Bali Apartment Rentals
Apartments rentals in Bali? It may run counter to your notion of Bali, Indonesia, if you have never been here, or visited recently. Well, although it is a major Asian tourist destination, Bali is a place with an enormous variety in accommodations for the visitor. Naturally there are great hotels, and the Bali villa is a dream that everyone should experience at least once, hopefully without having to mortgage their house back home!
There is a third lodging option in Bali too, that of apartment rentals. I haven’t seen it as a Bali travel tip before, but I have personal experience with it that was so favorable that my wife and I ended up buying an apartment in Bali!
The busy southern end of the island, near the airport, is quite densely populated by locals and tourists, so the buildings have been getting taller in the last decade or so. (Balinese building regulations state that no building can be taller than a palm tree, but this seems to have been forgotten along the way. Possibly there’s a special palm tree somewhere, extra tall, used to approve these new buildings!) Condos/apartments up to five or six stories are now fairly common in Bali. Many of the owners of these units are absentee owners who have their property managed while they are in Jakarta or elsewhere in Asia or Australia, etc., a for most of the year. (more…)
