Wow and again wow, The Kayana seems to be all what they say about it! And this was our 2nd choice, as we wanted to book Alam Warna which was fully booked! Beautiful grounds, lovely, lovely people! We as a couple found it a litle bit hard to find a nice Villa for just 2 persons. And then we found the best deal for The Kayana through booking.com. We booked Villa 816 (I wanted a lot of sunshine where the sun loungers where) pool Villa and had a blast! Their driver will take you anyware in the Legian and Seminyak area. If their driver has already been booked, they are happy to call a taxi and pay for it! As we were on a holiday and the one thing I didnt want was the 'rush-rush' feeling I already have daily in my job, we were happy to wait until their driver returned. We never waited more than 15 min!The service of the reception employees and room clerks, pool clerks, garden clerks reflects the word 'service' in a million ways. The villas are beautiful, i'm happy we booked the villa with swimming pool, we enjoyed this so so much. As to the pavillion outside next to the swimming pool, we spent hours and hours there and had a wonderful time! What a blast to come home in the evening after dinner, grabbing a glass of wine and a swim in the pool................. We had our breakfast served in our villa every morning, because...... restaurants we can be so many times, but having breakfast served in your villa does not happen every day at home! And what for breakfast, you name it, they got it!
As for shopping, a bought a dream duvet cover for on our bed at Havila Jln Seminyak, I still can't believe the price I paid! Dovet cover, 2 big pillows and 2 smaller pillows, all in the same design for 1.500.000 RP! I would pay 4 times this amount in Europe! There linen, placemats beautiful in all kinds of colour organza matrial, silk etc. at very very good prices!And the design is chic to chic I would say. Lovely sales people to help you!
Restaurants:
Ultimo, had a table in the garden, wonderful setting, great food and very reasonable prices!
Mades Warung, Seminyak and Kuta: great and again very gooD prices! I cannot get this in europe in my dream!
Warung Sobat: great Indonesian food and cheap price. (my husband has been spoiled by his Indonesian grandmother regards food, in the past, and he always says this reflects his Oma's food the most )
Warung Bonita: good food, great service, cheap prices..... we had a blast when we found out who the owner was........... we thought drag queens were performing but it turned out this was the boss and I got a kick out of this!
Coffee Mocca: great!
If any questions, i'll be happy to answer! Greetings Erin