Paradise island, with friendly people. The local population speaks good English, some even a little bit of Russian. For 35-50 dollars, you can hire a car with a Russian-speaking driver for the whole day, who will not only be a driver, but also an assistant in the store and in the market. Will help to make purchases of seafood and not only.
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Paradise island, with friendly people. The local population speaks good English, some even a little bit of Russian. For 35-50 dollars, you can hire a car with a Russian-speaking driver for the whole day, who will not only be a driver, but also an assistant in the store and in the market. Will help to make purchases of seafood and not only. We were lucky, we met Bati. And he became our indispensable assistant. I can reset his phone.
Do not get hung up on the hotel, even if it is in Nusa Dua. The island is worth it to ride on it, to see the beauty of alpine lakes, to visit the bird park.
On the declared 5-ku the hotel does not hold out. Periodically there was no electricity. The rooms are quite shabby. Cleaning in the rooms every day, wipe everywhere, including the entire loggia with furniture. Change of linen daily, change of towels and bathrobes if necessary at your discretion. Bathrobes are not changed immediately, in order to bring clean ones I had to remind the reception 4 times. The hotel is great for families with children under 12. The pool is completely occupied by multilingual chirping kids, since the depth is small and the size matches the kids. The pool looks better in the photo. . . There is a great games room. For an infant, you can take an English-speaking nanny.
The hotel area is small, but clean and well maintained. I really liked the decorative ponds between the buildings and lotuses near the pool.
Food-breakfasts are the same. For lovers of variations of eggs and noodles, this is in abundance. Meat or fish were in only one dish. Papaya and pineapples quickly ran out and were replaced with more watermelon. Fortunately, there are plenty of shops with an excellent selection of fresh meat and fruits. And it is better to buy fish, crabs, shrimps on Jimbaran from fishermen.
The beach is not the best - small in size for so many guests. There aren't enough places in the morning. After lunch, there are many free places. Requests for additional sun loungers and umbrellas remain requests, as they are simply not available. Yes, there is too little space. There is a shuttle to the beach, but you can walk for 7-10 minutes no more. Unfortunately, there is construction along the road (reconstruction of a golf course and a pond, as well as construction of Novatel's cottages). When it's over, it'll be good enough.
The ocean is clean. Pronounced tides at 1.5 meters in height. But this is not annoying, since the coast has a strong slope. There is a reef in front of the coast that dampens the ocean wave - one of the places for surfers.
Do not get hung up on the hotel, even if it is in Nusa Dua. The island is worth it to ride on it, to see the beauty of alpine lakes, to visit the bird park.
On the declared 5-ku the hotel does not hold out. Periodically there was no electricity. The rooms are quite shabby. Cleaning in the rooms every day, wipe everywhere, including the entire loggia with furniture. Change of linen daily, change of towels and bathrobes if necessary at your discretion. Bathrobes are not changed immediately, in order to bring clean ones I had to remind the reception 4 times. The hotel is great for families with children under 12. The pool is completely occupied by multilingual chirping kids, since the depth is small and the size matches the kids. The pool looks better in the photo. . . There is a great games room. For an infant, you can take an English-speaking nanny.
The hotel area is small, but clean and well maintained. I really liked the decorative ponds between the buildings and lotuses near the pool.
Food-breakfasts are the same. For lovers of variations of eggs and noodles, this is in abundance. Meat or fish were in only one dish. Papaya and pineapples quickly ran out and were replaced with more watermelon. Fortunately, there are plenty of shops with an excellent selection of fresh meat and fruits. And it is better to buy fish, crabs, shrimps on Jimbaran from fishermen.
The beach is not the best - small in size for so many guests. There aren't enough places in the morning. After lunch, there are many free places. Requests for additional sun loungers and umbrellas remain requests, as they are simply not available. Yes, there is too little space. There is a shuttle to the beach, but you can walk for 7-10 minutes no more. Unfortunately, there is construction along the road (reconstruction of a golf course and a pond, as well as construction of Novatel's cottages). When it's over, it'll be good enough.
The ocean is clean. Pronounced tides at 1.5 meters in height. But this is not annoying, since the coast has a strong slope. There is a reef in front of the coast that dampens the ocean wave - one of the places for surfers.
