Adiwana Warnakali resort, the first of its kind on Nusa Penida island, opened its doors in September 2020. With its 15 well-appointed rooms, scenic restaurant, relaxing sun deck, sparkling pool and serene spa, this 4-star boutique hotel offers a unique seaside experience with breathtaking views of Mount Agung and the sunset. In a short time it earned a stellar reputation for high-end service and outstanding hospitality, quickly becoming one of the best places to stay in Nusa Penida. Its PADI 5-star instructor development dive centre has its own 3-metre-deep pool, training and classroom facilities and equipment rooms — everything you need for a memorable scuba diving adventure. Since 2026 there are also three villas with a private pool about 350 metres away, for guests who want the space and the quiet without giving up the restaurant, the spa and the dive centre. Don’t miss the chance to create unforgettable memories of Bali and Nusa Penida at Adiwana Warnakali, truly an awesome place to visit on the island.
What makes Adiwana Warnakali a Nusa Penida dive resort
Plenty of hotels on the island will arrange a dive for you. A Nusa Penida dive resort is something narrower: the dive centre is part of the property, not a phone call away. At Adiwana Warnakali that means a PADI 5-star Instructor Development centre on site, a dedicated 3-metre training pool, equipment rooms and a classroom. On a diving day the centre collects you at the resort and drops you back there afterwards — the port is 3.8 km by road, about 14 minutes, or a 10-minute walk along the shore path. The rest of the time you’re simply at the hotel.
The difference is narrower than a brochure would put it, and it’s worth saying plainly. If you’re already certified, you meet at the Dune Penida shop by the port, the same as divers staying anywhere else on the island — sleeping at the resort doesn’t change that. What it changes is everything around it: the centre picks you up and brings you back, and you never had to choose a dive shop off a street in Toyapakeh and hope for the best.
Where it genuinely counts is the pool. Every session that isn’t at sea happens at the resort: the first breaths of a discovery dive, and the pool work any course starts with — most often a PADI Open Water, which takes a good half-day in the water. Those are the mornings you don’t spend travelling — and on a course spread over several days that adds up. The instructor who takes you to sea afterwards is the one who taught you in the pool the day before.
None of which means you have to dive. Most people who stay here don’t dive at all — they come for the view, the rooms, the pool and the spa, and the dive centre is simply something happening at the far end of the property. What it does change is that if one of you gets curious, they can act on it: trying it for the first time takes half an hour in the pool, not a day of planning.
The reef below the resort
There is no beach under the hotel. The ground drops away into a coral wall — the Toyapakeh dive site, one of the best walls in Nusa Penida for both diving and snorkelling. That’s why the dive boat lives down at Toyapakeh beach, 500 metres along the shore, and why a diving day starts with a pick-up rather than a walk down to the sand.
One thing worth saying plainly, because it’s the reef directly below the rooms: don’t snorkel it on your own. There’s a jetty, but the current through the strait can run hard right here. Every operator who takes snorkellers onto this wall does it from a boat, with someone watching from the surface, at a time of day when the current allows. It’s a superb site. It is not a swim-off-the-jetty site.
The rooms
Adiwana Warnakali has 15 rooms and every one of them faces the sea. They come in three categories:
- 4 Premier Ocean Suites (64 m²) — the ones with a bathtub on the private balcony, facing Mount Agung. Of everything here, that’s the thing guests describe when they get home.
- 8 Ocean View Suites (64 m²) — same size, same view, a generous balcony, without the outdoor bathtub.
- 3 Grand Deluxe Ocean View (56 m²) — the entry category: eight square metres less, the same private balcony, the same view.
All three take two adults and a child. The view is stunning at any time of day: you wake up in bed facing the sea, as if on the deck of a boat — you can see Ceningan Island and Mount Agung even from the shower, and the sunset arrives from your balcony sofa.
Each room is spacious and comfortable, with a nautical look — an oar as part of the décor and beautiful blue tiles in the bathroom.
Pool and deck
The ironwood sun deck is a great place to enjoy the sun, sip a cocktail or simply rest in front of Mount Agung. You can cool off in the pool or even have a floating breakfast, and the elegant pergola provides shade when the sun is strong.
Restaurant
The Warnakali Restaurant is one of the best dining destinations in Nusa Penida — and not only for the view. The chef prepares fresh seafood and Indonesian specialities, as well as pasta, pizza, sandwiches and burgers.
Spa
After a busy day on the roads of Nusa Penida or out diving, it’s time to relax at Tejas Spa Warnakali. It offers a wide choice of massages and treatments — a complete experience that starts with a foot bath and ends with an amazing ginger tea, facing the sea. Treatments can be booked online, and the spa is open to visitors who aren’t staying at the resort.
