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The traditional Balinese village layout of the spa.
Designed to mimic a Balinese house plan, these spacious 85-square-metre villas offer a complete escape for up to five hours at a time with a seven-treatment session called The Raharja The day bed is known as a balé bengong which translates as a place for day dreaming.
The Spa at Bali Hyatt has its own exclusive range of massage oils blended with specific essential oils for slimming and easing muscles and for 'intimacy' and 'patience'. The larger bottles of body oils have romantic names such as Moonlight Stargaze and Spirit.
The owners of the Ibah refer to their hotel as a 'luxury homestay', although it is one of the most special on the Balinese spa resort circuit. It achieves. completely, the owners' dream to create a resting place for the senses, mind and heart.
Mandara Spa at the Ibah
Somehow it is obvious - and all the better - when a hotel is family run, as in the case of the Ibah. In fact, it barely qualifies as a hotel with just eleven rooms, more akin to cottages each with its own distinct design.
The Ibah's owners are an Ubud royal family who have held this dramatic site above the confluence of two rivers is for generations. Like the proprietor's grandfather who would walk the one kilometre from the palace in Ubud to holiday and meditate on this spiritual slope, his descendant has sought to preserve it as an oasis of tranquillity for the lucky few who stay here.
"Staying at the Ibah is like being in love," says Tjokorda Raka Kerthyasa, its erudite and passionate owner, "you cannot explain it until you experience it." Somehow the light breeze, darting carp, murmuring water, nodding plants and sun-flecked stone seem to offer a healing power that in no extent of the imagination can be anticipated.
This meditative mood remains unchanged in the spa, a panelled salon in the eaves, designed to cater for just one person or couple at a time, so as not to clutter its healing purpose. There's nothing clinical here. Instead, the dark teak wood and colonial furniture lend the spa salon a sense of decadence, accentuated by the massage boudoir, subtly lit behind tall curtains and lined with mirrors and stone deities that watch over you as you lie naked under their gaze.
Similarly, there is not even a whiff of the 20th century as you climb up the stone steps into your private jacuzzi overlooking the gardens below. This restful experience is best enjoyed at dusk when the Ibah, with its heavenly mantra, transforms into a galaxy of flickering oil lamps.
The frangipani flower is the hotel's symbol. The blooms are arranged everywhere, in pots and to decorate statues, throughout the premises.
The hotel is located in Tjampuhan which actually means 'where two rivers meet'. Balinese people believe that there is a flourish of chi (energy) at the junctions between two rivers which may help to explain why the spa experience at Ibah is such a meditative one. Bathing in a jacuzzi over-looking this vista is entirely memorable.
Nirwana Spa at Le Meridien Bali
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