Villa Sepoi-Sepoi is an absolute six bedrooms beachfront villa which can comfortably sleep up to 16 guests. The villa sits on 1.800 square meter land at the beautiful Sira Beach on Lombok’s northwest coast where you could find clear blue sea, pure white sands, serenity and bliss in the midst of lush tropical garden environment.
Guests will be spoiled for choice when it comes to relaxation space at Sepoi Sepoi. The main living pavilion is open-sided and has super comfortable sofa-seating. Six adults can lie down here while watching movies on the huge pull down video screen, while the kids lounge on bean bags on the floor.
Still, if the guest want a private space apart from the group, then twenty meter further down towards the beach is another smaller pavilion with seating of a more ‘daytime nature.’ When the heat gets too much, a fully enclosed and air-conditioned chill out room is the perfect place to watch DVDs or satellite television channels on the big 42” flatscreen.
Dining Pavilion
The open-sided dining pavilion situated at the corner of the main courtyard also could become the best place for you to enjoy the views of beach and sunset. Its open sided building and thatched roof is supported by columns whilst the fan and sea breeze bring fresh atmosphere into the air. This pavilion is also furnished with a beautiful teakwood dining table and 14 chairs with small alcoves in the columns filled with candles to create a cozy ambience.
The large modern kitchen is conveniently positioned next door to the dining room and is fully equipped with imported appliances, utensils, glassware and tableware.
Bedrooms
There are six bedrooms at Villa Sepoi Sepoi, positioned in a horseshoe shape around a courtyard garden. The ‘Gold’ master suite takes up the whole of the upper floor of the only two-storey pavilion on the estate, located on the southern side of the courtyard offering wonderful views of the sea, incorporates a massive bedroom, furnished with a king size four poster bed and adjoined by a broad balcony. It also boasts a spacious dressing room, an office, a private massage room/yoga studio, and a large en-suite bathroom fitted with twin washbasins, a rain-shower, and a romantic standalone bathtub canopied in gold organza.
Underneath the master suite, precisely on the ground floor, there is the blue-themed Oyster Room together with the red and black Chinese Room. The two rooms completed with twin trundle beds, sleep up to four kids as each bed incorporates a spare bed that rolls under the main frame. Both of them facing out onto a private san covered ‘beach’ garden, furnished with chairs.
The Frangipani Room in yellow and the Hibiscus Room in orange both face the garden and form the eastern side of the courtyard, backing onto the orchard. The Frangipani Room has a king bed and the Hibiscus Room has the same sleeping configuration as the Oyster Room with twin trundle beds, two of which can be rolled away out of sight during the day. Finally the Green Room, furnished with a king bed, is a stand-alone bedroom situated in the gardens with a private terrace with sun beds and beautiful beach views.
All bedrooms have air-conditioning, ceiling fans and a safe, as well as ensuite bathrooms with large bathtubs and walk-in rain-showers. Each of the ground floor bedrooms has an indoor/outdoor bathroom with the additional facility of a private alfresco rain-shower. The hot water is solar-powered in order to reduce the impact on the environment.
Pool & Garden
The huge garden at Sepoi Sepoi extends all the way to the white sand beach, and can also be used as a cricket pitch. From the living pavilion, and running out in the direction of the beach, is a 20-metre infinity edge swimming pool flanked by mature coconut palms and a stone pool deck furnished with sun-beds and umbrellas. A smaller relaxation gazebo, complete with upholstered sofas and ottomans, sits at the head of the pool and stares down the expansive lawn to the sea. To the left of the pool is a rustic cabana-style bar. Meanwhile, the orchard at the rear of the villa makes for a wonderful children’s secret garden.
Location
Rests beside the longest white sandy beach in Lombok Island, Sira Beach, in the tiny village of Sira and it merely cost ten minutes drive from the Teluk Nara Harbour. This harbor is the place where the fast boats from Bali and the Gili islands stop to drop off passengers. To get the villa from Lombok’s international airport itself, the guest needs only 45 minutes driving. Situated next door to the villa is the Lombok Golf Kosaido Country Club, an 18-hole championship course.
It is also within walking distance of Hotel Tugu Lombok, a quirky and atmospheric living museum of extraordinary Indonesian artwork and antiques, with a restaurant, bar and spa open to outside guests. The neighbouring Tanjung village is an attractive Sasak market village with stalls overflowing with local produce. This is also the location of The Oberoi Lombok Hotel, completes with a jetty for guests who arrive by boat, and a gourmet beachside restaurant.
Here, in this sparsely populated region of Lombok, the landscape shaped by tobacco, coffee and cocoa plantations, together with fields of soya, peanuts, maize, cassava and cashews. Sira Beach is safe for swimming, and great for snorkelling and kayaking. The view from the villa and beach of the Gili Islands, the mountains and the coastline, is magnificent.
The Gilis are a trio of tiny emerald islands, floating like a necklace of pearls in a turquoise sea. Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air are all blessed with white, hourglass-sand beaches, and amazing coral reefs, and there is plenty of nightlife at Gili Trawangan. The islands can be reached within 15-20 minutes from the villa by speedboat or 30 minutes from Bangsal by public ferry. Sengiggi, 45 minutes to the south of Sira, presents the only nightlife on mainland Lombok, as well as an art market selling many Lombok and Indonesian antiques and curios.