In Reply to: booking a hotel in Bali posted by Yaz on Tuesday, 12. June 2007 at 17:33 Bali Time:
I have found that you can book directly with some hotels and get a very good rate. You can usually tell which ones by looking at their website rates. if they are ridiculously high (usually the larger hotels) you would be better off booking over the internet. We have booked directly with Kumala Pantai,Tegal Sari and Puri Raja and numerous others in Sanur and the smaller villages (they charge what they advertise)and have negotiated with a few others including villas. If they are small hotels we would always try booking direct first otherwise we would use the internet and there are many good sites.