Budget
Dharma Homestay
Cheap accommodation with roof top beach view. There are eleven rooms with a choice of single or double bed, fan or air-con and hot or cold shower. Aimed at backpackers. With restaurant.
Kember Inn
Offers a selection of rooms from cold water only with a fan at Rp 40,000 to hot water with air-conditioning at Rp 150,000. As of June 2011, they offered the cheapest room for Rp.100,000 - quite unreasonable for what you get small fan room, bed only, no outside window.
Marco Inn
Sea view rooms with a roof terrace, secluded courtyard garden and a sea front bar. Daily rooftop yoga classes, courses & retreats are also on offer. All eight rooms are fan cooled and have their own bathrooms. Run by an English couple with French, Spanish and Indonesian speakers on staff. Home made breads and cakes.
Topi Inn
Five very basic rooms suited for backpackers. Also a dozen mattresses with mosquito nets up on the balcony, beautiful going to sleep to the sound of the waves. With a good restaurant and free Wi-Fi. Double room 100.000 Rp, Balcony 50.000 Rp.
Zen Inn
A small boutique hotel situated near the ferry port and the beach. Each room is furnished in a funky, eclectic style with double bed, western bathrooms with hot water shower, and a private courtyard garden with additional outside shower. Free WiFi in all rooms and the restaurant. The restaurant serves excellent western and asian food using local ingredients. Fish is fresh from the local fish market. There is also a bar where the beer is cold and where expats and backpackers hang out.
Midrange
Padang Bai Beach Bungalow Resort
Pleasant rooms with indirect sea view and garden bungalows. All rooms and bungalows are supplied with air-conditioning, bathroom with hot shower, satelite TV, safe and a balcony or terrace. The resort has a dive-instruction pool and a restaurant and swim up bar. Garden bungalows have outside 'Balinese style' bathrooms. Ask about 'stay & dive' discounts.
Puri Rai Hotel
A 1 star hotel with three swimming pools. This is probably the nicest hotel in town and prices follow suit. All rooms are supplied with a bathroom with hot & cold shower, TV and a terrace and balcony. The air-con rooms have a refrigerator.
Mustika Sari Beach Hotel
Offering nice sea views this hotel has a decent sized swimming pool and a passable restaurant. Traditional paintings, wall hangings and Balinese handicrafts in the rooms are nice touches.
| This guide uses the following price ranges for a standard double room: | |
| Budget | Under Rp 250,000 |
| Mid-range | Rp 250,000-1,000,000 |
| Splurge | Over Rp 1,000,000 |
A wide choice of budget-leaning accommodation is available in the village, and along the road behind the beach. Upstairs rooms in the village places, especially up on the hill, catch the breeze and have fine views.
Bloo Lagoon Village Hotel
Bloo Lagoon, an environmentally friendly 3-star resort, offers 25 fan-cooled one, two and three bedroom villas with kitchen. The resort has a restaurant, a 18m lap pool and a spa.