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Thanks to Ariagroup for a well-organized vacation !! ! my family and I rested at the novotel nusa dua 5 * hotel in January, everything is super! I liked it very much! I advise everyone
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Thanks to Ariagroup for a well-organized vacation !! ! my family and I rested at the novotel nusa dua 5 * hotel in January, everything is super! I liked it very much! I advise everyone
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Friends! Do not listen to anyone - a wonderful hotel and rest in it! Two non-ladies lived in a luxurious room, 85 square meters, everything is there... even scales! Which is not unimportant! An hour in the ocean - and a kilogram is gone! About the beach! Clean beach, sea-ocean: warm day, cool day, but not critical.
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Friends! Do not listen to anyone - a wonderful hotel and rest in it! Two non-ladies lived in a luxurious room, 85 square meters, everything is there... even scales! Which is not unimportant! An hour in the ocean - and a kilogram is gone! About the beach! Clean beach, sea-ocean: warm day, cool day, but not critical. Lots of colorful fish right there. Breakfast - so-so, but we didn't come to eat! The ONLY minus - tasteless pineapples, not sweet. The territory of the hotel is pleasing to the eye - an abundance of flowers, everything for vacationers. About the fact that they didn’t change towels - garbage, they changed every day and everything towels and bedding (checked !!! )! The lock in the bathroom broke - they repaired it right away! Do not doubt! Choose NOVOTEL!
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I chose in advance, having studied reviews, a map, etc. I really liked the location near the golf courses (it’s nice to walk to the ocean), well-trained staff, a variety of breakfasts, excellent landscape design work on the territory, the maximum that they could fit, pools , lobby, rooms with daily careful cleaning (things scattered by me were always folded neatly), safe leaving money in the room, by chance, true, but repeatedly.
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I chose in advance, having studied reviews, a map, etc. I really liked the location near the golf courses (it’s nice to walk to the ocean), well-trained staff, a variety of breakfasts, excellent landscape design work on the territory, the maximum that they could fit, pools , lobby, rooms with daily careful cleaning (things scattered by me were always folded neatly), safe leaving money in the room, by chance, true, but repeatedly... ), not noisy, occasionally pleasant soft music. A beautiful beach with clean white sand and implicit ebbs and flows. I will gladly come back. .
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Rested from November 6 to November 18.2011. At the entrance to the room, a deposit of $ 200 is charged, which is returned on the day of departure. The hotel is good. The buildings are 4-storey. The rooms are in Balinese style. Cleaning is daily and thorough. When they cleaned our room and didn’t notice. The service is very friendly and unobtrusive.
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Rested from November 6 to November 18.2011. At the entrance to the room, a deposit of $ 200 is charged, which is returned on the day of departure. The hotel is good. The buildings are 4-storey. The rooms are in Balinese style. Cleaning is daily and thorough. When they cleaned our room and didn’t notice. The service is very friendly and unobtrusive. , children's area, decent gym, sauna (free of charge), Breakfast is varied, many dishes for every taste. Great pastries and lots of fruit. No one leaves hungry. The beach can be reached by shuttle in 4 minutes, or on foot along the golf course for about 10 minutes. a little expensive. Sunbeds and umbrellas free of charge and in sufficient quantity. They also give out beach towels. The sand is fine, the beach is clean. There are low tides, but they don’t interfere with swimming. Impressions are good !!! !
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Chose between Thailand and Bali. We chose Bali, Novotel Nusa Dua Bali, which we did not regret at all! We were told that this is one of the best hotels, but until the end we were convinced of this only upon arrival - everything is really extremely impeccable! There is a golf club nearby. I myself do not play, but fans will probably like it.
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Chose between Thailand and Bali. We chose Bali, Novotel Nusa Dua Bali, which we did not regret at all! We were told that this is one of the best hotels, but until the end we were convinced of this only upon arrival - everything is really extremely impeccable! There is a golf club nearby. I myself do not play, but fans will probably like it. The children immediately fell in love with our guide, Vladimir - thank you so much! And also thanks to the whole company "Deluxe Tour" for the excellent service and wonderful vacation!
