This hotel is immensely unique. Apart from preserving the Balinese traditional design Besakih Beach Resort (BBR) has up till now not been renovated since it was established in 1974. Located on Jalan Danau Tamblingan, Sanur, the Resort previously had 18 rooms. Rapid growth of tourism development in Sanur made the owner of BBR add more rooms and facilities to the hotel presently 79 rooms.

Nevertheless, BBR is not less competitive with other hotels in Sanur tourist resort. These 79 rooms, in fact, have already been furnished with modern facilities. Seen from the outside, it still has a Balinese traditional architectural style, but inside it has been completed with air conditioning, satellite television channels and private balcony facilities. Outside, there are two swimming pools and two restaurants, Nirwana and Agung Bar Restaurants.
Nirwana restaurant with superb Sanur Beach views offers fresh seafood menu specialties besides European and Indonesian cuisines. While Agung Restaurant, specifically serves grilled Food and temptingly tasty barbeques.
BBR offers two categories of rooms, namely standard and suite. Standard rooms are offered at USD 50 and Suite at USD 100. It’s cheap, isn’t it? If you are tired after enjoying water sports, BBR will present a Spa Bath to indulge your body. It is not far from the room and its rate is relatively inexpensive.
According to Manager of Besakih Beach Resort Ngurah Putra, his party puts priority on service to guests who stay in the hotel he emphasized, in terms of service, his hotel should be better than other hotels in Sanur. “Guest’s satisfaction is our final objective so they really feel like at their own home,” said Ngurah Putra who has devoted his life at BBR since 1990.
At a glance, BBR looks aged. Realizing this condition, Ngurah Putra instructed to all of his staff to make a point of personal life service as the top priority. Consequently, such a concept, in fact, was able to attract more guests, especially repeater guests and one guest has stayed 20-25 times.
When Bali Travel News made a visit to the hotel recently, Ngurah showed us a room that was occupied by a Hollander. The guest had stayed at Besakih for 8 weeks, while the hotel’s occupancy reached 70% with all guests European. Interestingly, their visit to Bali was not through travel agents but a direct call to the hotel. “This month is the low season and other hotels in Sanur are lacking visitors,” said Ngurah Putra while adding that the concept of personal life services has resulted in real benefit.
Prior to the bombing tragedy, regular guests that stayed at BBR were from Switzerland, Sweden and Scandinavia. However, he explained that his current potential market is Australian and Netherlands visitors, then European and Asian. Australians still occupies the top rank (50%), Netherlander (35%) and the remains 15% (European and Asian). The highest repeater guest is Australian and Dutch.

Beach Facilities
Considering BBR is situated on the beachside, the resort prepares facilities that can be used for sunbathing or just relaxing on the white sands of Sanur beach. Facilities like beach umbrellas, beach yard, cushion, beach towel are provided at the request of guests. They want to relax or just lay down to enjoy beach views or water sport attraction around the waters of Sanur. For the latter, he has prepared a motorized jukung outrigger.
For readers information, BBR is one of the hotels that won the Tri Hita Karana (THK) Tourism Awards 2004 achieving a silver trophy for three starred hotels category. Every year Bali Travel News holds an annual competition among eco-oriented hotels in the perspective of Tri Hita Karana. (BTN/013)