The Intercontinental in Bali was quite incredible, the grounds are undeniably spectacular.  There is a short video of the grounds we took at the bottom of this page, please check it out.  This resort is so beautiful but I do have to say its a little bit out of the way, so if you are looking for a few days to just relax and soak up the sun than this is a perfect place to stay.  Also the breakfast is buffet style and in my opinion worth it- they have a wide range to choose from and about 7 different fresh squeezed juices.  What Iove about the breakfast is that they will come around to your table and give you a sample of a typical Balinese breakfast, one day we had a juice that was delicious and another day we had some sort of a cream puff.  Also, if you want to get a massage head outside the hotel to across the street to Henna Spa, schedule ahead of time for a massage, a 90 minute massage will run you $22, at the hotel its about triple that price.  There are several little restaurants outside the resort, try and get away from the resort and check those out.

The other hotel we stayed at was the Courtyard Marriott in Nusa Dua, this was surprisingly very nice with a lazy river as well as free breakfast.  The also had a complimentary bicycle tour of the area, when you check into the hotel try and book this ahead of time, they only offer this a couple days out of the week.  Also there is a free yoga class in the morning which we loved, its kinda warm so they try to do the class first thing.  The breakfast at the hotel again was very good and its free so take advantage of it, we also took a couple of bananas just in case we wanted to explore the area and we ran into some hungry monkeys.  There is a little town nearby that you can walk to that has several restaurants, we decided to rent a scooter here and it was relatively inexpensive at $8 per day and then you can really explore the area.