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Vacation time came, and I began to look for a country where to go. Turkey and Egypt were decisively swept aside, since they had already been there several times and didn’t really like it (with the exception of the Red Sea, of course, but that’s a completely different story) We also had the last 2 years in Thailand, so I wanted something new.
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Vacation time came, and I began to look for a country where to go. Turkey and Egypt were decisively swept aside, since they had already been there several times and didn’t really like it (with the exception of the Red Sea, of course, but that’s a completely different story) We also had the last 2 years in Thailand, so I wanted something new. The choice was between Cuba and Bali (in terms of money, about the same, in terms of flight time too), but due to the likely rains in Cuba and the almost complete absence of any sights on the land of the great commander, we stopped in Bali. The hotel was chosen in Nusa Dua, Novotel. What they later did not regret ....but first things first. Departure from Domodedovo was delayed by about 40 minutes, because, according to the commander of the ship, there were too many iron birds on the airfield and we were waiting for our turn to take off.
They took off very gently, just as they landed afterwards, the Boeing 777 is not old, the distances between the seats are decent, it is much more comfortable to sit than in the 747, where passengers are pushed like sheep into a stall, and where there is nowhere to stretch your legs due to closely standing seats. It can be said that there is no feeding, but this is not news for Transaero. The crew is friendly, the flight attendants are quite helpful, so there are no complaints about the service (they even handed out blankets and pillows, which is usually not enough for everyone in Transaero). We arrived in Denpasar at 10 o'clock local time, as the pilots managed to catch up with 30 minutes during the flight. Visa on arrival 25 Baku on the snout, then a quick border, getting suitcases and going outside to the delight of the Balinese guides from various tour companies who meet you.
I didn’t really worry about exchanging money and changed 200 dollars at the airport, although the exchange rate there is not very good, but then when calculating it turned out that you lose only 20 thousand rupees from a hundred dollars (this is the cost of a bottle of beer in a supermarket)
The guide met us, took us to the minivan and took us to the hotel (20-25 minutes from the airport, as they have constant traffic jams there). The guide spoke a little Russian, a little English, so there were no problems with mutual understanding. He helped with accommodation at the hotel, although I sent him home, because he himself could explain himself to the staff and simply did not want to detain a person in vain. But he stood his ground and was honestly present until I received the key to the room (well done, for this a separate plus for the meeting party).
The room was a bit of a disappointment. No, the room is large, everything is as promised in Moscow and as seen in the photographs....
a huge bathroom, with a bathtub and a separate shower cabin, in which there are already 2 showers, wall-mounted and mobile ...there is a huge bed in the room, probably 2.5 meters wide ....but there is no promised bed for a child, there is only a small sofa on which only a pygmy can accommodate (and my eagle is 11 years old, and he is not offended by his height, and he is not used to sleeping in the lotus position), which is why the head of the family, that is, me, was sent to the reception in order to resolve the conflict. The lady at the counter listened to my complaints, raised my documents, and said that I had not paid for an extra bed (although in all other countries where I was it was provided free of charge). Their hotel estimated the cost of an extra bed at $45 per night, which was not at all acceptable, and I called the guide, who left 10 minutes ago, to resolve the conflict.
I must say that he quickly returned, rubbed shoulders with the girls at the reception, then even called his superiors, explained the situation ......but everything was in vain, the voucher did not indicate "paid extra bed", and no one could do anything , no hotel, no local tour operator. In a word, it was a jamb of the Moscow tour operator, who did not warn me when booking the ticket. Maybe it was for the better, as it turned out later, but nevertheless, the sediment remained. In short, I began to solve the problem on my own. 45 bucks a day for an extra bed, well, I didn’t like it at all, and I began to look for other options. The girl, rummaging through the computer, announced that there is another option. For an additional charge of 30 bucks a day, I can exchange my room for a larger one.
