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4 out of 5
Dolphin Beach Bali
Jl. Raya Singaraja, Seririt, Banjar, Bali

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 45 out of 119 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 52 out of 119 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 17 out of 119 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 119 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 119 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jennifer, Port Moody

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Ronald

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

D

Stayed 3 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Large space
Place was great. Room was huge. Loved having a private balcony and large sofa to chill on. The one complaint I had was the shower. It was either really cold or really hot. Hard to take a shower. The area is really quite. Not a good beach to hang out at. Local beggars are constantly after $$$. The pool was a nice getaway. Staff was attentive and very nice.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Tonya

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent!
This is our third time staying here. We love it so much that every time we’ve come to Bali, we’ve ended up extending our stay at Dolphin longer than initially planned. It’s very clean, the people are so kind and hospitable. The food is great. They have a shuttle to take you around.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Abdul

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great experience
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Kelvin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Soooo... AMAZING!!
What an awsome place! Direct on the beach with large spacious rooms. Staff were so friendly with no request too much trouble... Thank you for a great stay!!
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2020
Response from mega on Jan 21, 2020
Thank you for your lovely stay.

8/10 Good

Hayley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel
Lovely apartment, super staff, great food. Only downsides were the shower temperatures either scolding hot or cold and the noise of a neighbouring hotel's air-conditioning unit which couldn't be prevented by the staff. Loved the pool and the breakfast was delicious.
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2019
Response from mega on Jan 21, 2020
Thannk you for your stay

10/10 Excellent

Tim, Vancouver Canada

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My wife and I were looking for a quiet relaxing place to stay for a couple days and this hotel was perfect for what we were looking for. The property is a bit dated but the staff were amazing and the dolphin guide was great other guides would cut trip short after seeing the dolphins our guide let us decide when we wanted to return. We would definitely stay again.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019
Response from mega on Nov 22, 2019
Thank you for your lovely stay, hopefully to see you again

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Just a plain overnight stay
Need to top up pay extra for kid even already booked the highest room category that can accomodate 4 person and breakfast is just so so below our expectations.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019
Response from mega on Jun 26, 2019
Thank you for your stay

10/10 Excellent

David, London UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really nice friendly and helpful staff. They organised all our transfers and trips out at very good prices. Thank you Mega and Putu
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019
Response from mega on Feb 6, 2019
Dear David Thank you for your stay, hopefully see you again

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was a bit out from the main town area. They offer a shuttle to the town for a price unless you go at 9am for free. They didn’t have a driver when we were there and it was raining so we had to walk in the rain to get to dinner. Other then that great service, clean and comfy rooms, I would recommend it again.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019
Response from mega on Jan 30, 2019
Thank you for your stay

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bedroom and lounge separate, both very large. Clean, complimentary bug spray in the room, friendly and helpful staff. Great value !
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018
Response from mega on Jan 8, 2019
Thank you for your lovely stay

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Easy access for reef snorkeling, no need to rent a boat
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2018
Response from mega on Jan 8, 2019
thank you for your stay

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent stay - right beside the reef for great snorkelling without having to charter a boat
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2018
Response from mega on Jan 8, 2019
thank you for your stay

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet and lovely hotel on Lovina Beach
The staff is amazing - so kind and friendly. Wonderful room decorations! Spacious suite - bedroom and living room with refrigerator, hot water kettle, Cable TV and AC. In-room safe was helpful. Beautiful bathroom with sunken bath. While showering at night, the hot water finished, which was uncomfortable. We found mosquitos because room doors are not sealed well. Beautiful pool. Hotel right on the beach. Beautiful views at sunrise!

10/10 Excellent

Jose

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing place, the people who work here are very beautiful and nice. They treated us better than anyone else. I recommend this place to everyone, beaches are not that impressive but this place is.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Sandra, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Right on the beach
The penthouse suites have an upper floor balcony overlooking the beach, it's a lovely spot to sit. Pool is fabulous. Very handy to have shuttle for the short drive into Lovina Beach area where there is a variety of places to eat, drink & shop. We'd stay again.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

debera

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice large rooms, great staff
The rooms are large and the staff is friendly, the food is good

