In Reply to: Help with Candi Dasa Resorts posted by juju on Friday, 29. June 2012 at 17:17 Bali Time:
Stayed at Bali Shangrilah on one of the Ebay $99 vouchers - ended up with a 2nd one for free so we got 2 rooms for $99.
Only ended up staying 3 nights though, as we found the town just way too quiet and had already done most of the local sites on a previous trip to Bali.
We never actually got asked to sit through the timeshare talk at any stage either. It was never even mentioned. Accommodation was nice. Rooms were comfy and clean. Smallish but sufficient and great value for the price we paid - ie $99 for two rooms for 3 nights (potentially a week). Breakfasts were good and we had a lunch and a dinner at the resort restaurant too, which were nice. Pool was good - and I'm not a big pool user, but found it tempting.
We went down to the Palms resort for some event they were putting on for the owners birthday and some charity do. Didn't like the feel of the place at all. It just felt like a big concrete jungle and the water lapping at the back of the resort was filthy with plastic bags and other rubbish. We left after being there 5min and didn't stay for the party, since nobody seemed keen to tell us where we needed to go. Reception staff were less than friendly.
That was just under 2 years ago.