Just returned from our annual three week lay over in Bali. In the past have always stayed in hotels, Grand Bali Beach (long time ago), Bali Hai, Dynasty, Discovery etc. This year we decided on a change and booked a villa at Seminyak called Villa Jerami, just off Jl Kunti, past the Bali Deli. Only 12 months old, absolutely 5 star accommodation and privacy with your own private pool in fully secured patrolled grounds. Complex has one,two and three bedroom villas available and the service lives up to the quality of the accommodation.
Booked directly with the villas on line and purchased the air fares separately through our usual travel agent. Six of us stayed in one of the three bedroom villas and the total cost was only about $600 more in total than purchasing a package hotel deal. Free daily transfers by very accommodating staff into Kuta, where they would drop us off at the location of our choosing.
So if you want to pamper yourself a little bit more, strongly recommend you check out these villas. They have their own web site but disregard the advertised prices, you can negotiate a far better daily rate if you are staying for any length of time.
PS. Scheduled to return home on the red eye special last Thursday, Garuda plane broke down on the runway, luckily before boarding, so we were all shipped off to The grand Bali Beach Hotel at 1.15 am, then we all had to go through the book in process with only two clerk on duty to process a full plane load of very tired and irate passengers. What a dump this hotel has become, wouldn't go near it even if they paid me!!. I think the last passenger final got booked in at around 3.30 am and they wanted us up at 7.00 am on Friday for what could dubiously be called breakfast. No signs of any Garuda reps anywhere and hotel did not know when the transport was arriving to take us back to the airport. It finally arrived at 10.00am and we took off at 12.00 midday and after transport from the airport arrived home at 11.00 pm Friday, what a day!! However I'm nor letting it spoil the great holiday we had and am looking forward to next years annual refresher in paradise.