Guest House Matahari

Great service. Clean room

OK for the price, good position, close to everything.

I have been to Bali many times since the eighties and have started stayi here the past five or so years. It is a 15 minute from Kuta beach, a 5 minute walk to Matahari department store and restaurants. It is a basic guesthouse, but they will clean it every day if you want and leave 2 bottles of water. If you don't want them to clean it they won't, like so many other insist on doing. They will get you a GRAB cab, they cost peanuts and are cheaper than uber etc if you need one, which cost a fraction of what a taxi charges. Not that I want to be cheap here, but they insist on getting you one. Look, when I got with friends I will probably go to the Secret Garden Inn,it has a pool, but on my own this place suits me perfectly. It has cable, about 5 movie channels and 3 sport, + rugger on setanta if you're that way inclined. And there's a horror channel too. But I have to say this last holiday was different. I went for 4 weeks, and for the past ten days have been holed up in the room with a dislocated kneecap. They did everything for me, got me coffee, food etc from the shop across the road, given the pain I was in. When I continually tried to give them money they didn't want to take it. It may not be the Hilton, but I will never forget what these people did for me when it mattered. I'll probably be back there in June. On the day my accident happened, they moved everything down from my second floor room, which was very quiet, to a ground floor room, noisy, but my knee preferred it.

For the price, the hotel is ok. But on the first day, i was greeted with few centipede. Being asian n seeing the size, it is not a problem. However, my room was the first room near the cafe. I dont know whether it is the guest or the worker who were hanging out at the cafe and chattering loudly in wee hours (1am-3am). Most probably will only come back if this is my last resort.