It does not really have too many large hotels or restaurants, but rather a collection and variety of smaller ones. Certainly, for fresh fish and quaint eating places, it is not easily beaten. Also, unlike many other areas. Most of the hotels are actually on the beach and there is never any sign of beach hawkers outside the central Amed area. The seas here are crystal clear and they have living coral / many fish off some of the beaches. It is also a dolphin rich area.
Amed is a resort town that harks back to the early days in Kuta. Simple losmens and a couple of good, small hotels sit along the shady, grey sand beach. Bartenders tell not-so-good jokes, and boys with guitars roll off standards as entertainment in the evenings.