Mowies on the Beach

Hotel is beautiful and food very good. Most of the staff extremely friendly and chatty. Welcome drink was awesome. Room was excellent although a few tiles had fallen off in the shower area which needed replacing. Beach at the hotel does have more coarse sand and some loose coral but you can mostly walk in without problems. Things to improve would be: - Offering mosquito repellant as standard in rooms for guests to use - A better breakfast option if you’ve taken breakfast with the room - I hadn’t, so could order from the entire menu and pay, but if you had you were limited to a sweet or savoury selection, with the savoury having meat (not ideal if you’re vegetarian). Far better to just give guests the option to pick a dish from the main menu. Would definitely go back!

Lovely bungalows. Very clean. The bar and restaurant food is excellent and the cocktails to die for. Right on the beach. Staff are attentive and can’t do enough. Especially sopardi who looked after us and arranged a snorkelling trip with his uncle Alex which was amazing. The only problem was the smell in the evenings behind the back bungalows.

We came ready and excited to relax for a few days on the beach. We booked a room that was advertised as a deluxe double with a balcony, and ocean view. The pictures made it look newly refurbished. Unfortunately, the reality was totally different. The room was ground floor, and looked straight into the noisy bar and restaurant. We could hear shouting from the kitchen. You could see the ocean if you craned your neck, but there was absolutely no privacy in the room at all. Furthermore, the floors looked old and moldy, and there was really no furniture other than a bed (not even bedside tables) and maybe a chair. This was not the type of place we could see ourselves wanting to relax in. We did not end up staying there - instead, we moved to L’Archipel. We faced some resistance when we asked for a partial refund - even though it seemed like a popular place - and sure enough, when we walked by the next day, we saw someone else had taken the room, so at least they did not lose out on revenue from us. One other note re Gili Air generally - the mosque is incredibly loud and, unlike in the Middle East, goes off for at least one hour each time (including at 3 and 5 am). It was going all night when we stayed, during Ramadan. I don’t think you would hear it too loudly from Mowie’s because of the wind direction, but it made us cut our entire trip short. We will not be returning to the Gilis.

We have just returned from 4 nights in Mowies, where we paid for a ‘seaside superior bungalow’. We stayed at Mowies towards the end of our trip in Indonesia, where we’d been lucky enough to stay in some very nice hotels. We therefore felt a little underwhelmed upon check in. Firstly the location, staff, bar and restaurant area were all very very good. The bungalows are just across from the beach, which is perfect for sunsets and Mowies serves great food and drinks (the quality and presentation of the food and drinks was probably some of the best we’d experienced in Indonesia, and therefore we agree it deserves a slightly higher price, but honestly wasn’t much more!). Lots of other guests visit Mowies to use their bar/restaurant services, and we enjoyed being able to walk minutes to a huge variety of other options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the beautiful island also. The bungalow itself is where we were disappointed. I appreciate you don’t come on holiday to sit in your room, but equally it just felt rather basic… The room was fairly dark with a damp smell, and of the 4 windows, only 1 (the main sliding door) had a curtain, meaning we had to wear an eye mask to be in darkness. The room was provided with one small wardrobe, meaning we were limited on space for our clothes, there was also no kettle or space for tea/coffee. The towels we were provided in the bathroom weren’t changed during our stay either, making them rather smelly towards the end of our visit! We would 100% return to Gili Air and felt it was the perfect mix of beauty and facilities, however I feel we’d choose to stay elsewhere and only visit Mowies for dinner/drinks during our stay. For fast boats to/from Bali and Lombok, we’d recommend the Golden Queen. Very comfortable (lots of seats and ventilation) and only an hour behind schedule.

Absolutely great!!! Unforgettable vacation! Lying at the beach, have the greatest cocktails on the island, amazing food, personal attitude, striking views, ohhh it was marvelous ☺️ I want to thank specially to Ipung and his team! They are the best! They even managed to fulfill all of our wild ideas. Thank you ☺️ One of my favorite places on the planet ☺️

We've been there for 2 nights. perfect location, friendly staff. We plan to go there again for the 10th year marriage. This time we would like to take our 18year old daughter and my parents. All the Family. Congratulations