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Both properties reward travelers who come to Bali specifically for the south, for the Bukit Peninsula's drama and dryness — a different sensibility entirely from the rice-terrace romanticism that dominates the island's interior.\n\nThat interior is Ubud, and the concentration of serious properties there is remarkable. Amandari, which opened in 1989 and remains among the earliest examples of the Balinese compound as luxury typology, established a grammar of alang-alang thatch, split gates, and garden walls that subsequent properties have spent decades either refining or departing from. Kerry Hill's Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — built over the Ayung River gorge, its elliptical reception space arriving before the villas below — is a more structurally theatrical proposition. Capella Ubud, conceived by Bill Bensley as a colonial-era jungle camp complete with theatrical storytelling and oversized campaign furniture under canvas, arrives from a different direction entirely: camp as architectural stance, nostalgia as design material. Mandapa, the Ritz-Carlton Reserve set along the Ayung, and COMO Shambhala Estate both work the wellness register — though COMO's approach is comparatively austere, grounded in serious movement and nutrition programming rather than ambient luxury.\n\nThe coast offers its own gradations. Jimbaran Bay hosts both the Four Seasons, whose thatched bale villas remain a benchmark for the traditional-luxury synthesis, and Raffles Bali, whose clifftop infinity pool and 16-villa seclusion pitch it firmly toward those who want to see the ocean without being at sea level. Seminyak — louder, more trafficked — is where The Legian and the Oberoi hold their ground against a neighborhood that has grown considerably less quiet around them, while Alila Seminyak and W Bali serve a traveler with less patience for ceremony. Canggu's entries, including COMO Uma Canggu and Desa Hay, skew younger and less formal, tracking the neighborhood's own transformation from rice fields to café district.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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Villa pavilions step down the hillside in a linear sequence, their dark-stained timber louvred screens and volcanic paras stone walls absorbing rather than imposing on the surrounding green. Pointed metal roof forms punctuate the ridge in a contemporary riff on traditional Balinese thatched meru profiles, while full-height frameless glazing dissolves the boundary between sleeping quarters and the paddies that extend to the horizon.\n\nInside, the material palette runs to warm teak strip ceilings, polished grey volcanic stone floors, and verde marble washbasins — textures that feel locally grounded without resorting to pastiche. Ikat-weave bed runners in saffron and crimson introduce Balinese textile culture as the single decorative gesture against otherwise restrained linen and timber surfaces. The restaurant's curved timber-lined ceiling and floor-to-ceiling glazing give the room the atmosphere of a pavilion suspended between terrace and canopy, furnished with low-backed teak chairs and rattan pendants. 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The beach-level restaurant structure, open on three sides beneath a slatted timber ceiling, channels the breeze across weathered hardwood deck boards and teak dining chairs cushioned in teal — a deliberate contrast to the muted sand-and-espresso tones that govern the rest of the property. 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The landscaping, dense with elephant ear, ornamental grasses, torch ginger, and mature palms, does the heaviest design work here, creating a sense of remove from the surf-town energy just beyond the garden walls.\n\nThe interiors carry the same considered restraint. Bedroom pavilions are built on a steep Joglo-inspired pitch, their structural rafters lined in woven bamboo matting that absorbs both sound and afternoon heat, while floor-to-ceiling glass walls dissolve the boundary between room and garden entirely. Warm teak and reclaimed timber furnishings — platform beds, slab-top writing desks, open-shelf joinery finished in natural oil — keep the palette grounded and tactile against polished concrete floors. The open-sided restaurant takes its cue from a traditional Balinese bale, timber columns supporting an exposed truss ceiling hung with woven rattan pendants and cascading potted ferns, the bar counter clad in a herringbone-pattern dark tile that provides the one note of graphic contrast in an otherwise organic material story.","snippet":"A garden-immersed Canggu compound with Joglo pavilions, a serpentine pool, and a traditional bale restaurant.","bestFor":"Travelers seeking tropical retreat from Canggu's surf scene","vibe":"Serene-tropical · material-focused","highlights":["Joglo-inspired pavilions with woven bamboo interior matting","Sinuous pool curves through dense coconut and paddy gardens","Open-sided restaurant modeled on traditional Balinese bale structure"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$262","pricePerNightExclTax":"$262","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul6z401sh15zvyeyw7yf81713362365610_3d410e83-b89d-405b-8767-1342c7e74fe4.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Desa Hay Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Desa Hay Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Desa Hay Canggu captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ula8b02a715zv7muyykmn1713362367133_1269f439-9df3-4bcd-9028-9b809b03f2a7.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Desa Hay Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Desa Hay Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Desa Hay Canggu, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uld5m02s415zv0hrighd61713362367914_00f5ecd8-7750-46a1-bf2a-9ff2420f2403.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Desa Hay Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Desa Hay Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Desa Hay Canggu — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulg0p039x15zv3q74u9r61713362368607_0b40bf38-e2cd-411d-ae37-125028b29f04.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Desa Hay Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Desa Hay Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Desa Hay Canggu, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulj0n03rn15zv3c3wjcr61713362369332_2cad391d-e1fb-480c-b95d-54cb0c08ea7a.