There it was..
We went to our next destination Nusa Dua without having any plans. After check out from Seminyak, we went straight ahead to Nusa Dua by Grab taxi. I shouldn't have thanks to Uber and grab enough. They're saving our expenses a lot. It saved us around 200k for transport fee. It charged us IDR 70K from Batubelig, Seminyak to Mahogany Hotel, Nusa Dua.
By the time we got Mahogany Hotel, we're served by a very kindly and helpful receptionist to help us check-in. We booked the hotel from traveloka (I've compared many travel website and I found traveloka is the most affordable of all) by IDR 473.737 (with 10% discounts). And the hotel itself beyond my expectations. The super helpful and kind staffs with an excellent facilities they offered, I wouldn't say no for the second visit.
I chose this 3-star hotel just because they gave a free shuttle to Bali Collection, which is mean save us another Rupiahs for transport fee. We booked for a room with a Balcony and here what we paid for a view..
That's a Bali Mandara Toll Road view right from our balcony. The night view is more gorgeous but I forgot to capture.
Sunrise from the rooftop
At 3 pm we're already steady at the lobby for a shuttle to Bali Collection. At first I thought there would be a minibus with some hotel guess. Maybe because we came in low season, it only both of us were privately taking there by an Innova. The driver who is still young (around my age, I guess) telling us what to do and where to go while we're in Nusa dua. Because we're avoiding any extreme sports, so he thought maybe we could hired a half-day tour. We didn't want to go with a tight schedule tour, but this half-day tour sounded promising which is we didn't have to rush to dealt with tight schedule. So we decided to take this half day tour tomorrow as we checked out from hotel.
Bali Collection
Welcome to Bali Collection, that places to find expensive stuffs
By the time we got to Bali Collection, I didn't quite impressed. It's an outdoor shopping mall with international tourists as their target market. The price their tag was real high and the weather itself was so damn hot. I was a bit regreted. It's sooooo HOT FOR GOD SAKE. what's the matter with Bali and its weather 😩
And I have a bad story there. We were stopped by a hotel salesman that insisted us to go to their hotel grand opening and urged us to took the so-called-grand prizes that I got. We're on our honeymoon and a grand opening hotel would be the last thing we're probably visit indeed. He was persistently forced us to give our number so he could picked us tomorrow morning for their grand opening hotel. It made me irritated by took my hubby and left him talk rubbish alone. At first, I just want to help him sharing the brochure. But his attitude and the freaking hot weather were getting on my nerves.
Afterward, We went to sogo for 2 reasons. I want to bought a sandals and craving for aircond.
Nusa Dua Beach
We had about a half hour before our shuttle came to pick us back. So there we went to Nusa Dua Beach which is took us 5 minutes walk. And I'm falling in love with it. it's clean and full of shade tree to blocking us from sun. The sand was smooth and again, it's quite. I love beaches when it's quite and clean.
Diner by the Jimbaran Bay
People kept telling that having diner at Jimbaran bay by watching sunset is a must. So there we went, at a seafood restaurant in Jimbaran Bay, we're expecting a quite, romantic and private diner. But the reality hit me, there're sooooo many people that I feel like going back to hotel.
Too many table with people talking, laughing, taking selfies, drinking that I couldn't hardly breathe. It just felt so wrong. We just planned to have coconut drink by watching sunset and have a nice chat. But waiters kept coming and abit urge us to order their food, and people around us were drunk and keep drinking and drinking and laughing and EVERYTHING FELT SO WRONG.
oh well, after all, we did enjoy the sunset view. It's the best sunset l've seen so far. But I don't think to make another visit here.
The pict said it's calm yet it's not
Then let's call it a day. We're back to hotel by Grab. And just like Jakarta, Uber and Grab had that controversy in some tourism places in Bali. So our grab driver reminded us to not tell the people in store we're ordered grab. Just told them that we rented a car with driver. Anything you want, Mr. Driver. As long as we got low expenses. It cost us IDR 32K.
Tomorrow, We have a tight schedule trip. Pandawa, Uluwatu, Sunset road are coming soon.
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