Friday, June 27, 2025

Bali Day 4, Part 2: Hardrock Hotel Bali

We ordered 2 grabs to go to Kuta. The villa could arrange for a big car but wanted to charge us IDR1.2mil, which is 40% more than how much we would pay for 2 grab cars. 

We settled comfortably in the car and expected to see Hardrock Hotel in 1.5hr. We all napped; we were all tired after the early morning activity. In fact, I thought I slept for a long time and woke up to see that the journey would take another 1ish hour? I only slept for less than 30 mins? Apparently not. Bcos it rained and so it jammed. Yes, it started drizzling and then raining when we were leaving the Black Lava and the rain didn’t really stopped. As a result, the traffic was really bad. 

I kept dozing on and off and when we finally arrived at Hardrock Cafe, it was almost 3 hours drive. Zzzzzz. We were all very happy to get out of the car.


Our room was ready. Two huge double beds! Free fruits platter too!


We didn’t have program for the rest of the day and decided that we would do a little window shopping at the nearby mall. Zaky was happy to laze in the room and didn’t join us. We walked to the beach, which was nicely low tide and the beach stretched out like forever. Nana was happily picking seashells. 





I looked so short in the last picture. 

We split ways with Auntie S’ family and ended up didn’t do any shopping but snacking again. Mango sticky rice açai bowl. Nice!

The plan was to meet at 6pm back at the hotel for dinner. We brought them to the Indonesia restaurant that I tabaoed the last trip, when Nana was paika and we had dinner in the room. 




The food was as good as we had remembered but it wasn’t cheap. 

The adults were contented with resting the night away. The teenagers wanted to go to the huge swimming pool. Go lah. They are no longer at the age where we had to tag along to ensure that they are safe in the pool. We happily waited for them to come back. 

There was some show at the bar. Daddy Lim and I decided to take a peek and he was pleasantly surprised to see a band playing. The bar was full and we had to sit at the bar counter and couldn’t see the band at all. Lol. I had to move to take at least 1 picture. Haha. 

There were only a few songs remaining in that set. Then the performance came on. I think most of the patrons were there to watch the show. Daddy Lim wasn’t interested and we left for bed. 


N, the sitter, said that Mochi was doing well. 


N also said that Mochi tried to escape to go make friends with the next door cat. Lol. 

Mummy Lim








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