In Reply to: new shoping centre posted by chezlee on Sunday, 9. January 2005 at 10:40 Bali Time:
It's big and mordern and nice. But it's not worth going there unless you want to get some rest under air/con.
I also had some unpleasant experience there. They accept credit cards and foreign currency for payments. I wanted to pay with US Dollars. When I gave them US$100 bill, they said they couldn't accept it as it was 1996 bill. When I insisted, saying that my bank gave it to me and it's accepted all over the world , they called the Shopping Centre Manager. He agreed to accept the bill but at a rate US$1 = Rp 7500 (instead of posted above cash register rate of Rp9250 !!!) What a rip off!!! I had no other choice but to leave all the things I intended to buy and to wish them to have no customers at all. Really don't know what to think if even new Shopping centres are trying their best to rip off the foreigners.