We have truly stayed in all the hotels in Nusa Dua. We have done recent shuttle bus tours all over Nusa Dua, as recent as last week July 2008 and honestly all of them Melia Bali, Hyatt, Beach Hotel, Novotel... I've stayed in them all... Too many to mention. Ayodya (old Hilton) is the best. The ambience, true beauty. An absolute Beauty.

Nusa Dua, Bali Hilton - I have visited, Mexico-Tulum, Thailand-Phi-Phi, and this one, this one was the worst.

First any extra in the hotel to have fun you have to pay:

Gear snorkling $7/hour person, boat $25/hour person, any gear you can imagine to have fun, you have to pay, gym $5, all of this was for free in the other places I went.

The food as good, but if you eat in the restaurant's hotel, and the restaurants are beautiful, you spend at least $40 for 2 persons.

Outside the hotel in the "warung" beach restaurant you will spend $9 to $20 for 2 persons.

Now the big disapointment -- the sea, which was full of plastic bags, bottles, and seaweed that never ends, and because of that the sand is also full of garbage.

I saw workers making a hole in the sand and putting the garbage there, and than covering, but this was not the best solution.

In summation, if you go for the beach and snorkling forget all the Nusa Dua area.

HFV
Portugal(Lisbon)