Lukas
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The family running the place was very friendly, the garden was beautiful, and the rooms were clean. The food was good but a little overpriced compared to other places in Bali. It's pretty much the same dish every day though and you have to order in advance, taking away some of that holiday spontaneity we like.
There's no air-conditioning, but we got used to that surprisingly well (it was raining the whole time though).
Except for an overpriced and sub standard Russian resort next door (bondalem beach club), there are absolutely no restaurants in the area and not much to do except diving (which was some of the best in my life, hands down). There's no grabcar, bluebird or Uber to take you to the nearest restaurants and the host family charged extortion prices to drive us to a restaurant 10 min away. For the same money, you can get a private driver to take you around Bali for half a day-really not cool😠
So we used our own driver. You can rent scooters there, but we had a toddler with us.
There's a black cobble stone beach which might have been nice, except it was basically a trash heap at the end of the monsoon season, absolutely disgusting! We teamed up with other guests to clean it from fishhooks, broken glass etc so our kids could at least play there a little - our gardener and other locals watched us in bewilderment rather than helping us, also not cool...
