Seminyak R567

This estate sits on half a hectare of landscaped gardens just 250m from Bali Seminyak’s best beach, featuring the palatial, 5 bedroom, the grand, 2 bedroom, and The Floating Annexe, a separate one-bedroom suite with living room, allowing for configurations from one to eight bedrooms, sleeping up to 16 adults and eight additional children.

Ideal for families as well as groups of friends, the 5 bedroom and 2 bedroom feature free-form swimming pools, huge living rooms, indoor and outdoor lounging and dining, pool tables, vast individual bedroom suites, world-class interior design with an Asian twist, and every conceivable luxury for the sophisticated holidaymaker.

The estate has unrivalled facilities with 26 full-time staff, including a villa manager, private butler for each villa, three accomplished chefs, trained security plus on-demand chauffeurs, spa therapists full hotel concierge service, housekeeping and gardeners all dedicated to ensuring guests are pampered every moment of their stay, except of course when they hang out the red ‘do not disturb’ flag to ensure total privacy.

Indoor

A grand Living Room is highlighted by a chandelier cascading from the vaulted roof, sparkling in the sunshine streaming through the skylight. Below, a baby grand piano, pool table, bar and vast sofa rest on vintage oriental-rugs. Walls of glass doors at both ends can slide back for tropical, fan-cooled living or stay closed for air-conditioned comfort. Opening onto a broad, covered terrace then the pool deck, this dramatic space is perfect for entertaining.

Next door is the air-conditioned Media Room, where another large sofa and twin chaise longues offer supreme comfort to watch the 51-inch flatscreen TV, complete with Bose surround-sound and Blu-ray disc player. There’s a library of over a thousand DVDs and a varied selection of books to peruse at your leisure.

Outdoor

The Dining Pavilion is dominated by a 4.5 metre, 20-seat table crafted from a single piece of Balinese natural wood. Opening onto the pool deck, and with a vaulted wooden roof soaring high above a terrazzo floor, the pavilion is cooled by natural breezes and ceiling fans, while soothed by the sound of water trickling from fountains in the surrounding ponds. Alongside, yet out-of-sight, is a professionally-equipped, commercial kitchen – the domain of villa’s two chefs.

Presiding at the head of the pool is another alfresco seating area formed by the ornately-carved frame of a 100-year-old Balinese Joglo, raised on an ironwood deck. This heritage teakwood structure from Java, with its distinctive trapezium-shaped roof, serves as a star-lit dining area or romantic wedding space, while an awning can be attached to cover the entire deck for events.

Also poolside is the beautiful Balé, a traditional Indonesian grass-roofed pondok (rice shelter), providing a shaded alternative to the pool decks and submerged seating at both ends of the pool. Parasol-shaded sun loungers dot the ironwood decks, while swing seats and clusters of laid-back seating on shaded terraces create further spaces for relaxation.