Kirsty Loves: A Little Christmas Adventure to Bali: Part I

We embarked on a little adventure to Bali to celebrate an alternative Christmas for 2014.

The place we stayed - Luna2 Studiotel in Seminyak - quirky, fun and out of this world. We loved this hotel that much that I took an excessive amount of photos just to show to the world how amazing it really was. If you ever go to Seminyak - check this hotel out. All I can say to explain the decor and design is the 1960's meets the future. A mixture of past and modern is so prominent in this hotel.

If you haven't been to Bali before and would like to visit I would warn you that immigration and passport control is tediously long. You have to obtain a tourist visa upon arrival (if you are from certain countries). Luckily we were advised of this beforehand and were recommended to pay for a fast track service (around the region of $35USD - just google it). BEST DECISION EVER. We obtained our visas and were through passport control in under five minutes. Usually it would take 1-2 hours, sometimes longer. Fifteen minutes later we were out of the airport and into our carriage with a cold wet towel and a Bintang beer in hand. Bliss.

Anyway, lets get to the photos shall we.

Hot chocolate & cookies waiting for us upon arrival

Our fantastic bedroom. This picture does not do it justice.

Crazy Mini Bar and Smeg Fridge

Hotel Reception

This Lady and Jeff are obviously having a few problems...

Complimentary Rubix Cube inspired chocs in our room

We arrived on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day was spent relaxing and indulging. We started off our day completely right by enjoying a fantastic breakfast in Luna2's Orbit Restaurant.

I thoroughly enjoyed the best Breakfast Bap ever and Jack went for the traditional Full English. Just check out the quirky baked beans tin. Ohhh, the little things.

Quirky Breakfast Buffet

It rained all day long so we decided to hit up Prana Spa for the most fantastic facial. After an hour of being fully pampered we left the spa with greasy hair and feeling thoroughly satisfied.

Our tummies started to rumble - we knew then that it was time for some lunch. We headed to Made's Warung for some traditional Indonesian cuisine.

Starting off with a couple of cold Bintang's (it was blooming hot ok?!) We received a couple of recommended dishes by the waitress.

The Nasi Campur Special - a mixture of meats and fish...

...and the star of the show - the grilled snapper smothered in a Balinese sauce. Oh man, that was tasty stuff.

The sun started to peek out of the angry rain clouds and we rushed back to the hotel to cool down in the pool.

Just check out the crazy art wall. I love this hotel!

After chilling out by the pool we decided to head up and get ready for evening - Christmas dinner in the Orbit restaurant. We Skyped family and friends to wish a Merry Christmas and headed to the Space Rooftop bar to enjoy a cocktail and watch the sunset.

I love this picture... Jack caught some locals surfing under the sunset. I love Bali.

A little Christmas picture of me and the man.

After taking a million pictures of the fabulous sunset we headed down for dinner ready and raring to eat as much Christmas food as possible.

We had five courses consisting of; Smoked Salmon & Caviar Blini followed by Chesnut Soup with Black Truffle and then the main course - Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding, Port Jus and all the Trimmings. It was fantastic! The soup was out of this world!

Dessert followed (after a tactful 10 minute rest) - Christmas Pudding with Creme Anglaise & Grand Marnier Flambe followed by a French Cheese Selection and Petit Fours.

It was beautiful.

Full up to the eye balls we rolled off our seats and stumbled up to bed - we literally couldn't do anything else.

We reached our room and the hotel staff had sneaked in, turned on the iPod to play some smooth retro tunes and laid out a present for us both on the table. We got a couple of Luna2 water bottles with our names on. How generous and thoughtful of them.