Villa Ombak

Villa Ombak advertises to be the best hotel on Gili Trawangan,but it is not!I think this place is pretty worn out.
We stayed 3 nights at a "Deluxe"Lumbung hut built to the traditional Sasak architecture,which consists of an upper floor bedroom and a large terrace and underneath an open air living room with a bale and the bathroom.
The room is small,and its linen a bit worn out,no sound proof.
As the bathroom is downstairs,climbing up and down the tiny stairs to take a pee or a shower could be very dangerous,particularly in the middle of the night,after few Bintang.The shower delivers salt water and you have to use a mandi of fresh water(bucket)to rinse.The toilet facilities seem to be a bit worn out.
The pool seems huge on their Internet site,but was overcrowded during our stay,invaded in particular by French noisy nkids(it was schoolholidays in France and unfortunately these bloody people had invaded Gili Tralala!).
I'm not good-faith because people don't really need a pool in Gili Trawangan!
The beach in front of the resort is a bit littered with sharp coral(people have to wear reef shoes) and had few sunbeds,but you can lounge on the beachrestaurant's chairs!
As the resort is building new cottages at the left hand side,people will be woken up by the noise of the construction,we were on the right one:)
The breakfast was OK,the food seems pricey and the restaurant affected, not very friendly,we went for lunch and dinner at the Scallywags nearby.
Last but not the least,the staff is not as nice as in other Indonesian place.

In fact the resort is quite OK but overpriced(for the country!)


I heard good things on the Beach house hotel....