Forever 28~

For the second night, I was staying at Aneka Kuta Beach hotel. It is a decent hotel which located at the same row with Hard Rock hotel. It is so near with Kuta beach, about three minutes walk from the hotel. But it is quite a distance from Sorgawi Bali hotel that I stayed at first night. So, I hired a taxi driver sent me to this hotel. Most of the taxi drivers know this hotel even though there are uncountable hotels in Kuta.

I booked this hotel room at hotelclub.com. It costs me USD69 per night for a standard room. However, they have upgraded to deluxe room for my stay. It is considered expensive to me, hence I can only afford staying there for one night only.

The room is really big but since I was alone there, so that was quite wasting of the space. I was so hoping to find someone to fill up the free space in the room at that time, haha! The room consists a small TV room where you can enjoy the TV shows there. It is different with other hotel where TV is located at the front of the bed.

Perhaps I was quite tired on the second day, I slept very well in the room. Conclusion is, I like this room mainly is because of its location!

I stayed at two different hotels during my trip to Bali. For the first night and last night, I was staying at Bali Sorgawi hotel. It is a decent budget hotel with great service. Then, I was staying at Aneka Kuta Beach Hotel for my second night. I booked my hotel room from the internet, but only for the first two night. I still had no idea on where to go on third night at that time.

I couldn’t sleep well at the first night for the two reasons:

• I was not get used to sleep alone in the hotel while traveling, some more I saw the banana trees not too far from my room…
• The air conditional was directly facing to me, I felt really cold at night but I couldn’t off the swing function! So the cold wing blew to me and I couldn’t sleep well!

But I decided back to this hotel for my last night stay because I asked them changed my room to pool view and also late checkout. Then, I also bargain reduce the price to Rp 300,000/ night (around RM110++). July – September are the peak season in Bali, a lot of hotels have raised their rate!

The location of this hotel is a bit far from the beach. You need to take around 10-15 minutes to go to Legian beach. But, if you want to go pub or disco around Kuta area at night, it is just about three minutes walk. That’s another reason I returned to this hotel for third night stay.

Then, for the second night, I spent USD69 (around RM245) for a night! Tell you about that hotel later, it is great, but I have no $$ to spend on it for the other night…

In the flight, I met a group of people from Johor, they also went to Bali for holiday. That was their team activity where the company paid for it. We were chit-chatting in the flight. Wao~ I really hope that our company will send us to Bali for holiday as well!

A day before, I called to the first hotel that I would be staying for the first night. Most of the hotels in Kuta/ Legian area provide free air-port transfer to hotel. So, my called was about the free air-port transfer arrangement. But, when I was at the international arrival hall, I couldn’t find the representative from the hotel! I was quite nervous but luckily I brought the hotel contact with me. I asked people around there on how to make call to the hotel. I don’t know why I cannot make call by using my DiGi prepaid when I was in Bali. At the end, the phone shop owners lent me the landed phone for making a call. The driver was caught in traffic.

I understand that without a phone in hand is really inconvenient in the current world. Hence, I bought a XL prepaid card (Indonesia mobile operator) from the seller. The prepaid card cost Rp60,000 (almost RM 21) with Rp5,000 credits inside. According to the dealer, this is the cheapest plan in Indonedia. 

After 15 minutes of waiting at airport, the hotel drive has arrived and apologized politely. I said it is fine, as long as you keep the promise and pick me up from the airport, haha! It was almost 9pm when I was at the hotel room. I tell you, my room is facing a small orchard with banana trees…

I bought the air tickets to Bali when AirAsia starts abolished fuel surcharge and zero fare on the tickets. Hence, the tickets were quite cheap. But, I didn’t expect that I would be traveling alone in this beautiful island.

Due to the unforeseen circumstances, I went to Bali alone for my holiday two weeks ago. It was my first time to Bali and also first time for traveling alone. It was a four days three nights trip, and I have paid for the hotel for the first two nights on prior. I didn’t want to waste my precise holidays and the fees that I have been paid for, so I decided went there alone for a new exposure.

My flight was at 3:50pm, Saturday. In that morning, I still haven’t gotten exchange Ringgit > Rupiah. So, I went to Mid Valley for money changer at 10:15am, and the quickly rush back to pack my simple luggage. I stepped out from house at 12:35pm, and my holiday to Bali alone has begun…

Perhaps I am so busy at work, I always think of going for holidays recently. Besides, I heard my friends plan for their holiday and it makes me more tempted! It is not only to escape from hectic work schedule but also to relief my tension at work. I don’t think I could finished all my tasks even though IF I have been given 25 hours a day, so why not I just take a break and go somewhere else?

One of my friends decided take tours to Italy for their honeymoon. I just saw their pictures in FaceBook. I feel sorry because I did not attend their wedding. The pictures tell me that how beautiful the Europe is. Since it was a honeymoon, so they choose to go with escorted tours which technically will arrange all the things for them. Hence, they just enjoyed the arrangement that has been prepared by the travel agent. Indeed, they gave excellent comments for the arrangement when I asked them about it. Perhaps they were in the honeymoon mood, everything just nice and beautiful.

(Thanks to Jack for providing picture in Italy during his honeymoon)

Another colleagues told me that they will be going to Japan for honeymoon. They take the tour arrangement as well. I have never followed any tour arrangement before and keen to go for it. Where I wish to go for my holiday? I will say I want to have cruise holidays! Do you need a holiday too?