Hi everyone, my 5year old son and I are leaving tomorrow morning to go home after 3 weeks here. we have had an interesting time with our accommodation getting messed up and only finding this out on arrival and having to find new accomodation from scratch. Thanks to everyone on the forum that assisted with my initial cry for help!
One good thing that came of all this is that we found a fantastic driver on our first day trying to locate a new hotel that we will definitely be using from now on for every Bali trip. This is my 5th trip to bali and I have have used drivers recommended on the forum before only to be disappointed despite glowing reports. We've now found an awesome driver and want to share his details. He has taken us on several day trips around the island and been fantastically patient, especially when babysitting my very annoying 5 year old son! He is great with kids, a very responsible, polite and mild mannered 38 year old and has a nice mid sized Xenia 4WD with extra cool airconditioning that seats 6 at a squeeze. Nothing was too much trouble and he was extra nice and patient to the nth degree and helpful with anything we asked of him. His rates were great at 450,000 for a full day at 10 hours. 6 hours was 300,000 and we also negotiated an hourly rate with him. His name is Kadek Long and he is based in Ubud but he is more than happy to pick you up from wherever you are.
We spent 5 days in Ubud and the rest of the 3 weeks in legian and he was easy to contact at short notice to take us out whenever we needed him. He was really reliable and always on time, if anything we kept him waiting most of the time, but nothing was ever too much trouble and always done with a good natured smile.
I hope that he gets some work from this because after 5 trips to bali it has taken me ten years to get such a great driver. Really pleasant, trustworthy, patient and reliable, his English is also excellent, so no communication issues at all. I have left my email address open for anyone who would like more details about him, just remove the no-spam bit at the start :) You can contact Kedak direct on his mobile @ 081 338 123 629 and his email address is kadek_long@yahoo.com
He usually sits at the corner of Monkey forest road and jalan Dewisita in Ubud if you want to talk to him face to face and check out his car - just ask for Kadek Long :)
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If you do use him please let him know you were referred by Lara :) and please pass his details on to others if you are as happy as we were with his services!