This is my from travel log to Bali. The actual departure date was only three months later after I booked the Free & Easy package with go.holidays, which includes return airfares and three night’s accommodation. As a travel tips, it is always cheaper to advance book your air ticket rather than last minute travel. For this instance, I managed to save up to 60 percent on the package price with booking three months in advance! So, before both my wife and I depart to Bali, as usually I would advise, I did some study on the Bali map, local tourists spots, exchanged some local currency Rupiah, and arranged child care for my two children for the period and finally, after waiting for so long, there came the hectic moment, the departure date on May 21, 2008.
Our flight was 10:55 a.m. and I was planning to arrive in Bali just before hotel check-in time so we could maximize our first afternoon there. We always have a problem catching flights in K.L. because our Sepang International Airport is over one hour away from K.L., so our plan was to leave our home latest by 8:00 a.m to make sure we had time to check in. But, unfortunately, we had some havoc and our flight was delayed until four hours later! We had to wait and have our lunch at the airport.
It ruined our initial planning and when we reached Bali; darkness already fell upon the scene. We missed our sunset! The whole afternoon was wasted! Without further delay, we quickly jumped on to a cab and almost shouted, “Kuta Seaview Cottage!” Taxi fares was Rp45,000. If you check my currency converter at side bar (from IDR to MYR), it is about RM16.00, which was for a twenty-minute drive to Kuta, Bali’s most popular beach. (For those friends who can not figure where is the Ngurah Rai International Airport in relation to Kuta, you can download the map here.)
Along the way to our resort, though it was already nighttime, the streets were still extremely busy. Most shops were still open; lots of cars and tourists on the street. Kuta Seaview Cottage was in front of the Kuta beach, two lots away from the famous Hard Rock Cafe and Hotel. We got a shock when the cab tried to drive past the resort security check point where security actually scanned through the whole car with radioactive sensor before letting us in! I believed this practice was introduced only after the 2002 and 2005 bombing tragedy here in Kuta. After all this, with the most helpful and warm reception officers and bellboy, we finally settled down with our luggage in our cottage. Let me describe a little of the resort on day two since it was too dark to walk around …
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