I was staying in Aston Bali Resort...
I was staying in Aston Bali Resort for my first trip to Bali in the first week of March. I was rather disappointed before the trip that the hotel, despite being recommended by my friend that it's a good resort, is charging me for hotel transfer to/fro the airport. The damage turns out to be 10USD/trip and i thought it should be a value-added service that hotels do airport transfer for their customers since this is suggested as a min rating of 4star hotel.
The welcome drink was "unique" and terrible with both my partner and I The rooms are ordinary and the only spark inside will be the spacious bathroom and it's bathtub. I chose the Ocean-view, which isn't exactly as it described. You can only barely see the ocean from your room, and you have gotta go into the balcony and try all sorts of angle to see the ocean, with its view obstructed severely by the trees. The extra cash spent for the ocean view was totally not worth it. The staff are generally nice, as per all Bali hotel staff, but not really impressive.
The worst part is on the spa service. My partner and I have booked a spa package of massage, body scrub and flower bath. On the massage day, it was raining heavily and the weather was really cold. We had our massage in the room where the staff are constantly going in and out of the room, leaving the door open and the chilling wind blowing in. We were like shivering in cold and they don't seem to care. The ultimate thing is that we are having our flower bath in the open outside the room, only guarding by leaking roofs with rain drops dripping on our face! It was the worst experience i ever had and we got out of the bath in less den 5 mins. Imagine getting yourself drenched in the rain and shivering in cold while you are supposed to have paid for a nice and comfortable experience. The hotel, clearly has not thought of this and made its guests suffer in its inadequate facilities. The worst spa I have ever experienced and a complete waste of money to tortue ourselves.
It will certainly be the first and last time i'm gonna stay there.