Just returned last week from 11 days and nights from Bali.
Usually I am lucky enought to spend 10 days with mates then the wife and kids come over for another week, but no such luck this year...but anyways...
The 3 of us headed over to Bali for our 9th, 10th and 7th time..all in our 30s and hanging for some sunshine, bintang and sleep ins with the bonus of no phones and emails to bother us.
We had decided that as we are now in our 30s and and we have been coming to bali over 10 years that this was our last visit to the Bounty Hotel... and thank god. after staying in so many much nicer hotels with the family, we had the usual triple room awaiting our arrival away from the main pool area, upstairs but near the quieter back pool.
The second night we were awoken around 3am with our group of wonderful newly turned 18 year old bounty neighbours decided i9t would be a good idea to have abig bit&h sessiona nd smash everything in there room, including one of there friends faces. After an hour or so they stopped (i think the police came) and we got some sleep.
BoUNTY - breakie still very basic...the rooms are ok, we noticed newer furniture and biggers tvs than usual. all prioces still the smae... a great hotel for us in our early 20s but as married men the only thing going for it is its location.
We headed to the beach surfing most days, we just hired boards off the beach. we just surfed the main beach then headed for a swim, massage and a few beers in the arvo, then a quick kip and headed out for drinks and dinner.
I wont bore you with the restaurants etc, but we had our best leals at
PHai Kong THai in Tuban
Upstars at Centro restaurant.
and enjoyed drinking at
SKY GARDEN...50k for heiniken all you can drink...great location, put the aerogard on...and excellent food. i am sure they change the keg over to some crap beer after an hour or so....played some excellent live music from around 10!
Apache was awesome for the fishbowl coctails and live music.
we are too old for the bounty nand paddys, though we did watch the soccer world cup from paddys one night!
i had some photos enlarged while there and some t shirts made for my business which were sensational. ( i have left my email open for any info needed)