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Desa Hay Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Desa Hay Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Desa Hay Canggu — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Ritz-Carlton, Bali","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/the-ritz-carlton-bali","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Nusa Dua • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Nusa Dua","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"Perched on a clifftop above the Indian Ocean in Nusa Dua, where the land drops sharply toward the surf, the design brief for The Ritz-Carlton Bali asked a pointed question: how do you build a resort that references Balinese architectural tradition without lapsing into pastiche? The answer, spread across 68 pool villas and suites set within lushly planted grounds, lies in structural sincerity. The porte-cochère announces the approach clearly — a broad, hipped roof with a finial apex carried on paired stone columns, the silhouette drawn directly from traditional Balinese pavilion forms but rendered at resort scale without apology.\n\nThe interiors calibrate a similar tension, moving between two registers depending on the accommodation type. In the hotel rooms, dark-stained timber four-poster frames against white-plastered walls give way to sliding glass panels and private plunge pools surrounded by tropical planting — heliconia and banana leaf pressing close enough to feel genuinely immersive. The villa category goes further still, with soaring exposed timber roof trusses, woven ceiling panels, and mosaic-topped side tables that reference local craft traditions. 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COMO Hotels worked with local design sensibilities to produce something that feels neither imported nor imitative: the alang-alang thatched roofs and deep timber columns of the main restaurant pavilion are authentically regional in structure, while the interiors apply a contemporary restraint that keeps the whole from tipping into pastiche.\n\nThe 46 rooms and villas carry that discipline through consistently. Checkerboard-patterned cement tile floors in muted grey and white anchor each space with quiet geometry, while bleached timber four-poster beds draped in white voile muslin work in deliberate counterpoint to the woven bamboo ceilings overhead. Rattan loungers and teak bench seats, stripped of ornament, give the rooms an atmosphere closer to a considered private residence than to conventional resort design. The main pool cuts a long reflective lane through dense plantings of frangipani, banana palms, and tropical broadleaf — the garden managing its exuberance with just enough restraint. 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The reception pavilion's checkerboard floor inlaid with terracotta-toned stone bands anchors the visual drama, while the gardens beyond are laid out with the clipped formality of plumeria allées and reflecting pools edged in dark volcanic paras stone — the black split-gate candi bentar at the garden boundary a genuine gesture toward Balinese sacred architecture rather than resort pastiche.\n\nGuest pavilions shelter under steeply pitched alang-alang and timber roofs, the interiors furnished with white mosquito-canopied four-poster beds on wide-plank hardwood floors, geometric kilim runners, and a mix of brass task lighting and faceted crystal pendants that keeps the rooms from tipping into either pure tropicalia or studied European eclecticism. 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Others shift toward a more international luxury idiom: tufted velvet ottomans in teal, gilded chandeliers dripping above woven-grass ceilings, etched mirror panels behind the headboard. 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Architect Cheong Yew Kuan and interior designer Koichiro Ikebuchi shaped the 25-villa property — opened in 2005 — around the contours of the hillside, dispersing thatched-roof pavilions through eight hectares of tropical garden rather than imposing any unified formal plan. The carved Javanese joglo structures visible in the images are antique pieces, some centuries old, transplanted to the site and integrated into gathering spaces where dense teak fretwork screens frame views through to the jungle beyond.\n\nThe guest villas draw on the same vernacular — polished ironwood floors, woven bamboo ceiling panels, open-sided verandahs suspended above the canopy — while keeping furnishings deliberately spare: low timber daybed frames, white linen canopy beds, and batik-trimmed bedding that registers as restraint rather than austerity. The curved lap pool at the property's wellness centre, its white-tiled basin catching morning mist off the valley, signals a different architectural register entirely — more modernist in plan, its cantilevered roof supported on cylindrical columns that step cleanly away from the surrounding organic abundance. 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The Four Seasons Bali at Jimbaran Bay, which opened in 1993 to designs by Balinese architect Hendra Hadiprana, treats the traditional meru tower and alang-alang thatched pavilion not as decorative gestures but as the structural grammar of the entire property. From the aerial, the scale of the ambition is immediately legible — each villa a discrete compound disappearing into the tropical canopy, the whole arranged so that the beachfront infinity pool and its open-sided restaurant pavilion anchor a shoreline otherwise given over entirely to white sand and breaking surf.\n\nInside the villas, the vocabulary is consistent and precise: steeply pitched joglo-style ceilings lined with woven bamboo matting, carved grey paras stone panels set into whitewashed walls, wide-plank teak floors, and four-poster beds draped in white voile that catches the coastal breeze through sliding timber doors. The open-air dining pavilion shown in the images deploys woven rattan pendant lights and split-bamboo ceiling ribs in a way that feels entirely continuous with the surrounding architecture rather than layered on top of it. 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The structures sit on raised timber platforms, their dark pointed canopies visible at dusk as warm pools of lamplight punctuating the deep green canopy, the whole ensemble closer to a nineteenth-century expedition base than anything the luxury hotel industry had attempted before in Bali.\n\nInside, Bensley's interiors push the theatrical register as far as it will go without tipping into pastiche. Walls lined in deep crimson ikat fabric, ceilings upholstered in batik-printed textile, carved Balinese doors in gilt and lacquered red flanking four-poster beds draped in grey silk — each tent assembled as a private cabinet of curiosities, the furniture mixing French colonial rattan with antique Javanese woodwork and embroidered Uzbek suzani cushions. The pool deck's bar pavilion carries an elaborate engraved metal canopy above teak decking, its bar stools and bentwood chairs arranged against chevron-tiled pool edges that glow jade-green after dark. 