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Sungi Swimming Pool, adopting the name from the flow of the meandering Sungi River that borders its expansive terraced gardens, is beautifully attached to this villa. This pool of 20 x 8 metre, is aesthetically carved into the hillside. surrounded by astonishing tropical nature and blessed with beautiful views. The Arsana has been designed for the 21st century. Its sleek, modern structures, ironwood shingle roofs, and an abundance of folding glass walls, reflect the ambience of the location and the purity of the natural surroundings. Yet it exhibits the stunning Balinese architecture using indigenous stones, native wood finishes and refined craft-made fabrics. Being concerned to the modern lifestyle, this villa is perfectly suit everyone’s needs of complete facilities, good service and valuable privacy. The trend of ‘Destination’ villas has been influencing The Arsana to design and provide many features and amenities, complemented by perfect service, which aimed to make sure that the guests feel no need to go out for top quality dining and entertainment.
Entrance
The first impression is a keyword for TheArsana, thus an entrance is carefully designed to give warmth and exotic atmosphere throughout the villa. A spacious car park with a security post and a Balinese gateway heralded by a pair of welcome statues is ready to provide a warm welcome to every guest. Next, you would feel an experience of being in another world. Be ready for the amazing view of landscape, an avenue of feathery palms leads to a serene lotus pond, guarded by two Ganesha statues. From here a dramatic entrance, styled after a traditional Balinese Wantilan or meeting pavilion, brings guests into the villa down a wide flight of Batu Yogya creamy-white stone steps flanked by twin fountains and Serai stone walls.
The Arsana Estate Main Building
The social hub of The Arsana is the main building, this symmetrical U-shaped edifice, presides over the gardens and swimming pool, and incorporates a grand entrance hall with a polished elegant black terrazzo floor. There are two wings, which one of it comprises a fan-cooled living area, a bar and an air-conditioned TV room. Another wing is providing the guest a fan-cooled dining room, an open-plan kitchen, and an air-conditioned billiard room. The fan-cooled spaces feature glass walls that can be opened up completely to create a truly tropical open-living experience or an alfresco dining experience. What emphasizing the theme in each room of The Arsana’s interior design is the bold colour, which really is being the identity as well as hallmark of this Bali villa.
Living Room
The beautiful swimming pool of The Arsana can be enjoyed from this large living space. Completed to that is the folding glass doors which leads the guest onto a tropical sunny terrace. The room features a teakwood floor and is furnished with a huge, deeply cushioned red sofa, an arching chrome standard lamp and a coffee table.
Bar
Next to the living room, you would find the semi-circular black terrazzo bar which is equipped with six red bar stools, red lamps and music speakers. Spending the time with your partner or family here, simply sitting and talking, would be a great moment that you would not be able to forget. Your parties or any other events would be also unforgettable for your every guest if it is celebrated here.
TV Room
The guest of The Arsana is provided an air-conditioned TV room located to one side of the bar. It is equipped with a 39-inch, LCD, flat screen, satellite TV, together with a DVD player and a quality sound system with surround sound speakers positioned on the ceiling. Its colour of olive green ensures you to feel cozy. The room is furnished with a large sofa complemented by corner units and ottomans, bean bags, floor rugs, shelves of books, storage space and paintings by a local artist. It is considered to be a part of The Arsana’s attention on guests’ convenience during their stay.
Dining Room
The royal blue large dining room is a mirror version of the living room, situated on the opposite side of the open-air terrace. The room is thoughtfully furnished with an impressive glass-topped dining table that seats twelve people in comfortable cushioned dining chairs. Like the living room, it boasts glass walls on three sides, which fold open onto the terrace enables the guest to enjoy the stunning view of this Bali villa’s surrounding.
Kitchen
The stylist and hygienic open-plan kitchen of The Arsana is provided in white terrazzo and stainless steel. Fully equipped, it features wall units in a chic shade of French navy and a four-burner hob. Over the worktop there hangs such pendulous woven-aluminum lanterns, which doubles as an eating area due to the provision of eight white ‘satellite dish’ stools. The Arsana’s staff would prepare the special delicious dishes in the kitchen, which a wet kitchen is situated behind it.
Billiard Room
Next to the kitchen is the air-conditioned billiard room. The blue decor is a certain value that adds the aesthetic of this special room. A billiard table, a chess set, a large mirror, two big blue armchairs and some bar stools positioned next to a bar-shelf, where guests can sit and rest their drinks while watching their opponents potting the balls are provided. In addition, you can find a functional washroom situated to one side.
Breakfast Pergola
Enjoy the open-air breakfast on a space with a pergola completed with a terracotta tiled floor in The Arsana. It is stunningly furnished with a wood and chrome table and matching chairs and is decorated with beautiful potted orchids.
Terrace
Right between the living room and the dining room, The Arsana villa provides you an open-air terrace which promises satisfaction to the guest, in particular its atmosphere of exotic sunny moment. It is also situated only several metres above the pool. Guests can relax here on rattan-look, cushioned chairs. The terrace is bordered at the front by a shallow reflective pond with an infinity edge that appears to overflow into the jungle. In actual fact, the gin-clear water flows over the edge into a water cascade that, in turn, flows into the swimming pool below.
