Mandapa, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve

A resort of 35 suites and 25 private pool villas on the Ayung River at Kedewatan, on the edge of Ubud, under Marriott’s Ritz-Carlton Reserve brand, with 4 restaurants and bars, a spa and a gym, says the official site. It is laid out as a Balinese village round rice terraces and a temple; the interiors are by Jeffrey Wilkes.

It turned 10 in January 2026 and reopened its 3-bedroom villa as The Mandapa River Estate. The MICHELIN Guide gives it Three Keys.

6 categories on the rooms page on 16 October 2026: the Reserve Suite, 100 m², and the Mandapa Suite, 145 m² on a corner, both with a balcony and for up to 3; the Ubud Pool Villa and the Riverfront Pool Villa, 430 m² each with a private pool; the 2-bedroom Reserve Pool Villa, 995 m² with an 82 m² pool, for 6; The Mandapa River Estate, 2,000 m² with a 172 m² pool and a whirlpool, for 9.

Every suite and villa has a butler, a bath and a separate shower; the villas add a separate living room, a terrace and a veranda. A rollaway bed costs IDR 1,452,000 a night.

For 16 to 23 November 2026 the hotel’s own listing on Google Hotels gave, a night for 2 with tax and service: Reserve Suite IDR 29,212,858, Mandapa Suite IDR 32,842,858, Ubud Pool Villa IDR 36,472,856, Riverfront Pool Villa IDR 42,522,856, The Mandapa River Estate IDR 119,962,864.

Google Hotels, read on 16 October 2026, a night for 2 adults: IDR 29,917,292 on 19 October; IDR 29,940,160 on 16 November; IDR 22,411,264 on 13 December, the cheapest night read, and IDR 41,922,560 on 28 December 2026; IDR 24,199,168 on 15 February 2027 and IDR 33,878,016 on 24 July 2027. From March to June 2027 most nights cost IDR 24,199,168.

The figures are in rupiah and include the 10% service charge and 11% tax, as the sellers’ links on Google Hotels show for the stay of 16 to 23 November 2026, when the hotel’s own listing read IDR 29,212,672 a night. The calendar names no room; the price of each suite and villa for those nights is in the answer on the rooms.

The official site lists a free buffet breakfast every day from 7 to 10:30; breakfast at Sawah Terrace or in the villa is also sold separately. Visitors who come for breakfast without booking can be turned away, as 2 reviews tell, of August 2024 and August 2025.

On Jalan Kedewatan, on the western edge of Ubud, above the Ayung River. The palace and the market are 15 minutes away by car, says the hotel’s fact sheet, about 4 km by road; the hotel’s site lists no shuttle into town. One guest, writing in March 2025, found an app taxi hard to get.

The entrance is down a narrow alley off the main road, as 5 guests describe it between August 2024 and August 2026; one, in December 2024, found it hard to find.

Ngurah Rai is 35 km away, says the official site, and 90 minutes by car according to the fact sheet. There is no shuttle: the hotel’s transfer costs IDR 1,680,000 each way and must be booked.

Mandapa Spa stands by the river: 5 treatment rooms, one of them for couples, a yoga pavilion, a meditation temple and an open-air vitality pool over the Ayung with air and water jets; sauna, steam room, ice fountain and experience showers are separate for men and women, says the spa page. Treatments use Subtle Energies products.

Local healers work here, among them a blind healer, and the menu lists acupuncture, Reiki, palm reading and Balinese fire and water blessings. The gym is open 24 hours.

The spa’s facilities, the gym and the yoga studio are for hotel guests alone, so no day pass is sold; sunrise and sunset yoga is free for them too. Visitors can book a treatment online, between 9am and 10pm, leaving a credit card number. Under-16s may have a treatment if a parent or guardian is with them, says the spa page.