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Muller arranged the 30 suites as a series of individual thatched pavilions, each enclosed within its own stone-walled compound and connected by the kind of moss-edged brick pathways, carved paras stone lanterns, and planting that recall a working Balinese desa rather than a resort layout. 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The open-sided restaurant, framed in timber and alang-alang, extends over the valley on one edge while the infinity pool — its thatched bale floating over dark water — dissolves into the tree canopy of the Ayung gorge beyond.","snippet":"A 1989 Peter Muller design in Ubud arranged as a Balinese village with stone-walled pavilions and traditional spatial logic.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of cultural design","vibe":"Vernacular-refined · secluded","highlights":["1989 Peter Muller design following Balinese spatial principles","30 stone-walled pavilions arranged as a traditional desa village","Circular suites with alang-alang thatch and private garden compounds"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$939","pricePerNightExclTax":"$939","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyhw703ol15u7fahttgv81713349110333_34c4aab4-659e-4bd3-b986-469d4c43c04a.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Amandari — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Amandari · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Amandari captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyns404qj15u7yknmak1q1713349111404_df9c3a9a-0d29-4da3-a192-9406ae9a664d.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Amandari — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Amandari · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Amandari, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tythk05sh15u788wlzrq11713349111986_2b89d575-b4e4-4ff0-a021-55ff6b2dafb0.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Amandari — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Amandari · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Amandari — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyzd306uf15u78houwv191713349112590_bfd25018-fe36-4729-b1c1-3e18383fd706.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Amandari — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Amandari · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Amandari, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz55e07wf15u7t2l6kfmg1713349113397_2da40a7a-cdca-405b-8da4-e38db7a562ff.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Amandari — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Amandari · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Amandari — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Mandapa, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/mandapa-a-ritz-carlton-reserve","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Ubud • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Ubud","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"Carved into a hillside above the Ayung River valley on the outskirts of Ubud, where terraced rice paddies step down toward dense jungle and the air carries the particular quality of altitude and moisture that defines Bali's interior, Mandapa, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve opened in 2015 across a 16-hectare site designed to evoke a traditional Balinese village compound. The architecture, shaped around the concept of a sacred riverside sanctuary, draws on the vernacular vocabulary of thatched alang-alang roofs, deep timber eaves, and carved stone shrines distributed across the grounds as functional spiritual markers rather than decorative gesture. Sixty rooms and villas are arranged in low clusters that defer to the landscape, the massing deliberately fragmented to preserve sight lines across the paddies visible in the exterior dusk image.\n\nThe interiors establish a material language of dark-stained teak wall panelling, honed limestone flooring, and woven rattan ceiling insets — a palette warm enough to feel residential without borrowing too heavily from the Aman-adjacent idiom that dominates this altitude. Pendant lanterns in blown glass hang above beds dressed with ikat runners, hand-carved Balinese sculpture grounds the suites in local craft tradition, and freestanding soaking tubs in dark composite stone address the open-plan bath areas with quiet confidence. 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Chan of SCDA as a study in disciplined restraint against a landscape that could easily overwhelm it. Chan arranged the property's 48 villas — each with its own private pool — in a low-slung linear formation that tracks the shoreline, their dark-framed pavilion roofs and pale limestone floors maintaining a horizontal discipline that keeps the Indian Ocean perpetually in frame rather than treating it as a backdrop.\n\nThe interiors carry the same considered economy: ebonised timber structural columns, canopy bed frames in blackened wood set against softly upholstered linen headboards, and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass panels that dissolve the boundary between bedroom and terrace. Woven sisal rugs, cylindrical stone side tables, and low-profile lounge chairs upholstered in warm grey anchor the rooms without competing with the tropical light flooding through them. 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Tuttle, the Paris-based American designer responsible for much of the early Aman vocabulary, answered the near-vertical terrain by cascading a series of thatched-roof pavilions down the hillside in tiers, each stepping lower toward a triple-level infinity pool that dissolves, on clear mornings, into an unbroken horizon of turquoise water. The massing borrows the alang-alang thatch and carved timber column capitals of traditional Balinese architecture without attempting literal reproduction — instead distilling vernacular form into something more elemental and geometrically precise.\n\nInside the suites, the language holds. Hand-carved teak columns with lotus-capital detailing support steeply pitched alang-alang ceilings, while pale polished stone floors and cream-linen built-in daybeds absorb afternoon light filtering through louvered timber panels. The dining pavilion, open on all sides to the hillside and sea, anchors a mature tree within a massive carved stone urn at its center — flanked by cane-and-teak chairs and dark lacquered table surfaces, lit at dusk by brass column torches against the woven bamboo ceiling above. 