Serving as one of the world's most popular and famous tropical islands, a vacation on the island of Bali brings in most of the tourists that power Indonesia's tourism. When looking into vacationing here, you may become a bit confused on whether or not there are any overwater bungalows on-site. This is because there is a resort, Club Bali Hai, that claims to have invented the first overwater bungalows.
What you'll find however, is that resort is on the island of Moorea, just off Tahiti, in the South Pacific, thousands of kilometers from Indonesia. So even though the resort's name features the word Bali, the resort is not actually located on the island of Bali. Due to very active tides, Bali isn't the right kind of island for rooms on stilts, so it's unlikely that they'll be coming anytime soon. Bali does however, offer a large selection of 5-star beach resorts, but it doesn't have any shallow lagoons. This means that even if Bali did have water villas off the shore, they'd be above the noisy waves going in and out.
The good news is that there is an amazing assortment of water villas near Bali. Aside from a few overwater bungalow resorts in the Caribbean, most of the world's water villas are in the tropics between the South Pacific, and the Maldives, which is just southwest of India.
Im interested in know where the overwater bungalows are located. Do they have any that close to Destin Florida?
Nekitha,
There are some overwater bungalows on a lake in the Disney resort. Aside from those the closest are in Jamaica at Sandals. -Roger
I would love to reserve a week stay in an over the water bungalow including May 16th 2021.
Our daughter ❤ turns 16 and this is her birthday request,..,.,….,.,
Pamela,
We are simply an online guide to overwater bungalows and we don’t do bookings, but we do provide links to the best places to book each resort on the various information pages of the site. Best of luck! -Roger
Hi,
Looking for New Years deals after December 25th for 5-10days. Any suggestions on last min deals??
Please let me know. Looking to book asap
thanks
Yanna,
We are simply an online guide to overwater resorts and we don’t do bookings. We do have booking links for every resort on the site, so booking online is usually your best bet. Best of luck with this. In normal years it would be impossible to get a last-minute deal over Christmas, but this year might be different. I’d check agoda.com as they almost always have the best rates in the Maldives. -Roger
Any suggestions as to a nice place for an extended stay? Preferably on a beach, over water and food inclusive. I have heard a rumour about $30 k per couple for a one year stay…any substance to that? We don’t need a year,, but would certainly consider three to five months. We are retired, used to travel a lot, and have homes in Canada and Mexico. We are now a bit bored in Canada and Mexico is a bit dicey.
Any deals?
David,
I’m not aware of any good deals on overwater bungalows in countries where you can stay for extended periods. The Maldives now has a deal for US$30,000 to stay in a water villa for a whole year, but I believe you can only stay 30 days at a time. It’s a really tough time for anything like this, and hopefully next year it will get better. -Roger