In Reply to: Doing our bit for Bali's environment posted by Heatherbelle on Wednesday, 1. November 2006 at 13:51 Bali Time:
We have stayed at a number of hotels over the last several years which have had notices in the en-suites asking us to help Bali by leaving used towels on the floor if we want them changing and hanging them back up if they are OK for another day. We've always hung them up after only one day's use and they've always been taken away and washed anyway. I could never understand this.
In regard to aircon, the rooms are always far too cold for my liking when we arrive, so I turn the aircon off, reset it to about 26-28 when I need it again and tell the staff to leave the setting alone and not to change it back.
In regard to bed linen, do they really think that any of us change our sheets every day at home?
When I was in Bali last October for dental treatment at Rudy's clinic at Bali Mall Galleria, we took the opportunity to look around the shopping precinct. There was a large dept store [with prices in US$] where quite a number of male staff were wearing suits and ties. The aircon was set so low that the lightly dressed customers were shivering. What a waste of electricity, particularly for an island without a power station, where the power has to be bought from Java.