I also had to bargain with them about the 21% commission that they take from each payment at the hotel (this is a service fee and some kind of tax there), in the end I convinced them that the payment would be in cash, but they did not charge me an additional 21%. On this they added. But the problem was that there were no available rooms of this category, and that one of them would be free only tomorrow. Well, after thinking a little, I had to agree, although I assumed that this was only a divorce and an excuse for me to leave them behind. I had to spend the night the three of us on the same bed, although I can’t say that it was crowded. The next day, at the agreed time, I trudged to the reception, so that, as I expected, I would hear another excuse from the Balinese. Nothing like that. The girl at the reception said that she was aware of all my problems, and led me to show the room. God, when I saw him, I was stunned. Huge room, with two rooms and a kitchen.
The living room is combined with the dining room, a table for 6 people, two sofas, a TV, a DVD player ....in the second room there is a double bed, another TV, a table with a mirror and a wardrobe. In the kitchen there is a refrigerator with a freezer, and of a normal size, 180 cm, a stove with 2 burners and a sink. A bunch of cabinets with dishes and glasses ....And another balcony of 15 square meters, there is another couch of impressive size and a table with 2 chairs. In a word, I immediately said “I take it”, paid as agreed and we moved in. The family was happy. By the way, if I ordered this room in Moscow, I think that the increase in the cost would not be the same as I paid on the spot, but much more. So if someone is traveling with a child, wind your mustache. In any case, ask your tour operator for the difference in price for these rooms, and on the spot it came out to me for 10 nights less than 9.000 rubles.
Now about the island itself. The ocean and the beach at the hotel is certainly beyond praise.
To the ocean, either a couple of minutes on a free shuttle that runs every 15-20 minutes, or on foot along the golf course (specially timed when walking at a leisurely pace for 10 minutes). By the way, the neighboring hotel Ayodi, which was behind a fence from ours, has its own access to the beach directly from the hotel ...but! ! ! If you choose this hotel and you are settled somewhere near the reception, then you will spank to the beach for the same 10 minutes, only on the territory of the hotel.
On the beach, towels and sunbeds from the hotel, all of course free of charge. The hotel has its own beach, and in my opinion the best on the coast. The ebbs and flows are certainly noticeable, but you can swim at low tide, not like on other beaches. There is only one sand to the buoys, apparently the corals have been cleaned out, and swimming is just a feast for the eyes, especially for children. When the tide is high, there is a rather strong current along the coast. Cool. If you lie on an inflatable mattress, then in 5 minutes it will blow you 100 meters away.
You can snorkel, but there’s not much to see there .....so, small fish ...corals ....although my wife saw a moray eel when she swam with a mask away from the shore into the corals. In the ocean, 300-400 meters from the shore, there is apparently a large reef, and all the waves break there, and a strong wave does not reach the shore. And behind the reef, on some days, we saw waves of 4 meters. I don’t know how people swim on other beaches where there is no such reef, and the waves reach the shore, probably everyone only rides on surfers.
In the morning it was hard to get up for breakfast for the first time, all the same, the difference of 4 hours is felt. And in the evening, on the contrary, they could not fall asleep in any way. Then they seemed to get used to it, but upon arrival in Moscow, the opposite is true. In the evening it cuts down already at 9 o'clock, and in the morning you get up at 5 in the morning and walk like a stump. But after a few days everything was back to normal.
Breakfast is typical for Southeast Asia. Compared to Turkey, probably a little poor, but in principle we were satisfied.
Omelettes, sausages, bacon, boiled beans, rice, potatoes, chicken, Chinese dumplings of several types (by the way, quite tasty), pastries of 3-4 types, all kinds of vegetables and fruits, in short, everything is standard. Juices of 4 types. Not natural, as it seemed to me, but very high quality. Every day they changed. But the fruits somehow let us down. Only bananas and papaya were delicious, and everything else ......pineapples are only white, almost not sweet, there were no yellow ones ....watermelons are so-so, melons are generally like soap ....maybe not the season, I don’t know. .. By the way, their omelettes are simply freaky, they are somehow airy and very tasty ....in no country have they prepared such omelettes before.
Now about where you can eat and where you can go. To the left of the exit from the hotel, a 5-minute walk is the village of Bualu (if I do not confuse the name). There are several zucchini, live music is played in almost all of them in the evenings, and the prices are almost the same everywhere. We liked most of all in the cafe, which is kept by the German.
