White Rose Hotel Kuta

... much anyway)! to our hotel which was somewhere in the centre of Kuta.  We soon settled into our new home of the White Rose Hotel about $50 a night including breakfast) situated in down town Kuta and just down a lane from where the 1st Bali bomb ...

... I headed down to the beach. It was a short walk, maybe 5minutes from the hotel and there I was standing on a wide white sand beach facing the pounding surf of the Indian Ocean. A picture perfect snapshot of your typical winter. It was July and in Bali and ...

... staying with initially. From this point on, the week was great!Gaye took us straight to a restaurant where we had a drink (white wine - luxury!) and then she had her driver/security guard drive us to her villa in Seminyak. It is absolutely gorgeous with a ...

... we got through the crowd of other tourists is turned out to be a religious procession - a line of old men, all dressed in white and carrying flags and parasols, accompanied by women with offering on their heads. They marched out onto the sands (it was low ...

... to go anywhere near the beach again (Kuta beach is not that nice anyway - I had imagined Bali to be a lush paradise full of white sand beaches and swaying palm trees and its so not) so I tended to stay round my hotel during the day, only venturing out at ...