| Apartments rentals in Bali? It may run counter to | | | | Apartment rentals work best for visitors who are |
| your notion of Bali, Indonesia, if you have never been | | | | willing to trade some of the pampering they will |
| here, or visited recently. Well, although it is a major | | | | received at a hotel, as well as the retail price they will |
| Asian tourist destination, Bali is a place with an | | | | pay for the experience, for accommodations that are |
| enormous variety in accommodations for the visitor. | | | | geared a little more towards "living", than feeling like a |
| Naturally there are great hotels, and the Bali villa is a | | | | hotel "guest". If you are willing to forgo the latter |
| dream that everyone should experience at least | | | | you will be rewarded with more of what you might |
| once, hopefully without having to mortgage their | | | | actually have come for anyway: time. There is a huge |
| house back home! | | | | difference between coming for a week or ten days |
| There is a third lodging option in Bali too, that of | | | | and staying for a whole month, or even more. |
| apartment rentals. I haven't seen it as a Bali travel tip | | | | A little-known Bali tip is the fact that for the price of |
| before, but I have personal experience with it that | | | | that hotel room for a week or 10 day Bali visit you |
| was so favorable that my wife and I ended up | | | | might actually be able to rent larger and more |
| buying an apartment in Bali! | | | | comfortable accommodations for an entire month. |
| The busy southern end of the island, near the airport, | | | | When we book a holiday in a place like Bali most of |
| is quite densely populated by locals and tourists, so | | | | us think in terms of booking a room in a hotel. It is |
| the buildings have been getting taller in the last | | | | understandable. It is just the way we have done it in |
| decade or so. (Balinese building regulations state that | | | | the past, and advertising helps to shape our notion of |
| no building can be taller than a palm tree, but this | | | | what our vacation is supposed to be. But taking a |
| seems to have been forgotten along the way. | | | | more frugal route with apartment rental will still have |
| Possibly there's a special palm tree somewhere, extra | | | | its comfort and even luxury, and also most likely be |
| tall, used to approve these new buildings!) Condos | | | | much more conveniently located than a villa in the |
| apartments up to five or six stories are now fairly | | | | rice paddies. |
| common in Bali. Many of the owners of these units | | | | The next time you are dreaming up a visit to |
| are absentee owners who have their property | | | | somewhere exotic, with an indigenous culture that is |
| managed while they are in Jakarta or elsewhere in | | | | still very much alive, give serious consideration to Bali. |
| Asia or Australia, etc., a for most of the year. | | | | |