In Reply to: The girls are home - Part 2 posted by Colleen on Saturday, 28. February 2009 at 04:45 Bali Time:
these girls to go to pieces as you've described was their transport not turning up then they really shouldn't leave the suburbs without their mum. dad,hanky and a name sticker on their buttoned up cardigans. It hapepens all the time and its usual for another driver to ring your hotel for you or even drop you off if they have the room. As for the sleazebag, give him a public dressing down, cause a fuss and report him to his boss. How would they usually handle it if they were anywhere else. Though, I have to say, as young women staying at the Troppo Zone (maybe not now but definitely in its hey day) there might be an assumption that they were up for it.
The travel agent obviously has no idea about the products they are selling and is at fault for inappropriately recommending this hotel. The Troppo Zone was known as and marketed as a place to abuse alcohol and hook up. The room rate included complimentary pub crawls on a Troppo Zone bus and guests were encouraged to stay together as a group for alcohol fuelled excursions to things like WWR and Waterbom. The bar staff used to put on a show that was graphically sexual with girls encouraged to get up on the bar and strip, the coctails all had sexual names, the pool was always the place for some late night action and room swapping was commonplace. The rooms were always run down and grubby but mostly everyone was either too drunk or too hung over to care. So even though business has obviously dropped right off (it was one of the places that never recovered from its proximity to the bomb sites) the TA should have been aware of the Tropo Zone's reputation. And far from warning young women off; the sleaze, sex, drugs and rock n roll was often the principle reason for staying there. Sort of like a Contiki tour but without the constant change of hotel.