Hotels with Pools in Lemonga

Lovely spot! The bar. The view. The facilities.

Kertasari Lodge has completely spoilt us. Incredible view, extreme peace, delicious (and reasonably priced) meals, happy staff and genuinely lovely owners in one of the most amazing places we've visited in Indo. Having never been to Sumbawa before, we we're really sure what to expect and had envisaged doing lots of exploring by bike. We generally like to get out and about exploring by snorkelling, maybe a boat trip, maybe hire some surfboards and do some very average beginner surfing, but the wet season put paid to all of that and instead we spent 6 days doing pretty much nothing. And it was heaven! We've visited Indo in Dec plenty of times and have always been really lucky to avoid most of the rain, but not this year. We copped the tail end of a typhoon which saw torrential rain for 36hrs in the middle of our stay. Luckily we had planned a work day that day anyway and were so grateful to have the desk in the room to work from, while we watched the rain pelt down. There was a power outage in town due to the rain which disrupted the internet, but all of this is totally to be expected as a possibility in the wet season. The beach across the road (salifi) was absolutely beautiful when we wanted a beach swim; the village of Kertasari full of smiley locals and is a great 20 min walk away with beautiful and interesting architecture and cheeky kids. We stayed in villa 1, which was fantastic with almost 180 degree views of the beautiful bays and out to Rinjani. We understand this place gets busy in high season, but if you are after a super relaxed place to stay in off season with some sort of magical vibes, this is your place. I'm sure it's the same in high season, but with a generous sprinkle of insta snap hunters on the terrace every sunset. Thank you so much for having us Kertasari, we hope we can return x

Beachfront location, friendliest staff you ever will meet, clean and super comfortable rooms