Bali Gateway - part 3

Hello, I'm back again... I will end this Bali thingy on this post.

So the next day, we shift hotel to W Retreat & Spa. My brother has a friend who work there, so I contacted her and she gave us free upgrade of the room. Yaaaay! We only booked the cheapest room, which is the garden view. But we got upgraded to the ocean view room. And we got some 'honeymoon present', DIY cocktail, and some stones on the bed and a giant lip pillow, dunno for what...

It was a bit tricky to find this hotel. The entrance is just a small alley. Nobody knows that inside this alley there is a huge property. There were 3 different road, first one is the bamboo road, and then small rocks road and the last is the wooden road. Such a long journey just to go inside. When you already reach the hotel, you just will open your mouth and say wow, this is cool...

They served different drinks at the lobby everyday. And the most important thing is FREE WIFI everywhere.. So I quickly checked-in on my path... LOL, not everyday I can stayed in this kind of hotel.

Once we go inside the room, also we open our mouth widely again and say inside our head, OMG the room is so cool... The bathroom is open concept, with 2 sinks, for her and for him. The best thing is the ocean view, once we open the patio door, quickly we take picture and upload to instagram...

view from our room

bathroom

bath tub with family of squeaky duck

mini bar

the bed

tv is hidden behind that sliding panels, with bose speakers and ipod docks

special present for newlyweds couple, DIY cocktail with candy stirrer

they re-arrange the bed, i like the original arrangement though

better photo from my instagram

mandatory photo spot, checked

I haven't finish yet... The best part during the stay at W is of course the breakfast!! This is a food blog by the way, so the food review will be more dominant... Firstly, when you enter the breakfast place, you have to choose your own cup. There is a wall full of cups, all different designs and sizes. Just choose random lah, it's just a cup anyway... After that you will be offered with coffee or tea like usual, but the unusual thing is the don;t give you just a cup of tea, but a pot of tea! The pot is cute also, but forgot to take picture. Once you settled with your drink, they will handed you with the menu, yes you can choose whatever you want from the menu and they will make it just for you! Of course there's still some buffet options, but not as many as at Ayana. Just a few selections of typical western style breakfast like bread, cereals, fruits, etc. Ignore the buffet, focus on the a la carte menu, because it's wayyy more interesting. You can have steak, foie gras, waffles, pancakes, porridge and so on.. Let's see the pictures so you can understand it better...

wall full with cups. i wanted to choose the big one on the right, but to shy to ask

scrambled egg

waffle and pancakes

fresh honey from the honeycomb

nice display of breads

more breads

my fave breakfast, hash brown with bacon and smoked salmon

foie gras with sunny side

mushroom steak for breakfast, why not

That's our breakfast for 3 days, we ordered almost everything on the menu, even I also ordered the vegetarian menu, which comes out not very nice, but have to eat it anyway, don't waste food!

And for dinner, we visited several place around Seminyak area. There are too many restaurant but not enough time and space on the stomach.. So we only visited some of it :

1. Naughty Nuri's @ Batu Belig

Naughty Nuri's pork ribs, not as nice as people said. Tony Roma's still better. Nuri's one, they don't marinated it long enough, the taste is only on the outside

Naughty Nuri's Fried Duck. The duck is tender and crispy. Recommended!

 2. Ryoshi Sushi, nice sushi with affordable price.

maki sushi, forgot the name, taste normal nothing special

pork katsu, bit too oily but taste as nice as tonkichi

tofu, not nice. too dry

matcha ice cream, my fave

3. Hu'u, near W.
We got hungry in one afternoon, so we just walk from the hotel to random eateries nearby. They sell hi-end indonesian food. The food price almost the same as the drink price. And they didn't provide any ice water. We refused to pay idr18k for a mineral water which we can buy outside for only 2k/bottle. Once a cheapo always a cheapo...

some soto maybe

iga bakar or something, taste very nice

4. Flapjacks
We were still too full, but I die die want to try flapjacks. So we only ordered one sundae and share it.

really nice waffle, must try with empty stomach next time

5. Bubba Gump
Mandatory eating place at Kuta area. The price is bit expensive, but it's worth it. The food is super nice and the atmosphere of the place also different. To save up, just order one appetizer and one main course and then share (cheapo again). The portion is huge you know..

appetizer, this one cost about idr 170k (S$18), this garlic bread is damn nice

mains, grilled fish with potatos which looks like hair

mandatory camwhore location

already pay so expensive must utilized all the photo spots

with the mascot

free prawn crackers

We also went to Ultimo, but didn't manage to take any photo because of the poor lighting. And the food there was ok only. Peppenero still better for italian food.

OK, i will end this post with photos of me camwhoring at Kuta Beach...

act like candid shot but failed

another failed candid shot

Bye... thanx for reading my journey at Bali..