overview
Gajah Mina Beach Resort sits on Bali's southwest coast near Balian, set among tropical gardens and paddy fields with its own private beach. Accommodation is in traditional-style villas and suites, each with a balcony looking over the garden or the sea, plus a mini-bar, personal safe and electric kettle. Facilities are deliberately low-key: an outdoor pool, a yoga room, a spa and wellness centre for massages, free Wi-Fi throughout and a 24-hour front desk, with mountain biking arranged on request. Secret Bay Restaurant is more interesting than most resort kitchens, running French cooking alongside Indonesian favourites and a handful of Thai dishes. Balian Beach, a well-known surf spot, is a five-minute walk. Further afield, Tabanan Butterfly Park is about a 30-minute drive and Tanah Lot roughly 40 minutes. This is a quiet, adult-leaning stretch of coast well away from the resort strips of the south, which is the appeal and also the trade-off.
Gajah Mina Beach Resort
Private-beach villas near Balian coast
Build your Tabanan days around Gajah Mina Beach Resort
Start with Gajah Mina Beach Resort's live prices for your dates, since room rates in Tabanan swing with the season. Then look at activity packages, since Tanah Lot at sunset and the Jatiluwih rice walk are easy to add once your base is set. Finally, price a car: the area is rural and the sights are far apart. The three links below go straight to each.
Plan Before You Fly
Follow ready-made Bali itineraries built around the season, then adjust each day to suit your own pace.
our review
Twelve villas across two hectares. That ratio is the product here, and Gajah Mina does not pretend to offer anything else.
It sits on the southwest coast near Balian, among tropical gardens and paddy fields, with its own private beach and Balian Beach five minutes' walk away. Villas and suites each have a balcony over garden or sea. Facilities are deliberately thin: a pool, a yoga room, a spa, and Secret Bay Restaurant covering three cuisines. There is no nightlife, no shopping, and the surf here is for surfers rather than swimmers. We would come for a book and a week, and for very little else.
Highlights
Private beach on Bali's southwest coast.
Only 12 villas across two hectares.
Secret Bay Restaurant serves three cuisines.
Five-minute walk to Balian Beach.
Jl. Pantai Balian, Jl. Surabrata, Lalanglinggah, Kec. Selemadeg Bar., Kabupaten Tabanan, Bali 82162, Indonesia
Where to Eat
Tanah Lot for restaurants with temple views
Jatiluwih for warungs above the terraces
Tabanan town for local Indonesian food
Balian Beach for casual surfer cafés
Bedugul for market produce and warungs
Soka Beach for simple seafood
The best things to do nearby
See sunset at Tanah Lot temple
Walk the Jatiluwih rice terraces
Visit Pura Luhur Batukaru
Surf the black sand at Balian Beach
Drive up to the Bedugul lake area
Learn how the subak system works
Stop at a roadside coffee plantation.
frequently asked questions
Where is Gajah Mina Beach Resort located?
Gajah Mina Beach Resort is in Tabanan, a rural region of rice terraces and the Tanah Lot temple. That makes it a base for the things Tabanan is known for rather than a spot to see the whole island from.
Is Gajah Mina Beach Resort a good hotel?
It holds a guest review score of 8.2 from 292 reviews on Booking.com, and is rated a 3-star property. Guest scores move over time, so check the latest before you book.
How do you get to Gajah Mina Beach Resort from the airport?
Gajah Mina Beach Resort is roughly 1 to 1.5 hours by car from Ngurah Rai Airport in normal traffic. A private transfer or a car with a driver is the simplest way, and traffic in the south can add to that at peak times.