The Best Beachfront Hotels & Resorts in Sanur (2026)

I think the Hyatt Regency is the best-value hotel in Sanur. It’s a proper 5-star resort on the beach, with 9 hectares of gardens, a cave pool and a great club lounge. And it often costs mid-range money.

The main pool has a swim-through replica of the Goa Gajah cave, and there’s a lap pool for grown-ups.

It’s especially good for families. There’s a kids pool with a slide, a kids club for ages 4 to 12 and plenty of lawn to run around on. The gardens are big enough that it feels more secluded than you’d expect in the middle of Sanur.

Get club access if you can. The food and drinks run all day, and it changes the whole stay. Don’t miss the pizza place on the beach either.

The catch: the rooms are on the small side, and the walls are thin. So don’t book the entry room. Book a Deluxe or Premium room, ideally with club access.

The Andaz is the most luxurious hotel in Sanur. It sits right next to the Hyatt Regency, but it’s a completely different stay: small, intimate and laid out like a Balinese village.

The rooms are the best in Sanur. They’re beautifully kitted out, right down to the Dyson hair dryers, and kept spotless. Book a Lagoon Access room and you step straight out to the water.

It works for couples and families, which is rare. For a family of four, I’d book an Andaz Suite connected to a Twin room, which gives you two bedrooms. The Kemu Mai kids club takes ages 4 to 12, and there’s a shallow kids pool behind the main one.

The catch: the price. It costs a lot more than the Hyatt next door. And the kids club is only free for the first 2 hours a day, then it’s charged by the hour.

If you’re a big family, Maya Sanur is the best hotel in Sanur for you. Even the standard rooms are about 57–61 square metres, which is huge for the price.

For families, book any room with two double beds. Most categories offer them. They’re what you want once your kids are too big to share a sofa bed, and I think they’re the most room you’ll get for your money in Sanur. The kids club is free too.

The room I’d splurge on is the Beachfront Pool Suite, about 106 square metres with its own pool. Then I’d spend sunset at the Tree Bar on the sand.

The catch: it doesn’t have the grounds, the gardens or the pools of the Hyatt and the Andaz. The beach out front is narrow too, with nowhere much to sit.

Puri Santrian sits right on the sand at the quiet south end. It’s in half the Aussie package deals going, and the spot is the reason why.

It’s an old-school, low-rise resort of about 200 rooms, set in big beachfront gardens. The staff and the breakfast are the best things about it, and the service is better than the rooms would suggest.

Pick the wrong room here and you’ll wonder what the fuss is about. I’d book the Santrian Club, an adults-only wing in its own gardens with a private pool and Jacuzzi. Depending on your rate, breakfast and afternoon tea are included.

If the Club is full, the Premier Deluxe rooms are adults-only too, in a newer wing with its own infinity pool. With kids in tow, I’d book a Deluxe room. The hotel has redesigned them, and I think they’re the pick of the standard rooms.

I’d skip the Superior garden rooms. They’re roomy, but they’re dark and dated, with lots of stairs and a longer walk to the beach.

There are several pools, two of them adults-only, plus a children’s pool. The water out front is sheltered by a breakwater, so it’s calm and shallow. Same rule as the rest of Sanur, though: swim at high tide.

Kayaks, paddleboards and bikes are free. The Beach Club Restaurant on the sand does everything from breakfast to pizza and curries, with live music most days and a seafood barbecue on Saturday nights. For a change, there’s a strip of warungs a 5-minute walk along the beach path.

The catch: the rooms are tired, and some are quite dark. Even in the Club, the rooms feel old and the pool is small. The main pools get busy, and some blocks have no lift, so ask for the ground floor if stairs are a problem.

There’s no kids club either, so with under-12s I’d book the Hyatt or Maya Sanur instead. You’re paying for the sand, not the room.

Prama is the cheap family option, and on paper it looks good. It’s right on the beach, the kids club is free, and the Splash Zone pool has slides.

The problem is the hotel. It opened in 1974 as the Sanur Beach Hotel, and it feels like it hasn’t had a proper refresh in about 30 years. The rooms are very dated. The only new ones are the Club rooms.

It’s a big, busy, 428-room hotel. Your kids won’t care, as long as the slides are open. You will.

The catch: the rooms are worn out.

It’s the budget pick. Honestly, I’d only book it if the budget really can’t stretch to the Hyatt, and even then I’d book a Club room.