In Reply to: how much more posted by clovis on Thursday, 26. January 2006 at 11:53 Bali Time:
Don't know where you come from clovis but US$42 is a bucketload of money for a hotel room for a night. My experience is the more you pay the less pleasant the hotel. Big hotels are sterile and impersonal. The money you pay generally lines the pockets of a Javanese company, not much goes into Balinese pockets.
Go to http://directrooms-indonesia.com and you'll see a lot of very pleasant hotels that charge from US$15 to US$30 a night.
I've spent amost 3 years in Bali over the last 20 and rarely paid more than AUS$15 a night and have lived in luxury and have directly supported local Balinese families