This hotel is not in Kuta! The beach is disgusting.

Written: 1 february 2013
Travel time: 15 — 29 january 2013
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 5.0
Attention! This hotel does not have its own beach! Dreamland beach (New Kuta beach), which is located 800 meters from the hotel, is not suitable for normal swimming. The hotel is not located in Kuta (despite its name! ), but in Pecatu near Jimbaran in an isolated area. So if you are going to Bali for a beach holiday, clubbing or shopping, then New Kuta Condotel 3* is definitely not for you! ! !

The hotel clearly corresponds to the level of 3 * and cannot claim more. The buildings have 4 floors, there are elevators. Some areas have free Wi-Fi, login and password can be obtained at the reception. Safe at the reception for free.
Rooms are cleaned every day, bed linen is not changed every day. The bathroom is very small: a small sink, a small mirror, a shelf, a trash can, a toilet, a Chinese shower (hot water runs for a limited amount of time, then only a little warm). Towels are changed every day.

There are toothbrushes, tubes of toothpaste and shampoo which they usually forget to report when cleaning the room. There are balconies in all rooms: there is a table and one wicker chair, as a rule, almost all rooms can see the ocean (provided that the windows face the pool).
In a standard room: a double bed, two hanging shelves on both sides of the bed, a TV (1 Russian channel Russia-Culture), a small refrigerator (built into the table), a kettle, a set of tea accessories (tea, coffee, milk, sugar, etc. ) . in bags), two mugs, a chair, two sockets (for a TV and a kettle), a trash can, a wardrobe (no shelves, only hangers), a wooden bench at the entrance to the room, air conditioning. Hairdryer - on request. The main drawback of the rooms is the lack of a large mirror (there is a built-in long mirror in the closet, but it is not convenient to use it). The three-room suites have a microwave, a sofa and even a built-in kitchen with a gas stove (however, gas is not supplied).
The rooms of the north building have good sunsets from the balcony, you can go out to admire the sunset at the reception or on the stairs at the end of the building overlooking the ocean. There are a lot of lizards on the territory of the hotel, they crawl on the glass on the stairs, so it is better to keep the balcony closed. In addition, the frogs in the pond croak very strongly at night.
The breakfast buffet is acceptable, but very monotonous: cereal, soup, rice, pasta, meat (usually bad, apparently overcooked a second time for several days), scrambled eggs, sausages, vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers), lettuce, carrots, watermelon , pineapple, pumpkin, rice flour pastry, which can be filled with chocolate or butter, two types of juice, water, milk, tea, coffee, etc. Dinner at the hotel is a little expensive, better in a cafe on the beach.
The pool is very small and shallow (just above the waist). The water in the pool is rarely changed, it goes out (apparently, the Chinese go there not only to swim, but also to use the toilet).
Towels are issued by the pool under the signature, there is also a gym and SPA-salon (prices are not cheap). Near the pool there are free sun loungers, a bar. You are not allowed to bring your own drinks by the pool.

There is free transport to Dreamland Beach, but it’s not far to go (800 m): from the reception to the right (there is no way straight through the hotel, you have to bypass the main building), go down to the main road, and continue moving towards the ocean along the adjoining road on the left. Passing by the construction site, you will go down to the ring where all the buses stop, which daily bring and take hundreds (if not thousands) of Chinese to Dreamland from other hotels. After going down the stairs, continue past the malls (which, by the way, have very good prices) along the backwater-garbage dump. By the way, I draw your attention to the fact that all this garbage ends up in the ocean after high tide. In principle, there is almost always a small runoff, i. e. the beach is constantly polluted.
I think, having seen all this with your own eyes, you will decide for yourself whether you will swim on this beach or not. The Chinese, for example, are not at all embarrassed. On the beach itself, the sand is coarse, there is a lot of garbage (as is the case on the entire west coast). Waves are usually very large. From both ends of the beach there are high rocky walls, there is even a small through cave. Upstairs is a large restaurant with a swimming pool. On the beach there are wooden deck chairs and boards for swimming (although, in any case, you are guaranteed full shorts of sand after swimming), you can take surfing. All this for money, there is nothing free from the hotel, it's all lies! There is a good restaurant on the shore where you can have an inexpensive dinner while admiring the amazing sunset. Soup 2.000 rupees, barbecue 4.000 rupees, drinks, tea, etc.
Not far from the hotel (750 m) is the New Kuta Green park (judging by the photo on the advertisement, it is not at all attractive).
Since the hotel is located far from shops and does not have a normal beach, free daily buses are organized to Kuta and Nusa Dua (7-8 people each), which must be booked at the reception in advance. Departure time is extremely inconvenient: Discovery Shopping Mall (Kuta) 10:00, return 18:45; Bali Collection (Nusa Dua) ​ ​.12:00, return 16:35. The nearest normal beach is only in Nusa Dua, but since there is very little time for swimming on the free bus, you have to take a taxi. The hotel transport service offers to go to Nusa Dua for 13.000 rupees, according to the meter on Bali taxi it turns out about 9.000 rupees. The minimum price for which private traders agreed to go was 8.000 rupees. A taxi to Kuta is about the same price.
Considering that the hotel does not have a normal beach, and Nusa Dua can only be reached by taxi, there are no shops nearby, we do not recommend choosing this hotel for any vacation, even for the lowest budget one.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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