Luxury Bali resort & spa

In order to provide our guests with a Balinese experience in terms of culture, environment and ambience management recognises the need to work in harmony with the local community. It is our commitment to measure our greenhouse gas emissions, energy and fresh water usage, waste water discharges, minimize our solid waste and set targets etc., in all areas to improve our environmental performance through benchmarking with Green Globe 21 every year.

As per Green Globe 21 requirements we have a 100% recycled water treatment system in the form of a waste water garden so no effluent is sent into polluting local river and nearby ocean.

We use energy saving light bulbs. We encourage recycling and reduced usage of packaging and frequency of transport with suppliers. We encourage our guests to reuse linen and offer bicycles for tours around the area instead of cars for transport.

We offer our guests walking tours through local rice paddies, villages and visits to our organic farm/garden to appreciate local flora and fauna. We usage of organic soaps and spa products made from base materials originating from profit-sharing community projects.

We minimize the use of plastic in the hotel mini bars, wrapping of laundry, gift packaging in boutique etc. All natural or local alternatives are being used. We separate waste separation and offer a training program to local garbage collector on reducing the amount of bottles, plastics, cans etc. to end up in incinerators. All organic waste is used for composting in our organic garden.

We run a ‘clean up the world weekend’ every September combining hotel staff, local community, local schools, restaurants, other hotels, environment organisations in local tourism area. We co-ordinate presentations of “Is it really rubbish” play to all the school children in schools in to teach about recycling. We also present Green Globe 21 aims from our Green Team to local schools including information about waste separation training, impact of behaviour to nature.

We pay for a local dance class from the village to have their performances at the hotel for guests to enjoy local culture, while ensuring payments are distributed among the different local communicates. We cooperate with local farmers, East Bali Poverty Project and our organic garden to teach about perma-culture, organic farming and negative impact on herbicides & pesticides.

Over 85% of our staff are from local villages within a radius of 10 km of the hotel. We give financial payments to villages every month to support their lifestyle and culture. We use local product suppliers as priority over others in supply contracts to hotel. We use locally sourced materials instead of imported materials or supplies.

We offer experiences and excursions that make use of local points of interest, supporting local tourist objects and pay local trekkers, guides and people-of-interest to share their knowledge and experience with our guests (e.g. local healers, Balinese astrologers, painters, dance teachers etc.). We offer complimentary experiences (yoga, thai chi) to our guests, employing local teachers and guru’s. Performances on special events are sourced from local dance schools, local communities and kept as per local traditions thus ensuring local employment.