Here's a big question - In hindsight,Please tell me WHAT you wished you knew for your 1st trip .It's getting too hard & too far back for us to remember,but we have friends we wanna help.
We have some people we know very well - clients of my hubby's & friends of the club that he's on the board for.Because of us constantly raving on about Bali for so many years they have decided to go there in May.They are agreat couple in late 40's taking no kids with them - just nervous about their 1st OS trip.They are booked into the Padma - in Padma St,opposite the Bali Mandira.
I am helping them out with there specific questions but after so many years it's so hard to think back of the 1st trip & what you wished you had a friend to tell you- I mean the good & the bad.
As most Adelaide forumites would know my husband has a real sick sense of humour so is doing the bit about the gecko's,time share,the fottpaths,the toliets ,some of the smells etc.All the different stuff.
I realise it's going to be more than a 1 page document I make up for them .So far I've covered money changers,supermarkets,hotel or room safes ,Blue taxi's vs the others,laundry,I still wanna talk about out favourite fixed price shops & places for massages well as tailors.
What else do you suggest ?
Okay need to talk VOA,airport taxi's,S & S ,Bali Sim card's - what else does every one thing I should talk about with my friend.The troulel is that there are SO many things that become 2nd nature & we take for granted after we have been going for a few trips & after so many years you forget everything that you thought of the 1st trip.