Accomodation options

There are plenty of hotels for choice, Poms take heed, Kuta will be full of Aussies.  Aussies, unless you want to be labelled a bogan, Kuta best avoided.  Therefore see most of you there.

Bali is famed for its beautiful private villa accomodation and we can recommend the following websites http://www.elitehavens.com/ and http://www.balivillas.com/ to give you an idea.  The Seminyak area is quite busy, anywhere in Canggu or the Umalas is around a 20 min drive out of Seminyak but has some great properties and is much quieter.  There are also villa options in Ulawatu and Jimbaran.

To the east of Uluwatu, Nusa Dua has a really nice stretch of beach and all the big hotel chains (Marriot, Hyatt, Westin etc) are there.  Here most of the dining options are within the hotel, unlike Seminyak.  Great for those of you with kids, if you are not staying at a private villa, as they are very kid friendly.

Seminyak also has some lovely ($$$$) hotel options for those of you who fancy a slurge, see The Oboeroi, The W, The Legian (not The Legian Beach - avoid at all costs)

The Hen (or Bachelorette for Oxy)

Ladies, dinner is booked at Hu'u for Friday the 28th.  Hu'u is a lovely garden restaurant in Seminyak, and they are putting on dinner and drinks for us.  It will be a 3 course dinner and some drinks included, they sound like dangerous cocktails to me, but I'll let the bridesmaids explain.

huubali.com

Let's hope the girls have booked the pouting guys on the opening page of the website to take their shirts off. 

Hu'u turns from dinner to a club around 10pm, so that's when the fun starts.  Jess knows the French DJ from her last visit, but will have had a word about his song selection prior to this visit.  She was most incenced that he didn't know Johnny Farnham's Ýou're the Voice'.

Keep the evening free if you fancy a night on the tiles with the girls.  All the ladies welcome, it will start at 730pm.  3 course meal including a welcome cocktail and 2 bottles of spirits/sparkling wine per 10 people is going to cost approx US$60 per head.

Please RSVP to balimondaymadness@gmail.com by 31st August if you are able to join us.

Meet the bridesmaids, Jess and Briony (more on them to follow)

Meet the Fockers Starring.....

Grannie Annie

Professor Trouto

Scary Mary

Micky Moo

Some of our favourite places to eat.....

The restaurants in Bali will knock your socks off, so as one of our Aussie Icon's would say 'do yourself a favour' and check out at least one.  Best to book as it will be busy.  Ask your hotel/villa, they will know them.

DINNER

Sarong

Beautiful Asian dishes, everything from Indo to Indian.  Asian Tapas type starters and every dish is delish. High ceiling's dripping with chandeliers and huge mirrors for all you beautiful people.  We love.

Metis

Amazing French food.  You would never think to order French Onion soup in 35 deg heat but believe me, this is worth it.  Beautiful setting in the rice paddy fields, we have sunk many a wine here.  Josh Forrow was so inspired after a meal here he drove backwards, the wrong way, down a one way street.  Or was that standing on top of the car?

Kafe Warisan

Great french nosh, set among twinkling lights in the paddy fields.  Very romantic it might just get you in the mood!  It has a lovely antique shop attached to it.  Expensive, but after a few wines at dinner ladies, your other half might be overcome with the romance of it all and feel compelled to buy you a trinket.

Mamasan
New York style eatery which has just been opened by the Sarong crowd.  It's got fairy bridesmaid Briony written all over it. We are yet to check it out, but hear its definitely worth a try.  Cocktail lounge upstairs.

BEACHCLUBS

Potato Head

Don't be fooled by the name.  You don't got there to stick fake ears and a bowler hat on a spud.  Get yourself down there early, around 11ish, and bags yourself a pool bed.  Do a Jim; strip off and oil yourself up.  Grab a burger and a cocktail (Ben C can recommend the Zombie)  and watch all the beautiful people party.  Great for an afternoon session, huge pool for the kids up one end, and pool bar for adults at the other.

KuDeTa

The old classic.  Many of the beautiful people have moved on to Potato Head but a great place for sundowners.  If you like a bit of Eurotrash this is for you.

Cocoon

Pool, tunes, poolside cabanas, nice relaxed food.  We are having drinks here on Sat before the wedding.

LUNCH

La Lucciola

Emma's favourite.  Yummy granitas, scrummy Italian food, all washed down with a bottle of Monkey Bay Rose.  Or six.  This is where it all started for Jim and Em.  Note the Rose, La Lusty Lunch.

Made's Warung

Indonesian homestyle cooking, its a Bali icon.  Get down here for a bit of kultcha.

Cafe Bali

Busy, plantation style restaurant with lots of sharing plates.  Great decor, nice for nibbles and a glass of wine.

Starfish Bloo

At the W hotel, does THE Sunday brunch.  Family friendly with a DJ playing.  The W also does an amazing high tea daily.

Biku
150 year old Javanese Joglo, an oasis in Seminyak.  Breaky, lunch and high tea, including a tarot card reading.  Audrey was told she'd meet a tall dark stranger.  He wobbled into her room that night around 2am, after one too many cocktails.

COFFEE

Grocer and Grind/Bali Deli/ Deus ex Machina
For all you Melbournites who need their morning latte fix, these are the places to get it.

ULUWATU

The Rock Bar
Jaw dropping views and an excellent place for sundowners.  Very chic. At the Ayana resort.

Nammos Beach Club
Right on the beach for yummy seafood and brick oven-fired goodies.  Karma Kandara resort.




By no means does the list stop here, but these we can recommend.