<>Our Eat, Pray, Love @ Bali started from 4th of September till 10th of September. I was procrastinating my posts because Donkoi had high expectation on his photo. Therefore, my Bali posts are idle until he could find time to adjust his photo and cast his approval for public publishing. Let's roll for the first day of our chilax romantic Bali trip.
::4th of September, Saturday::
Flight was 6 o'clock evening. After close-to-4-hour flight from Changi Airport, Donkoi & I arrived at Bali. It was our first time in Indonesia too!
The first thing we experienced was the taxi monopoly in the Denpasar Airport. The guy in the counter charged us 10000 Rupiah more than the price list shown on the wall. Donkoi protested slightly in his Bahasa Malaysia, expecting Indonesians to understand his complain. I think the guy understood him, but ignored him and waved to indicate the next-in-line to come forward. (_")? Anyway, there was nothing we could do, so, we just paid and got out from the airport.
About 10 minutes, we joined the traffic jam in Kuta with motorcycles squeeze themselves on our left and right, attempting really hard to move one car or half car ahead of us. (_")? The bizarreness was the amazing effort of motorcyclist to try to make "good" use of the space.
After hearing the horn for another 15 minutes, we finally arrived at our hotel, Ida Hotel. It was located next to Tune Hotel, Kuta. Unlike our previous trip in Bangkok or Hong Kong, we were staying right at the happening radius of Bali! Of course, this was one of the cheaper hotels. Therefore, we had to walk a little more to go to the Kuta beach, Poppies Lanes and Legian Street. But, the distance was not comparable to our walk from Sukhumvit Soi 7 to Sukhumvit Soi 57 (our longest walking distance to a destination with absolutely nothing planned on the way. Why? Because Bangkok traffic jam was driving our cab driver nut and suggested that we should walk from Sukhumvit Soi 7 to Sukhumvit Soi 57) .
So, I would recommend anyone to stay in if only anyone is not willing to pay a fortune to stay in the heart of the tourist spot, but willing to bear with the delayed hot shower (basically, you have to turned the hot shower on for 5 minutes before you could actually get the freaking hot shower), a bathroom required of renovation and a nail showing up at the bed frame on the third day you slept in. Other than my little winding, the room condition scored 7/10 and the facilities scored 9/10 for budget hotel level.
