Westin Resort Nusa Dua Bali
Garden Terrace Room

We ended up booking at this property under 3 back to back reservations. As we were arriving at 3 AM the first night, we ended up booking a standard regular sized room using an SPG Free Weekend Night award that we had gotten as a result of meeting the minimum spend on MrsWT73’s Canadian SPG Amex Card. As a category 4 SPG property, we figured there was no point spending full rates for a night where, with a 3 AM arrival, we hardly could enjoy the property. I find that these Amex awards are hard to spend anyway, being valid at only a Category 4 property or less. As a result, we were happy to use this one up no less than 15 days prior to it’s expiry date. Our next booking for the rest of our stay was on Starpoints for 5 nights (with the fifth night free), and the last booking was for one night on a paid rate.

We had arranged the van transfer through the hotel for about $25 (probably easier than two taxis with all our bags). We met our driver at the land side and he escorted us to the waiting van. It was a single person operation at this hour – it was almost 2 AM by the time we were landside at the airport thanks to a delay of 30 minutes on landing and some very slow baggage delivery on the part of the airport authority.

We took the toll road to the Nusa Dua area. It was a quick transfer at this time of night, only taking about 15 minutes.

We arrived to the Westin Nusa Dua. It was a large property. We were checked in for all three reservations on arrival. We were upgraded from the basic room to the “Garden Terrace” for our first night and extended a 4 PM check out for the room changeover for the suite. We were offered by the front desk to accept the new room as early as 12 PM. However, we opted for a later time to allow for a bit of a sleep. Some photos of the lobby area from the during our stay











We were led to Garden Terrace room # 1308 which was a nicely refreshed room in the south wing. It as a little tight in the room with all the luggage (3 regular size suitcases and 3 rollies), but it was reasonable. If we were travelling with an infant, and a few less bags, we could have probably been okay with this configuration of room with the infant resting in the attached bathroom area as the bathroom was really large.













The bathroom was especially huge for a base level room. It ran the entire length of the room and had a combination shower and bath area.







There were some instant Starpoint awards available, as presented on a sheet in the study, err desk area.



The garden terrace was nice, and I would have easily paid the small amount to upgrade to this configuration if I was with a family. The terrace was on the quiet side of the building and offered immediate access to the pathway to the beach. It was also key access, meaning you could return to this side after an outing. There were ample lawns outside, meaning that kids could run around easily and burn off steam. The mosquito bugs you would expect in SE Asia were not present at all during our visit during the day or night so it’s conceivable that parents could hang out here at night while their kids fell to sleep.