This place is an experience of a lifetime. It's MUCH better than any of the photographs show. The resort offers so many pleasant activities and the ambiance--at one with nature and luxury--is sublime!!! I spent my birthday there and was travelling alone and LOVED the pampering and welcome that the resort gave. I stayed in an Estate room the HOUSE OF FIRE residence, which is very stylish and has all the modern creature comforts to enjoy. Great balconies..back porch with jungle view... stylish entrance that you walk over stones to get to...georgous teak wood floors...and an open air bathtub that at night is just too wonderfull to put into words (it rained one night and with candles lit I spent an hour soaking in the tub to unwind from Jetlag).

THe breakfast food is more like a gourmet meal and a delight to the senses. The staff is WONDERFUL .... sweet and very attentive.

I am planning on going back to BALI in June to surf again but will DEFINATELY stay at least 3 nights at COMO to enjoy this special, special place.

Treat yourself...go to Begawan. You WONT be disapointed with anything.

What a beautiful resort Como Shambhala is ! We stayed for 4 nights in Umabono Residence and rate it as our favourite property in Bali (and this was our 6th visit, having stayed in many high-end properties across those visits). The grounds are beautiful - spending a leisurely morning reading in a bale next to the spring-fed rock pools down by the river iswell-worth the steep descent (and corresponding steep ascent afterwards!). Food was beautifully prepared - breakfast a highlight with plenty of interesting choices each day. Service was the best we've experienced - the rooms being tended to several times a day - even on the day of departure - a lovely touch which says to the guest that 'you matter' right up to the very moment of leaving. We'l definitely be back !

Stayed in a spa villa room on this property and found it to be perhaps the best-designed, most purely delightful hotel room I've ever booked - topping previous all-time highs at Bali properties including Amankila and the Four Seasons Sayan.

The distinctive approach to cuisine -- one step short of austere -- adds to the uniqueness of the experience.

The gym is a tiny disappointment in terms of equipment, but a stroll down and back up from the river makes a great substitute for the usual cardio workout.

Ive been to the Begawan every year for seven years and while the service has gone downhill from my initial experience it is still so far superior to anything else out there --and I've stayed at the Aman and the Four Seasons-I think the reviewer before is not really accurate. The physical grounds are amazing and the orig rooms are still some of the best rooms you are going to find in Bali.