Delicious. It's called Nyomans Beergarden. At least it is honestly written on his menu that all taxes are included in the cost of dishes, and in other cafes they will take another 10-15% of the cost of dishes from you, and at first they will delicately keep silent about this, and after your dinner they will delicately remind you. Food prices are relatively inexpensive. Dinner for three usually cost us $30-35. And with a couple of beers and a cocktail. Although their beer is a little expensive, even by Moscow standards. A bottle of 0.5 in a supermarket costs about 100 rubles with our money, and beer is not of the highest class, but the local "Bintang" (like our Baltic). And in a restaurant, such a bottle is already 150 rubles ....Once they took 2 kilos of huge grilled shrimp (1kg-20 dollars) But in principle, all prices are quite acceptable, and on average, a portion of meat or fish with a side dish costs 200-300 rubles . The cuisine is both European and Asian, which in turn is subdivided into Balinese, Chinese and Indonesian ....in a word, the choice is great.
Now about excursions. The guide was immediately delicately sent by me along with their services and prices for them. I took a taxi myself for the whole day or half a day (depending on how far we had to go) and the driver drove us where we needed and waited where we needed and for how long. The maximum I paid once for the whole day of skiing around the island was $ 35 (we left the hotel at 9 o'clock and returned at 8 o'clock in the evening) This includes a visit to the bird park, the monkey forest, lunch, and a trip to the north of the island to Lake Bratan (there is a very very beautiful temple on the water) If you go, take warm clothes with you, as this place is in the mountains, and we got a little cold there. All visits to parks and attractions are not included in the cost of paying a taxi driver, you pay for it yourself. Moreover, the entrance to the water park and the bird park costs $23 for an adult and $16 for a child.
In addition, we went to several different places to watch the sunset (this is in Jimbaran, near the airport, it’s very beautiful when the plane comes in to land from the sea in the rays of sunset, and lands almost on the sea, since their runway is 400-500 meters enters the ocean. Then to the Tanah Lot temple (also very beautiful, but it takes almost 2 hours to drive one way), and to the Ulawatu Bay in the south of the island. We were also in the water park with my son, there are few slides, but there are cool ones. On one, the most the cool son was not allowed in, because he weighed less than 45 kilograms. He was upset, and I rolled down once. This slide is called Climax, and the name corresponds to the sensations that you experience when sliding down it. It seems that now you will have it, and this applies not only women, but also men...There you get up in a special booth, the capsule closes, the countdown starts, a hatch in the floor opens, through which you fly through the pipe like a shell from a cannon.
For the first second, you don’t understand at all where you are and who you are ....then everything is fine, and you regret that everything ended so quickly.
I changed money only in places where taxi drivers advised. And the course is normal, and the risk of being inflated is minimized. The hotel exchange rate is very low. They took any banknotes for exchange, regardless of the year of issue and series, only in duty free on departure they refused to take one banknote of 2006 of the CF series (I don’t know why, but they said that they don’t take such a series) By the way, it’s better to spend all the rupees before leaving , since the rate in duty free is also unprofitable. Leave only 150 thousand rupees per person to pay the airport tax (or whatever they call it).
It is better to buy souvenirs either on the streets (which is the cheapest and you can bargain), or in Bali Collection, but everything is more expensive there. And in duty free, the prices for souvenirs are simply exorbitant.
The return flight was also delayed by almost an hour, as the plane from Moscow arrived late.
Accordingly, they also arrived in Moscow with a delay of half an hour.
If anyone has questions, please email. I will answer everyone.
Yuri
P. S. I almost forgot. Rested in the period from 01.08 to 12.08 2011.
They took off very gently, just as they landed afterwards, the Boeing 777 is not old, the distances between the seats are decent, it is much more comfortable to sit than in the 747, where passengers are pushed like sheep into a stall, and where there is nowhere to stretch your legs due to closely standing seats. It can be said that there is no feeding, but this is not news for Transaero. The crew is friendly, the flight attendants are quite helpful, so there are no complaints about the service (they even handed out blankets and pillows, which is usually not enough for everyone in Transaero). We arrived in Denpasar at 10 o'clock local time, as the pilots managed to catch up with 30 minutes during the flight. Visa on arrival 25 Baku on the snout, then a quick border, getting suitcases and going outside to the delight of the Balinese guides from various tour companies who meet you.