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The architecture deploys the Balinese joglo vocabulary — steeply pitched alang-alang and slate-tiled roofs, deep overhanging eaves, open-sided pavilion structures — but tempers it with a crisp contemporary restraint that keeps the compound from tipping into pastiche. Individual villa clusters step down the hillside with private plunge pools cantilevered toward the water, the rough-cut coral stone walls binding the built environment to the volcanic geology beneath.\n\nInside, the interiors work a considered tension between tropical materiality and refined comfort. Dark-stained hardwood floors ground each villa, the ceilings rising to exposed teak roof structures lined with woven rattan panels that absorb the afternoon heat as much as the light. Rattan armchairs with linen cushions, lacquered drum tables, and botanical-motif wallcoverings in terracotta and bronze bring warmth without weight. The bar pavilion, open to a canopy view across the jungle, pairs a pale limestone counter and backlit timber shelving with the same dark wood and woven-ceiling language found throughout the property — a consistency that gives Raffles Bali the atmosphere of a private hillside estate rather than a branded resort. 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Completed in 2006 and designed by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel — the Milan studio responsible for all Bulgari hotel properties — the resort distributes 59 villas and suites across a dramatically terraced clifftop site, each pavilion oriented to hold the ocean horizon. The thatched alang-alang roofs, dark ironwood timber columns, and volcanic paras stone walls draw directly from Balinese vernacular architecture, but the proportions have been tightened and the palette pushed toward the austere end of tropical luxury.\n\nInside the villas, deep-stained hardwood floors run beneath soaring woven-bamboo ceilings, the beds dressed with ikat textiles in magenta and indigo that carry the room's only concentrated colour against walls panelled in near-black timber. The cliff-edge infinity pool extends as a sheet of turquoise toward frangipani trees and open sky, its teak deck lined with cream-cushioned sunbeds that keep the eye moving outward rather than inward. The Ju-Ma-Na restaurant at dusk — two dark timber pavilions flanking a central water channel, white-clothed tables stepping down toward a stone-carved backdrop — has the ceremonial quality of a temple compound repurposed with remarkable restraint.","snippet":"Clifftop villas carved into Uluwatu limestone with Antonio Citterio interiors and ocean-facing infinity pools.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts seeking clifftop seclusion","vibe":"Austere-tropical · dramatic","highlights":["59 villas terraced 150 metres above the Indian Ocean","Interiors by Antonio Citterio with ikat textiles and dark timber","Infinity pool extends toward frangipani trees and open horizon"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$1,282","pricePerNightExclTax":"$1,282","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyhxu03ox15u7sv8abeml1713350072501_8f797472-f293-4774-a5ac-8a96d1307aa4.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Bulgari Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Bulgari Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Bulgari Resort, Bali captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyntm04qv15u757wigbkw1713350073173_3c46b222-9955-473c-b1df-1f12f2998ef8.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Bulgari Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Bulgari Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Bulgari Resort, Bali, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tytk905st15u76hp6peus1713350073745_5b334ef0-ad10-48c6-a379-9a295a9f8e06.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Bulgari Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Bulgari Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Bulgari Resort, Bali — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyzeq06ur15u799i0zwsp1713350074327_8975a200-35fb-4ef3-804d-232ed5f07a81.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Bulgari Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Bulgari Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Bulgari Resort, Bali, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz56u07wp15u77lyjwn091713350074828_e461a7c0-9777-410a-be5d-3c600066910c.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Bulgari Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Bulgari Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Bulgari Resort, Bali — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"COMO Uma Canggu","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/como-uma-canggu","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Canggu • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Canggu","designSummary":"Canggu's surf-village identity — part rice-field bohemia, part creative expat enclave — made it an unlikely address for a COMO property when COMO Uma Canggu opened in 2016, and the design brief had to hold both registers without losing either. Architect Grounds Kent and interior designer Koichiro Ikebuchi navigated that tension by stacking a low-rise concrete and dark-timber block along the Indian Ocean shoreline, its tiered balconies planted with dense trailing greenery that softens what might otherwise read as resort formalism. The pool — a long, kidney-curved body of water pressed directly against the ground-floor rooms — dissolves the boundary between accommodation wing and garden in a way that owes more to the compound villas of Seminyak's earlier generation than to conventional hotel planning.\n\nInside the 119 rooms and villas, the palette runs to cream travertine floors, pale oak bed platforms, and deep navy diamond-quilted headboards that pull the colour of the sea indoors. Sliding glass walls open entire room faces onto private terraces or plunge pools framed by timber slatted screens. The beach club, visible in the images as an open-sided pavilion of white-painted steel and woven bamboo panels with characteristic Balinese black-and-white poleng check columns, leans harder into the Canggu vernacular — rattan lounge chairs, grey linen day beds, vivid ikat cushions — giving the property two distinct moods that coexist without contradiction.","snippet":"A low-rise Canggu resort where the pool dissolves into the garden and private terraces frame the Indian Ocean.","bestFor":"Surfers and creative travelers in Bali","vibe":"Coastal-bohemian · understated","highlights":["Kidney-curved pool merges rooms directly into garden","Beach club with rattan lounges and ikat cushions","Private terraces with timber-slatted screens in every room"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$235","pricePerNightExclTax":"$235","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujixy046315ym08aq1oym1713360527189_e88841e2-9bd1-4f67-bd8a-0697f7cc8451.