Left the Gold Coast with Air Asia on 5/3 for 2 nights in KL. Not long enough but had a great time all the same. Excellent flight, no complaints. Arrived in Bali on Monday 7/3 to beautiful sunshine and lovely smiling faces.
6 of us in total. Myself, 14 yo son, twin sister and brother-in-law all flew togeather, my husband flew in from Perth and my 20 year old son flew in from Melbourne. Stayed at Kuta Lagoon Resort. Booked 3 pool view rooms. Got upgraded to pool access room. (thank you to my lovely sister) Very impressed. Lovely hotel, plain, simple but clean and good location. Breakfast, again, plain, simple but nice.
Spent the first 3 days shopping, eating, and just relaxing by the pool. Ate at Blue Skyze, Warung 96, Bamboo corner, Warung Made, Daddy's etc. favourite was warung 96. The best pizza ever. Great service, excellent food and nice and cheap.
Thursday we booked a driver and headed out to see the sites. Pluto was our driver and he was excellent. Good english and drove well. we went to segawata markets, sanur, depensar and Tanah lot. First time to bali for my 20 year old, he was amazed. Got to walk over to the island at tanah lot. The tide was low enough. Boys had a ball and were blessed by the local people. My son was, again, amazed. Had a fantastic day with Pluto and was sad to say goodbye.
Husband and 20 year old got a tattoo at Rose tattoo. Excellent work and they were very impressed. very happy with outcome. $80 aud each. The rest of our time was spent swimming, eating and shopping. My son ran into a old school friend staying at our hotel (small world). Had awesome massages at the little place couple doors down from Kuta Lagoon resort, I think it was called Berlin Massage. 45,000 for foot and 50,000 for full body. Was great. Son went to another massage place but left half way through, said it was terrible.
Packed up all our treasures and headed off to the airport on sunday. Husband had to fly back to Perth, Son back to Melbouren and us back to KL and then on to Gold Coast. Flight was excellent BUT extremely unhappy with the baggage handlers. Of course all fragile purchases were taken on as hand lugguge but non fragile itens backed (extremely well) into check in and found most of it smashed, broken and chipped. 2 inch thick wooden candle sticks snapped in half. Never mind, will know better next time.
Fantastic holiday, excellent food, lovely smiling people, wonderful place, Cant wait to go back.