Brought the family to Bali this June holidays.
Stayed at Seminyak this time, so the kids could do more teenage to adult activities.
We stayed at The Seminyak Suites Private Villas and had a whole villa to ourselves. It was one of the highlights for the wifey and kids who’ve never stayed in an exclusive villa with pool before in Bali. Our villa had a pool in the middle between two large rooms, each with its own en-suite toilet and huge bath tub. We also had daily breakfast and it was more like a concierge service except instead of hotel concierge, it was villa concierge. Very luxurious.
We didn’t do much the day we landed, just got acquainted with the villa, watched the Bali sunset on Kuta beach. After dinner we played Scrabble till late in the night.
The second day we also spent time in the villa pool. Then after lunch we went to try one of Bali’s best Escape Rooms. This place was called Pandora Experience. The room we did was El Dorado themed and in my opinion had better props and rooms than any we’ve tried in SG or JB! We were very impressed! Also we managed to get out of the room in 65mins, well within the allotted two hours. After that we went to one of Bali’s large malls to shop and ended up buying some clothes. In the evening I brought the family to eat HK porridge at Warung Laota, a favourite haunt during my Saxo party trips to Bali.
On the third day we had a packed itinerary. We had a 90min drive to the gathering area for the ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) tour in the morning. We took the tandem package which meant I took one ATV with Xin while the wifey took one with Wei. It was fun but a little too long for my liking. 90mins of ATV riding was a little tough. Then we had lunch at the gathering point, followed by white water rafting! This was the most fun activity of the whole trip! We took a raft just four of us and a guide, and rafted down Agung River. it was so fun the kids loved the experience so much. For dinner I brought the family to have Naughty Nuri’s. Sure we had to wait half an hour due to the long queues but trust me it was well worth it. The ribs, bbq prawns and crispy pork knuckles were so good!
Fourth day we did surfing lessons! Again the teens loved it AND they were better at it than me and the wifey were. While the three of them took beginner instructors, I went for the intermediate instructor who immediately took me out to the furthest point to catch the third waves. The beginners had to do half an hour lesson on land before they could enter the sea. That said, I was terrible this time around, struggling to stand at all and was constantly wiping out from the huge waves of Kuta Beach. For some reason, I still found all that wiping out pretty fun even though I could hardly stand for more than a few seconds and my body is absolutely hurting. We then continued the afternoon playing in our villa pool. Dinner was at Shima Teppanyaki. It was not bad, but I’ve had better.
Finally on the last day we went for Pandora Experience one more time! This time we tried the Alcatraz themed room. And it was even better than the El Dorado themed room! Mind blowing how they could create such elaborate props! Then we went to another mall in Seminyak and then finally headed to the airport for home.
What a short but fun trip!