Eshara Villas

To celebrate my Mum's big birthday our entire family of 18 people (aged from 4 to 82) stayed at Villa Eshara 1, 2 and 3 for a week ..... and every one of us just LOVED it. The Villas are beautiful, spacious and immaculately kept; the gardens are verdant and serene but the real stand-out are the fabulous team of people that looked after us - the Villa Eshara family! The villas are in a great location, just 5 minutes walk to the main shopping street of Seminyak, and about the same distance to the beach. There are loads of great restaurants in the area if you do want to eat out and of course taxis are very affordable - the team at Villa Eshara will call them for you. On our last night the staff arranged a party to celebrate Mum's birthday - they set a table along one side of the pool and they decorated it and the garden surrounds with lovely flowers and garlands that Ayu's children had made. They prepared a wonderful traditional Balinese feast for us and they kept the champagne flowing. I work in the hospitality industry and the thing I noticed most throughout the set-up and hosting of the party, was the love and the care the team put into making everything so special .... they took great pride in everything they did. Quite simply they made our Villa Eshara experience perfect! My four year old nephew summed it up best - with fingers blinking madly on both hands he said "I want to stay in Bali for this many more nights" and each and everyone of us agreed with him!!

Booked all 3 Eshara villas for 16 guests over a weekend, they are designed so that sliding walls come back to create one large villa complex with 3 pools. Brilliant design and great attention to detail with the bedrooms (all a decent size and twin beds can be pushed together for doubles), bathrooms, communal lounge areas and pools. Ideal location - very quiet in the villa and yet only a 5min walk into the centre of Seminyak. Staff are excellent and incredibly accommodating - ate in the villa one evening which was delicious (and not hugely over-catered which I have experienced at villas in Bali in the past) and breakfasts were also good quality - decent bread & freshly squeezed fruit juice etc. Layout of the villas meant that 2 babies at one end and a lively dinner and evening at the other could be accommodated smoothly...staff also wonderful with the babies. Only small point for improvement (very picky as so few faults!) would be hairdryers - old and quite weak power, I would bring my own. Overall highly recommend for a large family group or friends - will definitely be going back!

Eshara Villas are a little bit of paradise. We booked out the whole complex comprising three villas - 8 bedroom and 8 bathrooms in all. The layout was perfect. Everyone had their own space and all the rooms and bathrooms were outstanding. From the moment we arrived the beautiful staff looked after our every wish. We ate breakfast here altogether in villa one every morning prepared by the staff and one evening we had a fabulous barbeque. We brought our own drinks with us (duty free) and they purchased our mixers and any food we wanted at cost plus 20% service charge to go shopping, prepare and serve. It was just an excellent formula. The staff are there from 7am until 11pm (plus a security guard 24 hrs) and they were there when you needed them but very discreet. We had a baby with us and they were just delightful with her she loved them. They arranged any trips we needed to do and booked restaurants etc but every time we left this little slice of heaven we regretted it. It's chaos out there ! Eshara is perfect for a family group or for up to eight couples. Nothing was too much trouble and we felt very pampered. I would love to return !