Great location, spacious rooms, You are being charged for a 5 star hotel when it should be a 3 star.
Pros: Great Location, next door to Yoga Barn, couple of minutes walk to the Monkey forest, about 25 minute walk to the Palace in Ubud, surrounded by shops and cafe's and transport. Rooms were a great size !
Cons: Breakfast was a non starter, small buffet, limited choice, handed a menu that seemd to be a repeat of the buffet with a few extra's added, no different breads, all different shapes and sizes but just the same bread, (white very processed.) Egg station, when you go up they say "take a seat and we will bring it to you ", you watch as more and more people go up and get their eggs etc , after 10 mins you go back, rest of your food now cold, then they start making your eggs very confusing !! tried a new method to order from menu, asked for 3 poached eggs on toast for myself, out came 3 separate plates, each with one piece of toast each with one egg ! ( 3 plates for 1 person ) Asked for tea with cold milk on side, out came x2 pots of hot milk with a tea bag in it. Gave up and had breakfast at a cafe... Staff are lovely and try very hard to do what you request,they are very obliging just feel that there is no management giving them dedicated jobs, so everyone running around just trying to please without any guidance. Hotel is tired, bit scruffy, the rice paddock nr pool is more like a waste ground. No lifts so difficult for aged people , babies, or disabled. They have a sign as you leave reception saying kids pool, it is a tiny pond that has been drained of the fish & lilies !!!!! It is dark grey slate so very hot, it has sharp corners and is next to the smoking area in the cafe ! Never saw one child nr it as filters still had algae on them. Rooms very dark need lights on even in the day. It is quite difficult to try find a 5 Star hotel in centre of Ubud as they tend to be further out on the out skirts of town.We stayed in a 5 Star hotel in Sanur & Nusa Dua on our trip , both fantastic, Alaya was an over priced dissapointment . Keep looking !!!