Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Villa La Tra: Bali Luxury At A Glance

Nothing can be more pleasing than staying at a villa that is accessible to everything that one needs while on vacation. Located 35 minutes from the airport, 600 meters from the beach, and 20 minutes from the many restaurants and shops in Seminyak, Villa La Tra provides privacy and security for all its guests.

Villa La Tra has four stylish bedrooms, a swimming pool, and a Jacuzzi that blend well in a tropical garden.

Style

This luxury villa was designed by Architect Yoka Sara. Villa La Tra is secluded behind village homes and is surrounded also by rice field terraces. The villa is contemporary, elegantly furnished, and it blends well with its surrounding that is why its swimming pool, Jacuzzi, magnificent tropical garden, and water wall are the land marks of the villa.

There are three buildings of this Canggu villa. Each of these offers the guests a breathtaking view of its surroundings especially the greenery across. Villa La Tra exhibits true Balinese touch and elegance.

Accommodation

The villa sits on a 2 100 square meter lot. Its four bedrooms are set in three buildings which is accessible through a narrow private road that cuts through a rice field. From the parking area, a bridge that crosses a pond will be the access to the main entrance and lobby of Villa La Tra. What’s even more amazing about this villa is that the pool is connected to the building itself by only a few steps. Even though the building is air conditioned, it can still be opened to let the fresh air be experienced by the guests.

The right side of the building has a game room and TV room, three bedrooms with 2 junior rooms, and the master bedroom. Each bedroom has an en suite bathroom and dressing room that are furnished with the best furniture and amenities.

The other side of the building is also equally amazing with its study room that can also be converted into an additional room. An awesome view of the pool and garden can be achieved from the large guest room’s private terrace. This guest room also has an indoor and an outdoor bathroom. In the middle of the lawn is a 90 m2 pool and Jacuzzi.

The following is a summary of the facilities and services of Villa La Tra:
  • 2 100 m2 lot and 550 m2 building size
  • Private en suites
  • Jacuzzi
  • Swimming pool
  • Four luxurious bedrooms
  • Living and dining area
  • Game room
  • TV room
  • Fully-equipped kitchen
  • Satellite TV, DVD, CD players
  • Wifi internet connection
  • Doctor on duty
  • Private parking area

The luxurious nature of this villa rentals includes a house maid, local manager, gardeners, pool attendant, security guards, and a cook who are all ready to take orders from the guests.

Villa La Tra is definitely the most ideal vacation destination for everybody. To book the villa, one can log on to www.balivillaholidays.com and search for Villa La Tra.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Ubud Has New Villas To Look Forward To

Bali Villa Holidays has been known for its elegant villas that are suited for any budget plans. One of these well-known Bali villas is the Ubud villas.

Ubud has been known as Bali’s cultural center. Ubud, as an artistic hub, specializes in one of the native arts of traditional or contemporary painting, wood or stone carving, delicately modeled silver and other jewelry, batik textiles, and furniture making.

Ubud villas have launched recently its new villas namely:

Villa Vajra is situated in a quiet traditional village of Sebali. It is a one hour drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Derived from its name Vajra, which is a Tibetan Buddhist ceremonial object that symbolizes for the wisdom that cuts through ignorance and compassion and equanimity, Villa Vajra is designed to generate an aura of peace and tranquility.

Villa Vajra is composed of several thatched pavilions that are connected by stepping stones across a magical lotus pond. A pergola covered by hanging thunbergia flowers as well as a floating stair that located beside a cascading waterfall veiling a traditional seated Buddha are also found within the pavilion. A comfortable lounge area is found beside a relaxing swimming pool and warming Jacuzzi. It has also stone stairs that lead to a ‘moon’ garden of white flowers and an intimate deck used for massage.

A traditional open-sided pavilion, quaintly known as a ‘bale’ for rest, meditation, yoga practice, is located on the next level. A cathedral sized living/dining is widely open to the elements, with marble floor, aviary and orchid garden.

Villa Vajra includes 3 full bedrooms in which each bedroom is equipped with telephone and distinguished by its furnishings, antique and contemporary art objects and unique view. One bedroom faces the rice fields while the remaining two face the river valley. It has also a lounge which can be converted to sleep two persons.

Another new Ubud villa is the Villa Griya Aditi which means ”The Abode of the Light” in Sanskrit. It is located in the village of Tengkulak Kelod, near Ubud. This Ubud villa is designed as a modern interpretation of Balinese traditional living, where each room on the ground floor opens onto a wide patio.

It has a dining / living room area that opens on the garden, the swimming pool and rice fields. Facing the back garden is the family room. All rooms are equipped with air conditioning and fan. Facing the rice fields and the infinity swimming pool is the Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom with bathtub and an outdoor shower as well as an outdoor daybed and a private garden. Two other bedrooms are located on the ground floor that faces the swimming pool, of which both have indoor bathroom with showers.

Used only for final preparation of the dishes before serving, the kitchen has a refrigerator, a microwave oven, and a water dispenser.

Villa Griya Aditi has also a swimming pool that is tiled with natural stones coming from Java as well as a Bale Bengong, a place where you can relax or get a traditional massage.

