Travel Reference
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Desert Point Lodges
Labuhan Poh 0877 6518 3303,
desertpointlodges.com
.
Laidback
place with several nice wood, thatch and bamboo
lumbung
in a flower garden acro
ss from th
e
beach.
Dive Zone
has a base here, with some rooms used by staff, so book ahead.
Rp250,000
Pearl Beach Resort
Gili Asahan 0819 0724 7696,
pearlbeach-resort.com
.
This small
resort is the only accommodation and restaurant on Gili Asahan. The shoreside bungalows
have fans and hot water; inland there are bamboo cottages with cold water. A good spot for
kayaking, and diving with Dive Z
one
, based nearby on the mainland. Book ahead for rooms
and transport from Labuhan Poh.
$88
Sudirman
Selegong 0877 6502 6725.
A basic village homestay at the point where the as-
phalt road e
nds. The e
ntrepreneurial young host Sudirman has two rooms that are popular
with surfers.
Rp100,000
Sulaeman's
Batu Putih 0817 578 7539.
A very basic, l
ow-key h
omestay with eight rudi-
mentary rooms with cold water, some sharing bathrooms.
Rp150,000
Villa Rembulan and Villa Pao Pao
Labuhan Poh 0818 362788,
lombokvillas.co.uk
.
Some of the most luxurious accommodation on the peninsula, these twin properties, which
sleep six and eight respectively, are across the road from the beach. Both have vast,
contemporary-styled a/c rooms, with kitchenette, DVD players and use of the pretty pool.
Single
roo
ms are sometimes available and there are a couple of cheaper bungalows further
back.
$183
Senggigi and around
Once Lombok's premier beach resort,
SENGGIGI
is these days in limbo, its greyish beaches
trumped by the idyll of the easily accessible white-sand Gili Islands, and the nearby airport
closed to be replaced by the new one near Praya. As foreign tourists have looked elsewhere,
central Senggigi
seems to be focusing more on the domestic market, with massive cigarette
billboards and a growing number of massage and karaoke joints along the broken pavements.
It's not all bad news, however: there are some good hotels and restaurants in the central re-
sort, and the outer beaches at
Batu Bolong
(a 10min walk south), and
Mangsit
and
Klui
(4-6km north) are genuinely appealing. The coastline is indisputably handsome, its 10km
series of sandy, swimmable bays curving deeply between a sequence of dramatic headlands.
And Senggigi still has the best tourist facilities on mainland Lombok: its many tour agen-
cies and resaurants, plus its transport connections, dive centres and souvenir shops continue
to make it a convenient base. Older, long-stay tourists in particular are drawn here for a few
weeks in the sun, and an increasing number of expat villas are being built in the hills over-
looking the coast.
