The Kunja, Bali

Post date: Apr 13, 2010 6:54:18 AM

Originally published in March 2009MICEreview has so far been featuring venues with facilities for 100-500 conference attendees. There is also a market for smaller management retreats that has different requirements. Of course, the large five-star hotels would have no problem housing management groups of 10-40 people. However, smaller groups may prefer more private venues than to be dwarfed by other large events happening at the same time in a big convention hotel.In recent years, many villa-styled accommodation have been sprouting up in Bali’s Seminyak area. Although the main clientele for these villa hotels are couples and honeymooners, they can be creatively transformed for small management retreats. The Kunja Hotel, offering 18 fully serviced private villas, is one of these boutique hotels. The Kunja is located on the outskirts of Bali's trendy Seminyak area, only minutes away from one of the island's most famous stretch of golden-sand beaches, myriad of restaurants and shopping boutiques. Its four spacious three-bedroom villas and 14 one-bedroom villas can accommodate between 28 to about 60 guests, depending on the number of single or twin-share rooms. Each villa comes with a large living area, private swimming pool with sundeck, full-service kitchen, en-suit bathrooms and tropical garden. Breakfast is prepared in each villa by the hotel staff, while other meals can be arranged as well.

The Kunja obviously do not have function rooms of any kind for meetings and seminar. However, the hotel can convert the air-conditioned bedroom into a meeting room for 10-20 people; or the villa’s living area can be used too, but the area is open and not air-conditioned. Another wonderful venue is the Santi Chapel, an all-glass structure built specially for wedding couples for solemnisation ceremonies. The Chapel is probably too hot and glaring during the day to be used for meetings, but it would be perfect for reception or seminar in the evening for up to 30-40 people. This is highly workable since delegates who come here for management retreat would likely spend the daytime doing team-building activities or sight-seeing.

Small management groups looking for alternative style accommodation and meeting venue should definitely give The Kunja a try.