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Reviews of Semabu Hills Hotel Nusa Penida - Bali

3.5 out of 5
Semabu Hills Hotel Nusa Penida - Bali
Jalan Raya Toya Pakeh-Ped, Nusapenida, Kabupaten Klungkung, Penida Island, Bali

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 41 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 20 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 12 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 76 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 76 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Vlad

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved the pool and the view,the food was alright. The place looks a bit sad especially the bathroom,towels didn’t look good and we had no hot water. I wouldn’t return here. Not worth the money. We didn’t get to sleep much as we could hear music and prayers at 4 am, it was very loud.

10/10 Excellent

Mohammad, Fitchburg

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Gorgeous views & spacious rooms!

10/10 Excellent

Kerri

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Justin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
2 out of 5 stars.
I’m going to start with the good. Best pool view I’ve ever experienced. Rooms are nice size. Now with the bad. 1. WIFI literally is the worst. Every time your device goes to sleep, you need to sign back into the wifi. Our specific room wifi didn’t work. 2. Water pressure was terrible. Barely a dribble from the faucet in the bathroom. Shower didn’t have much warm water or pressure. Key word is warm not hot. 3. There is no way to not have the walkway light outside the bathroom window shine in and Illuminate the room at night. Over all it was enjoyable but I’m not returning unless all I wanted to do is stay in the pool.
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Chris

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Restaurant was very good, beautiful views, staff were very friendly
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

Fatih

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Amanda C

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
reccommend!
We had a nice stay at Semabu hills. They had a free shuttle pick up and the guy was ready with a sign right when we got off our boat. We were able to leave our bags and go to adventure for the day. The rooms were nice, what we loved the most was the infinity pool with a great view! The free breakfast included a lot of food.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Handy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

Ashleigh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Average hotel
The hotel is quite average but nice for the island. We stayed in the top floor suite. It was ok. The bed was dec entry comfortable. The bathroom needs some work and is quite dark. The breakfast was very weak. I am a vegetarian and there was little option for me and no substitute for Dairy which is odd in this part of the world where so much is organic and "vegan friendly". The pool was beautiful and the view was amazing. I liked having a sitting area.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Belkis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect Oasis in this tiny island🏝
Semabu Hills Hotel is the very best hotel to stay at in Nusa Penida island in Bali. It’s on a perfect hilltop over looking the ocean. The customer service is just perfect. The rooms are huge and spotless. The hotel restaurant is fabulous with great outside sitting area overlooking the ocean. It has a huge infinity pool!!! The balconies are huge overlooking the pool and ocean. Perfect to sit outside and watch the sunset. Each balcony has the most beautiful hanging plants that are perfect for picture backdrop!!! Totally amazing Nothing to really do in the area outside the resort. The front desk can arrange tours for you at any time for great price upon request. After spending the day exploring the island, it was wonderful to come back to this oasis to relax. I highly recommend this hotel to anyone visiting Nusa Pineda Island. Totally worth it
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A beautiful hotel, stunning views and a lovely pool. Staff extremely helpful even went down to the village to buy me plasters. Food at restaurant was excellent especially breakfast. Only things that were vaguely negative was the shuttle was expensive if you didn’t want to go to the free stops (port and mini mart). Also they organised snorkelling trip for us which was very touristy and not very good snorkelling - not really the hotels fault but just something to note. But overall had a lovely stay and would really recommend.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
beautiful property with a great view, excellent food and cocktails.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Fantastic infinity pool
The best part was the amazing pool were we spent 90% of our waking time. The rooms look fancy on pictures but are old and the bathroom smells. Restaurant was okay for lunch and dinner. Breakfast wasnt too good.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Stayed 1 night in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Pool and view of Mt Agung is very pleasing. Staff is very courteous. Sone cleaning issues needed to be resolved. Courtesy shuttle is excellent and accommodating. Car tour of Nusa Penida sights was easy to arrange with front desk.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful pool and rooms are huge a bit out of the way though
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
You can't beat the infinity pool!
To be honest, we chose this hotel for the infinity pool. What we got was much more! The pick-up and drop-off at the harbor made our transfer to/from the hotel seamless. The property grounds are beautiful and well maintained. The staff is very friendly and was able to help us make phone calls and rent motor bikes. The rooms are large and comfortable. Overall the small size of the hotel is perfect so that it isn't overcrowded at the pool or restaurant. Lastly, the breakfast is gigantic and tasty! We stayed for 3 nights and tried to book another night, but unfortunately they were full – we understand why! If I return to Nusa Penida I wouldn't look for any other hotel, it has to be Semabu Hills.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful view and very helpful staff. Great facilities but toilet and shower tiles could be a bit cleaner/ better condition. Breakfast was delicious and lunches and dinner were great too and very prompt.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best views of Bali!
Best views and best pool on the island. After staying in some air bnb places we switched to semabu and loved it. Suites are huge and washrooms are well done. Never ran out of hot water. Call to prayer was a bit loud at 5am but you will hear that from anywhere on the island. Only two things we would note is that the curtains in the bedrooms are lighter in colour so you may wake up earlier with the sun shining in. Also as all of the pool and restaurant are outside there are some fly’s, at times we opted to eat in our rooms. No biggie though. Would stay again.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

