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Friday, January 12, 2007

MY ROOM

The resort has 100 luxurious rooms in three different categories: Serambi (on the ground floor of a two-story building), Bumbung (above the Serambi rooms) and Anjung (10 single-story beach rooms, one of which I called home for three nights. My room had dark wood floors, a comfortable king-size bed, a desk, and a sofa bed against the wall. The bathroom was huge -- and that doesn’t even include the sunken outdoor bath set out back in a private garden. What impressed me most about the rooms (besides the firm water pressure) was that there were no bugs or loud geckos crawling around. At most tropical resorts you at least have ants, but not here. And every night the staff left a different kind of fresh tropical fruit in the room, with a note explaining what it was and all of its nutritional qualities. Every room has a TV with satellite (including ESPN and HBO), telephone, coffee/tea machine, mini-bar, oversized toiletries, and a hairdryer. All the rooms face the South China Sea, just 100 yards away. What I did not like about the rooms was that they lacked screens. You couldn’t leave your windows or doors open at night -- but they did have air conditioning.