Taman Ayu 212

I found the place to be a comfortable and homey studio for a single person inside an old villa not catered to the typical foreign tourist. There was no wifi, no wine, only beer, the restaurant did not accept VISA and the closest ATM was not part of the cirrus network. As I had limited local currency, I spent my first afternoon and the following morning trying to get someone to take me to the ANZ ATM in town. To no avail. There is a larger quite magnificent complex with swimming pool nearby under the same management and the manager would not have me taken there. Instead, she phoned ANZ only to be told they were not linked to cirrus either. Finally, the security guy at my complex who seemed the only person to know anything about western ways volunteered. By the time, I got enough local money, it was late in the second day of my stopover. Fortunately, I had had enough money to buy myself some beer and street food of which there was aplenty. I did not see any supermarket that the manager had told me about and doubted even if there had been one that they would have accepted VISA. There were a lot of small shops lining the street but I had to walk some distance to one that had real fruit juice (instead of fruit drinks loaded with sugar)The manager of my smaller complex was young and green and could not show me where we were on the map of Central Denpassar that I showed her. For sure the hotel was in the middle of a bustling town or village away from the tourist areas.