In Reply to: advance booking or play it by ear posted by travfam on Tuesday, 19. June 2007 at 16:16 Bali Time:
have hotel preferences and you don't mind walking around looking, I'm sure you will be fine. But if you do have particular hotels in mind I would book.
We are going 19th of July ( after Australian and Indonesian holidays) and I had real problems getting into the hotels I wanted, especially the smaller boutique style places that we love. We had to shuffle a few nights around, and ended up pre booking all our accommodation, we don't normally pre book, but we didn't want to waste time looking once we get there, as this is our "relaxing holiday". Also I found a couple of places that I would have been really upset at missing out on.
We have agreed that if we really want to change a couple of nights once we get there, we will just loose out on a bit of money rather miss something wonderful!