My Bali Trip Planning

Bali is one of the favorite places to visit of mine, so as my husband's. My husband want to make the trip different than all the other island tour we had previously, this time he wants to make it a family trip! We invited my hubby family to join, our parents and siblings, total 7 of us. I able to get zero air fare tickets from air asia on last year June, it's pretty cheap, only RM300 per person.

Since this is not really a small group, and involve parents, we decide to make sure all the tour and hotel is book before we reach there. This is to confirm our parents will have worry-free tour .. After few survey, we decide to book the hotel and tour package thru one of the Bali local travel agent - Bali Amazing tour.

The package they offer for tour package, cost USD40 per person, including:

- Day 1 - Day 3 tour
- Transport, driver, chinese speaking tour guide ( consideration for our parent as well)
- Entrance Fees
- Parking

We are required to add on USD50 per person, if we want to include 3 x lunch + 3 x dinner as well. USD50 for 6 meals means around RM30 per meal, which i don't think it's worth. Other than that, the food that they offer are those chinese style food. I think we should try balinese food since we should experience it. We can have chinese food everywhere in Malaysia, why would i stick to chinese food when i am visiting other country? I would rather try Babi Guling, Crispy duck...and those i read from my best friend's - Shelyn's blog.. lol

Anyway, I didn't turn it down rightaway, i told them i will consider and let them know when i reach there. As for hotel, they recommend us to stay in Kuta and Ubud area. Since we are on 6 days 5 nights trip, it's rather heavy for the expenses on recommendation. To save some money, we decide to stay in budget hotel, those 3* hotel in Kuta for 1st -2nd night and 5th night, which cost us about USD30 per room per night.

As for the 3rd - 4th nights, i requested them to help arrange us to stay in Saren Indah, a 4* hotel in Ubud, http://www.sarenhotel.com/ Saren Indah located just 100m of Ubud Monkey forest, nestled between rice fields and tropical rainforest. I think it should be quiet and peaceful to stay. The main consideration of mine is, it offer free shuttle bus to Ubud market, very convenient for shopping on our free and easy day on the 4th day!! Other than that, this hotel also received quite good rating from Tripadvisor, which give me more confident on it.

I'm counting down to the Bali trip right now, which is my 1st trip in year 2009. Hopefully it will be a nice one, and i'll blog it down from Day 1 to Day 6 when i come back!