Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Indonesia
Four hotels in Indonesia we would book for a client, in Bali, Jakarta and Ubud. Two hold MICHELIN Keys. Every one books through a partner programme, which adds an upgrade where one is free, daily breakfast for two, a hotel credit and late checkout, at the hotel's own rate.
- Hotels
- 4
- Cities
- 3
- With MICHELIN Keys
- 2
- With partner perks
- 4
- Newest
- 2015
By city
The hotels
Bali · Seminyak
W Bali - Seminyak
2011 · 233 rooms
A beachfront resort of 152 rooms, six suites and 75 pool villas on Jalan Petitenget in Seminyak, on Bali's south-west coast, opened in 2011 as the third W in Asia-Pacific. It is built for Seminyak's nightlife, around a rice-terrace pool with resident DJs and a beach club, in a modern take on Balinese design by SCDA.
Marriott Luminous
Bali · Jimbaran Bay
Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, Bali
1990 · 57 rooms · Renovated 2009
A beach resort of 31 cottage suites and 26 pool villas in gardens on the sand of Jimbaran Bay, on Bali's southern peninsula, opened by the Pansea group and part of Belmond (then Orient-Express) since 2006. It is built in a traditional Balinese style with teak detailing and thatched villas, and has four open-air Hindu temples in its grounds.
1 MICHELIN Key · Belmond Bellini Club
Jakarta · Menteng
Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta
1978 · 272 rooms · Renovated 2009
A city hotel on Jalan M.H. Thamrin facing the Bundaran HI roundabout and its Welcome Monument, in central Jakarta among the big shopping malls. It reopened in October 2009 after a 20-month renovation, with 272 rooms and suites.
Mandarin Oriental Fan Club
Ubud · Kedewatan
Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
2015 · 60 rooms
A Ritz-Carlton Reserve of 35 suites and 25 private pool villas on the Ayung River at Kedewatan, in the valley outside Ubud, opened in 2015. Suites and villas look over rice paddies, forest or the river, and the hotel holds three MICHELIN Keys.
3 MICHELIN Keys · Marriott STARS
On our list
Hotels in Indonesia we rate but have not yet stayed in, drawn hollow on the map. The hotels above are first-hand; these are where we are going next. We book them as we book the rest.
Hoba Wawi, Wanokaka, West Sumba
Three MICHELIN Keys; on our list for villas along Nihiwatu Beach and a spa safari.
Thirty-one villas along Nihiwatu Beach on the south-west coast of Sumba, four hundred kilometres past Bali, with a spa safari on a hundred acres of its own.
Borobudur, Magelang
Three MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Ed Tuttle's limestone rotunda facing Borobudur.
Thirty-six suites in two crescents around Ed Tuttle's limestone rotunda, facing Borobudur across the Menoreh Hills. The colour is the local coral stone, and the view is the reason.
Jimbaran Bay
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay
Two MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for thatched villas laid out like Balinese villages.
Opened in 1993 as one of the first resorts made only of villas, thatched and laid out like Balinese villages down the hill to the bay.
Pecatu
Two MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for the inclined lift down to a cliff-bound beach.
Villas on a clifftop 150 metres above the Indian Ocean, with an inclined lift down to a beach reached no other way.
Jimbaran Bay
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for pool villas stepping down a hillside to Jimbaran Bay.
Thirty-two villas, each with its own pool and garden, stepping down a 23-hectare hillside to Jimbaran Bay.
East Bali
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Ed Tuttle's three-tiered pool beneath Mount Agung.
Ed Tuttle's stilted suites on a hillside over the Lombok Strait beneath Mount Agung, above a pool laid in three tiers like rice terraces.
Nusa Dua
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for the open-air-theatre terraces down the Nusa Dua cliff.
Built down the Nusa Dua cliff as an open-air theatre, its terraces drawn from Balinese rice fields and temples.
Buahan Kaja
Two MICHELIN Keys and the 2026 Gold List; on our list for open-sided bale with no walls or doors.
Sixteen open-sided bale with no walls or doors in the jungle north of Ubud, each with its own pool and a 180-degree view of the valley.
Kelating
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Soo K. Chan's black-sand beach among Tabanan rice fields.
Designed, owned and run by the Singapore architect Soo K. Chan, on a black-sand beach among the rice fields of Tabanan.
Keliki
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Bill Bensley's tented camp above the Wos River.
Bill Bensley's tented camp in the rainforest above the Wos River, made in tribute to Bali's first European settlers.
Kuningan
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Champalimaud chinoiserie suites in César Pelli's Capital Place.
All 125 rooms are suites, in a tower of César Pelli's Capital Place, with Champalimaud chinoiserie interiors and a Bensley garden.
SCBD
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for a 65-storey tower in SCBD's District 8.
The Langham's first hotel in South-east Asia, high in a 65-storey tower in District 8 at SCBD.
And 3 more in Indonesia on our list, on the guide’s map.
What to know
W Bali - Seminyak; Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, Bali; Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta and Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve (three MICHELIN Keys) and Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, Bali (one MICHELIN Key).
Of the hotels we recommend, Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, which opened in 2015. W Bali - Seminyak followed in 2011.
W Bali - Seminyak: its rooms start at 64 square metres. Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta from 47.
W Bali - Seminyak (Marriott Luminous); Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, Bali (Belmond Bellini Club); Mandarin Oriental, Jakarta (Mandarin Oriental Fan Club) and Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve (Marriott STARS). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
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