5. Best Beach Spa Experience: Amankila Spa at Amankila Hotel Bali
Romeyn has enjoyed Bali’s best beaches, so for a breathtaking beach spa experience, take her advice and head to Amankila Spa at Amankila Hotel Bali – a five-star luxury beachside resort. hillside, on the east coast of Bali, set between idyllic rice fields with stunning panoramas of the turquoise sea, sprawling coastline and sky.
“It’s on a black sand beach,” Romeyn said. “I had a massage there on one of their beaches balls – [that’s a small] beach pavilion where you can just relax while you are at the beach. Therapists come there and give you treatments on this elevated platform above the beach. »
Amankila Spa is inspired by the resort’s luxurious, tranquil setting of overwater suites nestled between frangipani-lined walkways. So, in addition to providing traditional Balinese baths and body treatments in beach balls, guests can also enjoy spa services in the resort’s suites, massage pavilion or open-air locations under tropical canopies.
“It was high tide, [during my treatment]” said Romeyn. “And so the waves came and crashed beneath us while [my therapist] I was doing my massage. You are in this beautiful deserted black sand beach paradise and the waves are crashing beneath you. It was just a completely natural and really beautiful environment.”
Therapies at Amankila Spa are delivered by highly qualified specialist practitioners and use ingredients of natural origin. Guests can try body scrubs and wraps, or the spa’s special cintotherapy: a purifying and cleansing full-body exfoliation followed by a warm chakra-opening flower bath and an aromatherapy body massage.
Website: https://www.aman.com/resorts/amankila
Address: Jl. Raya Manggis, Manggis, Kec. Manggis, Kabupaten Karangasem, Bali 80871, Indonesia
Telephone: +62 363 41333
Instagram: @aman