pool, these two bedrooms are contained in a one-storey wing with serap roof. Bedroom one, Brahma (‘God of Creation’) offers a creative mix of old and new, with striking contemporary Balinese art contrasting with antique pieces such as stone Buddha heads. Traditional wooden doors lead through to a tropical outdoor bathroom, comprising high walls encircling a lush garden area with simple Balinese-style shower.
Bedrooms Three and Four
These two bedrooms are housed in a double-storey modern wing beyond the pool. On the ground floor, bedroom three, Ciwa (‘God who destroys negative energy’) features floor-to-ceiling windows and a low, flat ceiling without ceiling fan. Leading out from the bedroom, the large porch with poly-rattan daybed and antique Javanese wooden chairs offers views of the gardens and terraced rice fields opposite. The bathroom is also more contemporary than those in the other wing. On the first-floor, bedroom four, Ganesha (‘God of wisdom and prosperity’) is reached by an outer stone stairway. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows look out over the pool, and the large private balcony with outdoor furniture offers the best views from the villa, overlooking the terraced rice fields, river and gardens.
The property’s heart, an open-plan and open-sided living pavilion, is edged by a stunning water-wall feature a constant soothing backdrop. A lounge area on the right is furnished with two white leather sofas and contrasting antique wood chairs and table. The central dining area comprises an expansive table seating ten. To the left and on a lower level, the open-plan kitchen is contemporary in style and well equipped; a small guest washroom plus staff quarter’s leads off from here. Being open to the elements, this pavilion doesn’t have air conditioning, but is kept cool by ceiling fan and natural breezes; bamboo blinds run along the entire front length, which looks out across the garden and pool. In keeping with the spiritual ambiance of the villa, this pavilion is without a TV or DVD player, but an iPod and dock is provided for musical diversion.
The stand-alone yoga room is situated behind the kitchen and accessed via a high-walled stone corridor and up a staircase. Although designed for yoga (several yoga mats are supplied), this multi-functional room also contains the villa’s only TV (29-inch plasma TV with 380 channels), plus DVD / CD player and Bose sound system. DVDs are also provided.
