Two weeks after arriving in Bali, we’ve finally taken our first steps outside the confines of the hotel zone. Nusa Dua is a gated resort area, highly manicured, heavily guarded, and terribly boring. This is the perfect place for young families and tourists who want nothing more than to spend their vacation on the beach and in the pools. It is also the place where world leaders congregated for the G20 held a few months ago. The G20 had further transformed Nusa Dua since the last time I was here in 2016. Two lane roads have turned into four, and dirt shoulders have been replaced by paved sidewalks. New bridges have been built, and the airport remodeled. The government sure poured money into the area to impress. Once outside the gated Nusa Dua, the infrastructure is much to be desired with its narrow roadways and crumbling sidewalks. Our next hotel, the Hyatt Regency Bali, is located in Sanur, the old hotel zone, where the streets are just a bit more troublesome to navigate. We leave behind the scrawny Nusa Dua street cats, which we had been feeding overpriced cans of tuna in the evenings, and venture out into the streets of Sanur for some local food for ourselves.
Joe and I actually much prefer the smaller Hyatt Regency over the Grand Hyatt, owing to the fact that there’s more of a grown up feel to this place.
Our first couple of nights was spent in an upgraded premium room, but I managed to finagle a further upgrade to a suite midway through our stay.
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