Alila Villas Uluwatu

A genuine splurge — about 14,500,000 IDR (~$950) a night — but for an anniversary weekend at Bali's most photographed clifftop resort, it delivered: a private plunge pool built into the limestone, an infinity-edge main pool that disappears into the ocean, and staff who remembered our names by the second morning. Breakfast alone justified a chunk of the price. Wifi dropped a couple of times in the evening — a minor annoyance given what we paid. Book a clifftop ocean-view room specifically; the garden-view rooms don't get the same outlook and it's a meaningful difference at this price.