10/10 Excellent

Sil, Melbourne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice hotel, on a manicured property.
The stay was very nice, however the location is not ideal, unless you are ready to catch a ride to anywhere. There are two local restaurants which can be reached by walking on the beach, very dangerous to walk on the side of the road as the walk path has large open pits, which are very difficult to see during the night.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Place to sleep but nothing else
Pros: Room - separate living room and bedroom, large Location - Quiet neighborhood Cons: Cleanliness - sheets, towels, pillows, etc smelled of mold, had to use Fabreeze to spray everything before I could use and sleep! Food - if you're in a jam the food is edible but better to eat elsewhere, lots of good restaurants in the area will offer free pick up and drop off, wish we had known this before! Location - not very walkable to things, also pool area has lots of vendors bothering you to buy things when all you want to do is relax Cash only - Saw multiple credit card machines and signs saying they accepted credit card but when we asked to pay by card they said they only accepted cash. Kind of confusing.

10/10 Excellent

Martha, Bristol

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful room, friendly staff, gorgeous view!
Took my mum on holiday here for 10 nights in June. Arrived at around 1am and the staff member who met us took our bags up to our room (Penthouse 1), showed us around and then left us to it. All of the staff are so friendly, helpful and fun. Maga (sp?) and her husband Puta (one of the drivers) are extremely knowledgable about the island and good fun to talk to. Puta took us on a brilliant island drive after we had done the sunrise walk, showing us the temples, wildlife, flora and fauna and taking us to lots of beautiful hidden gems. Yodha (the other main driver) was brilliant fun, taking us into Singharaja market, showing us around and teaching us a lot about Balinese life. Great guys to share a beer with. The restaurant is amazing, simple but beautifully cooked meals (we only tried out the Indonesian menu) and all the waiting staff are friendly and eager to please. The rooms were cleaned every day (!), and the boys were again very friendly and helpful (noticing a theme here?). Cannot wait to go back there, it was absolute perfection!

10/10 Excellent

Richard, Ontario Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Took a great snorkelling trip from the hotel to Magellan island and it was beautiful.

6/10 Okay

micki, California

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Ok lodging
The hotel itself is quite pretty but it is isolated. The staff is nice and helps in making trip arrangements including drives into town or shopping. The rooms are large and comfortable but there was a lot of mold in the bathroom. Sadly the ocean is quite polluted, I didn't even want to put my feet in the water.

10/10 Excellent

sandie, Kailua-Kona

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great apartment on the beach
Lovina Bali is a black sand beach. The beach was small and very dirty. The draw for the area is dolphin watching. Each morning many outrigger canoes take the tourists out to see the dolphin pod. When sighted the boats race up to them until they dive, but when they surface again in a different spot the boats rev up like ants to prey. I felt sorry for the pod. The hotel is a bit distant from the town center, but the grounds, swimming pool and facilities are spacious and beautiful. The apartments have full kitchens and are clean and very comfortable.

8/10 Good

Michael, Melbourne, Florida

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A Must See and Must stay Getaway Resort
Very cozy. Was a long trip from Denpasar....about 3 hours. But once got there it was the peaceful relaxing place I we were looking for. The ocean is wonderful. The view are amazing! A must stay for an excellent price.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Ok
Very big room nice and clean but the bathroom was mouldy and a bit smelly , the large breakfast in the price was good as was the dinner we had here The bottled water at 30,000 rp was three time the price of anywhere else in bali !!! The beach and surrounding area are not clean but to finish on a positive the staff were fantastic

6/10 Okay

Vicci, Darwin NT Australia

Liked: Room comfort
Peace & Quiet Hotel
Nice hotel, although a little sleepy, very quiet and relaxing. Huge, nice, clean rooms and good facilities, including coffee making, DVD, Foxtel etc. Meals/kitchen very average. No atmosphere in dining room, despite a beautiful view. Menu choice poor and delivered cold, almost inedible. Advice....eat else where. Lovely pool and gardens. Location average, a bit too far out of town for us (family of 4). Advertising disappointing as they say you can swim with the Dolphins off the beach..... Not so. You have to pay to go on a boat trip and then you're still. It aloud to get in the water.

8/10 Good

family vacation, canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Family vacation
Comfortable setting with direct access to the beach. The water was like bath water. It was amazing! Be careful with the fish flies at dusk! The internet was reliable. The air con in our one room didn't work great and the hot water in the other room was off and on. We paid a minimal cost for the shuttle into Lovina at anytime or you could go into Lovina at specific shuttle time in the morning.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overall Very Good
Humongous apartment with a great satellite TV system. A shame about the very aggressive vendors on the beach though - they pester you constantly when you are using the pool. Good restaurant and very friendly staff.

