Griya Santrian Resort

Sunday In December

Second time staying at Griya Santrian. This hotel is all comfort, serenity, and old-fashioned service. You can not help but feel relaxed and cared for here. The immaculate Balinese gardens are so beautiful and peaceful. The 3 pools are luxurious, and each one seems to have a different personality to suit your mood or preference. The buffet breakfasts are such a treat - You can have amazingly fresh fruit, freshly cooked eggs, pancakes, cereal/toast, pastries, and Indonesian options, along with as much coffee/tea as you can drink. And you eat whilst staring at the beautiful sea. The staff are corteous and friendly. The streets of Sanur are just outside with many fun shopping options. 3 Monkeys Cafe down the road does excellent dinners. The boardwalk in front of the hotel is a people watching paradise, and the beach itself is calm and lovely. You can use the kayaks for free and hire bicycles for almost nothing. Griya Santrian is our happy place.

Chloe

We absolutely love coming to Griya Santrian. The resort has a lovely feel to it, more traditional in style, is clean and the staff are very accomodating. We found their breakfast to be good but the quality of the food in the restaurant for lunch/dinner has gone down. The pool bar is a big plus and their cocktails are excellent. This year though, I’m not sure I recommend staying until they’ve completed their renovations. They advised us renovations won’t be complete for another year. Renovations are 9am to 5pm every day, including weekends. Once even after hours. Please see the videos. We were only told of the renovations about 2 weeks before our stay and it was suggested that they wouldn’t inconvenience our stay much. I disagree with this a bit. They chose to do renovation work next to the front pool and the middle pools at the same time, so there is no part of the resort to get away from the noise, except the beachfront. The front pool was better than the middle pools as the construction was more intermittent at the front. For the cost of accomodation and as a standard expected, they really shouldn’t be doing renovations at multiple points throughout the resort and should have informed guests earlier with the option of changing accomodation. Overall though we still enjoyed our stay and look forward to coming again once the renovations are finished.

Jo J (JoJo)

Loved Griya .. fantastic pool area with swim up bar right on the beach.. Live music some nights. Breakfast is 7 out of 10 .. Great location. But getting extremely pricey now same price as most Australian or European hotels/ resorts per night.. Maybe affordable for a stronger money like USA but too expensive for Aussie dollar .. but still a wonderful place to visit

Bunga Tiasyaira

4 stars for the price and location. Although the old rooms really need reworking. - there were some mold on bathroom ceilings - some wall areas in the room were bulging due to moisture - preferably a rug could be added on the floor space too However, the pools and gardens were amazing! The plants and vibe was very traditional and balinese so if thats what you’re looking for this is the place for it!

Khaira Zayn

This place was lovely despite what I experienced the day I arrived and after I checked out. I came on a motorbike with my surfboards and baggage. The security guy harassed us by not parking at the lobby entrance (there was no guest/car at that time. First, we are not parking, we dropped in. Second, parkiran kalian itu jauh loh, mana sedang hujan. Gate security secara spesifik minta kami langsung turunkan barang di lobby, tapi by entrance kami di hardik gak boleh berbelok ke arah lobby utama. Kasar sekali! Apakah begini cara kalian memperlakukan tamu yang datang dengan motor? Tapi kalo pake mobil rental lebih tinggi derajatnya? We are paid customers! The room located on the 2nd floor, quiet at night, but I feel annoyed by renovation noise during the day. The AYCE breakfast was amazing. The pool bar, the pool itself and the jacuzzi was amazing. Until I checked out. I realized I left my beach saroong in the bathroom. I am 100% sure it was there. I called the hotel a couple days after but they lost it, claiming that there was nothing valuable found after I was gone. It's just a saroong I know, but it was my Mom's gift before she passed. This prestigious resort has disappointed us! On the same night before, I saw a cleaning crew collect bras, bikinis and stuff after a couple. Were you also claiming that stuff was gone in the thin air???