Name: The Halcyon Villas Bali
Address: Jl. Karang Mas Sejahtera, Jimbaran, Jimbaran, Jimbaran, 80361, Indonesia
Rating: 7

24-hour reception

Elevator/lift

Smoke-free property

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Free parking

Parking

Conference Hall

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Pets Not Allowed

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Jimbaran Beach

Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park

Kuta Beach

Ngurah Rai International Airport

Tuban Beach

Waterbom Park

Segara Beach

Kuta Square

Pandawa Beach

Nusa Dua Beach

Legian Beach

Uluwatu Temple

Double Six Beach

Seminyak Beach

Batu Bolong Beach

Tanah Lot

Pura Taman Ayun

Ubud Monkey Forest

Ubud Palace

Tegallalang Rice Terrace

Bali Botanic Garden

Pura Ulun Danu Bratan

Mount Batur

The Halcyon Villas Bali

Jimbaran

child-bed

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external-private-bathroom

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shared-bathroom

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king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

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water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

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not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

My wife and I booked this villa sight unseen off the vrbo website. 
We had had a tiring 2019 and a taxing Christmas / New Year period, so we wanted somewhere quiet where we could unwind for a week or so. Our 26 year old son and his fiancé joined us on this holiday, so it was 2 couple in a 3 bedroom villa.
This place was perfect.
The precise villa was 
Villa Lily, 
Jimbaran 
Jalan Karang Mas, 
Bali 
8036.
It cost AUD$168 per night for 8 nights = $1496.
It was exactly what we hoped for.
The villa was in a secure compound and was walled off from other villas. In the centre of our compound was a beautifully clean swimming pool - a word of caution if you have young children or weak swimmers - the pool is 1.9 M (6ft) deep so most people cannot stand up in it.
At one end of the pool was the entrance to our compound.
On one side of the pool was the common area, complete with TV, lounge suite, breakfast table and a kitchen with a large fridge, as well as a drinking water dispenser and the world’s slowest electric kettle.
On the other side was the master bedroom with 4 poster king sized bed complete with mosquito netting - this was quaint but unnecessary - we had no problems with mossies or any other bugs.
At the other end of the pool was the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms. The second bedroom had another 4 poster king sized bed while the third bedroom had 2 large singles.
The bedrooms were all air-conditioned and had an en-suite bathrooms. A novel touch was that the showers in each en-suite were actually outside and had no hot water. 
This was fine because: 
* the outside shower area was surrounded by high walls so your privacy was assured 
* the ‘cold’ water was so warm you didn’t need to add any hot. 
* the outside shower made it a little bit different and helped give a ‘holiday feel’ to the place.
The staff were very courteous and discrete. They serviced the villa when we were out on most days, but when we were at home, we hardly noticed them.
If we wanted, they could arrange for a chef to come and cook for us, but we decided against that and for breakfast used the local ‘Uber Eats’ company called GOJEK - it is incredibly good and very cheap. If you go to Bali, download the app as soon as you get there.
For dinner we would go down the road to the Movenpick Hotel area where there is a very upmarket restaurant area. There are multiple restaurants serving local, western, Indian and Chinese food and a wonderful Gelato shop as well.
If we didn’t eat there, we would go down to Jimbaran Beach and have seafood from one of the many restaurants there.
The villa itself is a bit isolated - you cannot walk anywhere from the villa because it is too far and the roads are very hilly. So we used taxis.
We only used Bluebird Taxis. They have a great app, reliable cars with good air con and very reasonable rates. We followed our routing a couple of times using Google Maps on our phones and the drivers never tried to take us the long way to any destination. A thing to remember is that the minimum taxi fare is IDR 30,000, so even if the meter says IDR 15,000 you still have to pay the minimum fare of IDR 30,000. One Aussie Dollar is about 10,000 Rupiah, so the minimum taxi fare is about $3.
The villa also had a great laundry service. We had 4 adult’s laundry done and it cost about AUD $12 for the lot. Brilliant.
Our villa also had its own discrete internet service. The internet was high speed and you could stream You Tube videos without any buffering.
My only criticism of the villa would have been that all the walls meant that there was very little breeze. With no air movement, the villa could get stifling hot, so the common area could do with one or more additional ceiling fans.
But apart from that, it was wonderful.
Great villa.
Great staff
Great holiday.
Many thanks to all the beautiful people of Bali who made our stay so enjoyable.



A Great Place for a Family or two or Three Couples to Stay 

The villas are tattered and the staff was ok but manager was very Nasty and Rude! The food was just ok. The villas need ALOT of attention and do not look like the pictures listed. If you are smart you would go somewhere else quickly!

Do Not Stay Here

We stayed in Villa Mukta at Halcyon Villas for 4 nights. It is quite tired and could use some TLC, for example rotting timber in the bathroom vanity, unmown lawn. The air-conditioned bedrooms were comfortable and rooms serviced every day. The living area is separate to the two bedroom wings and in wet weather this would be a problem but fortunately we had sunshine. The living wing is completely open air - no walls at all. Nice to catch the breezes but means animals can come in at night so all food must be stored away. The next door villa did have a fully enclosed living wing which would have been better. It also featured a daybed and more extensive pool furniture than our villa. The location is a tricky walk downhill from any shops or restaurants.  No footpaths so better to get a taxi. This place works well if you have a large group in multiple villas but if you're just traveling as a single family I'd recommend a hotel like the Movenpick instead. 

Dated and tired

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OVERALL: HELL NO
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Until we arrived everything went very smooth, good communication, payment was settled, extra things like babysitters and things were kindly organized, but once we arrived the horror began.

We were casually told that the villa we booked was being fixed because the roof was leaking since the rain started that morning, and that we would be placed in another villa that was of the same size / standard / layout. Only, it wasn't.

- The villa we were brought to was in a complete rundown state, all furniture were old, breaking, stained, the floors were flooded, dead bugs everywhere (and I am not talking about the normal amount of bugs you receive in an open concept place, there were TONS of dead bugs, as if the floors all hadn't been swept in weeks)
- The villa itself was much smaller, to a point where the villa we booked had a second floor, while this one didn’t
- The villa was missing everything we kindly asked and were promised extra for our toddler, bed, chair etc
- The villa was next to the road, which is extremely busy as it's the gate to Jimbaran, while the original one was towards the back gardens

Worst, the state of the rooms and bathrooms was absolutely disgusting (please see all the photos I uploaded with the review), in fact the indoors were so bad that we spent the next 3 hours on the patio in the blazing heat trying to sort things out, instead of going in the aircon or using the bathrooms even once.

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THE BAD
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HOWEVER, the very suspicious thing was, that the villa was still prepared for our arrival, the beds were freshly made, and it certainly didn’t look like as if this was rush job, because of the sudden water leakage in the originally booked villa. So I asked to see the original villa, which I was first denied.

After a bit of hustle they finally let me in, and oh boy, this place was not JUST being started to get fixed up, I directly asked, and yes, the place was under renovation for a long time, and strangely the host we booked with and communicated until the morning of our departure, NEVER mentioned this.

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IN THE END
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We got all our prepaid money back and had to book a hotel nearby, however, we would really like to warn anyone who is thinking about booking this, that you will be in for a surprise in a bad way, and we would be very sad to see you wasting hours and hours of your first day on holiday, trying to sort the same mess out that we had to do.

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