8/10 Good

TJD, Devon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic sea view
View from Penthouse 2 was superb, felt like you could almost touch the sea from the enormous balcony. Appartment fantastic size with massive living area. Staff very friendly and helpful. Pool adequate with plenty of sun loungers and seating in pleasant garden. Breakfast was good but need small improvement on order of service i.e. better to have fruit at the beginning and not hot drinks before the fruit juice and choice of cereal other than cornflakes would be good. The room had a small kitchenette which seemed pointless as there were no pots or pans so unable to cook anything as we stayed for 7 nights this would have been useful. Location was away from the centre of Lovina but easily walkable although the pavements left alot to be desired - if walking back along the beach buy a torch! Excellent relaxing stay but go for the upstairs penthouses with the large balconies or the downstairs room with sea view if you can afford them - well worth the extra money.

8/10 Good

Ann, Austrailia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel
Resort had a really nice view, was a bit of a long way to walk to the town but transport was never a problem,

10/10 Excellent

Jade, Auckland, New Zealand

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Surpassed all expectations
Wonderful place to stay if you like snorkelling right off the beach, water had good visibility and lots of fish and coral. Room was extremely clean and comfortable and staff were really helpful and friendly. Special thanks to Rocky for all the help he gave us and was great meeting Mona and Boy. Food in restaurant was good and really reasonable prices for food and drink and mini bar. Great having free shuttle into Lovina however wasn't a very long walk. Also great little restaurants in the town itself like Up to You, Akar - a lovely vegetarian cafe/restaurant and Jasmine a really nice Thai restaurant. Coffee at Up to You was awesome.

10/10 Excellent

Annette, Vic Aus

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Absolutely amazing :-)
We stayed in the junior suite, the room was spacious & fully equipped with all mod cons & more. The onsite facilities & staff were fabulous. The location & the atmosphere was perefectly serene. We stayed in many different hotels & resorts during our stay in Bali & this was by far the best place we stayed. Will definately return on our next trip!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hope I get to go back soon.
The Dolphin Beach hotel really captures all that is lovely about Bali. The staff are wonderful. The little strip of beach out front is quiet and clean. Very accomodating! I would highly recommend and wish I had planned to spend more of my trip here... it was the favorite of my entire trip around the island.

8/10 Good

Dawn, Kodiak, Alaska

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel on the beachfront
The hotel is a 3 and 1/2 hour taxi drive from the airport. It's on an attractive side of the island to which there appears to be no regular boat. I wanted to get excellent wood carvings, and the hotel driver took me to a small nearby shop (with a dolphin on the sign) where I was able to obtain a suitcase-sized wall panel of birds and trees, the volcano and waterfalls. I arranged for the master carver of this panel from a nearby village to sign it, overnight, as he had not done so. Food is available at the hotel's restaurant all day. Expeditions to the ATM (walkable if desired), the local temples, the hot springs, special fruit sellers, coffee plantations etc. can be arranged for pay with the hotel drivers. Friendly shell sellers, pearl sellers and batik sellers will walk down the beach to offer their items for sale. They can be a bit of a nuisance if you want privacy, but have interesting things. The major, named, public beach nearby is Lovina Beach. "Dolphin Beach" has outrigger boats, fishermen and a large sandbar when the tide goes out. There don't seem to be many dolphins there anymore that I could see.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet gateway
Apart from being far from the airport (3 hour drive), everything about this small hotel is very nice for those seeking quiet comfortable rest.

8/10 Good

Franny, Canberra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice apartment on public beach with black sand
The apartment was hard to find as the signage was incorrect and the locals weren't aware of it. The public beach attracts locals selling hand made goods at high prices, best to go to hot springs to buy anything as the competition is higher therefore you can get a better price.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

DuaneL, Norman, Oklahoma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great massive Penthouse. Outstanding staff. If you are going to stay in this region, this hotel is one of the best.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Hotel close to beach.
If extra person must pay USD25/pax. The room we stay have a sound like knock the wood and move chair hold night very noisy.
Response from DBA Public Relations on Mar 12, 2015
Management feels that a charge for extra people (ie, more pax than the initial booking) is a standard condition globally. We must highlight, that 99% of the complaints about an extra person charge come from guests who book online for 2 pax, but arrive at the door with extra people.

