Have spent the last 10 days in Bali, driving around to Amed and Ubud after staying in Kuta. Hard Rock Hotel = CF 1. It was rubbish. Loud, busy, expensive and average food. Hard Rock Hotel Poll = CF 7. Best fun for 2 days with the kids sooooo much fun. We caught up with Jeremy Shepherd and Trish in Kuta. Amed is great and Santai villas were just brilliant. Traditional houses and snorkelling was just brilliant. Phoebe loved her first time snorkelling. Unfortunately the food at Santai was very average at best, even worse than Hard Rock. Fortunately they were many other great places. Santai CF = 7. Ubud was just busy. We had a villa a bit out of the way but that was good. We think it had just been taken over by ... read more