In Reply to: la lucciola posted by Alex Hills on Tuesday, 1. February 2005 at 18:24 Bali Time:
I was staying near there in August for the first time in 4 years. Went looking for the place and walked past before I realised how much it had changed. No reclining chairs where the grass meets the beach, no lifesaver's tower with Made and his brother chatting to the G-string clad girls. No massage girl under the trees, no happy security guard keeping fit by nonchalantly punching the palm trees.
Bigger, more expensive, more pretentious and, to me, somehow sterile. After having an overpriced, not particularly special fruit juice for old times' sake, we were not sorry to leave.
We noticed another restaurant further up the beach with reclining chairs and I wondered whether they'd got them from LL. If they are trying to re-create some of the magic of the old LL, well good luck to them and we'll be having a look at that place next time we're there.