Wonderful

We stayed at this beautiful villa near Canggu for 1 month and that was not long enough! The staff were welcoming and extremely friendly. The location was great as it was away from the hustle of Kuta but only a 20 minute drive (with no traffic!). We rented a car for the entire month which we would highly recommend as the villa is in a very remote part of the island.
We stayed at the villa with our 2 boys ages 10 and 12. We did drive to Legian almost every day as they are avid surfers and the beach in Canggu is not the best novice surfing beach. We rented boards from Redz on the main road in Canggu and he was probably the best bet around.
Echo Beach House is an amazing hang out for weekend BBQ dinners and wonderful atmosphere.
The villa is pretty central for exploring different parts of the island. We went to Gitgit waterfalls, Ubud, Medewi, you name it!
A trip to the Denpasar central market with Desak (cook) is an absolute must.
We will definitely return!

Villa Tukad is certainly a very special place. From the moment we arrived we felt completely at home and a huge wave of contentment and relaxation descended upon us.

Situated between two villages and surrounded by rice fields the Villa is in an ideal place to stay if you want to experience real Bali. We loved being able to walk in the countryside and villages watching ordinary people go about their daily lives. However to go anywhere else requires transport. The “20 minute” bike ride to the local Echo beach is not for the faint hearted-we did not attempt it after we had taken the taxi ride there! Taxis though, are easily summoned to the Villa or for longer day trips Budi their recommended driver is excellent.

Everything that has been said about the staff at Villa Tukad is true. They are an absolute delight! We felt well and truly looked after, safe and secure. Nothing was too much trouble for them. The house too did not disappoint. It is so beautiful and so tastefully furnished and the garden is wonderful.


A wonderful and memorable holiday

Villa Tukad is certainly a very special place. From the moment we arrived we felt completely at home and a huge wave of contentment and relaxation descended upon us.

Situated between two villages and surrounded by rice fields the Villa is in an ideal place to stay if you want to experience real Bali. We loved being able to walk in the countryside and villages watching ordinary people go about their daily lives. However to go anywhere else requires transport. The “20 minute” bike ride to the local Echo beach is not for the faint hearted-we did not attempt it after we had taken the taxi ride there! Taxis though, are easily summoned to the Villa or for longer day trips Budi their recommended driver is excellent.

Everything that has been said about the staff at Villa Tukad is true. They are an absolute delight! We felt well and truly looked after, safe and secure. Nothing was too much trouble for them. The house too did not disappoint. It is so beautiful and so tastefully furnished and the garden is wonderful.

Villa Tukad is absolutely idyllic! We had an amazing time there on our honeymoon - the service and accomodation is as brilliant as any top hotel, but it comes with extra privacy.

Desak is an amazing chef and can prepare 3 course meals every night. (And she comes with the price of the villa!) Of course, you can choose the menu that you want, but we found it exciting to let her have some free rein and we got to taste some real Balinese cooking. We thoroughly recommend her Sweet Chilli Prawns & the Ayam Betutu (Balinese Chicken). Desak even taught me the receipes for these two dishes!

The garden is fantastic, with many seating areas dotted around, tall palm trees and beautiful flowers. Sitting at the dining table on the verandah, you look out over the jungley garden, which is lovely. Many of the movements of the staff are unseen: as you eat breakfast on the verandah someone will be cleaning / tidying the bedroom, and as you eat dinner they shut all the mosquito nets and windows etc. The whole set up makes you feel really special. All the staff speak some English and several of them are fluent.

The villa has a driver that they recommend (at an extra cost, but not too expensive) and he is incredibly knowledgeable and a very safe driver. He took us on several day trips to see the island, and knows where the good markets are, and shops, waterfalls, lay bys with monkeys and bats, hot springs, temples and views of rice terraces. We recommend a trip to the Elephant Safari Park too.

We can not recommend Villa Tukad highly enough to you! You will not be disappointed! We had an amazing honeymoon.

My husband and I rented Villa Tukad for three weeks over Christmas and New Year 2008/2009. From the moment we arrived we were taken care of by an excellent, hardworking team of staff who also had the ability to remain discreet at all times despite their attentiveness.
The house is located in a small Balinese village set amoungst paddy fields giving you the opportunity to really experience Bali, and is only ten minutes from Echo beach and not far from the buzzy life and excellent restaurants of Seminyak and Canggu. I was able to practise yoga everyday on the veranda in front of the beautiful lush, tropical garden shared with the most beautiful butterflies I've ever seen - one variety was black with a brilliant turquoise blue belly. Infact we enjoyed exploring the garden and river and often sat under one of the two gazebo's to read and sip tea or stare at the Lotus flowers growing in the pond- heaven.
Every evening just as the day breaks into dusk the garden occupants burst into a wonderfully orchestrated chorus of song before after some minutes calming into a gentle night tempo - completely bewitching.
The cook did the shopping for us and prepared delicious meals of our choice. She even baked a lovely banana cake
at my request on a couple of occasions.
The house is beautiful and kept immaculately clean at all times and the exotic garden well tended. We felt peaceful, safe and content and slept like babies.
We had a wonderful holiday visiting Bali but I can honestly say that the highlight of our stay was Villa Tukad.
Highly recommended.

A must for those who want to stay in a real Balinese village with magical garden and absolute serenity. The villa is tastefully decorated with every small detail attended to. The staff is simply wonderful.

It's such a pleasure waking up every morning listening to nature's symphony from the garden, having greetings from the lovely and friendly staff who take such good care of the villa, playing with the pet dog Dinah and having American breakfast prepared by the maid.

We are spoiled with villa menu, in-villa massage, private pool shaded by trees most of the time, bales where we read and laid and didn't want to rise up again, a real river flowing through the garden and genuine service from Balinese people.

Never feel like a tourist in this villa. Feel like home in my own private Indonesian villa!

Thank you everyone from Villa Tukad!

Lynn and Daniel from Hong Kong

Villa Tukad, is bliss absolute!! We stayed for 2 weeks with our 6 children, and it was so wonderful, I never wanted to return home. Everyone looked after us so beautifully, it was such a treat!! Thankyou so much for the divine experience!! oh, by the way, the photos do not do it justice, it is so much more beautiful!! And the gardens are to die for!!

villa tukad surpassed all expectations - the photos do not do it justice. it is huge and beautiful. the staff were amazing - very polite, helpful and respectful of our privacy.

the pool and garden were glorious. we even had massages on the veranda as our lunch was made for us - we have never felt more like mariah carey or paris hilton.

if you can go, go.