In Reply to: You've excelled KLN ! posted by farout on Thursday, 20. July 2006 at 11:13 Bali Time:
If one bothers to check www.wotif.com before starts throwing waste, Alam KulKul is 4 star.
More importantly AKK did not say they are 5 star, not in the web site nor in their brouchure (small box set with 3 booklets)
Is there credible evidence that AKK says they are 5 star & causes duress & emotional stress to people?
Is there people other than AKK says that AKK is 5 star?
There is great difference between pointing a gun at the horse or the rider, especially when it is a machine gun.
There are villas at AKK. Bali Villa, Java Villa & Alam Villa. Among them Alam Villa is the least 'luxurious', while the other 2 are equiped with plunge pools and private walled up garden. Nevertheless, Alam Villa is still a villa. No one stays above you, it has some form of outdoor/semi outdoor facilities, it is a single building even though it is link with the next villa on 1 side (the living area of 4 seasons Jimbaran villa also share a roof & party wall with the next villa). May be if Alam Villa has a setting of a ocean front or rice terrace or floating on water, nobody would complain and would gladly call it a Villa.
To build an entire array of negative comments on 2 weak points (villa & 5 star) does not seem reasonable. And if this action affects others' livelihood (of the people who work there), it is plain irresponsible.
Blowing of personal trumpet may be tolarable, but statement like first timer packaged tourist from America, Korea, Japan, China who had more money than sense is a forced generisation and reflects badly the state of reasoning of the author.
Relax and read the story of the Pies............
It cures headache.