Flew Perth - DPS return with Garuda as usual.....no problems, and as good as you need on a 2hr 20min trip.
The only unusual feature was leaving Perth in clear and fine weather, and arriving in Bali to low grey skies, and landing from the east for a change.
We had a rental Avanza ready at the airport, in fact the same car that KTH staff nearly wrote off for us last trip.
Nice repair job, and drove well throughout.
The purpose of this trip was to work on our daughters wedding arrangements, and to set up our residence for use exclusively by friends and relations.
There were some issues with the "friends and relations" bit, but this is Bali, and I do not wish to elaborate here.
The wedding arrangements are moving forward slowly, but at least we made contact with Daisy, from Bali Butler, and she proved to be a great help.
We have identified three stunning stand alone villas (Average per night US$750) and have videoed so the couple can consider choices.
We have two Canggu options, and one in Ketewel.
When I walk through these places, I sometimes wish that people at home who view Bali as a third world country, and backward in all respects, could see them. A real eye opener.
With regard to eating out, I am not a great one for the larger places, and mostly eat at warungs, and even laundries, but we did go to a couple of "name places".
1) KETUPAT - Most impressive, and the best food, service and value of all. Certainly a return is a must.
2) UNS - Good value, and food good, but not up to Ketupat standard (Must admit that by this time I had picked up a virus, and taste buds were somewhat numbed)Will return for another go.
3) LA LUCHIOLA - Supposed to make for breakfast, but were a little late, so settled for lunch. Nice location and good service, but I found the food only a little above average.
The weather was wetter than we usually experience, but I gues that is expected in Feb. Drainage is still an issue around the place, and at one stage the Legian Parkir (Near memorial) was more like Legian Lake!!
Just on the weather, fans of Pantai Cafe will be very sad to see it now. Pretty much destroyed by the seas, as is the frontage to Ma Jolly.
Pantai will need some money spent to get it back to operation.
The lower end of Legian St was half blocked throughout our stay, slowing everything through there. It was backfilled before we left, but still barricaded.
There has been comment about the noise from building stage 2 on the forum, and we were keen to try and get an impartial view on it.
To be honest, we did not find it at all bad, and what occasional elevation in noise was compensated for by the fascination of watching the unusual circus like building practices.
Having said that, we were pretty busy, and rarely spent more than a couple of hours around the pool or on our patio.
I guess that it depends on what you want to do, and what they are doing at the time, that will form your views.
Unusually for us, this was only a 9 day trip, and we did not get to travel around as much as usual, and only got into Denpasar once.
On the return trip to Perth, we used the Prada Lounge for the first time at 100K Rp a person.
Worth it for the seating, but the food is ordinary with just bland rice, noodles, small cakes, and a microwave.
We would, however use it again.
Many thanks to the friendly and accomodating Balinese and Indonesian staff at KTH.
Also special thanks to Dadvet, who offered assistance to us with the wedding, which we were unfortunately unable to get to visit due to time constraints, and also our niece in Bali whos help was invaluable.