In Reply to: Booking Info'. posted by Badak Sinting on Tuesday, 11. January 2005 at 14:12 Bali Time:
Not a problem if you know the rules, or you are dealing with an honest, well informed agent. Last August when we were staying at Bali Ayu, we went to have a look at Bali Mystique [and were impressed]. We got talking to a man from Perth who was staying there with his wife. He had tried to book through an agent 5 nights in Bali Ayu and 23 nights own arrangement [at Bali Mystique]. The agent told him that he could not do that and sold him 2 full price return tickets. He then made his own arrangements for the whole time at Bali Mystique. I told him that I thought he had been misinformed and that he should change agents.
This experience prompted me to phone Air Paradise on my return and get it straight from the horse's mouth.
This man was in his middle years and had been to Bali a number of times, but unfortunately listened to the wrong advice.