We woke up early planning to check out a little bit of Kuta before we leave for Ubud at 1pm... Crossed the main road near Discovery Shopping Mall, a short guy handed us two vouchers saying it's FREE as Royal Resorts has some promotions. He insisted we open them and see if we win anything?
Gerald won two shirts, and guess what I won?! ...I won either (1) DVD Player (2) USD$250 (3) A week free accommodation at Royal Resort and (4) I cannot remember what?! ...But in order to find out which prize I actually won, we had to go to Royal Resorts to sit for 1 hour promotional tour first... (Sound dodgy yeah?) ...Well, we were both CURIOUS (and greedy)... and since we thought we had nothing to lose as well, why not?
It's pretty funny as I think back, because that guy actually suggested us to PRETEND to be a couple as the prizes are only valid to "couples"... And to pretend to be a couple AIN'T easy at all... Gerald failed straight away as he didn't know my birthday when he filled in the form at Royal Resorts... and I had to pretend to give him a small punch on his arm like a girlfriend?!?!?... (It was a Grammy Awards acting ok!!)...
Anyway, a public relation guy then lead us to a table and started to make a conversation. To sum it up, he was just trying to find out if we were their potential target... I think we bored him so much that he YAWNED a few times... And it didn't take long for him to pop the question --> if we were interested to pay some money and join membership... I told him NOPE, we are not interested... So we walked out from there with 2 T-shirts, and vouchers of 5 days free accommodation either at Phuket, Bali or Gua that valid for the next 2yrs! ...We were so relief that our acting finally came to an end... *phew*...
On our way back to Discovery Shopping Mall... We read the Terms & Conditions of this so called "Free Accommodation" thingy? ...Well, in order to claim the free accommdations, we have to pay USD$100 to cover the administration fees... Ha!
Well, well... First day walking around in KUTA, we were conned and kidnapped to this Royal Resorts!!!! ...(Actually, we saw it coming but... Yeah, curiousity kills the cat... but luckily cat has NINE lives?!!! ...Meow~) ....errr... ?!?!?!?!
Anyway, that's how we spent our morning before we checked out from Pendawa Hotel and jumped into the shutter bus to go to Ubud!
It took us roughly 2hours to get to Ubud due the shutter bus took the long way (to pick up some more travellers?)... Soon after we reached Ubud, this guy called Nyoman came and asked us to check out the HomeStay called Brata2 which only cost RP50,000 (equivalent to AUD$7 per night)... So we went to check out the room and decided to stay there! ...We have a balcany that has a Rice field view... Quite nice, we thought! ...At least the bathroom is much better than Pendawa Hotel at Kuta and it has HOT WATER!!! ...hehe... (But later we found out that the ceiling of our room has termites??)...
Anyway, we made reservations for our Kintamani-Besakih Tour the next day through another Nyoman (...there seems to have lotsa people named Nyoman and Ma-De in Bali... Everyone's name the same?!) ...bought tickets to watch Kecak and Fire Dance at night, and exploring Ubud streets without a map!
While we were having dinner at this nice restaurant... Guess who was looking for us? ...Ma-De from Pendawa Hotel!! ...Obviously he couldn't find us at the Hotel which I made reservation in Ubud yesterday. So he asked me where were we staying, and I had no choice but to tell him... Well, he said his mum and sisters would like to invite us to their place on Tuesday night for dinner... I was quite keen at that time because I regretted not taking any photos of his mum's bed and his house yesterday... So I said okay and he left.
After dinner and Kecak/Fire Dance, we went back to our Homestay and doze off... I remembered the stupid rooster crowing at 2am and woke me up.... Geesh!!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
The other "prize" was Rp 1,000,000 :)
Post a Comment