A sustainable resort
Adiwana Warnakali is committed to sustainability. The roof is fitted with solar panels to reduce the resort’s carbon footprint, single-use plastic has been removed from operations, and guests are encouraged to use reusable materials — small but real steps to help preserve Nusa Penida’s natural beauty.
A video tour of Adiwana Warnakali
Villas with a private pool
Three villas with a private pool opened in 2026, about 350 metres from the resort — far enough that nobody walks past your deck, close enough to reach the restaurant, the spa and the dive centre on foot. That distance is the whole point. The resort is compact and busy in the good sense, which is what you want when you dive twice a day; the villas are the opposite, and you can be in your own pool at six in the morning without meeting a soul.
One-bedroom villa with a private pool
95 m² for two, on a single level: one en-suite bedroom, a living room that opens onto the deck along two full glass walls, a walk-in shower and a free-standing bathtub set against a window. The private infinity pool runs the length of the deck, and on a clear morning you watch Mount Agung come out of the haze from the sofa without getting up.
Two-bedroom villas with a private pool
The same plan at 182 m² for four, with a second en-suite bedroom — built for a family or two couples travelling together. There are two of them. Nobody sleeps on a sofa bed and nobody queues for the bathroom, which is more than most four-person options on the island can say.
Both sizes have a full kitchen — worktop, island, hob and full-size fridge, not a bar fridge and a kettle. Over a week that changes the arithmetic: the shops are a few minutes away and you’re no longer eating out three times a day. It’s also the thing the villas offer that no room at the resort can.
Opening rates run from 3,400,000 IDR a night for the one-bedroom villa with breakfast for two, and from 5,772,000 IDR for a two-bedroom villa with breakfast for four. Rates move with the season, so treat those as a floor rather than a fixed price. If you’re weighing the villas against the island’s other options, our guide to the best hotels in Nusa Penida puts them side by side with Maua and Tanah Damai.
Dive and stay packages
Most people end up at a dive resort rather than a hotel because they want the room and the diving settled in one go. That’s arranged directly rather than sold off a shelf: tell us your dates, how many of you are coming, who is certified and how many dives you want, and you get one figure for the whole stay instead of two separate bills. Villas can be included, which a standard room package wouldn’t cover.
There is no fixed all-year price, and that’s deliberate. Room rates move with the season and the number of dives varies with the group, so any published package has to be padded to stay safe in high season — and you’d be paying for that padding in low season. Ask Roy: he’s one of the instructors at Dune Penida, so he prices the stay and the diving against your actual dates and your actual party rather than off a grid. If nobody in your group is certified, say so — a discovery dive or an Open Water course changes what the week looks like, and it’s better to plan that before you arrive than on the first morning.
Dune Penida PADI 5-star dive centre
Dune Penida Dive Center opened in Nusa Penida in August 2017 under the name Warnakali. From the start, its goal was to reach the highest level of diver satisfaction in safe conditions — and the effort paid off: it joined the list of PADI 5-star dive resorts in Bali in under two years, and after only three years became an Instructor Development Dive Resort. Divers come from all over the world to dive Nusa Penida’s waters and meet the oceanic sunfish (Mola Mola) and the manta rays at Manta Point. But there is much more to see: with the right guide and the best dive centre, you’ll get the most out of diving in Nusa Penida and Bali.
Dune Penida: a unique 3-metre-deep pool
The swimming pool is emblematic of the dive centre’s ambition. Its design meets all the objectives of professional scuba diving courses and fun dives.
An awesome tool for scuba diving initiation and courses
The pool is divided in two. In the shallow part, people who have never dived get used to the equipment and breathe underwater for the first time. The 3-metre-deep part is important for a complete initiation before going to sea, because the first few metres are the most critical for equalising ear pressure. Mastering every exercise in the reassuring setting of a pool means you enjoy your dives at sea even more — it would be a shame to miss out on diving with manta rays because you were poorly prepared.
The pool is also more than 10 metres long, because some PADI courses require it: you develop your basic skills there for your PADI Open Water course and practise some exercises before performing them at sea. It’s also reassuring for refreshing the skills of certified divers who haven’t dived in a while.
Dune Penida instructors know Nusa Penida’s dive sites inside out
Nusa Penida’s dive sites are world-famous, but they’re also quite technical: the currents around the three islands (Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan) can be strong. Diving with an instructor who knows every detail of each site is a real asset — a guarantee of a successful dive where you see as much as possible, in total safety — and it counts double when you’re after something in particular, like the Mola Mola.
It’s also a guarantee of successful training, whether you come for a discovery dive, a PADI certification or a more advanced course. The centre recently certified a rescue diver who completed all her training after originally planning only to snorkel with manta rays.
