120 villas. One small, very specific team.
We are operators first, schooled in five-star kitchens, front desks, and back-of-house at the resorts and villas tourists fly across the world to book. Saka Villa Estates is what happens when that craft sets up shop in Seminyak and answers to villa owners instead of brand managers.
The two people whose names are on the door.
Started Saka in 2014 because they could not find a manager they would trust with their own villa. Still pick up the phone.
Ayu Pratiwi
Co-founder & CEO
Ayu grew up in her family's small Sanur guesthouse and spent a decade in five-star rooms divisions in Ubud and Nusa Dua before opening Saka in 2014. She still personally onboards every new villa in the first 90 days. Owners get her direct WhatsApp on day one, and most of them keep using it.
Former Director of Rooms, Four Seasons Bali · 18 years hospitality
LinkedIn →
Marco Bianchi
Co-founder & COO
Marco crossed over from European hotel finance, bought his first Bali villa in 2010, and learned the hard way what good and bad management looked like. He built Saka's reporting standards from the owner's side of the table. If a yield number is on your statement, he can tell you exactly which booking and which night it came from.
Former Belmond hotel finance · Bali villa owner since 2010 · 14 years in Bali
LinkedIn →Department heads who actually run the work.
Each lead owns one part of the owner promise (guest experience, owner reporting, marketing) and is named on every contract. No black-box account managers.
The people in the villas every day.
Area leads coordinate housekeeping, maintenance, gardeners and pool techs across Bali's three core villa belts. Most have been with us five years or more.
Ni Luh Asih
Operations Lead, Seminyak
+ 14 more housekeeping, maintenance, and guest-relations crew across our Seminyak, Canggu, and Uluwatu teams.
We are hiring property managers and guest-experience hosts across Seminyak, Canggu, and Uluwatu.
Talk to usWe answer every owner inquiry within 1 business day.
Tell us about your villa. We will come back with a free audit, an honest yield estimate, and the name of the lead who will run the account.
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