Cruising thru Bali

shaaz717

I will be visint Bali in May and am intrested in the "Bali Hai II" cruise, which has a slide and many water sports activities etc. Has anyone been on this tour? if u have, please let me know if it is worth enjoying? Thanks in advance

Rangi

hinakos wrote You'd have just a good a day at the waterbom park on the mainland if you ask me. The Bali Hai water parks are basically a miniature waterbom set against an island backdrop. Completely out of place.

I havnt been to Bali Hai but i can say that waterbom is a very nice day out alot of fun

hinakos

Ive dived along the coast adjacent to these 2 "water parks" in Nusa Lembongan. They are floating pontoons with hundreds of mostly local/chinese/korean/taiwanese families all in life vests sliding down plastic slides into the water and queing up for turns on a banana boat which putts around at about 2 km/ hr. You get to share a boat with at least a hundred other people on the way over and get to take photos againt the backdrop of a huge plactic/ fibreglass structure harmoniously blending in with the crystal clear waters atop (previously) pristine reefs. They can also organise you a trip over to Manta point in a manta watching speedboat where you can charge over to the manta's when they breach the surface and maybe take a picture of one.. During the huge swells between late May - September, you might be lucky enough to see one of the 2 structures break a few of its moorings and start dragging its huge chains all over the reefs. Sorry, but these gigantic plastic structures are probably the most innapropriate eyesores I have ever seen anywhere, and not my idea of relaxation. But each to their own....... You'd have just a good a day at the waterbom park on the mainland if you ask me. The Bali Hai water parks are basically a miniature waterbom set against an island backdrop. Completely out of place.