This place was recommended by our dive guide for our one day dive trip to Nusa Penida. He booked the rooms for us for Rp300.000 per room per night. My friend said that this was used to be one of the swastika hotel but then changed to Ramayana Hotel. So they are old hotels but new management. At the day we arrived, the staff at the hotel reception was very unfriendly and was reluctant to serve us. We – mostly girls unloaded big dive gear bags and suitcases from our car, but not a single staff helped us out, although there were 5-6 staff sitting at the kitchen stairs 2 meters from the car, watching us. I asked to the staff at the reception but he did not respond. He was too busy asking my friend for the room payment. My friend said we will pay later when we checked out, and then he asked and kept our original ID cards as insurance. We feel it was a bit unnecessary for Bali standard, especially since he knows the local dive guide who made the bookings for us. After I insisted that he called for a staff to help with the bags he finally called for one, though all bags by then have been dragged by my friends and the car driver to the reception. When the staff took us to our rooms, we were shocked to see that he brought us to the back side of the hotel where there were two rooms side by side (no.15 and 16) inside of what look like a dark garage. The view in front of our rooms was a wall 4-5 meters with small ventilation and 2 bicycles parked. When the staff opened the rooms we could hardly breathe. The old mould odor inside the room was unbearable, seems the room has not been opened for months and being inside a “garage” with no air circulation makes it worse. After we put on the AC for 15 minutes either the smell subsided or we got used to it. We can't tell whether it's night or day when we were inside the room. The pillow case also smells really bad from a bad laundry, the bed sheet and towels were worn out. The bathroom was luckily clean, shower pressure was good and hot water ran well. We saw there were other rooms located at the front part of the hotel building facing a small garden. Hoping they maybe better than our rooms, we asked for a room switch but they said all rooms are full. We asked if we can get other rooms and willing to pay higher price at the next door’s swastika hotel since they are under the same family ownership but the staff said the swastika hotel is operated by different management, so we cannot switch. We thought about moving to another hotel, but with all the gear bags we had and the car rental had left, it was too troublesome to move. So we had to bear with it. Luckily we only stayed for 2 nights here. It’s not worth for anyone on a budget trip to choose this place to save money. Better pay a Rp100.000 more and get a more decent room than here. We have stayed in two other hotels in Sanur with rates of Rp.350.000 and 450.000, but with a much better standard.

Located in Sanur beach I can say that this hotel is in good price and good location. Normal and standard room, but beautiful swimming pool although it is small. It also located in strategic area, just some minutes walk to the beach and store.

Recommend this hotel for people who likes to travel in "less complaint mode" :)

Room quality varies, but the hotel is undergoing renovation, so all should be good soon. You can use the beautiful pool in the Swastika Hotel behind & the included breakfast is excellent. The hotel is in a really handy location in Sanur & only a few minutes walk from the beach. The day staff are fantastic, but the night staff are unfriendly & not helpful at all. Would stay there again, no worries.