Well after sending my last 2 JBR's have really hit the wall, am waiting to hear back from hotel to book for July 2010, they have given me a verbal quote, just waiting for the written reply, only slightly dearer than this year.We will wait hoping for some specials but being school hols will probably just book with Garuda.After reading so much about Smudge on the forum I finally met him, what a great human being, he works tirelessly to help underpriviliged Balinese, and does so without fanfare, i donated some betadine but he really needs tennagers clothes, betadine, dressings, saline, aloe vera etc, so if anyone is heading over please take anything you can to help, you can organise it with me, or drop them into Sammy and Susies. Or you can leave at the Cat and Fiddle at Sanur he is there most tuesdays.
We ate at many places and I have listed below a food and service rating based on OUR opinions so please dont flame me, might help some people.
Qeeens Tandoor Seminyak food 8/10 service 9/10
Ketumbar 8/10 7/10
Seaside 8/10 8/10
Tekkor 9/10 8/10
Zansibar 7/10 7/10
Goodys 7/10 6/10
Goshas 8/10 7/10
Kumala Pantai Italian 8/10 2/10
Warung Yogya 8/10 8/10
Resort Tunjung 8/10 7/10
Well that about sums up our 2 weeks, we loved every minute and even with the events in Jakarta did not feel unsafe in any way, security has been beefed up at most places including bomb detector dogs at some hotels. The only downside was our flight home, we boarded the aircraft and 1 very dodgy person boarded after us, in a sweat and very unsettled, he was a nightmare for the flight crew and should in NO WAY have been boarded, he abused staff and then hid in the toilet on landing, he made most people on the flight very uncomfortable, so much so that Garuda have taken some of our details for later reference.Hope you enjoyed my reports, feel free to ask any questions, i will now be a lurker and sometime poster until the next trip.
Mark