I didn’t really worry about exchanging money and changed 200 dollars at the airport, although the exchange rate there is not very good, but then when calculating it turned out that you lose only 20 thousand rupees from a hundred dollars (this is the cost of a bottle of beer in a supermarket)
The guide met us, took us to the minivan and took us to the hotel (20-25 minutes from the airport, as they have constant traffic jams there). The guide spoke a little Russian, a little English, so there were no problems with mutual understanding. He helped with accommodation at the hotel, although I sent him home, because he himself could explain himself to the staff and simply did not want to detain a person in vain. But he stood his ground and was honestly present until I received the key to the room (well done, for this a separate plus for the meeting party).
The room was a bit of a disappointment. No, the room is large, everything is as promised in Moscow and as seen in the photographs....
a huge bathroom, with a bathtub and a separate shower cabin, in which there are already 2 showers, wall-mounted and mobile ...there is a huge bed in the room, probably 2.5 meters wide ....but there is no promised bed for a child, there is only a small sofa on which only a pygmy can accommodate (and my eagle is 11 years old, and he is not offended by his height, and he is not used to sleeping in the lotus position), which is why the head of the family, that is, me, was sent to the reception in order to resolve the conflict. The lady at the counter listened to my complaints, raised my documents, and said that I had not paid for an extra bed (although in all other countries where I was it was provided free of charge). Their hotel estimated the cost of an extra bed at $45 per night, which was not at all acceptable, and I called the guide, who left 10 minutes ago, to resolve the conflict.
I must say that he quickly returned, rubbed shoulders with the girls at the reception, then even called his superiors, explained the situation ......but everything was in vain, the voucher did not indicate "paid extra bed", and no one could do anything , no hotel, no local tour operator. In a word, it was a jamb of the Moscow tour operator, who did not warn me when booking the ticket. Maybe it was for the better, as it turned out later, but nevertheless, the sediment remained. In short, I began to solve the problem on my own. 45 bucks a day for an extra bed, well, I didn’t like it at all, and I began to look for other options. The girl, rummaging through the computer, announced that there is another option. For an additional charge of 30 bucks a day, I can exchange my room for a larger one.
I also had to bargain with them about the 21% commission that they take from each payment at the hotel (this is a service fee and some kind of tax there), in the end I convinced them that the payment would be in cash, but they did not charge me an additional 21%. On this they added. But the problem was that there were no available rooms of this category, and that one of them would be free only tomorrow. Well, after thinking a little, I had to agree, although I assumed that this was only a divorce and an excuse for me to leave them behind. I had to spend the night the three of us on the same bed, although I can’t say that it was crowded. The next day, at the agreed time, I trudged to the reception, so that, as I expected, I would hear another excuse from the Balinese. Nothing like that. The girl at the reception said that she was aware of all my problems, and led me to show the room. God, when I saw him, I was stunned. Huge room, with two rooms and a kitchen.
The living room is combined with the dining room, a table for 6 people, two sofas, a TV, a DVD player ....in the second room there is a double bed, another TV, a table with a mirror and a wardrobe. In the kitchen there is a refrigerator with a freezer, and of a normal size, 180 cm, a stove with 2 burners and a sink. A bunch of cabinets with dishes and glasses ....And another balcony of 15 square meters, there is another couch of impressive size and a table with 2 chairs. In a word, I immediately said “I take it”, paid as agreed and we moved in. The family was happy. By the way, if I ordered this room in Moscow, I think that the increase in the cost would not be the same as I paid on the spot, but much more. So if someone is traveling with a child, wind your mustache. In any case, ask your tour operator for the difference in price for these rooms, and on the spot it came out to me for 10 nights less than 9.000 rubles.
Now about the island itself. The ocean and the beach at the hotel is certainly beyond praise.
To the ocean, either a couple of minutes on a free shuttle that runs every 15-20 minutes, or on foot along the golf course (specially timed when walking at a leisurely pace for 10 minutes). By the way, the neighboring hotel Ayodi, which was behind a fence from ours, has its own access to the beach directly from the hotel ...but! ! ! If you choose this hotel and you are settled somewhere near the reception, then you will spank to the beach for the same 10 minutes, only on the territory of the hotel.
