In Reply to: echo beach bali posted by Shez on Saturday, 17. April 2010 at 14:20 Bali Time:
Wouldn't bother. Costs heaps to get there & then you have to deal with the expensive transport mafia when you leave.
It IS a very pleasant spot. It is also VERY crowded just about anytime. If you sit overlooking the beach you get enveloped in the smoke from the BBQ. It is hot inside. Service is poor. Crappy band playing early '80s stuff sloooowly.
It is a "scene". People go there because people go there. You could go to, say, La Lucciola on the beach in Seminyak & have a superb meal for around the same as the cost of going to Echo Beach, eating there & paying the exorbitant rates to get back. Afterall, it's the same coast with the same sunset. Altho a taxi mafia also operates around LaL & environs, within a 5 min walk there are Bluebirds galore.