comfortable, but ... lots of BUTS
Our FOUR nights at the Bali Hale were okay. The place was certainly physically comfortable: the bed was great, the kitchen well appointed, the outdoor shower spectacular, etc ... BUT this property is a bit out of the way, down a long road in what my wife and I started to call "the compound"; the bugs can be a become annoying and force one to not be able to sit outside of the screened in bedroom (with our hosts recommendations we were able to keep the fruit flies away, but not the regular ones); the coqui frogs are not the lullabying to sleep kind because they are right outside your door in a patch of plants and bushes and their volume is ABOVE the volume of normal conversation between me and my wife (78 decibels to be exact, that's 2 decibels away from a garbage disposal or city traffic noise); some breezes find their way through the property, but often no ... ; the stones that are spread throughout the property to walk on were cool in the pictures, but they are just plastic stones! Yep, plastic stones! That's kind of tacky! And lastly, also tacky are the many random and meaningless decorations spread throughout the property (a giant vase for holding nothing, a heart sticker on the toilet paper, all the gold decorative highlights, etc ...) that are meant to resemble cool tchotchkes but aren't, and just look blah ... So, this was a pretty comfortable space but not so much a workable or livable one. And really not hip, sorry.