Thirty-eight architect-designed villas terraced into the hills above Selong Belanak Beach, every key with a private infinity pool and an unobstructed view of the southern Indian Ocean.
"The 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa is the largest single private accommodation on Lombok. The view is the one Selong Belanak has been showing surfers for forty years, now from a daybed, with breakfast."
Selong Selo opened in 2017 on a hillside above Selong Belanak Beach in South Lombok, a 35-minute drive from Lombok International Airport. The development is the work of the Australian-Indonesian Selo Group and is split into two interlocking products: the Selong Selo Resort (operated villas available for stay) and the Selong Selo Residences (privately owned villas placed in the resort rental programme). The architectural masterplan is by the Bali studio K2LD, with each villa designed as a one-, two-, three-, four-, five-, six-, or seven-bedroom plan terraced into the hillside so every key faces the Indian Ocean and Selong Belanak Beach below.
The 38 accommodations range from studio one-bedroom villas at the lowest entry point to the 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa (the largest single private accommodation on Lombok) at the top of the estate. Every villa has a private infinity-edge pool oriented to the ocean view, an open-plan living-dining pavilion with full-height pocket doors, a private outdoor terrace, and a 24-hour villa-host service. The larger villas (four bedrooms and above) include private gym equipment, private cinema rooms, and personal chef service as a default; the 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa includes a private spa pavilion and a 25-metre infinity pool.
The resort core sits at the centre of the estate, Sky Restaurant (the all-day venue with the estate's best sunset view), the Kayu Spa (Lombok's largest contemporary spa programme with eight treatment rooms), the Sky Yoga Shala (200-square-metre open-sided yoga pavilion), the resort gym, the kids' club, and the central 25-metre infinity lap pool. The estate runs its own surf school (Selong Belanak is one of the world's best beginner left-hand longboard waves), an in-house mountain-bike programme, and the only private cliff jump platform on Lombok.
Selong Selo's central advantage over the older Sire Beach offer is the South Lombok position, Selong Belanak's longboard wave, the proximity to Tanjung Aan and Mawi for advanced surf, the more dramatic hilltop topography, and the larger maximum villa size (the 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa). The estate is the natural choice for multi-generation family stays, longer creative-retreat bookings, and high-budget honeymoons in which the private villa rather than the resort communal experience is the centre of the brief.
For a Lombok honeymoon at private-villa scale, a one- or two-bedroom Selong Selo villa with private infinity pool is the booking, every key is detached, the view is the same southern Indian Ocean horizon from every position, the in-villa breakfast and chef service replaces the resort restaurant for couples who want the villa as the entire experience. Combine with the spa and the Sky Yoga Shala for the morning programme, the Selong Belanak surf school in the afternoon, and the resort's signature private cliff-edge candle-lit dinner.
For a multi-generation Lombok family stay the four-, five-, six-, and seven-bedroom Selong Selo villas are the only product on the island at this scale, every villa has its own pool, every villa has a private chef option, the kids' club at the estate centre handles ages 4, 12, and the surf school at Selong Belanak teaches all ages. The 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa is the booking for the once-a-decade family-reunion stay; the 5-bedroom for an extended family of 10, 12.
Selong Selo's wellness programme is the most serious on South Lombok, the Sky Yoga Shala runs daily 90-minute Vinyasa, Hatha, and Yin sessions; the Kayu Spa runs eight treatment rooms with a focus on Indonesian boreh and lulur scrubs, Thai-Indonesian fusion massage, and the estate's signature volcanic-stone treatments; the resort's mountain-bike programme uses the volcanic-ridge trails behind the estate. Combine with three-, five-, or seven-night yoga retreat programmes that include all meals, all yoga, two daily spa treatments, and one daily activity.
Jl. Batu Jangkih Sepi, Selong Belanak
Praya Barat Daya, Central Lombok 83571
Indonesia
Lombok International Airport 35 minutes by car; Selong Belanak Beach 5 minutes (resort shuttle); Kuta Lombok 25 minutes; Tanjung Aan surf break 30 minutes
38 villas (studios to 7-bedrooms)
1-Bedroom Hillside Villa from $450/night
2-Bedroom Villa from $750/night
3-Bedroom Villa from $1,200/night
5-Bedroom Villa from $2,800/night
7-Bedroom Hilltop Villa from $5,500/night
Check-in: 2:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened 2017; K2LD architecture; Selo Group owner-operator
38 villas all with private infinity pools
Kayu Spa (8 treatment rooms)
Sky Yoga Shala
Sky Restaurant (all-day dining)
Resort surf school (Selong Belanak)
Kids' Club (4, 12)
Private chef service
Free villa Wi-Fi
From $450/night. Three- to seven-bedroom villas book three to six months ahead for July, August and the December, January peak; the 7-bedroom Hilltop Villa books nine months for Christmas and Chinese New Year family stays.
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