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"COMO Uma Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · COMO Uma Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of COMO Uma Canggu captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujopt057v15ym8pz760a71713360527858_e273cbc6-8723-4c08-8290-8e020185a59b.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"COMO Uma Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · COMO Uma Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at COMO Uma Canggu, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujuok069l15ym6osetz9p1713360525739_0e3d4382-d563-459e-a8c6-37276117b7e0.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"COMO Uma Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · COMO Uma Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at COMO Uma Canggu — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk0gz07bb15ymoje2ud2g1713360528432_eb9e50d6-d16a-40a4-987d-210ea73e1c3d.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"COMO Uma Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · COMO Uma Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at COMO Uma Canggu, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk6eh08d315ymgmrzxx2d1713360529041_1824cc00-69db-4e7a-802d-8bf32acb518e.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"COMO Uma Canggu — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · COMO Uma Canggu · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at COMO Uma Canggu — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hidden Hills Villas","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/hidden-hills-villas","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Uluwatu • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Uluwatu","loyaltyProgram":"Hilton Honors™","designSummary":"Scattered across a limestone ridge on Bali's Bukit Peninsula, where the land rises sharply before the cliffs drop toward the Indian Ocean, Hidden Hills Villas arranges its pavilions in the manner of a Balinese hillside village — each structure claiming its own terrace, its own pool, its own sightline through the jungle canopy to the sea beyond. The aerial view confirms what the concept promises: traditional alang-alang and dark timber rooflines dispersed among dense tropical planting, the compound feeling discovered rather than constructed.\n\nInside the villas, the approach balances vernacular warmth against a cleaner contemporary sensibility. Dark ironwood floors run beneath canopied four-poster beds dressed in white linen, their gossamer curtains caught in the cross-breeze that moves through fully retractable timber-framed doors. One bedroom carries an ochre-washed ceiling and bold Balinese painting above the headboard, grounding the space in island craft without tipping into pastiche; another strips the palette back entirely to white, with a teak butterfly chair as the sole accent. The communal areas shift register toward something more polished — the Hidden Gem bar and restaurant features tactile white-stacked limestone cladding, woven-rattan bar stools on teak frames, and a louvred ceiling that mediates between interior and open air. At dusk, the infinity pool terrace, strung with warm filament lights and furnished in blush-cushioned wicker, draws the two halves of the property together in a register that is entirely, self-assuredly Uluwatu.","snippet":"Scattered villas on Bali's Bukit Peninsula with private pools, timber interiors, and ocean views through jungle canopy.","bestFor":"Couples and small groups seeking Uluwatu seclusion","vibe":"Tropical-contemporary · secluded","highlights":["Private pools and terraces on each villa","Dark timber interiors with retractable doors opening to jungle","Infinity pool terrace overlooking the Indian Ocean"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$302","pricePerNightExclTax":"$302","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uji8d041f15ym71f2558k1713360777643_5d6f704a-82fd-4aad-bb4d-73b0c5c5f68e.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hidden Hills Villas — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hidden Hills Villas · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hidden Hills Villas captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujo0s053715ymaas125su1713360778341_fbd0a377-460c-48cb-9fb5-591211d8c05c.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hidden Hills Villas — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hidden Hills Villas · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hidden Hills Villas, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujtyr064z15ymc8ahvi3w1713360777038_23fcf2b8-5e44-4545-a929-1bca3ba94135.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hidden Hills Villas — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hidden Hills Villas · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hidden Hills Villas — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujzr9076n15ym4t8u76xk1713360779038_50281e8e-3fe6-4fcf-9bfe-5c1716e40ffe.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hidden Hills Villas — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hidden Hills Villas · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hidden Hills Villas, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk5ou088d15ymbvkyium61713360779711_cf82b5bb-5ee6-4b39-9a0a-6ae510399faf.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hidden Hills Villas — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hidden Hills Villas · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hidden Hills Villas — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/jimbaran-puri-a-belmond-hotel","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Jimbaran Bay • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Jimbaran Bay","designSummary":"Strung along Jimbaran Bay's western shore, where a sweep of white sand meets the calm waters of the Indian Ocean, a collection of thatched bungalows set within ten acres of tropical garden established one of Bali's earliest templates for resort design. Jimbaran Puri, now part of the Belmond portfolio, was conceived by California-based designer Peter Muller in the early 1990s as a conscious rejection of the monolithic hotel block — low-slung alang-alang thatched pavilions dispersed across manicured lawns planted with coconut palms and frangipani, each structure oriented to preserve sightlines across the grounds toward the sea. The 41 one- and two-storey bungalows draw on the vernacular architecture of traditional Balinese compounds, their whitewashed masonry walls and steeply pitched roofs recalling the domestic scale of a Balinese village rather than international resort convention.