La Joya Balangan Resort

Beautiful setting and gardens.

We would have preferred a fan rather than the air conditioning all the time. Apart from that it was lovely.

Villa was delightful. Grounds well kept. 2 pools so great choice Staff very helpful. Restaurant reasonable choices Good wine and cocktails

Would suggest they make the main pool children and the back pool which is lovely and quiet Adults Only. Annoying when children arrive to play happily at one pool so you move to the other for quiet and more noisy children turn up at that one. Happy hour could be a better discount and include bintang and wine and should go from 4-8. Massage and facial techniques with better description and offering of facial products could be improved

The staff were very helpful, friendly and attentive. The breakfasts were yummy. The bungalows were clean. Gardens were well tended. We had a huge private grassed “back yard “. The roads to La Joya from the airport were very rough and narrow. The water view is pretty average. 2 pleasant pools. Great surf.

The drinks were way too expensive. We were charged extra for a banana. Not much to do. The resort is on top of a cliff. Lots of steps down to the beach. At low tide there is only a very wide rock platform.

The atmosphere was very nice and relaxing as well as secluded. Having two pools was great but on our last day when the resort was much more busy they took all the sun beds from the second pool for some maintenance work which was a little frustrating

It was very far from the centre and there isn’t much to do around the resort, some recommendations from reception or options to book trips would have been helpful. We had to move rooms after 2 nights as my husband kept getting this sandy looking dust falling on his head and side of the bed no matter how many times we cleaned it, turns out the staff knew exactly what it was and that it was a problem in that room once we asked to move (it was termites eating the roof of the room). The breakfast is very limited for a place that doesn’t have other options nearby, have to pay for coffee and juice as an extra.