In Reply to: Villa Baliana? posted by BaliDaze on Thursday, 19. August 2010 at 20:59 Bali Time:
Yeah have stayed there for 2.5 weeks last October and have got it booked again for 3.5 weeks in May 2011. Excellent place to stay, staff very good, Made & Agus really look after you and are exceptional hosts. You would hardly know they are there most of the time.
The location is great with a 5 min walk to the beach if you can bother to drag yourself out of the pool. Very quite location noise is not a problem. There are plenty of good eating options on the beach front within 5 min walk. O-C-EN at Outriggers has very good meals and other good options are Zanzibar & Lanai.
A good place to get some ionformation on what is around this area is to go to this website http://www.puketoki.com/ and go to the Useful Bali Info section which gives you a good rundown of everything close to the Villa (near Jayakata Resort).
There is a great massage place at the end of the lane where the villa is located and it is not far to Bintang Supermarket for supplies.
It is a good idea to take a torch to use when you walk down the alley / lane to the beach front at night. The lighting as with all of Bali is pretty ordinary.
Made & Agus will cook dinner for you if you want them to. We gave them some money to go to the markets and buy the food and they came back and prepared the meal. It was very good food and a cheap option. They also do your laundry for you daily.
THe bedrooms have air con but the rest of the Villa does not. We basically spent all of our time in the outside pavillon when we where there.
Thomas the owner is good to communicate with and is very reasonable and accmodating.
Overall we loved the Villa with a great location and reasonably priced. Make sure you book you will not regret it. Feel free to ask any other Q's you might have.