When my parents are joining us in Bali, we stayed in a very hochwertiges Hotel!
Ayana Rimba (4D3N)
We got our welcome flowery necklace thingy, drink Rosemary tea cold #so good! + hand towel. I was hesitant to take it as I didn’t hear she said “refreshing” I thought it was warm like the one you get on the airplane, therefore when she drop it to my hand I screamed aaaaaaa.
This Ayana Group is a collections of 4 hotels: (Just) Ayana, Ayana Segara, Ayana Wana, last Ayana Rimba. You can go to each hotels for breakfast, swimming at Ayana’s infinity pool or others, kids club etc. They provide shuttle bus every 10 minutes with destinations to each Hotels, Saka Museum, at the end station approximate 10 minutes ride you will reach their private Kubu Beach, be careful there were monkeys on the way.
Visited Saka Museum, went to Auditorium where they explained what kind of celebration Nyepi ist. It is a silent day for all people in Bali to stop doing anything for one day; airports are not operating, hotel will reduce their working hours. We saw Ogoh-Ogoh ~ no picture because I’m 胆小鬼 it is a scary version of Ondel-Ondel. They making it on purposely scary to catch all bad evil spirit to burn it in the midnight. Only then, they started their new first day of the year with Nyepi.
Our room rate included 1 hour free Thalasso Theraphy. Some precautions: it is a salt water pool theraphy, you must eat 3 hours before you do this ~ meaning you can’t go if you just had food for half an hour or else you will feel nausea. We took shuttle bus to Ayana Spa! there is a place for a fucking spa alone! Cray crayyyyyy.
Here is how it go, station number one is to walk against the flow. Boy oh boy, couldn’t even go through, Sissy need to go first. While you passed the curve, there are some rocks on your your feet! aaaahhhh… Station number two is 4 “bubble massage” from ankle to hips, each one minute. It felt good for 10 seconds, longer than that I started to feel itchy. Next is same “bubble massage” for back. I lost control on which station where it was for palm of your feet, we were laughing the whole damn time, was so ticklish. Icing on the cake was “water jet massage” to our shoulders. The pressure was…. we describe it as if we were beaten by 10 people! We were so grateful we only got the one hour free. What confuses us is since this Spa open for public, some people actually paid for getting tortured! We named this therapy a “Rich People Therapy”, not our cup of tea.
Parents and I were kind of explore a bit. Went to Melasti Beach & Garuda Wisnu Kancana. I have been to GWK since I was 16 years old however the complete statue of Wisnu riding on a Garuda has never finished, some says it’s done in year 2019, okay then, let’s check.
At the same time we have World Water Forum where important people such as our President + Elon Musk attended, accompanied by 2000 delegations #Why? I found some WWF cars in Melasti beach but not my President, must be one of the delegations aka not so important people #Causing traffics.
Sissy was kind of bewildered why do I need to go to Melasti beach where we have a private beach at the hotel? she got the point though. Rimba is a kind of hotel where you don’t need to go anywhere else. If you don’t stay in one of the Ayana’s, I strongly suggest you to book a table in Rockbar Ayana during sunset, it’s perfect! located in Ayana hotel so you kind of see what Ayana has to offer. I am satisfied with Rimba!
Apurva Kempinski (3D2N)
I was so amazed by the lobby of Rimba. Schwager said Apurva’s lobby is made of marble, during the evening some stones are sparkling, like a museum it was top top top. To me, the lobby in Rimba is already wow! wait until I arrived at Apurva, it took me to another world of Hochwertiges.
The smallest room is 65 sqm which is bigger than my whole apartment in Germany haha ~ 58 sqm.
What’s so characteristic about Apurva is the stairs, I need to have the IT picture or should I say picturessssss #Plural, can’t get enough, day mode night mode, all of it! The pool also giving an infinity pool vibe, due to the fact it was really infinity haha you looked at the beach in front of you.
Why do we chose Apurva? to celebrate Mother birthdays at Koral restaurant. It is a set menu, I chose Experience Food. Koral has feeding shows, twice a day, the fishes gathered like crazy, fascinating!
Neither did I know, my cousin Santy knows someone who works in Koral so the diver dives to our table, carrying a print out Happy Birthday sign while other people doesn’t get this special announcement, thank you Santy!
We also visited Pandawa hotel just because its 10 minutes away while private beach is walking distance #Mom’s logic. I think we were happier had we stay inside Apurva, feeding fish, walk around or so haha
You need to have a really good Orientierung here. I mentioned the stairs is what makes Apurva different. Why stairs? because the lobby is on the 15th floor whereas your room is down with different elevator. They have buggy services too yet not durchgetaktet like in Ayana, you need to use the phone provided there, in the end we didn’t even use any buggy service, not needed anyway. Downside of Apurva, the check in process dauert Ewigkeit, of course you get welcome drink etc to buy you some time. However you’ll reach the point of “these freebies are not enough, give me my room”.
I think Apurva is fit for honeymoon while Ayana is fit when children already arrived 😀 The kids club in Ayana is better when your child is still small while in Apurva is more suitable for toddler above 5.
Swiss Bell Tuban (2D1N)
Pay attention to the very important Hotel you can’t miss, on your last day in Bali before you go to the Airport, you must sleep at Swiss Bell Tuban. It is located only 10 minutes away from Airport, with traffic it will still manageable within 1 hour. I remembered when I still with Irina at Menzel it took her 2,5 hours to Airport, you don’t want to deal with that stress! It doesn’t mean there is no attractions surrounding btw, there are many restaurants, laundry service is just 60 meters distance, hair salon right next to the hotel.
Our room is on the ground floor, hence we could go direct to swimming pool. Downside is people thought the “balcony” is for public, I had to warn them to remove their belongings and don’t talk there because baby is sleeping on the other side of the door which of course she wokes up haha
Do not buy any souvenir in terms of food or stuff everywhere else, just buy it from Pusat Oleh-Oleh Krisna near Swiss Bell, it’s open 24 hours #Heard that Germany 🙂
What I take from my hotels hopping experience is I would never be able to work in hospitality industry, too many basa basi chit chat, can I help you with anything? Get lost dude! help yourself haha or the famous German phrase “Es ist so wie es ist”
Time stops when I was there…. Listen Bali, I’m coming again XOXO
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