Hi, i just came from Bali yesterday. I booked SQ flight in early Apr for 4pp cost ard 1.4k. Then booked hotel accomodation at Sahid Raya. It's pretty near to Kuta Beach, just across the road. It's not really near to the shopping area of Kuta, needs to walk say 10-20min? Didnt keep track of the time, just slowly stroll to enjoy the scene and it was lovely. Booked Sahid Raya with a travel agency and tt time, there was a promotion, so only cost me 90 per rm per nite! Afforadable and comes with free breakfast and hotel transfer!
The overall experience is ok, got pretty worried when on monday the day of my departure, saw on papers abt Aust govet issusing travel warning. Things look peaceful there with alot of foreigners on the beach. There are security guards there too and they scanned the cars too (but sometimes they didnt check all cars).
One word of caution, when u arrived at the airport, if any officer try to push your luggage for you, do not let them help. They fakely helped me push to the customs and asked me to opem one handcarry bag for them to check and then pushed me to the money exchange to change $. Then i said no need then he asked me for svc charge. Then my bf returned as he went away for awhile, maybe that's why they picked me as target!!!! Angry. Coz i didnt want trouble, so i said gave lor although my bf didnt want. They wanted US dollars which we didnt have, so they said SIN dollars. My bf gave $2 but they so greedy, said $10. I gave then he said his friend too, so i had to give $20! I scared not to give as I am in Indonesia not S'pore, what to do?? Sobsob. What kind of svc for $20??? Shameless crooks.
Although this makes my first day experience badm we still throughly enjoyed my PS at Pura Tanah Lot and Blue Point for my PS and the scenary is simply fabulous.
When flying back home from Airport, remember to keep Rup100k for airport tax per pax. If possible, do your shopping in the city and not airport. Things are more exp say 2-2.5 times more. If u wanna use $, it's not advisable, coz i changed at 0.58 but they changed at 0.4 there.....Wow....so unfavouable.
