Alam Batu Beach Bungalow Resort

Hotel Services/Facilities: Alam Batu Beach Bungalow Resort has just 13 guest bungalows and 2 larger villas, allowing a maximum capacity of 30 guests for an intimate and comfortable feel.

Guest bungalows are built in a Balinese style with thatched roofs, carefully and thoughtfully spaced throughout the resort grounds.

Resort facilities include a super, lively house reef for snorkellers and divers, a well-equipped dive centre that offers a full range of PADI courses, with a well-equipped camera room for underwater photographers and videographers.

There is also a gorgeous infinity pool, a spa offering treatments for beauty and regeneration, and an enchanting restaurant and social hub, where guests can eat tasty meals and gather to swap stories, play games, or just relax.

Guests can book various half and full-day land excursions, ideal for those wishing to further experience and explore Bali’s spellbinding culture and scenery.

Food, Beverage & Entertainment Facilities: All bookings at Alam Batu are on a Full Board basis. The restaurant is more than just a venue for guests to meet over breakfast, lunch and dinner. Throughout the day, guests gather here to share stories and games, sip coffee, or just relax and read books. Breakfast is served from 7:30 to 11am and dinner is available at 7:30pm. The kitchen is open continuously from 8am until 11pm – so when you’re hungry after your afternoon dive, you can return and order a tasty bowl of soup or another dish from the varied and tasty menu.

The mouth-watering menu caters for all tastes, including vegetarian and vegan preferences. It is full of traditional Indonesian and Thai dishes, plus more familiar international cuisine. BBQs with local meats, fish and vegetables, as well as Indonesian buffets, are regular events for resort guests.

Before dinner, those who wish to, can gather in the cozy lounge corner to enjoy cocktails and chat, as night slowly descends, and the staff switch on the pretty lights on the terrace.

Weather permitting, dinner is served on the sun terrace, with the fresh sea air and cool breezes wafting around to cool you from the heat of the day. After the sun sets and night has fallen, you can dine under a canopy of stars.

There is no evening entertainment, flashing disco lights, or loud dance music, so after a relaxing dinner, be ready to ‘chill’ much more with some refreshing drinks from the bar as you chat and laugh with newfound friends.

When you aren’t diving, if you want to see some of the wonderful sights Bali has to offer, the resort can help you find a half or full-day excursion to explore some more of the island’s fascinating culture and scenery.

Transfers: Guests will be met from Bali’s main airport in the capital Denpasar by a member of staff from Alam Batu who will drive you to the resort. The transfer takes close to 3 hours, so we recommend you choose a flight that lands by latest 3pm, so your journey to resort is filled with some stunning scenery!

Alum Batu Beach Resort offers a choice of rooms: 13 Guest Bungalows and 2 larger Guest Villas.

Standard Bungalow: Modern style meets Balinese tradition in these spacious rooms (40 m²), all built using locally sourced materials, in a traditional Balinese-style with thatched ‘alan-alang’ roofs. The bungalows blend harmoniously into the landscape of the resort, surrounded by plants and trees, offering plenty of privacy. You will find a comfortable lounger on the terrace, and if you prefer, you can also sleep outside under the stars but do make sure you ask for a mosquito net!

The bathroom is at the back of the bungalow, with a toilet and washbasin under cover, and the shower is in the open-air.

Villa Ayam 1 and Villa Ayam 2: You will find these villas in a separate area of the resort, above the main gardens. Both villas offer comfortable air-conditioned accommodation, with a private shared pool and garden area. These villas are ideal for families or smaller groups seeking extra privacy.

The bathrooms are at the back of the villas, with a toilet and washbasin under cover, and the shower is in the open-air.

Villa Anton: This villa is located near the dive centre. Villa Anton offers less expensive accommodation for two people, with air conditioning but no sea view. It is the perfect choice for guests who want to spend most of their time underwater!

The bathroom is at the back of the bungalow, with a toilet and washbasin under cover, and the shower is in the open-air.

Sendiri Bungalow: This bungalow is aimed at single travellers, and is in the centre of the resort, next door to the pool. Sendiri Bungalow has air-conditioning and similar furnishings to the double bungalows but is smaller in size. The bathroom is at the back of the bungalow, with a toilet and washbasin under cover, and the shower is in the open-air. Sendiri Bungalow offers a direct view onto the pool from a small terrace.

The underwater world in Bali offers a great variety of species. Located in the southwestern part of the Coral Triangle, the richness of the reefs is unique. More than 3,500 species have been discovered here. This optimal geographic situation guarantees a great diversity of fish, coral and critters.

The dive centre at Alam Batu Beach Bungalow Resort is onsite, spacious and well-equipped with modern facilities, ensuring your diving experience is seamless and hassle-free. PADI dive courses ranging from Open Water to Divemaster are offered, as well as many specialty courses. Experienced dive instructors and dive guides provide comprehensive briefings, equipment checks, and offer a personalised service, with guest’s safety and comfort as their number one priority.

There is an excellent camera room, so underwater photographers and videographers are very well catered for. Dive guides are sensitive to photographers’ needs and local dive sites provide a range of wide angle and macro photographic subjects. Nitrox fills (EAN 32) are available free of charge if you are nitrox qualified and a full range of modern dive equipment is available for rent.

The Alam Batu house reef is 800 metres long and extremely diverse. The coral variety includes black, table and soft corals, as well as gorgonians with a diameter of two metres. Schools of juvenile barracudas and snappers, reef sharks, seahorses, harlequin shrimp, pygmy seahorses and many other critters gather at this coastal section between 20 and 30 metres depth. The rare sargassum frogfish are also often seen here – they swim around the anchor lines of the two speedboats.

Around boat dive sites are visited in the surrounding area with up to 9 boat trips available every day. It only takes ten minutes by boat to reach most dive sites here. Alam Batu Resort is isolated, with no other resorts close by, so you will almost always have a site to yourself. At ‘Baywatch’, only a minute away, you’ll be muck diving over black volcanic sand. After a sandy area at 5 m depth, the ground drops steeply. It is mainly covered with low-growing seagrass, where many critters hide: seahorses, nudibranchs, ghost pipefish and more. At 10 m depth, you arrive at a small cleaning station with sea feathers and colourful sponges, with Emperor fish and jewel damselfish undergoing a daily scale service!

A visit to the ‘Liberty wreck’ is a must and is just a 15-minute boat ride from the resort. Even though this spot can get quite crowded, the dive is fascinating. The first wreck parts lie at only 3 m, and experienced divers are drawn down to 29 m. The entire wreck is covered with soft and hard corals, and over 400 fish species have been counted here in a very small area!

More peace can be found at Black Forest. At the cleaning station at 30 m depth, you can observe batfish and barracudas. On the beautiful reef ridge, sweetlips hide among black corals – and above them, an impressive school of mackerel circles.

Blackwater and Fluoro diving are also available subject to good sea conditions. Equipped with a blue light and a special filter for your mask, the fluorescent animals glow in different colours; providing a glowing underwater experience that you will love and remember forever. Night dives are also available.

Snorkelling is also possible on the house reef and on some boat dive sites, where the top of the reef offers you an opportunity to see a truly amazing and colourful variety of sea creatures.

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