Hi All, sorry for the late JBR, but here it goes. Where do I start. Stayed at Villa Azur in Seminyak for 31 days. For those of you who have looked at it on the internet and are thinking of booking or have already booked DON'T DO IT!!. I will explain why. On arrival at the villa, which I must say is in the middle of nowhere, we were greeted with rat poo on the kitchen table. After alerting the housekeeper about the problem, she giggled and brushed it onto the floor and continued on her merry way. We later realised that the rat lived in the roof of the kitchen. At night you could hear him, and we saw him a couple of times running along the fence and onto the roof. It advertises there is 24/7 security. We spotted the security guard on the first day, but never seen again. Coming and going at all times, day and night and still nobody was there. The villa also advertises a pool man every second day. Day 2 he arrived, quick vacuum of the pool and left. The next time we saw him was on Day 29, where he swept the leaves around the pool, through some chemicals into the filter and left, neglecting the sludge which had been gathering on the steps into the pool and the pool floor as well. If you required a comfortable bed, then this place is not for you. The beds were very soft, compared to what I use at home and this caused a severe backache for my sister. We did however combat that by using the bedhead from another bedroom under the mattress. Her pain disappeared after a couple of days. If you are attending the villa, please take a pair of thongs or something that can be worn in the bathroom, although the pictures look wonderful, it is quite painful to walk on, the pebbles are actually stones and quite sharp. The third bedroom upstairs, should be left for the youngest people going. The stairs themselves are quite steep and need good knees to climb each way. While the room is very spacious. The amount of light at 6.00am in the morning is quite unbearable. A wall of windows at one end of the room has no coverings and no anti glare on the glass, therefore full sunlight hits the room. The air conditioner in that room was nowhere near good enough for Bali. It is twice the size of a normal bedroom, but the same size unit is used in all three rooms. It is constantly set at 17o, but could only get to 21o in the early hours of the morning, during the day it would stay at about 25o. Showers are strictly one minute duration and one person at a time. If you go over that, the water will completely stop and you are left standing in the shower until the water begins again, which is roughly 1-2 minutes later. You also need to turn the water off in between washing your body, hair etc. If you leave it on, the water will run out as well. We had several occasions where the power was out, for several hours at a time. Unlike at a hotel, there is no backup generator, so when the power goes out, so does the water, therefore no toilet either, we used the pool water to fill the cistern, using a bowl we found in the kitchen cupboard, but needed to make 2 trips, to fill the toilet (unlucky if you're the 3rd bedroom upstairs). This also means that the pump on the pool stops and all the debris and dead frogs, come back into the pool again. Its not advisable to cook in the kitchen. Other than boiling water on the stove, we cooked our bacon and eggs on a pan which we found in a cupboard. The kitchen itself is in quite a need of repair, draws are falling apart, cupboards smell so bad it takes your breath away. The kitchen chairs are falling apart and the floor tile benchtops are the dirtiest things I have ever seen. No amount of cleaning was going to help them, they are cracked and broken and very unhygienic. The housekeeping is done every day at 9.00am. If you are not up, she has a key to get in herself. The beds are changed every week, and unless you ask, you don't get clean towels. But the towels are very old and worn and discoloured, which gives the appearance of not being clean. The photos on the website show a very different picture to what you are actually walking into. I believe the photos were taken when the villa 1st opened and nothing has been done to update it. The boards around the pool are all rotted and some rusty nails are sticking up. Anyone reading this may think I am a whinger, but I have been going to Bali for 21 years and have staying a in a range of properties, from 2 stars to 3 ½ stars and I can honestly tell you that I would never stay in a villa again. I am going back to the hotel experience. I honestly believe the sickness that we had there, myself going to hospital with a severe ear infection and swollen lymph node and my sister and husband with severe gastro, was not because of the food, it was because of the lack of maintenance of the pool. I did ask the question before we left if there was anyone that had stayed at the villa previously, but only had one reply and I thought he was quite generous. I just don't want the next person to suffer the same as we did. If you would like to see pictures of anything we have mentioned, please email me bronko.start@hotmail.com and I will be happy to forward them. CHEAP IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST OPTION.