Saunas & ice baths in Sire & Tanjung

Sire and Tanjung are where Lombok's resort development is concentrated, and the work here is different in scale rather than in kind. The physics is the same. The question being asked is not.

Throughput, not seats

On a private villa the question is how many people sit down. On a resort it is how many guests move through per hour, which is a completely different sizing exercise. A room that comfortably seats six does not serve six guests an hour — it serves fewer, because it has to recover between sessions, and because guests do not arrive in tidy groups.

So a resort build starts from a schedule: sessions per day, guests per session, recovery time, and who is cleaning it between. That leads to decisions a villa never faces, like whether two smaller rooms beat one large one (they usually do), and whether the plunge needs UV on top of ozone (with that many bodies, yes). The framework for the numbers is in wellness for boutique hotels.

Calm water, still salt

The north coast is sheltered and the sea here is flat compared to the south. It makes no difference to the specification. A4/316 throughout, and a maintenance schedule that assumes daily commercial use — which is a considerably more serious document than the villa version. Under daily load, a bench that would be resanded annually at a private house needs looking at quarterly.

Large plots, long runs, real civils

Plots up here are big, which means the same long-run problem as the south-west coast but with more of everything: longer cable runs, longer water runs, and genuine civils. On the upside, three-phase is more often already in place on a resort property, which removes the constraint that dominates most of our other jobs.

Access is generally good — proper roads, room to turn a truck — so unlike the Gilis, freight is not a design constraint here. That opens up the custom end of what we do: larger rooms, bigger glass, and things that would never cross a beach.