Hotel Uyah Amed & Spa Resort
Beachfront resort and salt farm, Amed
Photos: Hotel Uyah Amed & Spa Resort
Hotel Uyah Amed & Spa Resort sits on the black-sand beach at Amed, on Bali’s far northeast coast, and it is built around something genuinely unusual: the traditional sea-salt pans that are still worked on the property in the dry season. Uyah is Balinese for salt. Wooden drying troughs run between the bungalows and the beach, with Mount Agung’s foothills behind them.
The resort has 27 units across ocean-view bungalows, poolside bungalows and two family villas, plus two pools, the Cafe Garam restaurant, a spa and the Amed Dive Center. For a wedding it offers the Balinese ceremony properly staged: a priest and offerings under the beachfront bale, a gamelan orchestra, dancers, a petal path through the garden, then dinner as the light goes. Couples who choose this over a Western-style beach blessing tend to be the ones who came to Amed for the diving and stayed for the quiet.
We treat Uyah as a match for a small group who want the Balinese form rather than a styled arch, and who do not mind that the nearest florist is three hours away. Nothing here is published as a fixed package, so we build the quote with the resort and reconfirm current figures for your date.
Key details
Ceremony & reception spaces
Why we love it
A wedding on a working salt farm
Uyah means salt, and the resort is built around pans that are still worked in the dry season: wooden drying troughs, palm-leaf baskets and the hills behind. It gives the place a reason to exist beyond tourism, and it gives you a set of photographs no other property on this coast can offer.
The Balinese ceremony is the real offer here
This is not a white-arch beach blessing with a Balinese accent. Uyah has run full ceremonies for foreign and local couples for years, with a priest, offerings, a gamelan orchestra and dancers, then dinner. If you want the Balinese form done properly, this is the property in Amed that already knows how.
Everything is inside the gate
Two pools, the Cafe Garam kitchen, a spa and the Amed Dive Center are all on site. That matters more than it sounds when the nearest florist is three hours south: a small group can take the bungalows, marry on the sand, eat together and dive the next morning without leaving.
What the venue offers
- 27 units: 19 ocean-view bungalows, 6 poolside bungalows and 2 family villas
- Black volcanic sand beachfront on the east-facing Amed coast
- Two pools, one of 10 metres and an 18-metre pool by the beach
- Working sea-salt pans on the property
- Cafe Garam restaurant and an on-site spa
- Amed Dive Center on site, PADI and SSI
- Balinese ceremony with gamelan orchestra and dancers
Where it is
Hotel Uyah Amed & Spa Resort · Jl. I Ketut Natih, Pantai Timur, Amed, Karangasem, east Bali
Good to know
Common questions
Can you get married at Hotel Uyah Amed?+
Yes. The resort arranges a Balinese ceremony with a priest, offerings, a gamelan orchestra and dancers, followed by dinner, and it has done so for both foreign and local couples. It is a ceremonial arrangement rather than a legal one, so we handle the legal paperwork separately and plan the timing around it.
How much does a wedding at Hotel Uyah Amed cost?+
The resort does not publish a fixed package price. The cost depends on the number of guests, whether you want the full gamelan and dance troupe, and what comes up from the south. We build a written quote with the resort for your date rather than quoting a number that moves.
How many guests can it take?+
It is a small property of 27 bungalows and villas, so a group of up to around 50 can take the whole resort and celebrate on the beach and in the garden. Larger than that and Amed stops being the right choice, which we will say plainly.
How long is the drive from the airport?+
Two and a half to three hours on a good run, up the coast road through Karangasem. It is a scenic drive rather than a grim one, but it is long enough that we would not ask guests to do it twice in a day.