On the beach, towels and sunbeds from the hotel, all of course free of charge. The hotel has its own beach, and in my opinion the best on the coast. The ebbs and flows are certainly noticeable, but you can swim at low tide, not like on other beaches. There is only one sand to the buoys, apparently the corals have been cleaned out, and swimming is just a feast for the eyes, especially for children. When the tide is high, there is a rather strong current along the coast. Cool. If you lie on an inflatable mattress, then in 5 minutes it will blow you 100 meters away.
You can snorkel, but there’s not much to see there .....so, small fish ...corals ....although my wife saw a moray eel when she swam with a mask away from the shore into the corals. In the ocean, 300-400 meters from the shore, there is apparently a large reef, and all the waves break there, and a strong wave does not reach the shore. And behind the reef, on some days, we saw waves of 4 meters. I don’t know how people swim on other beaches where there is no such reef, and the waves reach the shore, probably everyone only rides on surfers.
In the morning it was hard to get up for breakfast for the first time, all the same, the difference of 4 hours is felt. And in the evening, on the contrary, they could not fall asleep in any way. Then they seemed to get used to it, but upon arrival in Moscow, the opposite is true. In the evening it cuts down already at 9 o'clock, and in the morning you get up at 5 in the morning and walk like a stump. But after a few days everything was back to normal.
Breakfast is typical for Southeast Asia. Compared to Turkey, probably a little poor, but in principle we were satisfied.
Omelettes, sausages, bacon, boiled beans, rice, potatoes, chicken, Chinese dumplings of several types (by the way, quite tasty), pastries of 3-4 types, all kinds of vegetables and fruits, in short, everything is standard. Juices of 4 types. Not natural, as it seemed to me, but very high quality. Every day they changed. But the fruits somehow let us down. Only bananas and papaya were delicious, and everything else ......pineapples are only white, almost not sweet, there were no yellow ones ....watermelons are so-so, melons are generally like soap ....maybe not the season, I don’t know. .. By the way, their omelettes are simply freaky, they are somehow airy and very tasty ....in no country have they prepared such omelettes before.
Now about where you can eat and where you can go. To the left of the exit from the hotel, a 5-minute walk is the village of Bualu (if I do not confuse the name). There are several zucchini, live music is played in almost all of them in the evenings, and the prices are almost the same everywhere. We liked most of all in the cafe, which is kept by the German.
Delicious. It's called Nyomans Beergarden. At least it is honestly written on his menu that all taxes are included in the cost of dishes, and in other cafes they will take another 10-15% of the cost of dishes from you, and at first they will delicately keep silent about this, and after your dinner they will delicately remind you. Food prices are relatively inexpensive. Dinner for three usually cost us $30-35. And with a couple of beers and a cocktail. Although their beer is a little expensive, even by Moscow standards. A bottle of 0.5 in a supermarket costs about 100 rubles with our money, and beer is not of the highest class, but the local "Bintang" (like our Baltic). And in a restaurant, such a bottle is already 150 rubles ....Once they took 2 kilos of huge grilled shrimp (1kg-20 dollars) But in principle, all prices are quite acceptable, and on average, a portion of meat or fish with a side dish costs 200-300 rubles . The cuisine is both European and Asian, which in turn is subdivided into Balinese, Chinese and Indonesian ....in a word, the choice is great.
Now about excursions. The guide was immediately delicately sent by me along with their services and prices for them. I took a taxi myself for the whole day or half a day (depending on how far we had to go) and the driver drove us where we needed and waited where we needed and for how long. The maximum I paid once for the whole day of skiing around the island was $ 35 (we left the hotel at 9 o'clock and returned at 8 o'clock in the evening) This includes a visit to the bird park, the monkey forest, lunch, and a trip to the north of the island to Lake Bratan (there is a very very beautiful temple on the water) If you go, take warm clothes with you, as this place is in the mountains, and we got a little cold there. All visits to parks and attractions are not included in the cost of paying a taxi driver, you pay for it yourself. Moreover, the entrance to the water park and the bird park costs $23 for an adult and $16 for a child.
