In Reply to: yes that's me posted by maree on Thursday, 5. June 2008 at 08:02 Bali Time:
Hi Maree
I booked through an agent. I believe the hotel only gets paid when you hand over your voucher on arrival. In our case the wholesaler still had our money. We couldn't get into the Padma (Vic school holidays and Easter) the place was chocker, so we chose the Lokha which turned out to be over $700 cheaper. We got a refund before we left. I loved it but Paul prefers being nearer the beach. The agent said she had other clients going to the Mandira and apparently they didn't have any problems... however, knowing our luck (I could write a book on it) we decided not to chance it, especially arriving so late at night.
We do travel to other countries as well as Bali and we are going back next May/June 09 staying for the first time at Kumala Pantai. I'm not too worried about recent reports, it's all about expectations so I might be pleasantly surprised :-) the location and price is right as we may need our pennies to go to England around October 09.
You never know we may catch each other at S&S again. Have to say the hawkers weren't as bad this time... they couldn't get any worse than that time we were all there LoL