Just back from 11 days at the Bali Hai Hotel.Fantastic trip as usual with the wife and 2 daughters.
Garuda Flight to and from Perth-ok and plane full.
Hotel was brilliant, breakfasts very good.
Played Golf at Bali Handara $150 Aussie dollars through John At Bali Discount Golf.Includes Hotel pick up, Club Hire,Buggy and Caddy great value and will do again.Played on the Friday last week and 15 inches of rain fell everywhere except at the course,great day.
Restaurants and Pubs, Bagus-cold beer and my favourite,Bali Aussie-aging,Ours-ok,Billys-ok, Rickys-ok,Foo-kin pub-very good,Segara village in Sanur-great Satays,Bubba Gumps-superb,Bali Mandira-very good,Bali Garden-very good,Indo National-good,Papas-good but expensive.
Will try Dewi Sri in Tuban next time, met Norman at the beach in the morning in front of the Hotel the owner and for 500,000 rph you can get a set meal for 2 with lobster,prawns,crabs,fish.Way better value than Jimbaran restaurants and he said this is better than paying by the grams as they do in many restaurants in Bali.
The wife and kids went to the Ice sculpture expo and enjoyed the minus 20 conditions and the many scuptuires on show.
Waterbom Park was enjoyable.
Sammy and Sussies bar was a good and caught up with Smudge and met Tuberose and Co.Large crowd on the day we went-good for Sammy.
Plenty of Massages were taken and the beach traders in front of the Bali Hai are very funny and kept us amused ,the kids enjoyed the pool for most of the day.
Centro-great value and Starbucks has good coffee.
One thing i did notice was the increase in the Taxi fares, many of the roads are blocked and due to this the Taxis take longer routes and over the course of 2 weeks the normal taxi fare of a few years back has risen quite a bit.
The beach works in Tuban have no effect on the actual beach it self.
We were the first to experience the new liquid laws and there was much confusion at the airport, in the end some people were drinking their red wine before boarding in the departure lounge rather than giving it up, fair enough.
In all another great Family Holiday and time to save for next year.
cheers
Yappa