The main pool is an infinity pool beside the rice terraces, with the Pool Bar, for hotel guests only. Every villa has its own pool: 30 m² in the Ubud Pool Villa, 82 m² in the Reserve Pool Villa, 172 m² in The Mandapa River Estate, says the rooms page. The suites have none. The main pool is open from 8am to 6pm, says the activities page; the hotel does not say whether it is heated, while 4 guests, writing between September 2024 and July 2026, describe the pool and whirlpool at the spa as heated.

Kubu: dinner from 5:30 to 11pm in 9 bamboo cocoons and on the bank of the river, 52 seats, menus sourced within 100 km. Sawah Terrace: Indonesian cooking over the river, with Balinese dance. Ambar: cocktails and Japanese dishes from 12:30 to 11pm, with jazz from Wednesday to Saturday. Then the Pool Bar, in-villa dining at all hours and private dinners by the river or on the rice terrace.

Menus add 10% service and 11% tax to their prices.

The vegetarian Root to Leaf menu costs IDR 1,150,000 a head before tax and service, on Kubu’s site on 16 October 2026; the site recommends booking, by phone on +62 361 4792 777. Smart casual: no singlets or flip-flops.

Yes: parking and valet are free for guests, and there is a charging point for electric cars, says the official site.

Yes, with a villa. Mandapa Camp is the children’s club, built of bamboo among the paddy, with farm animals and sessions such as Keliki painting for ages 8 to 12 and an evening bonfire; rafting starts at 5. The Reserve Pool Villa sleeps 6 and the River Estate 9; the suites and 1-bedroom villas take 3.

Booking.com charges children aged 4 and over as adults; an extra bed costs IDR 726,000 a night from 5 to 11 years and IDR 1,452,000 from 12.

The person who checks in must be 21 or over, according to the official site. Children travel with their parents.

The former 3-bedroom villa, reopened in January 2026 for the resort’s 10th anniversary: 2,000 m², 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, a 172 m² pool and a whirlpool for 4, for up to 9 people. Luxury Travel Magazine gave a starting rate of USD 6,359 a night; for 16 to 23 November 2026 Google’s listing priced it at IDR 119,962,864 a night.

Yes. The hotel’s rafting on the Ayung starts with a ride in a classic Volkswagen and ends at Mandapa’s pier; ages 5 to 64.

The Patih is the butler each suite and villa has: guests write that theirs arranged birthday and honeymoon surprises and answered on WhatsApp, and one, in January 2026, had breakfast packed for early excursions. The Patih or the butler comes up in 95 of the latest 500 Google reviews.

Yes. The weddings page gives the Temple Lawn and Kubu Riverside for up to 100 seated, the rice terrace deck for 30 and a river deck for 10; the Temple Lawn faces the Pengiyasan Temple, which the same page says is 100 years old and stood before the resort was built. Its packages, for 12 people with 2 nights in a Reserve Suite or the 3-bedroom villa, carry no published price.

For meetings there are 2 rooms, 111 m² in all, the largest for 50: the room is included for a group that stays, and costs IDR 3,500,000 per event plus tax and service for one that does not.

Nothing for 31 December 2026 is published on the pages read on 16 October 2026. For the 2025 season the resort held a New Year’s Eve with a champagne countdown and fireworks, according to Foodies.id.

On 16 October 2026 the official site lists Marriott offers such as «There’s More to Indonesia», valid from 9 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, and «Stay Longer With Us».

Yes, and no closure is announced. The Mandapa River Estate reopened in January 2026; Google Hotels priced nights from 16 November 2026 to 11 September 2027 on 16 October 2026.

Check-in at 3pm, check-out at noon, says the official site. Cancellation terms vary with the room type, according to Booking.com.

No: pets are not allowed.

On 16 October 2026: Google 4.7/5 from 1,964 ratings, Tripadvisor 4.9/5 from 2,137, Booking.com 9.6/10 from 72. In the latest 500 Google reviews guests write most of their Patih, of the river and the rice fields, of the spa and of Kubu; those who complain write of the bill, of slow service on a few days and of visitors turned away.