White Rose Hotel Kuta

... 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 ...

... place further away and went on a walk using our map. Sengigi appeared to be a nice place as we walked around looking for the Elan hotel. We got there checked in cheaply and went for some Thai food. After a couple of post meal drinks we went back and slept ...

... 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 ...

... straight for Kuta which is the surfing capital and consequently full of Australians. Australians who, on entry, had been issued one white vest top, one outlandish pair of shorts, one backwards facing cap and one large beer and told never to leave the ...

... 4 :-Breakfast-Acara bebas-Transfer out ke airport. Pilihan Hotel : 1.Hotel Ratna-2.Hotel Adi Dharma-3.Hotel Kuta Beach Club-4.Hotel Grand Istana Rama-5.White Rose-6.Harris-7.Melia Benoa-8.Melia Bali. Harga minimal untuk 2 orang LAENA TOURS & ...

... 't find anything interesting so turned around and headed back towards town. Stopped at a place about 100 meters from the hotel called Phu Thien and had White Rose and beef with chili and lemon grass for dinner. Good, and hotter than the food I've had here ...

... which does a good buffet and had the added advantage of being included in our room tariff, then read my book (Michael Connelly's The White Road) in reception until J&G met me at 10am for a trip into Kuta. Got dropped off at the new Discovery Mall and ...

...             Sitting at the cafe I watched a procession of people wearing white enter the temple carrying offerings. Gamelan was being played inside. The festival had begun. Rather than dressing up ...

... , of course and we enjoyed the show, along with our gin and tonics. Kris decided to not go for the bog easy stage shots the White Caps ( Rich spoilt self-indulgent tourists that pay to for a theme park version of a country) were getting, As he had been ...

... go to Ubud", which didn't help matters much. Somehow, Chrissy managed to find a swanky "aesthetic centre" attached to a posh hotel which offered cosmetic dentistry, for the kind of people who like to combine a holiday with some surgical self-improvement. ...

... and it was by far the most "western" room we stayed in...i struggle to say nicest cause it felt like any other generic "nice" hotel and had no charm whatsoever. oh man. The next afternoon at 1:30 we successfully flew to Australia 12 hours late. Instead of ...

... chanting and a lot of fire. It lasted an hour, which was enough for us. May 11     Wednesday we went white water rafting. For $55 each we were transported an hour to the start of our 2hr/12km rafting trip and fed a lunch buffet before ...

... band play. It turned out to be quite hilarious as towards the end of the night a fight broke out amongst the Bali men over a white girl. In the background the band played on with Bob Marley’s “One Love” as the Pub erupted into a brawl. ...

... was a joke; chinese porridge and some other dishes that I wouldn't have fed to the dog!  Having finally sorted out our hotel, and wasted precious time in doing so, we set off for the Jokhang Monastary; there were very few monks present  ...

... guy as a surf guide....he tells you where the breaks are, where to paddle out, what to watch out for etc.  Also updates a white board each day with the swell prediction and other info.  His name was Michael and he was a great guy....so laid back ...

... where to find some. After a bit of sitting around on mats drinking a spiced Balinese grape wine, a plastic bag with a thin milky white liquid arrived. The host poured it into a glass pitcher. We drink a couple glasses each of it and thought it was pretty ...

... of our bathrooms then! The much awaited world of the Gili's begins now!  Bring on the snorkels, turtles (!) and smooth people. *(sidenote: our hotel has a tank with hundreds of baby turtles as part of an ongoing conservation project! ...

... scenic panoramas. We came across a sign pointing to Sari beach and so we followed it down a dust track until it ended at a Posh hotel resort. The security guard had abandoned his post and as he raced over to speak to us, we parked up the scooter and told ...