Originally Posted by
playbbg
We are doing 6 nights in a Pool Suite at the St. Regis and then 3 nights at the Four Seasons Sayan in Ubud. If you want the best, stay at AmanDari, but that will run you north of $1000/nt.
Four Seasons is currently doing a promo with 3rd night free. If you book through Four Seasons PP, you can get an upgrade and free breakfast. I believe we are paying ~1500ai for our stay at the FS in a Riverfront Villa.
Not impressed with the pool suites. The "pool" is not a lap pool, but more like a hole in the ground that is not even heated. Nor is the room a suite. The property CLAIMS that all rooms are suites, and they do this by dropping a sheer sheet hanging between the bed and sofa area and then call this a suite. The bed is not in a separate room. For me this is a basic requirement of a suite definition.
What you want is the Lagoon Villas. These are like little houses with a large bedroom and a proper living room and kitchenette. It also has the same soaking pool and is right on the large tiled swimming pool which they call the lagoon and basically circles all of the Lagoon Villas. These are the rooms that are in all of the promotional pictures of the property. The rooms that they sell as pool suites are on the bottom floor of a building that looks like an apartment block and has loud noise from the air conditioning cooling tower. Also quite a walk to the beach.
The Strand Villas are EXACTLY the same just "on the beach". Maybe a little more land around them.
Good luck. Better value is the Laguna Nusa Dua down the street, also an SPG property.