Is villa safe staying in Bali?

[ronb]

Pheww...
A letter of advice..
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What a pitty that Villa Damai had gave you a hard time..take this as your first bad luck experience and learn to be more carefull next time.. find a well-known hotels/villas/etc.. or at least good comments from tripadvisors, lonely planet, etc.. you still can find a cheap places but good reccomendation in Bali..
Be more carefull with the not-known places, they are usually managed by unresponsible rude staffs..
Dont let anyone make fool of you, especially when they said that you are stupid, be angry please!

Okta, you seem to be bad-mouthing the staff at Villa Damai, but take a look at the other 2 reviews at
Villa Damai (Seminyak, Indonesia) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
both seemingly written by seasoned travellers, and both commenting favourably on the staff. Maybe there are 2 sides to this story.

JohnnyCool, thanks for your account of upstairs and downstairs at Hardy's - I enjoyed it.

[zoyra]

I'm utterly sad with their service. Thanks for seeing my post on all your mentioned forums.
It's an ultimate experience for us indeed for our loses
BTW, i'm not a competitor, i stayed in Villa Damai last Thursday 12 May 2011.

Hi Chongpeiwen, so sorry to hear about your bad experience. One question, how did you come to book this particular villa? Was it just through the internet or did someone recommend it to you. Have you given your feedback to the person/company where you've booked this accommodation?
As for tripadvisor - very often there is one negative feedback among several positive ones, but it doesn't mean that this is not true, because there is very seldom a guarantee for good service. Could be a change in management or whatsoever.
Rudeness, yes it does happen. The other day I gave the rafting guide a tip of 20,000 which i do feel sufficient (maybe i'm wrong) - he never thank me and just turned away -

[matsaleh]

... Rudeness, yes it does happen. The other day I gave the rafting guide a tip of 20,000 which i do feel sufficient (maybe i'm wrong) - he never thank me and just turned away -

Sad to hear, but it doesn't only happen in Bali. On my last trip to Sydney, one night I ate in a small cafe with a friend. We only had a couple of drinks and some snacks. The bill came to $18 so we left $20 on the table.

As we reached the door, the waitress came running after us to give us back the $2. Her comment, "for that amount, I think you need this more than I do".

I nearly slapped her!

[zoyra]

Sad to hear, but it doesn't only happen in Bali. On my last trip to Sydney, one night I ate in a small cafe with a friend. We only had a couple of drinks and some snacks. The bill came to $18 so we left $20 on the table.

As we reached the door, the waitress came running after us to give us back the $2. Her comment, "for that amount, I think you need this more than I do".

I nearly slapped her!

Yes, you're absolutely correct - one does experience rudeness everywhere - and for the waitress, I think in a situation like that, I wished I would have had the guts to slap her. Usually I think, people like that must be totally unhappy and frustrated :) - this is just to calm down myself.

[arsinibali]

Bali is a great island....hopefull you still love Bali island even you have a bad experiences. If one has it, it is not mean all is terrible...Keep smile and be happy to welcome you back to the island...Good luck!

How should i trust the island again? [/QUOTE]

[okta]

Okta, you seem to be bad-mouthing the staff at Villa Damai, but take a look at the other 2 reviews at
Villa Damai (Seminyak, Indonesia) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
both seemingly written by seasoned travellers, and both commenting favourably on the staff. Maybe there are 2 sides to this story.

RonB, Im sure theres always two sides of the story, Im just a little bit pissed off with the facts that these staff mentioned them as a stupid guests (in front of them), and im sure many villas elsewhere also had a bad and good stories. If my comments sounds like im bad mouthing Villa Damai, then i should be careful next time.

[Ricbali]

Hmm should I jump on the top of this pile?

Oh what the heck!

Markit - love your sense of humor.

I am always sorry to hear someone has had a bad experience in Bali and hope they will realize that it could very well be an isolated indecent. I do hope you will give Bali another chance, the majority of people here in Bali are humble and trustworthy. Every city has it's bad characters.

I too have had the desire to trash businesses for poor service all over the web, but realize there is more than one side to every story and in the end it is just easier to chalk it up to a life experience and move on. Behind every bad experience there is a lesson!

It did occur to me that there are police and then there are tourist police. The later I assume are trained (hehehe) in dealing with foreigners. Why wouldn't villas have a little placard or something at the front desk area letting their guest know about tourist police and how to contact them in case of an incident in or out of the accommodation? Or am I just being naive?

[hermit]

It did occur to me that there are police and then there are tourist police. The later I assume are trained (hehehe) in dealing with foreigners. Why wouldn't villas have a little placard or something at the front desk area letting their guest know about tourist police and how to contact them in case of an incident in or out of the accommodation? Or am I just being naive?

it is a very useful suggestion.The fact that it is not yet done might have to do with the severe distrust in any kind of policeman that most balinese and indonesians have.

[Jeniekrag]

Villas are truly good and comfortable accommodation for a long vacation. I don't think that villa rental are not reliable. On my tour to Italy, we have rented Tuscany villas and the accommodation was really good.

And as well Bali has many villa rentals that offer good services. Hope you get the best.