Day 1 – Holiday at Bali Canggu, Zoe Villa

From previous post, I mentioned that I was holidaying at Bali for a short break where we spent 4 days 3 nights and here I am blogging about day 1, which is the typical post of talking about the place the boy and I stayed in. The boy suggested staying in villa with private pool months back and now I know why he chose that..Ah HA! <3

We were browsing through the Bali villas when we both decided on Zoe Villa because we love the lush surrounding of the villa and it matched our budget, since we are saving mostly on our wedding preparation and house renovations. I emailed the villa, which the owner’s daughter, Liza, replied promptly and everything got settled rather quickly, with airport transfer all arranged as well…talk about efficient!

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Day 1 – Arrival at Bali (Afternoon, 3PM)

We arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport, situated at Southern Bali which was about 30 min car drive to the villa. And when we reached the villa, we love the exterior of the villa!

I am a big fan of stone walls and wooden furnitures. It brings so much comfort and it felt so cozy! The staff inside were super friendly and we were shown into our room:

First sight that greeted us is the lovely pool with water jetting out inside the pool which make the pool looks like a large Jacuzzi. This is SO pretty! I can tell you that picture don’t do justice. You need to see and experience for yourself!

The bedroom is very spacious, with the double bed in center, two sofas and a television, which I never take picture, and a small table.

The toilet came with a bathtub, rainfall shower together with wooden finishings of the sink and drawers. We absolutely love how the whole villa looks!

We were lucky enough to get a 2-storey villa, so we can actually come up to the balcony to have a quick look around upstairs.

We did not swim in the pool because it was too cold. Sunny, who is the owner of the villa, mentioned that Australia is having winter now, and the cold wind blew towards Bali which makes the evening cooling and water cold. She is a very nice and friendly lady, who actually come up with interior design of the villa herself!

We had a quick lunch (Fried Rice with Sunny side up egg) at the villa before deciding to head out to the nearby beach which is the Echo beach.

It is about few minutes drive to Echo beach (35000 rupiah). And it was the first time we encountered paying an entrance fee of 30,000 rupiah just for visiting the beach! Surprising.

The whole stretch is actually restuarants where people will dine at the beach. We decided to go for BBQ dinner, which we regretted because the portion was so small, yet expensive.

The boy ordered long drink,Zombie (69000 rupiah), which is a mixture of bacardi, myers rum, apricot brandy, cherry brandy, orange juice and lime juice. And it tasted horrible. The boy doesn’t even like it as the taste of the brandy overpowered the fruity taste so it tasted quite bland. I actually ordered Avocado juice which I didn’t include in the picture because the boy said my drink was too ugly to be pictured beside his drink. -.-

And we ordered a seafood platter for 1 since we had late lunch before that. It comes with Salad and miserable portion of seafood:

Salad doesn’t look appealing here, but the potato was good! The rest were too bland for me to sing praise.

You tell me about the portion. So small and little for 80000 rupiah!

We strolled around for a bit before heading back, and let me tell you, DO NOT EVER ACCEPT any random driver offer. We were offered a ride for 60000 rupiah at fixed price, and I refused couple of times but finally relented after the boy said it’s very late and we not sure if there will be any taxi driving into the beach. And the moment we boarded the van, two taxis drove in! And worse thing, I got very bad stomachache straight after we reached villa, which I suspected was caused by the food at Echo beach.

Talk about damn SWAY…Argh!!!

(To my foreign readers, SWAY is a Singaporean Hokkien meaning for “unlucky”)

But since its our first time, we take it as a bitter experience…and we are much more street smart now. 🙂

Will blog Day 2 soon. <3