Designed to resemble a Balinese palace, Nusa Dua Beach Hotel features all the elegance of a royal residence, while offering every modern amenity and convenience for a luxurious getaway.

The award-winning resort offers its “Authentically Bali” experience through the features of its 382 guestrooms and suites nestled on nine hectares of lush tropical Balinese gardens facing a span of 200 meters of white sandy beach on the Nusa Dua peninsula.

The beautifully landscaped gardens are a joy to walk around and witness wildlife, from birds and lizards to the ducks around the immaculate ponds.

Since its grand opening in 1983, this five-star diamond resort has been welcoming kings, queens, presidents and other dignitaries, and now boasts an extensive range of rejuvenated rooms and facilities with a new feel, while still retaining its Balinese heritage.

Guests can feel like Balinese royalty in the Palace Club Wing, an exclusive entity within the hotel that offers ultimate privacy and various exclusive privileges, including a private registration area, butler service and complimentary in-room Internet access.

All the Palace Club guests have access to the Palace Club Lounge to enjoy a complimentary selection of non-alcoholic beverages, daily afternoon tea and evening cocktails.

The resort’s Specialty Suites comprise two bedrooms, with the possibility of adding adjoining rooms. Guests can choose the Batur Suite with garden view, or Agung Suite with stunning ocean view. For ultimate privacy, the resort’s Nusa Dua Suite offers a private entrance, private pool and whirlpool.

Meanwhile, the Royal Residence offers superlative elegance and unique luxury together with a surpassed level of service. Previously only available to royalty, the Royal Residence is now open to guests. It is situated in a private enclave among the resort’s magnificent gardens, where a private entrance heralds one of the most secluded and beautiful villas in Bali.

Enhance your Authentically Bali experience with Nusa Dua Spa, the spa pioneer on the island. The spa highlights its rich Balinese tradition through ambiance and a variety of indigenous treatments. The skilled therapists are ready to pamper guests with ultimate relaxation rituals.

Also located within the spa vicinity, the resort provides a fully equipped fitness center, squash and tennis courts to ensure guests can stay fit.

Dining in a royal setting will bring your Authentically Bali experience to absolute perfection. The signature Raja’s restaurant offers pure Balinese cuisine in a palatial setting.

Established in 2001, the poolside restaurant, located only meters from the beachfront, is designed to reflect the way a Balinese royal family would dine.

Raja’s is a place where guests can take home more than just beach memories and standard hotel food and can try a more authentic piece of Bali. Raja’s menu is based on research in Balinese palaces and villages and is the result of many interviews and taste trials in far-off hamlets.

Raja’s cuisine is seriously Balinese fare, unmodified — the result of more than a year of taste testing, guest trials and in-house cooking contests. Although it serves original Balinese food, Raja’s is certified as a halal restaurant.

Popular Raja’s appetizers include the award-winning palem sari ulam (steamed seafood in coconut curry pudding), tum udang (minced prawn and young coconut steamed in banana leaf and served on a seaweed salad with lesser galangal and garlic chili dressing) and other unique specialties.

Favorite soups including the seafood kuah gedang sareng (fresh jumbo prawns with young green papaya soup).

The array of main courses on offer are as varied as sate gede (oversized barbecued chicken, lamb and beef skewers with long-bean salad and sweet chili coriander dressing), ulam segara mepanggang (grilled baby snapper with shallot, lemongrass and live leaf dressing) and pesan be pasih (lemon basil and tamarind marinated mackerel wrapped in banana leaf and grilled).

If guests like their meals spicy, as most Balinese do, they can ask for chili sambal — prepared and ground tableside using a traditional Balinese mortar and pestle.

Raja’s signature dish is bebek or ayam betutu — a whole duck or chicken marinated in 16 different spices, wrapped in palm leaves and slow cooked for four hours. It is presented to the guests in a whole piece and then carved at the table.

The dessert menu includes pisang rai (poached bananas in coconut batter with honey and ginger ice cream), village favorite dadar gulung (pandanus leaf pancakes with a jackfruit and palm-sugar filling served with coconut ice cream) and other sweet traditional specialties.

Guests can dine indoors in air conditioning or in a poolside, open-air wooden pavilion that is decorated regally with intricate Balinese carvings. There is also the option of booking a private indoor area with seating for up to eight people.

All Raja’s dining paraphernalia was sourced and produced in Bali, except for the crystal glasses. Noteworthy are the heavy, solid-brass show plates, cutlery and dulang (food stands), as well as the tablecloths made from brokat (traditional lace material) that is usually used to make Balinese women’s blouses.

Indeed, there is no better place to experience the authentic Balinese heritage and culture on the Island of the Gods than the iconic Nusa Dua Beach Hotel and Spa.

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