PHILIP

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It’s a very run down property with very limited options. In my opinion it’s a 1 star hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
It’s a beautiful location, seriously beautiful. The staff really needs training and supervision. Except for the wonderful young man at breakfast the rest were not at indonesian standard. In the past year I have spent 100+ nights in indonesian hotels. The staff here are not at the very high standards I have come to expect. Wifi. Just be honest and say your wifi doesn’t really exist. It would save a lot of frustration. Food pretty good. Enough selection. I had a griund floor room. Spacious.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jose Miguel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect peaceful retreat
If you want an amazing view, a beautiful room with a lot of space, peaceful our of the beaten path place look no further, this place is fantastic, staff is super friendly and helpful, food is delicious and with a good selection of dishes, they also offer free shuttle to harbor and to Crystal Bay, if you want to arrange a private tour around the island they have all the important spots cover, we highly encourage to do this if you have only few days (we stayed 3 in total) because the popular choice of driving a motobike requires more days as the island is quite big and if you dont know the roads you most certanly will spend a lot of time searching for the places, on top of that i have to say some roads are not for scotters, even after the island it's not anymore a very "secret" place the roads remain more or less the same. To finish ask for Dion if they are fully book for tours, this guy was our outsourcing guide and he was amazing, even local people seem to love him a lot. Really staying in this place was everything we expected from the trip and more.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
On an island not yet up to modern standards this was a pleasing hotel with large room, lovely infinity pool and nice gardens. It is high on a hill overlooking the sea. Value of money
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Han Qin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Cosima

Semabu hills at Nusa Penida
Although the hotel was pretty and had a beautiful view from the pool, the large room was outdated with limited hot water. The food at the restaurant was not good and the location was very isolated
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The pool area was a very nice place to relax and sun bathe. We spent a lot of time there! The rooms are very nice as well. The air-conditioning is very strong which was great to have through Bali's heat. The little restaurant they have has decent food. The one con of this hotel was the bathroom. It smelled like a sewer and there were so many flies in the toiled and shower area which is enclosed together.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Manan, Delhi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect place to stay in Nusa Penida. Do not miss this place. Perfect location, Great staff. Everything is so perfect
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

SteveChoy, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Semabu Hill Hotel is the best hotel in Nusa Penida so far (Told by the local tour guide). The Pool view of Mount Agung is perfect. This place is really good for relaxing and sun bathing. There is only 4 choices of set breakfast, i love the nasi goreng indonesia. although it is not buffet but we love the breakfast there.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Jade

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Sevice and amazing staff
The view from Semabu Hills is amazing. All rooms have ocean views and you look over the ocean to Mt Agung. The staff were extremely helpful and nothing was too much to ask. The rooms are big and spacious, however the rooms weren’t built like other hotels with attention to detail, but this did not affect our stay. Would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

P C

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would love to stay again
More than any other place during our trip, we wished we had spent at least one additional night here; the value was definitely worth the price. Beautiful location, perfect for both sunrise and sunset. Great service, great pool, generous rooms with adequate power outlets and WiFi (if a bit slow). Good dinner at a reasonable price compared to other hotels, and a good breakfast was included. Moped rentals are available on-site and include helmets; just be warned that the backcountry roads are difficult with the deep potholes (sometimes literally half the road is missing due to potholes), so if you are not comfortable driving a moped on that, hire a car / driver instead. Free shuttle is offered from / to the ferry docks and the hotel can help you get public ferry tickets for much cheaper than the typical tourist rates found online. Would definitely stay here again next time we go to Bali / Nusa Penida and we recommend it to anyone.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

Marc

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
not enough staff, not staff at all to take care about the customers at the swimming pool, But nice hotel and good for quality/price

10/10 Excellent

mey, vancouver, bc

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Had such a lovely stay
We really enjoyed this place but some things they could improve on are: the sewage smell. It was horrible, the shower drainage, and some poolside customer service. The shower doesn’t drain so I had to use me feet and make sure the water didn’t collect. And at the pool, guests had to put up these heavy umbrella ourselves. Thank goodness there was another guest to help us. No one came to ask us if we wanted to order drinks or food. That would’ve been nice in the heat. The GOOD of this place: amazing view, great food, and beautiful rooms! I would definitely recommend staying here but I hope for the future, there are some changes.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

JINANS

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel for stay
Stay was very good and comfortable very near to Nusa penida port and therefore convenient
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staff is the most friendliest and kind hearted. They work so hard! The amenities are amazing and couldn’t ask for a better stay in such a beautiful place
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

V, Michigan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
You will enjoy!
Beautiful new hotel - per staff they opened for business late Sept 2017. Loved the infinity pool and view of the ocean and Mt Agung. Staff were superb. Food was delicious! Complimentary breakfast was plentiful. Our only compliant is the flies. There were too many to enjoy a meal in the restaurant so we ordered room service a few times. Hopefully they fix this issue.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Probably the nicest hotel in Penida so far
Nice hotel with nice view of Mount Agung and the ocean. Hotel staffs were lovely. Only thing need to improve dealing with the flies during breakfast time. Room also need a clean up to rid all the small insects/bugs coming in. Other than these all are good.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best of the beat.
Breathtaking, amazing view. Respectful and friendly staff. This hotel is a piece of hevean. Highly recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Nice location but poor design!
Very nice view on each rooms, rooms are big, infinity swim pool, polite staffs. But somethings about the design are very poor, such as air-con are dropping water at the corridors, bathroom is not conveniences, no hangers for wet clothes, so many insects....!
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Mathias Sonne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good - bit mosque
Alt var godt, pånær at man blev vækket af en moské hver nat kl. 0400. Og den larmede adskillige gange i løbet af dagen. Ellers et fint resort.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2022

6/10 Okay

Burak

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Laura

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Es war unglaublich schön dort! Die Zimmer, der Ausblick, der Infinity Pool, der Service, das Frühstück! Alles hat gepasst!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lukas

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Sehr schöne Zimmer mit guter Lage
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

JIN IE

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
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Stayed 1 night in May 2021

8/10 Good

PUI CHUEN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful place and very huge rooms Internet is problematic
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019