In addition, we went to several different places to watch the sunset (this is in Jimbaran, near the airport, it’s very beautiful when the plane comes in to land from the sea in the rays of sunset, and lands almost on the sea, since their runway is 400-500 meters enters the ocean. Then to the Tanah Lot temple (also very beautiful, but it takes almost 2 hours to drive one way), and to the Ulawatu Bay in the south of the island. We were also in the water park with my son, there are few slides, but there are cool ones. On one, the most the cool son was not allowed in, because he weighed less than 45 kilograms. He was upset, and I rolled down once. This slide is called Climax, and the name corresponds to the sensations that you experience when sliding down it. It seems that now you will have it, and this applies not only women, but also men...There you get up in a special booth, the capsule closes, the countdown starts, a hatch in the floor opens, through which you fly through the pipe like a shell from a cannon.
For the first second, you don’t understand at all where you are and who you are ....then everything is fine, and you regret that everything ended so quickly.
I changed money only in places where taxi drivers advised. And the course is normal, and the risk of being inflated is minimized. The hotel exchange rate is very low. They took any banknotes for exchange, regardless of the year of issue and series, only in duty free on departure they refused to take one banknote of 2006 of the CF series (I don’t know why, but they said that they don’t take such a series) By the way, it’s better to spend all the rupees before leaving , since the rate in duty free is also unprofitable. Leave only 150 thousand rupees per person to pay the airport tax (or whatever they call it).
It is better to buy souvenirs either on the streets (which is the cheapest and you can bargain), or in Bali Collection, but everything is more expensive there. And in duty free, the prices for souvenirs are simply exorbitant.
The return flight was also delayed by almost an hour, as the plane from Moscow arrived late.
Accordingly, they also arrived in Moscow with a delay of half an hour.
If anyone has questions, please email. I will answer everyone.
Yuri
P. S. I almost forgot. Rested in the period from 01.08 to 12.08 2011.
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• 9.5
We were there two months ago. The hotel itself is beautiful, everything is as in the reviews. Didn't like the staff. The rooms were cleaned disgustingly, the towels were not changed in full. The New Year was celebrated with a C grade (so-so), there was probably not enough Olivier. In addition, they stole money from the safe, not a lot, but still.
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We were there two months ago. The hotel itself is beautiful, everything is as in the reviews.
Didn't like the staff. The rooms were cleaned disgustingly, the towels were not changed in full.
The New Year was celebrated with a C grade (so-so), there was probably not enough Olivier. In addition, they stole money from the safe, not a lot, but still. When we filed a complaint with the administration about the Lobby, they smiled sweetly at us and claimed that this could not be. Of course, in our history of holidays in different countries, this case was an exception, but the fact took place. In general, the last most overshadowed our stay in this hotel. I hope that in the future, we will be more serious about choosing a hotel.
I wish you all a pleasant holiday!
Didn't like the staff. The rooms were cleaned disgustingly, the towels were not changed in full.
The New Year was celebrated with a C grade (so-so), there was probably not enough Olivier. In addition, they stole money from the safe, not a lot, but still. When we filed a complaint with the administration about the Lobby, they smiled sweetly at us and claimed that this could not be. Of course, in our history of holidays in different countries, this case was an exception, but the fact took place. In general, the last most overshadowed our stay in this hotel. I hope that in the future, we will be more serious about choosing a hotel.
I wish you all a pleasant holiday!
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• 4.5
There is nothing special to add - the description is quite complete, everything is true. The rooms are wonderful, the territory is well-groomed, the people are almost invisible, neither near the pool, nor on the beach. Tides - low tides are not noticeable (unlike 5 ***** Grand Hyatt). Do not take tours from guides for sure.
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There is nothing special to add - the description is quite complete, everything is true. The rooms are wonderful, the territory is well-groomed, the people are almost invisible, neither near the pool, nor on the beach. Tides - low tides are not noticeable (unlike 5 ***** Grand Hyatt). Do not take tours from guides for sure. Dinner only at Mai-Mai, delicious and about $ 30 for two. Take wooden tsatski only in specialized stores, in bullshit shops, everything will crack upon arrival. Do not drink Luwak coffee in a restaurant for $25 - in the store you can buy 100 g for $9.
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