Hi all,
This preceding JBR is to warning anyone about the following:
We do not usually do this but we think it is a must
We have been to Bali 5 times and this time force to go by another couple we went to Taman Sari Cottages in Poppies Lane2. Very cheap of course (16 USD x night including breakfast) so you can't expect much but we have been in other places not very expensive and we never came across something like this, this is unique.
Room are very dirty, dark, most of them with twin bed, our one was and 2 legs almost destroyed.
We did find chewing gums everywhere. The telephone was so dirty we never made a phone call and the 4 menus next to it very grease and two of them stuck together with a huge chewing gum. The water pressure it is very, very low and hot water takes ages to come true. Bathroom also very dirty.
The bottom of the swimming pool it is green since they never clean it with many broken tiles which are very sharp in some places.
Breakfast start at 08.00 not one minute before even if at check in we have been told that will start at 07.00
The walls between the rooms are so thin that you can hear everything.
Most of the client are young and go out every night to disco coming back at about 3 or 4 in the morning completely drunk, you can image what is happening at this time. One early mooring someone was fighting on the second floor and a table flow out of the window. No police was called. The staff it is completely useless in any given occasion.
We book a car for rental for the following day, do you think we got it, of course not, they told us it was not available anymore but in a such way that was like: screw y**.
The place it is not too fare away from a big discotheque, but there are others present in the area. At night it is impossible to sleep and when the music stops, at different time depends on the day of the week, they are coming back to the rooms and start talking, shouting, loathing, more bintang..................
Many bed sheets are too small for the bed so they don't stay put and go all over the place also dark and some smell like if been washed with kitchen rags.
We took one pillow case off and the pillow was stained all over and very smelly
This is not all, but I think is enough to give an idea.
This place is to be avoid it, you don't believe me, please feel free to try it yourself.
From here we went to Masa Inn in poppies 1, very nice only the room did not get clean very well but it is ok.
JBR will follow ASAP but nothing more about this TAMAN SARI COTTAGES.
Renato