\n\nInside, the rooms carry polished travertine floors, carved dark-timber bed platforms, and four-poster canopied beds draped in white cotton, the exposed alang-alang ceilings rising dramatically above to reveal their full structural geometry. Ikat-patterned textiles and carved headboard panels in the Balinese tradition give the interiors a specific cultural grounding that avoids generic tropical decoration. The beachfront restaurant, a soaring open-sided structure of lashed bamboo columns and rattan pendant lamps, frames the bay at dusk through its entirely open perimeter — a room that is essentially a sheltered extension of the beach itself, with teak and rattan armchairs arranged around candlelit tables on a stone-flagged floor.","snippet":"Peter Muller's 1990s resort template: thatched bungalows and a bamboo restaurant overlooking Jimbaran Bay.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts seeking early-1990s resort design","vibe":"Vernacular-grounded · serene","highlights":["Peter Muller-designed thatched bungalows across ten acres","Whitewashed masonry and alang-alang roofs inspired by Balinese compounds","Open-sided bamboo restaurant framing Jimbaran Bay at dusk"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$323","pricePerNightExclTax":"$323","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujfdx03jp15ym86w2vtdd1713355462996_e2048ea0-9d88-44c9-8380-68124436cced.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujlb204lj15ym5a4mmoi01713355463618_d73fddaa-6852-4cc5-84ca-81d8ec220816.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujr3q05nf15ym4ek1hh231713355462207_b0bcea7c-470b-41a0-ac5d-9e7a204c6559.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ujx2b06p715ymu5nr5gk01713355460813_914efc5e-1ca5-4e78-9214-cc711ecf6c9d.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uk2wh07qz15ymft0l9ufv1713355464458_a4e7b421-5c60-4d31-a661-83639a7e5bdd.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Jimbaran Puri, A Belmond Hotel — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"W Bali - Seminyak","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/w-bali-seminyak","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Seminyak Beach • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Seminyak Beach","loyaltyProgram":"Marriott Bonvoy®","designSummary":"Carved from Seminyak's beachfront through a dramatic gateway of rough-hewn volcanic sandstone blocks — the kind of paras stone that has defined Balinese sacred architecture for centuries — W Bali Seminyak sets its contemporary ambitions against an ancient material language from the first moment of arrival. The illuminated timber boardwalk that cuts between shallow reflection pools toward the resort's main building establishes the design's central tension: a globally branded sensibility rendered through locally resonant forms. Opened in 2011 and spread across a low-rise complex directly fronting the Indian Ocean, the property houses 237 rooms, suites, and villas across terraced structures that keep their profile deliberately horizontal against the palm canopy.\n\nThe interiors move between two distinct registers. Ocean-facing rooms deploy floor-to-ceiling glazing, warm timber wall panelling, and chartreuse-accented bedding that pulls the tropical garden into the colour palette, while the villa accommodation shifts darker — ebonised timber joinery, wave-patterned wool rugs in amber and sand, platform beds with underlit bases casting a warm amber wash. The WET pool deck, its freeform blue-tiled water bodies threading between coconut palms to the beach, carries the brand's signature chromatic energy in its scatter of magenta and yellow float cushions. At night, the WOOBAR beach club draws the full resort down to the shore, its circular timber-ceilinged bar flanked by glowing globe lanterns strung through the palms — playful, loud, and entirely intentional.","snippet":"Beachfront resort anchored by volcanic sandstone architecture, with ocean-view rooms and a freeform pool deck stepping to the sand.","bestFor":"Beach travelers seeking contemporary design with Balinese materiality","vibe":"Tropical-contemporary · vibrant","highlights":["Volcanic sandstone gateway echoes centuries of Balinese sacred architecture","Ocean-facing rooms with floor-to-ceiling glazing and warm timber panelling","WET pool deck with freeform blue tiles threading to private beach"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$341","pricePerNightExclTax":"$341","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/W%20Bali%20-%20Seminyak2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"W Bali - Seminyak — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · W Bali - Seminyak · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of W Bali - Seminyak captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/W%20Bali%20-%20Seminyak1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"W Bali - Seminyak — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · W Bali - Seminyak · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at W Bali - Seminyak, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/W%20Bali%20-%20Seminyak4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"W Bali - Seminyak — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · W Bali - Seminyak · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at W Bali - Seminyak — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/W%20Bali%20-%20Seminyak3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"W Bali - Seminyak — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · W Bali - Seminyak · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at W Bali - Seminyak, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/W%20Bali%20-%20Seminyak5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"W Bali - Seminyak — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · W Bali - Seminyak · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at W Bali - Seminyak — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/the-oberoi-beach-resort-bali","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Seminyak Beach • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Seminyak Beach","loyaltyProgram":"","designSummary":"When Peter Muller arrived on Bali's Seminyak shoreline in the early 1970s, the island had no template for luxury hospitality — so he invented one. Working from the bones of the Kayu Aya estate, the Australian architect transformed a private compound into The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali, inaugurated in 1978 as the island's first five-star beachside property. Muller's central conviction was that a building should grow from its landscape rather than impose upon it: the 74 villas and lanai rooms spread across 15 acres of tropical gardens in a low-rise configuration of open-walled pavilions, their alang-alang thatched roofs pitched steeply in the manner of traditional Balinese architecture. Landscape designer Made Wijaya wove lotus ponds, river-stone walls, and dense plantings of traveller's palms and frangipani through the compound, so that moving between buildings feels less like walking a resort campus and more like passing through a series of temple gardens.