In Reply to: garden view cottages posted by girlaussie on Friday, 16. July 2010 at 18:59 Bali Time:
I am not really sure why everyone is blasting girlaussie when she was only giving us her opinion. If the sentence was a bit confused so what? I also stayed at Garden View quite a few times and really loved it there as did a lot of other people I met over the years. A couple of years ago, when they were talking of going time-share and building new apartments, and it wasn't likely the regulars could get in as easily, many people changed. Once things didn't pan out with the time-share the regulars, including me, had found somewhere we liked better and didn't go back. It is strange because I was very sad the first time I couldn't stay there.
On my last stay there in 2008 I also experienced a lot of young people around the pool, all night, partying, screaming
out, smashing bottles etc. Even though they have security guards patrolling around nothing was done. I remember that particular visit a lot of people complaining about the noise. If this is still going on, I can't blame anyone else from getting fed up. Garden View has seen a lot of its regulars move to different places over the past few years, which is very sad for them, but I know there are more changes happening there as I believe someone else has brought into it.
I still go to the bar there quite often, and visit regularly as the staff are so wonderful and I keep in touch with them throughout the year, but when they ask if I want to come back I have to say no.