Want to dive with Dune Penida? Ask Roy
Roy is an Indonesian dive instructor at Dune Penida who knows the daily conditions, currents and marine life around Nusa Penida. Tell him your certification level, experience and dates, and he’ll help you plan the right dives.
Dune Penida dive centre equipment
New, well-maintained equipment is a key to enjoyable dives, and the centre also carries everything needed for safe diving — including two essentials on board the boat: a radio and an oxygen kit.
Diving initiation in the pool
If you’ve always wanted to breathe underwater but never dared ask, you can book a discovery dive with the Dune Penida instructors: it starts in the infinity pool, in water you can stand up in, with an instructor beside you the whole time. No certification, no commitment — and if you like it, you decide there and then whether to follow up the next day with two dives at sea, one of them on a manta ray site. Even if you never get in with a tank, the pool is worth the walk: perched on a hill above the Lembongan Strait, with Mount Agung to the east and superb sunsets to the west.
Book your stay (and save 10%)
Booking direct is the best way to stay at Adiwana Warnakali: use the code AWK for 10% off direct reservations. Prefer to combine your stay with the island’s icons? Pair it with a sunset dinner at our sister venue, the Amok Sun & Cliff Club, about 25 minutes away on the west coast.
Adiwana Warnakali FAQ
Is Adiwana Warnakali a dive resort?
Yes. It is a Nusa Penida dive resort in the strict sense: the PADI 5-star Dune Penida centre is on the property, with its own 3-metre training pool, classroom and equipment rooms, and a shuttle between the resort and the port on the days you dive. You don’t book a hotel and a dive shop separately — they’re the same address.
Do you have to be a diver to stay there?
No, and most guests aren’t. Adiwana Warnakali works as a boutique hotel first — 15 ocean-view rooms, a restaurant, a spa, a pool and three private-pool villas — with the dive centre there if you want it. If you’ve never dived and you’re curious, you can book a discovery dive that starts in the pool, without leaving the property.
Where is Adiwana Warnakali?
Adiwana Warnakali is on the north-west coast of Nusa Penida, at Toyapakeh, facing Mount Agung. The harbour where the fast boats from Bali arrive is a 14-minute drive away — or a 10-minute walk, if you take the shortcut along the sea. Walking is genuinely the faster of the two.
How many rooms does it have?
15, all facing the sea: 4 Premier Ocean Suites (64 m², with a bathtub on the balcony), 8 Ocean View Suites (64 m²) and 3 Grand Deluxe Ocean View rooms (56 m²), each with a private balcony and a nautical decor. Since 2026 there are also three villas with a private pool a short distance away — one of 95 m² and two of 182 m².
Does Adiwana Warnakali have villas with a private pool?
Yes — three, opened in 2026. The 1-bedroom villa is 95 m² and sleeps two; the two 2-bedroom villas are 182 m² each and sleep four. All three have their own infinity pool, en-suite bedrooms, a living room and a full kitchen. They sit a few hundred metres from the resort, and villa guests use the restaurant, spa and dive centre as normal.
Can you book a stay and diving together?
Yes — it’s quoted per request rather than sold as a fixed package. Give Roy your dates, the size of your group, who is certified and how many dives you want, and you get a single figure covering the room and the diving. Villas can be included, and so can a course if someone in the party isn’t certified yet.
Is there a restaurant and a spa?
Yes. The sea-facing Warnakali Restaurant serves Indonesian and international dishes, and Tejas Spa Warnakali offers traditional Balinese massages and treatments facing the ocean — open to outside guests as well, not only those staying at the resort.
What is Dune Penida, the resort’s dive centre?
Dune Penida is the resort’s PADI 5-star Instructor Development dive centre, with a 3-metre training pool for discovery dives and courses, a full equipment room and a boat to explore Manta Point, Crystal Bay and Gamat Bay.
How do you get to Adiwana Warnakali from Bali?
Take a fast boat from Sanur or Padang Bai to Toyapakeh harbour (about 30–45 minutes). From the pier the resort is a 14-minute drive and it arranges the transfer — or a 10-minute walk along the sea if you’re travelling light and would rather not wait. See our guide on how to get to Nusa Penida from Bali.
They talk about Adiwana Warnakali resort
About the author — Blaise Jaeger
Blaise Jaeger opened Nusa Penida’s first PADI dive centre in 2017, lived on the island in 2020–2021 and is now based in Bali, where he still visits Nusa Penida regularly. He owns Adiwana Warnakali and is a partner in the Dune Penida dive centre, so take this page for what it is — an owner’s description, with the details a booking site won’t give you.