8th Anniversary of Maya Ubud Resort & Spa

Maya Ubud Resort & Spa was celebrating its 8th year anniversary on March 28, 2009.

Attended by all employees and management, the anniversary was celebrated with a special luncheon that served various Balinese foods and desserts to enjoy in the staff cafetaria.

To commemorate the resort’s anniversary, “My Star of the Year” was honored to the best employees at the resort during the last one year. This year, the management has decided to award the “My Star of the Year” for the “front of the house” category to Yuda Wijaya, and for the “Back of the House” category to I Made Sutapa and I Gede Muliadi. Special prizes and certificates were also awarded to them as well.

Thanks for all that help the celebration be such a happy moment !

  

New Partnerhip with SynXis

Maya Ubud Resort & Spa recognized the needs of the guests to make an online reservation as easy, quick, and secure experiences. With a new partnership with SynXis, our exclusive provider of online reservation product and services, Maya Ubud positively can achieve these goals.

SynXis is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation and one of the Sabre Holdings’ businesses to provide distribution and technology solutions for the hotel industry. The company has approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries and has its corporate headquarters in Dallas, Boston, Denver, Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.

Therefore, in the beginning of March 2009, Maya Ubud Resort & Spa has effectively placed the new online reservation on our official website, http://www.mayaubud.com/.

2009 Best Front Office Employees

Once a year, Maya Ubud Resort & Spa nominates the employees that deliver the best effort and performance in the Front Office Department. Therefore, on March 12, 2009, Maya Ubud was pleased to announce Darsa, Sudiana, Dian, Ratna, Merta, Sutriasih, Melani, Wijana, Melani as the Best Front Office Employees of the year 2009 and Yuda Wijaya as Best of the Best Front Office Employee of the year 2009. Special prizes were awarded to them. Congratulations!

Melani, one of the Front Office Best Employees

A happy face of Yuda, Best of the Best Front Office Employee

Meet Koyano Tetsuro; a Balinese Dancer

Wilaca - san of Maya Ubud & Koyano - san

Yes, he is a Japanese, but he is famous as a Balinese Dancer in Japan. Popular as Mask Dance (Tari Topeng) performer, Koyano spends 3 - 4 months of his time in Bali in a year, the rest will be arranging Balinese Dance & Music performances, not only in Japan but also to the US.

While he is in Bali, he presents dance in temple festivals, this is a form of an offering to God called "ngayah".

He dedicates his life to Balinese Dance and aims to support old Balinese Dancers based in Bali.

Salute to Koyano san !

The Smile Shop, Help Others to Smile

The Smile Shop or in Indonesian language called Toko Senyum belongs to Yayasan Senyum (The Smile Foundation) http://www.senyumbali.org/. Founded by Mary Northmore, this foundation have mission to reduce the suffering currently associated with craniofacial abnormalities and to improve quality of life by facilitating the delivery of health care to people with craniofacial disabilities in Bali and other Indonesian islands in partnership with local and international health care professionals.

They have done surgeries mostly in Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, patients who present with serious conditions that need a higher level of treatment than is currently available locally are sent to the Australian Craniofacial Unit in Adelaide, for surgery by Professor David David.

Maya Ubud has been participating in contributing good as news stuffs that they can sell in the shop.

You can also be participating to this social foundation.



The Smile Shop in Ubud


This is what they sell here.

They're welcoming volunteers to take part

Their display

Mr Wirajaya, Maya Ubud's Executive Housekeeper handed the donation to Ms Carrie

Widya Guna Bedulu, Orphan House

Last Saturday, January 24, 2009, we had an opportunity to visit Yayasan Widya Guna, an Orphan House located in Bedulu village, about 15 minutes from Maya Ubud. The purpose of this visit was to deliver unused stuffs from the hotel they can still use. Our regular group named Gita International Yoga from Australia was also handed bags of clothes and dolls to give to the children.

Yayasan Widya Guna - started in 2004 by Gill Rijnenberg & Ketut Sadia, wth their primary goal is to give the children of Bali the opportunity to obtain an education and to break the cycle of poverty. There are total of 86 children funded their education through Yayasan Widya Guna, 19 of them are orphans and the rest are poor children. The children age range between 3 to 17 years old.

Each child has respective foster parent to fund their education fee. Pak Ketut of Widya Guna expects to get the contract of fostering at least until the children pass their high school. Each child has their bank account where their parent transfer the fund directly to them. Each child has a "buku kas" where they record all their expenses to be read by their foster parents. They even have email address and they are communicating to their foster parents atleast once a week updating their development.

Everyday they get English Class and Dance Class. The English class is conducted by some volunteers. The volunteers from overseas will be staying in guest house available at the yayasan.

http://www.thewinsproject.org/


L-R : located in the middle of Bedulu Village, the English class

the children - they speak English !


The kids posed in front of stuff we brought for them

They entertain us with songs... yes, English songs.
Merit from Holland, volunteer English teacher, she is here for 3 months

Mr Ketut Sadia and wife, Mrs Nyoman.
This couple take care of the children day to day.

Flower Tour to Maya Ubud Garden

The resort has so many beautiful flowers arround the garden.

Let me take you to a Flower Tour to Maya Ubud Garden while introducing different flowers the resort has to offer to the visitors. I will update everytime I or my colleagues have a chance to photographs these beautiful flowers.

frangipani flower, in each villa


lotus at riverside garden


pasiflora at pathway to spa at maya

lantana (krasi in Balinese) at resort's lobby

flower of coraltree at garden area

frangipani at the garden

orange heliconia at north nature walk

lotus at resort's temple pond

lily at lobby and surrounding