\n\nThe rooms carry the same logic indoors: teak four-poster beds with gauze canopies rise beneath hand-woven thatch ceilings, the structure itself doing the decorative work that other hotels delegate to furnishings. Rattan seating with ikat cushions in deep crimson and timber-framed sliding panels that fold the room open to private terraces complete the picture. In the bar pavilion, dark-stained timber columns support a soaring alang-alang canopy over terracotta tile floors, with carved stone deities placed at the open perimeter where the interior dissolves into garden. The pool deck, shaded by mature frangipani and dressed with fringed ceremonial umbrellas in yellow and indigo, holds the Indian Ocean firmly in view.","snippet":"Bali's pioneering 1978 beachfront resort with low-rise pavilions, temple gardens, and teak-and-thatch interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and landscape-focused travelers","vibe":"Tropical-modernist · serene","highlights":["Bali's first five-star beachside resort, opened 1978","74 villas across 15 acres of temple-garden landscaping","Peter Muller pavilions with alang-alang thatch and teak interiors"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$451","pricePerNightExclTax":"$451","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The%20Oberoi%20Beach%20Resort,%20Bali2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The%20Oberoi%20Beach%20Resort,%20Bali1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The%20Oberoi%20Beach%20Resort,%20Bali4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The%20Oberoi%20Beach%20Resort,%20Bali3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The%20Oberoi%20Beach%20Resort,%20Bali5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/the-legian-seminyak-bali","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Seminyak Beach • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Seminyak Beach","loyaltyProgram":"LHW Leaders Club","designSummary":"Directly above Seminyak Beach, where the Indian Ocean arrives with enough force to discourage casual swimming, a low-rise compound of thatched pavilions and alang-alang rooflines has held its position since 1997 as the definitive argument for Balinese resort architecture at its most considered. The Legian Seminyak Bali was conceived by Singapore-based architect Kerry Hill, whose approach here — as at Amanjiwo and his later work across Asia — treated traditional Balinese construction not as decorative motif but as structural logic. Steep pitched roofs in hand-cut thatch, dark tropical timber columns, and carved stone detailing are deployed with a restraint that keeps the compound feeling more like a private estate than a hotel. The property holds just 67 suites across three floors, a room count that allows the landscape — lily ponds, coconut palms, volcanic stone pathways — to dominate the experience rather than yield to it.\n\nThe interiors calibrate the same tension between local craft and contemporary ease. Bedroom pavilions are lined in warm teak panelling, their octagonal ceilings backlit to emphasise the geometry of the rafter structure, while upper-floor rooms in the main building feature herringbone timber floors and white linen four-poster canopies that soften the architecture without disguising it. The beach-facing bar sits beneath a great alang-alang canopy raised on dark timber posts above a reflective water feature, rattan bucket chairs arranged to face the surf line — a configuration that has barely needed updating in nearly three decades.","snippet":"Kerry Hill's 1997 Balinese resort compound with hand-cut thatch roofs, teak interiors, and direct ocean access.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of considered design","vibe":"Restrained-tropical · architectural","highlights":["Kerry Hill–designed 1997 compound treating Balinese construction as structural logic","Hand-cut thatch roofs and dark timber columns across 67 teak-lined suites","Beachfront alang-alang bar overlooking Indian Ocean swells"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$468","pricePerNightExclTax":"$468","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyhox03nd15u7nnqvkg3e1713348583412_c9fc8a27-de20-4b9a-8e50-327c8041459c.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Legian Seminyak, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Legian Seminyak, Bali captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tynkg04pb15u79rplcju41713348582910_08f39441-c946-4fcb-bb66-9adbd02db3ce.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Legian Seminyak, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Legian Seminyak, Bali, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tytbj05r915u7ci5btcst1713348585134_0241034d-97dd-4236-94e7-300f041d963e.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Legian Seminyak, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Legian Seminyak, Bali — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyz5q06t715u70imj1m7d1714994469252_c975daf9-b89d-4ae2-98aa-76831b4ad8ec.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Legian Seminyak, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Legian Seminyak, Bali, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz4xg07v115u7dcrl1gk91713348584510_ca43cecb-9d17-401a-b2b9-81231de51bfd.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Legian Seminyak, Bali — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Legian Seminyak, Bali · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Legian Seminyak, Bali — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/four-seasons-bali-at-sayan","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Ubud • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Ubud","designSummary":"Hovering above the Ayung River gorge on a sculpted concrete platform, the Four Seasons Bali at Sayan represents one of the most spatially audacious hotel commissions of the 1990s — a building by John Heah that arrives not through a grand entrance but via a footbridge that deposits guests onto the roof of an elliptical lotus pond, from which they descend into the resort rather than climb toward it. That inversion of conventional arrival logic, conceived when the property opened in 1998, remains disorienting in the best possible way: the jungle canopy surrounds you before a single room comes into view.