New to Bali

Posted August 29th, 2012 in Ume's Interests | No Comments »

As I wrote about it before, I’m flying to Bali this year for the first time! Although I’ve been to Jakarta several times I never got out of Denpasar airpot.

My dad has bought his ticket from Japan, and so did 2 of us here (+ Hiro). Then I was looking for a place to stay. My husband wanted to stay at a 2bedroom villa with private swimming pool which is also close to the beach. Men, there are soooo many accommodation in Bali!! My friends and sister-in-law recommended us to stay in Nusa Dua, but I went with husband’s friend’s recommendation – Seminyak area. He travels to Bali often and is very familiar with this island.

Ok, so a 2bedroom villa with swimming pool and walking distance from the beach…. There are still quite many villas like that in Seminyak. Another issue was the price. There are quite expensive ones to fairly good priced ones. Of course I’d want to go with the cheap one but how about their reviews?? I was searching, searching…. and sent query to several villas. Price-wise they are about the same, but I found one villa who gave me pretty cheap deal.

In my head I was kind of thinking to decide on the villa. ….until I received their 2nd email. On the first email they were very polite and sounded professional, but from the second email they started to use casual language “yeah”, and smily faces “:)” !!!
I know they’re trying to be friendly, but I thought it wasn’t professional at all! It was kinda annoying 🙁 They used “…..” at the end of each sentence (e.g. Ume….. I’ll be waiting for you….) and I felt it was rather creepy.

Then my friend showed me couples of other villas, and I found even cheaper one with great reviews. Close to beach, restaurants and shops. I bought it straightaway. Meanwhile I kept receiving emails from the “friendly” villa.

Aaaaa, now I can’t wait to lay on the beach like this photo 🙂 Staying at a villa close to restaurants and shops makes it easy for us as my dad loves coffee and always drink one or two several times a day! I also can’t wait to visit Ubud where I hear there’re beautiful rice fields. My dad wants to see Indonesian style rice fields.

photos from bali.world-guides.com / flightsaustralia.com.au