Villa Sebali is another Ubud villa. The villa is surrounded by three sides of a grassy, flower-ringed courtyard, with the fourth side an infinity pool looking down over a cascade of lotus and water-lily ponds to the orchard. It is a four bedroom, spacious villa situated on the edge of Sebali, a village just outside Ubud.

Villa Sebali includes four bedroom suites that combine the luxury of air-conditioned bedrooms with the delight of open air living. It has eco-friendly features such as solar power and water heating, and a beautiful garden with organically grown fruit trees.

Villa Sebali has also a fully equipped kitchen with large fridge-freezer and permanently chilled drinking water. The dining area is spacious and equipped with a 12-seaterer table and opens to the garden at one side and has two steps down to the living area. It also has an enormous living area that opens to the garden with ample seating and many art works. It also boasts of a library/games room and a table tennis room.

Villa Bayad is a luxurious private 4 bedroom villa with two swimming pools, surrounded by a flower garden, lotus-ponds and waterfalls.


Traditionally laid out as a compound, Villa Bayad has 4 individually separately housed bedrooms located beside the main house. The bedrooms are all connected by flower-covered pergolas. Each bedroom has a beautiful view of the surrounding rice terraces and Bali’s sacred volcano in the horizon. Two of the bedrooms are sharing a private open kitchen- and dining-bale as well as a private springwater fed plunge-pool and pooldeck.

Each house or bedroom includes a furnished veranda and bathroom complete with shower cabin and a small walled garden with outdoor shower. All bedrooms are also equipped with cable-TV and DVD-player.

Villa Bayad has a spacious living- and dining room area that opens up to a large veranda, surrounded by flower covered, multi-level fishponds and flanked by two comfortable bales, where you can relax, listen to the sprinkling water while enjoying the beautiful view.


Finally, another new Ubud villa is the Puri Darma Agung. It is a luxurious privately owned villa set amongst the beautiful rice fields of Pejeng. It has four contemporary air conditioned suites with King/Queen/Single size beds, which can accommodate up to 8 adults & children. It has also four large en-suite bathrooms of which 2 of the bathrooms have large bathtubs and separate showers.

There is also a large open air living and dining pavilion that overlooks the pool, spacious tropical gardens and rice fields and includes comfortable lounges and dining area for up to 8 people. An outdoor shower and toilet is located at the side of a generous private swimming pool and Jacuzzi. It also has two fully equipped kitchens, large relaxation gazebo overlooking rice fields and pool, satellite TV and DVD player and free wireless internet.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Useful Tips When Traveling The Tropic Islands

Vacationing in one of the tropical islands that are scattered all over the Pacific Ocean is one of the top dream vacation places of a person who loves adventure, white sands, and romantic sunsets.

People always think of never-ending sunshine, pristine beaches, amazing sunsets when vacationing in a tropical island.



Just like all your travels, one must prepare for your tropic travel so that you can enjoy your stay in your dream tropical island vacation and nothing can go wrong during such a vacation. If there are some inconveniences, you will be prepared and can adapt well for such inconveniences.

One could never be too much prepared to take a tropical vacation if you really want to enjoy your vacation in a tropical island.

Some of these travel tips are as follows:

After you have decided to have your dream vacation in a tropical island, you must research first and know all about the tropical island you are going to. Learn all the details regarding the island. For example, if you prefer to go for Bali Vacations, know the location of the island relative to your point of origin.

Learn about its climate. Research about what kind of season you will experience when you arrive in Bali. Learning this basic information will prepare you on what type of clothes you will bring during your vacation.

Learn their currency. Though almost all of the hotels in the tropical islands accept credit cards and dollars for their payment, you must still need to have with you some or a lot of the island’s native currency. Just like if you plan for some Bali trips, you might spare time to learn about their local currency which is the Indonesian Rupiah. Know also the current currency rate so that if you want your money to be exchanged with the local currency, you will immediately know how much it is.

Learn about their language. Though most tropical island vacation places have hotel staff who speak English, there are still places in the island that you will need to converse with the locals especially if you are planning to tour around the island. Some of these locals might not know English so it is better that you bring a translation pocket book so that you would be prepared to converse with them.

So after researching these significant details about your topical island of destination, you must prepare basic tropical island travel essentials such as hypoallergenic sunblock lotions with an SPF of 30 and above to be safer. If you want to tour the island, don’t forget to apply a hypoallergenic mosquito repellant on all your exposed skin areas for the tropics have been known to be a haven for mosquitoes. So if you don’t want to be bitten by mosquitoes during your vacations, don’t forget this tip.



Bring the necessary and proper footwear; however, if you want to buy footwear on the island, these are available in the hotel or the island’s market.

Bring your needed medicines especially if you have certain allergies and maintenance medicines. Some of these tropical islands might not have the medicines that are particularly prescribed for you, so it’s better to be prepared.

Bring your sunglasses, hats, proper swimming attire, and other necessary things that you need to enjoy your vacation.

Just remember, prepare all the things that you need and leave all the worries behind.