Hi, i have frequently traveled to bali over the last 3 years and even with all my enticing stories, beautiful pictures and amazing souveniers i have brought back, my parents still seem to not understand why i love bali so much!?! My parents have decided to plan a family trip to bali in june 2013 to 'see what all the fuss is about' and have left all the organising/desisions on hotels and where we stay up to me! My parents have said they could not handle getting 'haggled' on the streets so i have decided that Kuta/Legian is off the list of where to stay but i want to be close enough to kuta/legian to catch a taxi in to visit my favourites, Dad's said he wants a huge beautiful hotel so he doesnt have to leave it,
Options are NUSA DUA, SEMINYAK, JIMBARAN or TUBAN???
but am thinking if we stay in nusa dua its very commercialised and generally expensive and my parents wont get to see the real cultural bali that i have come to love, and ubud is a fair distance away from everythng else? I have never stayed in seminyak but am leaning towards seminyak or nusa dua.
we are a family of 8 so we will either need 4 rooms close together or 2 family villas which might suit better?
If anyone can recommend some great Villas/Hotels that have 'a balinese touch', large gardens, large pool and entertainment area, great swim up pool bar, resturant etc so if my parents dont want to leave the hotel they will be ocupied and enjoy relaxing at the hotel?
please help if you have any ideas, thankyou in advance :)