Our final day in Kuta before we move up the island to our Airbnb in Canggu.

The last 5 days have brought some fantastic breakfast options. All pretty healthy and so incredibly filling. The Bircher Muesli was one of our favourites, along with the breakfast bagels filled to the brim with eggs, bacon and hollandaise sauce. A real treat which has helped to keep us going until the hotel’s complimentary 4pm afternoon snack and coffee!

We don’t think we’ve stayed anywhere else in South East Asia where the service and facilities have been as good as at Amnaya Resort.

Bookings.com gives it 4 stars, but we think it deserves to be 5 stars, such is the quality of the overall stay. It’s effectively been half board, given the extensive breakfast and afternoon snacks. In addition the pool, gym and reading/chill out rooms make it feel like a proper resort, meaning you don’t feel like leaving, despite how close central Kuta is.

If we come back to Bali again, we will definitely return for a few days stay.

The little touches around the hotel are what make it, messages from the cleaning staff each day, saying how much they hope we are enjoying our stay, and the smiling & welcoming faces from each member of staff as you walk past them in the resort. Nothing is too much trouble.

After another day by the pool, reading, relaxing and running on the treadmill (Andy only), we decided to venture out and pick up some small souvenirs from our stay in Kuta.

Throughout our tour we have bought a bracelet from each country as a reminder, so today we purchased ones from a Kuta stall. All have been inexpensive, but help to signify our time away and provide a daily reminder of how much we have seen over the last 9 months. With the bracelet numbers growing, we are starting to look like extras from Glastonbury festival…..

We returned to an Indonesian restaurant on the main drag in Kuta we visited on our first night.

The staff were very friendly and the place sold a range of local beers, including Andy’s new favourite Bali Hai, which now makes his list of tried and tested beers in Asia to over 35!

If truth be told, we weren’t quite sure what to expect of Kuta when we first decided to return to Bali, prior to Amelia and Meg’s arrival on the 9th, but we have had such an amazing time.

It’s been low key we acknowledge, but that’s just it, Kuta has lots on offer including shops, bars and restaurants, but more importantly it has a relaxing and friendly atmosphere along with a great beach & views.

Dinner was Nasi Goreng for two, along with a couple of Bali Hai‘s before we went for a walk along the front and came across a themed food market with old American hot-rods on the forecourt.

We couldn’t really work out the relevance of the cars, other than they looked good and had been restored to a high standard, including a 1960 Morris from our home city of Oxford.

Having spent most of the day without the camera, we wanted to capture a few memories of our time in Kuta along with the fantastic hotel.

So after 5 very relaxing days in Kuta, our batteries have now been fully recharged and we move on tomorrow to Canggu in readiness for the girls’ arrival.

We are so looking forward to seeing Amelia and Meg and hearing about their summer to date.