\n\nThe 18 suites and 42 villas cascade down the steep river valley in terraced clusters, connected by pathways through stands of coconut palm and tropical hardwood. Interiors work through dark teak joinery, carved wooden headboards with intricate floral relief, and louvered shutters that dissolve the boundary between bedroom and the garden beyond — details drawn from Balinese craft traditions rather than imported as ornament. The pool deck at river level runs in a long sinuous curve directly above the Ayung, with mosaic-tiled lap pools edging close enough to the bank that the sound of moving water enters continuously. The bar's crescent-shaped limestone counter, set beneath a teak-slatted ceiling and open on all sides to the tree canopy, captures the property's central ambition: architecture that refuses to compete with the landscape it was built to serve.","snippet":"A 1998 John Heah design where guests descend into the jungle via footbridge and lotus pond, not climb toward it.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of 1990s spatial design","vibe":"Jungle-immersive · architecturally-daring","highlights":["John Heah's 1998 lotus-pond arrival inverts conventional hotel logic","Suites and villas cascade down Ayung River gorge via terraced pathways","Interiors feature carved teak joinery and Balinese craft traditions"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$821","pricePerNightExclTax":"$821","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyhtp03o315u7wvqgbv9b1713357964430_f1e498ad-e463-4ec8-b01a-7a73432c96b1.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Four Seasons Bali at Sayan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Four Seasons Bali at Sayan captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tynpf04q315u7qde2ziw21713357965143_448beb80-b458-4c79-aec4-a15c4bb61e55.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Four Seasons Bali at Sayan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Four Seasons Bali at Sayan, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tytfs05s115u7nkq639ux1713357966505_5b70d235-8482-47d8-8019-933312886907.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Four Seasons Bali at Sayan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyz9x06tx15u7np1ua3121713357967257_ca87ec43-3ed9-4c0a-ab9d-f56db68b3807.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Four Seasons Bali at Sayan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Four Seasons Bali at Sayan, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz52d07vx15u7jzb0zq4n1713357968095_1609d56a-c3a2-4ab1-9c25-72d68105a23d.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Four Seasons Bali at Sayan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Four Seasons Bali at Sayan — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/indonesia/bali/aman-villas-at-nusa-dua","city":"Bali","cityHeader":"Bali • Nusa Dua • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Nusa Dua","designSummary":"When Ed Tuttle conceived the original Amanusa on Bali's Nusa Dua peninsula in 1992, he drew the architecture directly from the aristocratic compound tradition of southern Bali — low pavilions arranged around courts, alang-alang thatch pulled low over deeply shaded verandahs, pale Balinese sandstone used for walls and colonnades rather than polished surfaces. The Aman Villas at Nusa Dua, a cluster of freestanding private residences woven into the Amanusa grounds, carries that same language forward at a more intimate scale, each villa configured as its own walled compound with a dedicated lap pool, teak sun deck, and open-sided bale dining pavilion overlooking the Nirwana golf course.\n\nInside, the rooms layer handsome Balinese craft details against the mineral calm of checkerboard marble floors — local stone cut in alternating warm and cool tones — while four-poster beds draped in white mosquito net hang beneath alang-alang ceilings woven into radial patterns that concentrate the eye upward. Teak louvred shutters and dark-stained timber joinery frame each opening onto the gardens, the furniture mixing Balinese carved case pieces with rattan desk chairs and teak campaign-style tables. The palette throughout — raw stone, aged teak, ivory linen, ochre ikat throws — keeps the architecture in charge, the vegetation of frangipanis and bougainvillea doing as much compositional work as anything drawn or built.","snippet":"Ed Tuttle–designed private villas on the Amanusa grounds, each a walled compound with pool and bale pavilion.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts seeking Balinese compound living","vibe":"Refined-vernacular · secluded","highlights":["Ed Tuttle–designed villas modeled on aristocratic Balinese compounds","Each villa has private lap pool, teak deck, and bale pavilion","Interiors layer checkerboard marble, alang-alang thatch, and carved teak joinery"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$2,518","pricePerNightExclTax":"$2,518","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyhqi03nl15u7ocollhvv1713349637921_26922539-8c22-4080-aece-946099fbab06.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Aman Villas at Nusa Dua · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Aman Villas at Nusa Dua captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tynms04pj15u7bjpaoxlo1713349639016_3db5a2ce-4237-4c70-8cc6-17c0da265d66.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Aman Villas at Nusa Dua · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Aman Villas at Nusa Dua, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tytcf05rh15u7bpblfh061713349639624_8d317930-3a32-4d3e-8cc7-61b7fef8fa22.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Aman Villas at Nusa Dua · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tyz7y06tf15u7t1kzu4y31713349640299_1a5e229f-8522-4be4-a9f0-65d119979ccd.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Aman Villas at Nusa Dua · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Aman Villas at Nusa Dua, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0tz4zc07vf15u7al6lqsuu1713349640813_1bdef3bd-894e-48f9-945e-1e8758c6b2d5.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Aman Villas at Nusa Dua · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Aman Villas at Nusa Dua — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}