Anyone have any recent experience of staying at Hard Rock Hotel at Bali? Is RM 600 per night exp for that place?

Eventually ended booking flights to Bali RM 750 return per pax on Malaysia airlines. Not the cheapest but the flight time is just nice, afternoon flight for both departure and arrival, plus free luggage and onboard meal. How many hours is the flight to Bali, from the ticket information it seems it's 3 hours flight. Thought suppose to be only 2 hours flight.

Booked at Agoda for 3 night stay at Aria Exclusive Villa, Seminyak for RM 1500 total inclusive for return airport pickup. Apparently it's close to potato head beach club, will try out that place as well as ku de ta and definitely hard rock cafe. Any nearby makan place around seminyak that is a must try?

my, never realize Bali takes 3 hours, always thought it's 2 hours. Luckily bought MAS instead of Air Asia, got inflight food and beverage covered.

Anyone in forum will be in Bali weekend 11 July to 14 July?

Aiya, didn't coincide, 13 you may reach Bali late, 14 my flight is 1pm

Thanks for the sharing. Will definitely pay bambu and mamas an a visit. Roughly what is the price of a meal for 2 those place will charge?

Just came back from my 5 days 4 nights bali trip.

Stayed in Aria Exclusive Villa in Seminyak, highly recommend this villa nice staff, great room. Only minus is breakfast is the same and not much variety, and quite a lot of mosquitoes at night. Despite that, my next trip still very likely to stay at Aria, price about RM 540 per night. If you stay 3 nights or more, then free return airport transfer. Just 30-1 hr car drive from airport depends on road traffic. This villa has a back door that connects to the busy stretch of Jln Petitenget, and walking distance to Potato Head Beach club.

Next up, food reviews.

Potato Head Beach club is awesome, the view and atmosphere, please just go there to experience yourself. I wanted to have dinner so i sat back, further away from beach, and it is quite warm. Suggest to get lounge seats further out, nearer to the beach to enjoy the sea breeze. Dinner for two cost about RM 170 with drinks. Will definitely return there again, staff there very helpful.

Warung Made, seminyak, decent place, food so so, went there for lunch, cost bout RM80 for two with drinks. Not likely to return.

Naughty Nuri's Batu Belik, nice ribs, warm staff, recommended. Didn't visit the Ubud Nuri's, but this branch from different management is nearer to my villa, and the ribs is definitely awesome, order the set and the choc brownies with ice cream is super delicious too. About RM 120 for two person. Definite revisit.

Poppies restaurant, very nice restaurant setting in kampung house style, ordered the indonesia food platter, price bout RM 140 for two person. Likely to return.

Mamasan, the best restaurant during my visit. Food is really good. Only complaint is the staff did not inform me of the portion size. Ordered 4 dishes with two servings of rice for two, when the food came, it can actually feed 4-5 person. Should've just ordered 3 dishes, and even with 3 dishes, i'm sure two person can't finish cause the portions here are large. Spent RM 220 for two person, only because I underestimated the food portion and wasn't informed by the waitress taking my order. Defnite return.

Kintamani hill top buffet restaurant - nice surrounding view, but food is really bad. bout RM 40 per pax, so for two person it's RM 80. Avoid at all costs.

Shopping:

Note: All ralph lauren polo in Bali are not the same as the ralph lauren USA. This is a brand registered in Indonesia and has no ties with ralph lauren US at all. It's just another brand that uses the same name, and try to produce products that looks exactly the same as the US counterpart. I went to this "Premium Outlet Ralph Lauren" in batu bulan. Each T-shirt cost USD 60, spent USD200 on 3 ralph lauren polo t-shirts, came back and found out that it's not what I thought. Bear in mind though, they are still original Ralph Lauren Polo, as the company is registered officially in Indonesia. Some smart businessman, not sure if it's indonesian or korean registered the ralph lauren polo in Indonesia business directory before the ralph lauren US able to penetrate the indonesia market. Therefore, within indonesia, their products are not imitation as the company is legally registered in the country. However, I do want to mention that the quality of the shirts are not bad. Just bear in mind you're paying USD 60-80 for a ralph lauren polo "indonesia" that has no connection with ralph lauren US.

I bought a few replica watches at bagus watch near kuta beach. Not alot of exp on replica watch, but the quality looks good, and priced around RM 200+ to RM 400+. Higher price range are for the newer panerai model, with automatic movement.

Paintings:

In short, paintings here are cheap. For super cheap paintings that are mass produced, head to Krishna Oleh-Oleh in kuta sunset walk street. Super cheap paintings, can be as cheap at RM 20 each. For better quality painting, even comes with certificate from the artist, consider go Ubud to visit Dewa Putu Toris. If not buying them, just a visit to the gallery is worth it if you are on the way to Ubud. Very big and nice gallery. Those art gallery along seminyak also worth a visit as I saw a very unique paper art that can't be found anywhere else cause the artist is contracted solely to that gallery.

Spa:

Tried Amo Spa in seminyak, recommended. Nice place, good for ladies as lots of treatment. Got my hair cut there for about RM45, roughly same price as KL. Massage there about RM 75 per hour. Hard and soft massage option, i took the hard massage and it is really hard. Will return to try the soft massage.

Tried another spa near my villa, Tanah Merah spa, by Bali Island Villa, not that good. Best to skip this place. only went there cause all spa around that time were fully booked.

Beach:

Kuta beach is really nice, i like the feeling of waves taller than me hitting on me and pushes me off balance. Fun place if you like to play with water and get urself wet. 100% returning.

Pandawa beach (on the way to Uluwatu), nice place to relax by the beach, sit on the bench under umbrella and chill while having a massage. Nice for ppl who dont want to get wet and just chill by the beach. No waves, just kayak, water very shallow, generally u dont come here to play with water.

Tanah Lot vs Uluwatu
pretty much the same, u come here for the proving to others u've been to Bali before. Not likely to return after 1 trip.

Ubud
just drive by the place, didn't spend long, went to visit ubud palace, nothing much. Ubud market no good, price jacked up very high, if they quote you RM50 on their first offer, you can easily bargain it to RM15 and they will sell it to you. So 70% bargain is the minimum you must obtain from sellers here.

I used the driver Erick, Arief's friend. Erick speaks decent english and I have absolutely an easy time with him driving us around. PM me for Erick's contact.