10/10 Excellent

Traveladdict, Nelson New Zealand

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wow Factor
Out of the 5 apartments on offer we were booked into the one without an ocean view. For a small fee we were upgraded to penthouse 1. Amazing view, and very spacious. Huge bedroom, separate lounge area, huge bathroom and large deck. The service throughout our stay was incredible and the staff really helpful. The food was also very good. This was a wonderful place to relax and recharge.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
great hotel on the beach
I had a wonderful stay at this hotel. Dolphin tour and traditional fishing right on your doorstep and lots of fun. Staff were terrific and thanks chef, loved your mango pancakes. The rooms were lovely, flowers a very nice touch. Only villa/hotel that still provided robes. Hope to be back soon. Regards Jane

10/10 Excellent

Andy, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for relaxation
Excellent little hotel right on the beach. Perfect for a relaxing getaway away from the hustle of Kuta. Just 3 hours by car. Staff were great, room was large and perfect with a lovely balcony a stones throw from the ocean. With only 5 rooms the hotel feels more like your own villa.

10/10 Excellent

Ben and Anika, Singapore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Like the paradise :)
We visited the Dolphin Beach Hotel on Bali for a weekend and are extremely satisfied! Apart from the long way from Denpasar (airport) to Lovina (location of the hotel) it is really worth it! Even if it was a three hours trip we got to see some nice places like e.g. the monkey forest or the famous rice terrace during the trip. When we arrived at the Hotel, the staff welcomed us friendly and showed us our penthouse. Now we can confirm, that the photos are exactly the same as in reality, while sometimes you cannot be sure if photos from hotels via internet are correctly. Everything is tidy and clean and the view to the sea and garden is beautiful. The staff is not only friendly and nice, also really courteous and lovely. For example one of the staff wanted to know our names, so every time he served us, he could ask us personally and that felt so familiar in such a comfortable way we could not imagine. Instead of the beach in front of the hotel which is not really suitable for swimming you can use the nice pool, relax in it. On top you can enjoy a cocktail or a normal drink in the pool. You want to relax on Bali? This is the best place for you ;-)

10/10 Excellent

ELIZABETH, Sydney NSW

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bali perfection........
It was perfect for us, having left an unacceptable accommodation situation on the Lovina coast...we loved everything about the Dolphin...cleanliness and quality was wonderful and the staff's attention to our every detail was exemplary....surrounding neighbourhood became irrelevant when we were in such an excellent hotel setting right on sea front in Penthouse 2, superb luxurious apartment with superb views....perfect for us....a perfect stay Thank you all at Dolphin!

10/10 Excellent

Bonnie, New Zealand

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic hotel
First class hotel with well thought out lay out and rooms tastefully decorated. Lovely touch with the little turtles in the running water feature. Excellent service, One of the best places I've stayed at. Beautiful rooms. Small but lovely pool. So clean and tidy. Just wonderful. Well done to both the owner and the staff. Would stay and recommend this place to anyone.

6/10 Okay

Unimpressed, Thailand

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Beware: "Junior Suite" faces the road
Big disappointment. The "Junior Suite" that we got faces the road, so the "garden view" is a joke. The road is extremely noisy with motorcycles and trucks. Thankfully though, the suite is large and the bedroom itself can be closed so it doesn't get too noisy, but it pretty much has no windows to open. The bathroom window -to call the opening on the wall something- opens on the driveway of the hotel, so any noise will be heard by others walking by. The positives about this room would be the internet, which was reliable and the TV, which had a bunch of good channels. The staff was nice but nothing to write home about. I guess living in Thailand has spoiled us when it comes to good service. This was just normal. The breakfast was pretty lame. Just not happy about it. When I asked about the rooms facing the ocean -every other room besides the one and only "junior suite"- the guy in charge told me they were a hundred dollars more than ours, absolutely not worth it. The beach was dirty, the water very clean, the pool was nice to relax and cool off.

10/10 Excellent

Justin, Geelong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great villa on the pictureque beach
Staff friendly, quiet area, great resurant meals, clean and tidy, Wow.