Bedrooms
It is thoughtfully designed that two of the guest bedrooms are furnished with queen-size beds, one is furnished with twin beds and a desk, and the master bedroom presents a king-size bed. All is aimed to give the guest a best time to relax. Each air-conditioned bedroom is housed within a self-contained pavilion, secluded and private, with a soaring roof and the additional provision of a ceiling fan. Each room could enjoy plenty of light, and each boasts its own verandah at the front, affording exotic views of The Arsana’s exotic garden. The four bedrooms feature a warm teakwood floor, sliding glass doors at the front, and windows on two sides, making the most of the spectacular views; when the doors are opened the interior becomes at one with nature. Furnishings include built-in beds, a sofa or reclining armchair and bedside lamps.
A quite large dressing area is located in between the sleeping area and the bathroom of each pavilion. The special space is completed with twin ceramic washbasins, large wall mirrors, and plenty of storage and hanging space. Each of the cream terrazzo bathrooms is bordered by a bulrush pond, and each features a sunken soaking tub, a toilet within its own frosted glass cubicle, and a spacious, glass shower cubicle. Glass doors alongside the tubs, toilets and showers, fold open to create an open-air experience. Guests’ privacy is protected by the presence of the peaceful Buddha statues, each one resting in front of the high walls that girdle each pond. Each bedroom follows a bold colour theme – blue, green, yellow or red – with coordinating cushions, lampshades, upholstery, accessories and attractive local artwork. Each verandah is furnished with a pair of comfortable cushioned armchairs.
Master Suite
The master suite is yellow themed. It features an air-conditioned TV room with a wall-mounted, 29-inch screen satellite TV, DVD player and quality sound system, a bedroom, dressing area and bathroom, and an open-air relaxation bale with a huge cushioned daybed. In accessing this master suite, it is by a short flight of black polished steady concrete steps. While the bale is a great space to do your meditation or relaxation with a book or cocktail, the exotic garden and sunset would always ready to be enjoyed from the very spot.
Swimming Pool, Pool Bar, Massage Rooms, Massage Bale
By descending one pair of external stairways located on either side, the guest would reach the swimming pool. The 20 x 8 metre swimming pool features two infinity edges and boasts an ironwood deck that extends the length of the pool and almost appears to float upon the surface of the water. An additional smaller deck is situated on the other side. Both are furnished with sunbeds and umbrellas, which would complete the perfection of your swimming day. There is also an outdoor pool-shower especially provided for you. The water cascade from the upper terrace is a striking feature; flanked by frangipani trees it flows into a shallow children’s pool at one end of the main pool. Good quality of slate stones is lining the pool that sparkles with streaks of gold. Beside, there is a white Palimanan stone pool bar with a glass and teakwood roof, ceiling fans, bar stools, a table and built-in cushioned daybeds for lounging and enjoying barbeques, tapas and drinks from the bar. A washroom is located to one side to facilitate you a sanitation space. There are two massage rooms are located beside the pool in where you can release the exhaust after activities, and at the far end of the pool is a riverside bale, which is also a perfect spot to have massage.
Party Facilities
Any special occasion, such as weddings, reunion celebrations, barbeques would be extra-ordinarily celebrated on the exotic open space garden of The Arsana, combined with the grandiose of the property and its extensive facilities. Also it makes The Arsana the ideal tropical setting for parties, and other functions. The modern kitchen provides the staff with the equipment and facilities to cater for a wide variety of events and a large number of guests. Special events can also be coordinated by professional outside caterers who have the world-class expertise to prepare a sumptuous feast at the villa, in addition to the coordination of decorations, flowers, lighting, sound systems and entertainment. Have you dreamt about barbeque party at the poolside during sunset? We can realize it perfectly in The Arsana. The poolside bar pavilion can be set up as an alfresco dining pavilion, guests can spill out onto the pool deck, and the elevated terrace above the pool then see the most fantastic Balinese dance performance as once it is utilised as a stage The entrance hall and bar is perfect for a cocktail reception, and the garden is large enough to comfortably accommodate hundreds of guests.
Location
This Bali exotic villa, The Arsana is hidden away in the traditional, rural village of Kaba Kaba, in Bali’s Tabanan regency. Nirwana Golf Course – designed by Greg Norman and renowned as one of the best golf courses in Asia – is only a ten-minute drive. The villa is fifty minutes’ drive from the international airport, and convenient for all of the island’s main tourist attractions, including the nearby Tanah Lot, Bali’s most dramatic and venerated sea temple.
The Arsana Estate Season Dates :
Low Season :
. January 11, 2008 - June 30, 2008
. September 16, 2008 - December 19, 2008
. Minimum stay: 2 nights
High Season :
. July 01, 2008 - July 31, 2008
. September 01, 2008 - September 15, 2008
. Minimum Stay: 5 nights
Peak Season :
. August 01, 2008 - August 31, 2008
. December 20, 2008 - January 10, 2009
. Minimum stay: 7 nights
*Villa rates are subject to an additional 5% service charge and 10% government tax
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