April 7th, 2005
We have to share the Tjampuhan Hotel (pronounced 'cham-poo-han') and Spa with you. This is where we stayed for the 4 nights that we were in Ubud. Again, for the price of the US dollar, you get luxury like you would never imagine.

Tjampuhan Hotel and Spa
Jalan Raya Campuhan
PO Box 198
Ubud 80571
Bali, Indonesia

Tel: (62 361)975368
Fax: (62 361)975137
email: tjampuan@indo.net.id
Homepage: http://www.indo.com/hotels/tjampuhan


This is the entrance to the front desk. The hotel porters carried our bags to our rooms.


The hotel offered each guest a big bamboo hat to protect you from the rain to walk to and from your room, or to the spa or where ever you wanted to go. You could even take the hats into Ubud to walk around if you chose to.


This was our room. They placed fresh flowers every day on the bed, on a tray with bottled water and in the bathroom on our clean stack of towels. The whole back wall was screen so you could hear the river rushing below, the roosters in the morning and the rain. They even came into your room and lit for you these mosquito coils in a pot so your room would be mosquito free when you came back before going to bed.


This was the porch door and how you would latch it.


This is a view from our porch of how thick the thatch roof is and you can see the bamboo structure underneath with the thatch woven onto it.


And everyone had their own little fallic statue hanging off their porch. The penis is removable but I'm not sure what else you would use it for??? See, I told you there was penis art all around us.


This was our front door and this is how we would lock it when we would leave to go out.


Our front door faced this corridor of a stone wall with all kinds of plants growing on or above it. The big leaves on top are Elephant Ears.


Sherry admiring the mossy stone wall.


And everyone's porch was very private. Even though Sherry and Bill were right next door to us we couldn't see them when we were on our porch.


This is the walkway just outside of our doors.


Intricate Stone steps.


After we checked out our rooms we came back to the foyer to enjoy our "welcome drink" which was a nice cool Bali Rice wine. Then we went around the grounds to explore where we would be staying for the next few days.


This was the dining room. The whole right side is open air and when you step up thru the archways, that's where they set up the buffet for breakfast (which was included in our room price of $60 USD/night!)


And up thru those archways, there was another opening in the wall that allowed you to exit and the stone work and statues outside that opening were awesome.


And as you walked around you saw that the statues were given offerings of fresh flowers. And, if you notice again, this guy is otherwise nekkid!


One of the walls.


A giant head that loomed up out of the ground.


Details in another stone wall.


Statue with sarong, and floral and rice offerings.


Steps leading down to the river, which was raging the day we got there due to so much rain.


A Bird of Paradise flower.


More steps leading down into the spa and pool areas.


This is the main pool for guests.


The pool had a pool bar with this ornate stone carving in the center of the pavillion.


These are the steps that lead down into the spa. Along the sides of the steps there are built in gutters so you get the sound of gurgling water at your feet.


Coming down the steps you enter the spa.


I haven't been to too many spas in my time, but this one really seemed lavish and ornate.


Entering the spa. On our right are the saunas.


And this is the hot tub/cold tub. The hot tub is above, and the cold tub is below. You can go back and forth between the two.


This was one of the massage rooms, that was open air and down near the river.


This was another pool, but this one was a mineral pool.


And this was a guy sweeping up fallen leaves and flowers. I like the brooms they use.

We didn't really have time to partake in any spa treatments, but we did use the pool. If we had done some of the spa treatments the costs would've been as follows:

Traditional Balinese Massage for 60 mins = $25 USD.
Traditional Mandi Lulur (epitome of Balinese Massage) for 120 mins = $33 USD.
Swedish Massage for 60 mins = $25 USD.
Accupressure Massage for 60 mins= $25 USD.

and that's only a few of what was offered on the list. But you can see, the prices are VERY reasonable.

Depending on where you stay on Bali, you can get a nice place like what we had for $60/night in Ubud or where we were in Padang Bai, our place was $28/night and I even found some places online before we went, down in Kuta for $4-$12/night. Our friend Adam has now been to Bali twice and he found a great place down in Kuta for $7/night.

The deals don't end either. You also get to barter for what you wanna buy!

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