In Reply to: Dynasty or Paradise Plaza? posted by Micronesian Steve on Monday, 18. April 2005 at 07:20 Bali Time:
As mentioned by someone else they are in completely different areas.
Last trip we stayed at Dynasty for a couple of nights because it's about a 5 minute walk from the Waterbom park !!! ( The time we went before that the Waterbom park was closed down until the day we departed :-( )
We stayed in a room with basically a divider between the double bed and the two singles ( and a couch ). Not the most comfortable and bit hard to get away from the kids :-)
Two pools there, a main one and a smaller kids one. Tuban beach is just a short walk out the back.
Great hotel, lovely staff and you can easily walk into the main strip of Kuta for shopping. So if shopping, nightlife etc are high on your list then highly recommended. Haven't tried the kids club there.
Sanur is much quieter in general . As again mentioned the Paradise Plaza Suits has huge rooms, three bedrooms, two bathrooms , kitchen, large loungeroom. The staff there are fantastic. Two pools, the main one and a kids club one. The staff there are all magnificent. We still keep in contact with a couple of them. Kids were begging to go to kids club rather than come shopping ( which sometimes worked well for all :-)
Be careful with the free shuttle bus as if you go to the beach they drop you off at their watersports area, NOT at the shopping area. This is about a 20 minute walk from the beach shopping area. It's about $2 to get a taxi to the main beach shopping area ( Jalan Sindhu )
Taxi fare to Kuta isn't too bad ( I can't remember exactly how much , but I think it was about $6AU. ) The free shuttle bus also goes to the Radisson Plaza further down the road. You can cross use your card there for a single bill.
Up the road from here is also a Kentucky Fried Ayam :-)
The family and I ( 11,10,6 ) have no problems recommending the Suites ( we've stayed there twice now )
Maybe a stint at both. Do the "highlife" at Kuta and then "mellow" in Sanur :-)
There's some photo's here of the Dynasty
http://community.webshots.com/album/317152934Zfrxkh
and if you want some photo's of the Plaza suites send me a message.
Cheers.