In this garden hotel you enter in history. There are two layers here: “the ocean villas” are beautifully and richly decorated traditional Balinese villas, probably quite old. “The luxury suites” (that truly are beautiful and huge!) – where I stayed - are probably from 1950’s. It had been nice to have the tale of the hotel been told to you for instance in a brochure, together with the practical information, that also seemed to originate from some distant decade.
The place feels dormant. Everything, except the A/C, telephones and fridge, are probably the same as it was from the start. And I hope things are kept original, but many things could benefit from proper maintenance.
For instance, my bathroom door had some water damage and had started to crack. It should be repaired or replaced with a new one. The drain in the outdoor shower did not work. The cupboard had never been dusted. It was so dirty I didn’t even want to put my luggage there. The whole place was so dusty (curtains and mosquito net had probably not been washed for a while) that I, who don’t have asthma, got breathing problems! It got better when I ventilated the room properly and the cleaning guys (I have noticed that wherever they have male cleaning personnel, the result is worse that if you have female one!) had done their job next morning. The curtains hang wrong. Cushions on the chairs would be nice.
The mattresses on the sunbeds at the pool looked dirty and old. The shower at the (very ice) pool should be