Hubby and I Arrived in Bali late Thursday night after an uneventful flight from a cold and dreary Melbourne. All good through Voa and immigration ( they really take their job seriously...no smiling) then a bit of a queue at customs but waved straight through at the end. We were met by our friend and driver Made, who had a couple of much appreciated cold bintangs waiting for us! From there we drove straight to our hotel in Seminyak, it is the first time we have stayed here usually preferring the hustle and bustle of Poppies 1. I had pre booked 4 nights at Grandmas Hotel Seminyak after reading about it on the forum. There is really nothing wrong with this place ( I already knew it was going to be a small room) it is clean, relatively new and at 38k rp well priced, however I didn't really do enough homework as the one priority for us is a decent patio or balcony where we can sit and read. No patio or balcony here and no lounge chairs around the pool! For the next 4 nights we didn't have anywhere booked thinking we would just stay on at Grandmas if we liked it or go somewhere else, therefore this is our last night here before heading back to our natural habitat in Poppies 1.
We went for a wander into Kuta yesterday, got about halfway into Poppies before hearing our names called out in delight by friends of many years visits ( they were a bit dumbfounded to hear we were staying in Seminyak!) onto the beach and lots of kisses and hugs from " our girls" so that was it, went into SGI ( where we had already booked for 8 nights from the 26 th, after we come back from Gili T) and that's where we'll be staying fo the next 4 nights.
We have friends staying at the Melati Apartments in Legion, so have spent quite a bit of time around that area. Had a lovely meal at Blue Ocean on Sat night and last night ate at Seaside. The weather is
beautiful, we got 9500 when we changed aus $ yesterday and the bintangs are cold!