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AYANA Resorts hotels
Clifftop pools and seaside dining anchor an Indonesian resort world that grows from Jimbaran.
AYANA grew from a resort on Bali’s Jimbaran cliffs into an independently owned collection that reaches east to Komodo National Park. Its name means “place of refuge” in Sanskrit, and its story began when owner Rudy Suliawan took the former Ritz-Carlton Bali in a new direction, placing the identity of the destination at the heart of his own brand.
8 AYANA Resorts hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Rudy Suliawan
- Worldwide: The public atlas files 9 AYANA-group addresses: the Jimbaran cliff, Labuan Bajo and its phinisi, Jakarta's MidPlaza, and the Karawang residences
- On the atlas: 1 High Luxury, 5 Core Luxury, 2 Accessible Luxury
History
The Jimbaran resort retained its setting, staff, and returning guests when it left Ritz-Carlton and became AYANA. The owner expanded the Bali grounds and later brought the brand to other Indonesian destinations. AYANA Midplaza Jakarta gives the collection an urban expression within the Suliawan family’s own office development on Jalan Sudirman.
Timeline
- 1996 — The resort on Jimbaran's cliffs opens on 29 November as The Ritz-Carlton Bali Resort & Spa, designed by Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo and financed by Rudy Suliawan's PT Karang Mas Sejahtera; it includes what was then the world's largest thalassotherapy seawater pool.
- 2009 — After Ritz-Carlton's parent opened a competing Bulgari Resort nearby, Suliawan ends the management contract in a contract dispute and relaunches the property independently as AYANA Resort & Spa Bali, briefly managed by Ritz-Carlton co-founder Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group Asia.
- 2013 — AYANA opens its second Jimbaran hotel, RIMBA by AYANA, a 403-room jungle-facing resort that pushes the combined complex past 770 rooms, at the time Bali's largest single hotel estate.
- 2018 — AYANA expands east to the Komodo gateway town of Labuan Bajo with AYANA Komodo Waecicu Beach, riding the rise of Komodo National Park tourism.
The houses to know
- AYANA Villas Bali, Jimbaran, Indonesia — Private clifftop villas from the 1996 Ritz-Carlton estate, renamed with the resort in 2009.
- AYANA Resort Bali, Jimbaran, Indonesia — The flagship, opened in 1996 as The Ritz-Carlton Bali and relaunched independently in 2009.
- AYANA Segara Bali, Jimbaran, Indonesia — The fourth hotel on the estate, opened on 5 November 2022, with 197 rooms.
- RIMBA by AYANA, Jimbaran, Indonesia — The jungle sister, opened in 2013 inside the same 90-hectare estate.
- AYANA Komodo Waecicu Beach, Labuan Bajo, Indonesia — The brand's gateway to Komodo National Park, opened in 2018 on a hillside above Waecicu Beach.
- AYANA Midplaza, JAKARTA, Jakarta, Indonesia — A 1998 Sudirman tower that has been Kempinski, InterContinental, and, since 2017, AYANA.
- The Plaza Residences Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia — The serviced-apartment tower in the same MidPlaza superblock, completed in 1998.
- Delonix Residences Karawang, Karawang, Indonesia — A hotel-and-residence complex in industrial Karawang, with a Garden Wing from about 1998.
Newest openings
- None of the AYANA hotels selected by the Atlas has a recorded opening year of 2023 or later.
Opening next
- No forthcoming AYANA openings were confirmed in the sources reviewed.
Every AYANA Resorts hotel on the atlas
Indonesia
- AYANA Villas Bali — Jimbaran · High Luxury
- AYANA Komodo Waecicu Beach — Labuan Bajo · Core Luxury
- AYANA Midplaza, JAKARTA — Jakarta · Core Luxury
- AYANA Resort Bali — Jimbaran · Core Luxury
- AYANA Segara Bali — Jimbaran · Core Luxury
- RIMBA by AYANA — Jimbaran · Core Luxury
- Delonix Residences Karawang — Karawang · Accessible Luxury
- The Plaza Residences Jakarta — Jakarta · Accessible Luxury
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