DAY 17 [ Tokyo / Bali ] : More Bang For Your Buck!!!
After doing the math the night before, we realize we have to be up at 6am. OUCH!
We take our 15 minute walk back to Shibuya Station. and catch the Narita Express for the 1 hour trip back to the airport where we really cut it close on getting to the flight. Need more time at bigger airports for customs and general line traffic.
We make it on the plane, fly to Hong Kong and, after a little layover, continue on to Bali. The flights seem to be getting shorter but I think I'm just getting used to it now. Perhaps the flight home will seem shorter than getting here or maybe I can learn the skill of sleeping without messing up my neck.
I should have been rating all our landings because this scores the lowest so far. I kept imagining flames out the windows and the plane going into a head to tow cartwheel.
The bumps and shimmys soon subsided and we taxi in and get off the plane on a ladder and get into the waiting busses like The Beatles but with less fanfare. Someday perhaps but It's nice seeing the plane from the underside on the tarmack
After a quick immigration and customs, I changed ¥100,000 JP ($111 US) left over from Tokyo as emergency money. The exchange rate gave me Rp 875,000. What a huge amount! I imagine everything must be pretty cheap here in Bali but I don't yet know the cost of good so we'll see.
After the assault of "taxi!?! Taxi!?!" We find a legit airport service to the hotel that cost Rp 65,000 ($6.50 US) for the 30 minute ride. Sounds like a great price to me considering that would only get you a few blocks in Tokyo. On the to of the car is spelled out 'TAKSI'.
So it roughly works out to moving the decimal over to the ten thousandth position to do a quick price comparison. A whiskey cost Rp 30,000 here so that equals $3.00 US. Ok that's really good! All I have is Rp 100,000 notes so I hope this won't be a problem.
We arrive at the Peninsula Resort and take a peek around. The lobby area has no doors it's just an open area between structures that leads to a walkway through a garden then out to the beach. I can't tell by night but it seems to be the ideal place to unwind and listen the ocean.
The all Indonesian staff is friendly and falling all over themselves to help us out, especially the bellboy Didi, whom we tipped Rp 5000 for being so cool to carry our bags and show us the room.
We take our 15 minute walk back to Shibuya Station. and catch the Narita Express for the 1 hour trip back to the airport where we really cut it close on getting to the flight. Need more time at bigger airports for customs and general line traffic.
We make it on the plane, fly to Hong Kong and, after a little layover, continue on to Bali. The flights seem to be getting shorter but I think I'm just getting used to it now. Perhaps the flight home will seem shorter than getting here or maybe I can learn the skill of sleeping without messing up my neck.
I should have been rating all our landings because this scores the lowest so far. I kept imagining flames out the windows and the plane going into a head to tow cartwheel.
The bumps and shimmys soon subsided and we taxi in and get off the plane on a ladder and get into the waiting busses like The Beatles but with less fanfare. Someday perhaps but It's nice seeing the plane from the underside on the tarmack
After a quick immigration and customs, I changed ¥100,000 JP ($111 US) left over from Tokyo as emergency money. The exchange rate gave me Rp 875,000. What a huge amount! I imagine everything must be pretty cheap here in Bali but I don't yet know the cost of good so we'll see.
After the assault of "taxi!?! Taxi!?!" We find a legit airport service to the hotel that cost Rp 65,000 ($6.50 US) for the 30 minute ride. Sounds like a great price to me considering that would only get you a few blocks in Tokyo. On the to of the car is spelled out 'TAKSI'.
So it roughly works out to moving the decimal over to the ten thousandth position to do a quick price comparison. A whiskey cost Rp 30,000 here so that equals $3.00 US. Ok that's really good! All I have is Rp 100,000 notes so I hope this won't be a problem.
We arrive at the Peninsula Resort and take a peek around. The lobby area has no doors it's just an open area between structures that leads to a walkway through a garden then out to the beach. I can't tell by night but it seems to be the ideal place to unwind and listen the ocean.
The all Indonesian staff is friendly and falling all over themselves to help us out, especially the bellboy Didi, whom we tipped Rp 5000 for being so cool to carry our bags and show us the room.
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