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 Traveller's Tales: Getting around in Kuta, Indonesia
Know the most popular landmarks in Kuta, Indonesia. You may read about best transportation, recommended travel itinerary, suggested routes and directions. Also, you might want to read our
Bali city guide,
and Lombok city guide.
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| N Johnson |
22 April 2002 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Kuta is a the place to go if you like cheap copy t-shirts (or copy most things for that matter), cheap beer, dressing up as a surfer (noticed there were a lot of hangers on with all the clothes and no board!), actual surfing, and basically living a seriously hedonistic and borderline immoral existence. In short, Kuta is what many Australians would love Australians to be and probably would be if there were no goverment.
There is another Kuta and that is the one which is choc-a-bloc with health spas, beatiful furniture and lace shops, some excellent seafood restaurants, some very cool local and expat run designer clothes shops and a beautiful clean beach.
My ideal holiday is a combination of the two so Kuta was ideal. In my four night / three day stay we partied till four thrirty in the morning a couple of nights at the Hard Rock and Double-Six, ate delicious crab, shopped for clothes and gifts, visited Ubud (what a dump that place has become), spent a few hours in the galleries and furniture shops, tootled around on the USD5/day rental motorbike and generally lazed around the beach and the pool.
In my humble but experienced opinion, Double-
Six is one of the top clubs / discos in Asia (up there with Zouk in Singapore and Retro in Jakarta) along the beach at Seminyak. Well worth a visit, as it attracts its fair share from the local, tourist and expat community and also unites the gay and straight communities. Now there's a touching thought!
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| P English |
05 November 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Great place..the tour of the island is good, but you spend a lot of time in the car (% hours out of 8)
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| J Watson (dr) |
17 October 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Best way to get around Bali is to make use of the hotel driver/minibus service. Reasonably priced. However, the minibus stops at prearranged "tourist" spots and you are immediately surrounded by street sellers. This begins to get overpowering since a simple "no thankyou" doesn't seem to work. This is also true on the beach where it is impossible to more than two minutes between "sales visits".
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| T Ferguson |
19 September 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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We have travelled to Bali many times and as a result have quite a few contacts. So we use local transport or negosaited driver/ transport. There is a great range of restaurants/ eating places in Bali from US$1 to US$60 per head all are good.
Note: wine is very expensive, Beer is cheap, good quality spirits are normal western prices.
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| B Dent |
10 September 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Visited Pemuteran for diving, Tulamben diving, Ubud for food.
Hire car from Poppies , very good rate and reasonable vehicle.
Best restaurants Ary's Warong in Ubud, TJ's in Kuta and Chi Chi's in Lovina Beach.
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| E Chan |
15 August 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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The food was very cheap along Poppies Lane, watch out for "Tree Top Cafe" the meals there are really cheap and offer wonderful value! A meal for 2 persons plus beer is no more than US $5!!
BTW motorcycle rental is at about US$12 for two days plus insurance.
Also make sure you bargain 80% off ANYTHING that you buy and stay at the bargain price, move up slowly and it's best that you walk away. Come back later because they'll often yell the "best price".
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| R Foltz |
23 May 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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My time in Bali was for business, not pleasure. The Monkey park was fun, the tiered rice paddies were beautiful. I used a local driver named Ketut (his mobile phone #081-2392-2314). He has a nice vehicle and is very helpful & friendly. Some of the drivers here were only interested in taking us to the "tourist" places. Ketut took us where we wanted to go.
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| R Pettigrew |
06 April 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Hired a mini van for the day through Poppies and drove around parts of the island seeing a Barong dance and stopping off at various places on the way.
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| W Tedford |
11 March 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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Dined in Poppies Restaurant on 2 evenings - did not live up to it's reputation, despite pleasant service.
Used hotel taxi service to tour.
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| D Oetting |
21 January 2001 |
Stayed at Poppies Bali - Kuta, Indonesia.
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The Maharani Department Store is wonderful and only a short distance away. Good place to buy food and snacks and to give you a starting figure for souveniers. Look for transport outside of the hotel.
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