Well arrived back in Perth to terrible cold wet misereable weather after 10 glorious days in beautiful Bali We flew Garuda leaveing Perth at 8am on time had a nice breakfast and a very good flight arrived in Dempasar on time and what a surprise 20 minutes later we were on our way to the hotel that was after paying voa and getting our bags the fastest we have ever gone through an airport the trip to the hotel was good the tour guide told us lots of interesting things not much that we did not know about but still we listened incase he had something new to say. We stayed at the Bali Mandiria Well this was our first stay at this hotel and will not be our last Everything about the hotel was great the room we had was huge we were in the new building first floor and we loved it The fridge was not the best so we told housekeeping within minutes a new fridge was put in we could not fault the staff the gardens are beautiful and the rooms were cleaned everyday clean towels and sheets everyday and they were white The Bed was huge and very comfortable we had a nice balcony and the air con was the best air con we have ever had the bathroom was great loads of room and we never ran out of hot water the toilet flushed every time The breakfast was great the best bacon in Bali I think plenty to choose from.The pools were lovely one had a few steps up to it but what a view when you were up there the other one was great also always lovely and clean there were plenty of lounges around the pool also all around the gardens so you never had to wait for a lounge.So as you can see we loved the hotel.
The first shop as you walk out the hotel and go right is also a laundry and I would reccomend this laundry to anyone the washing we had done there was beautiful and very cheap.
Had a leather motor bike jacket made for our son and 4 pairs of pants for me and I would also reccomend the tailor Alkie tailor she is just past Bubba Gumps in the plaza and she is very good if you do use her tell her Jenny and Dick reccomended you we also used her last year and we were impressed then.We did not do too much this trip we did go on the Bali Hai dinner cruise which is a must for anyone going to Bali we loved it We also went to the bird park which we have not done before and loved it this is a must.
We had a driver Ketut he was great did not push at all just took us where we wanted to go we used him twice one day to go to the birdpark and Ubud then probulary the highlight of our holiday we went to Lovinia the trip there was fantastic a long way but great we were going to go to Git Git water Falls but I had a sore on my ankle that had turned septic and I could not put any trainers on so it was not safe to climb down to the falls in thongs so Ketut suggested we go to Lovinia and go out on a boat fishing with his brother who owns a boat cost us 20 dollars Aus for nearly 3 hours and it was fantastic we saw so many dolphins nmy husband fished and Ketuts brother caught a huge Tuna.If we had had more time we would loved to have stayed a lot longer but we had to get back We stopped at Ketuts brothers and had a few Bintans Then started the long trip back to Legian Ketut suggested that we go back to his house and his wife would cook the fish Bali way and we meet her and his children we said yes of course as we wanted to see how they lived We got to Ketus about 7 O clock and Ketuts wife was so happy to see us They had a nice house in Nusa Dua not very much in it compared to what we have here in Aus but they were very proud of it their childrn were lovely We did not leave there till gone 10 The meal she prepared was lovely We now have some lovely Balinese friends who we will keep in contact with and will visit again next year.
We ate at lots of places to many to remember but a few that we would go to again would be Bubba Gumps we had a fantastic meal there The Italian restaurant in the Mandiria great meal there Pocco locos not bad Posers in Legian good meal there.
Did the usual shopping T shirts ,bags shorts, watches DVDs X box games,playstation games, Game boy games all for the grandchildren had a list a mile long got most of what the wanted .
We also went to face to face engraveing just infront of Mataharis to get some Christmas presents for our daughter and her husband took a couple of photos of their children and had them put onto pendants for them they look great I thought they were a bit expensive as they did not come with the chains so we went into Mataharis and bought some lovely silver chains for them I am very happy with them and are lovel Christmas gifts. Had a massage on the beach same lady did my nails very cheap.
Ten days later we were heading back to the airport with overweight cases but went through no problems Had a nice dinner on the plane and arrived in Perth on time picked up our duty free which we had bought before we left again no waiting right through nothing to declare then when we lifted our case of the belt after it had been X rayed we noticed that it had been very badley damaged which we did not notice when we took it of the carusel We called over the customs guy who took us to the complaints desk no problems we have to take it somewhere in Mount Lawley in the morning would not have worried if they had not been such expensive suit cases. Well I do hope that I have not boared you all and I would like to thankyou all because without all your info here there is a lot we would have missed out on