In Reply to: bargaining with hotels posted by olli on Monday, 11. February 2008 at 18:23 Bali Time:
gone up in the last 6 months.
Tourism has taken so many hits this century with the twin towers, 2 wars, Sars, bird flu and 2 Bali terrorist attacks that rates were held back because of market forces ( far too much acccommodation for the number of tourists.) Now that tourists are back better properties are at last able to bring their rates to profitable levels.
Many places have had the same rates for years even though electricity, lpg and other imput costs have increased dramatically.
You can still try to bargain but this is the reason - compare what you earned 7 years ago and now!