We woke up early this morning, as the designated cab driver would fetched us from our hotel to the Hotel Karma at Jimbaran.
We choose to have our breakfast outside as we saw there were a lot of guests waiting for their breakfast.
We having our breakfast around Jalan Kediri, an eatery shop named Citra Minang Masakan Padang.
After the meal, we walked back to our hotel and we can saw the driver was waiting for us in front of the hotel. He was the same guy passed us the voucher yesterday, and if I am not mistaken, his name is Gus.
He fetched us to the same place, and we were told it was for about one hour presentation. It was almost 9.00am during we reached there, and the customer service directed us to a young Mandarin speaking guy called Freddy. He is an Indonesian Chinese.
Freddy brought us to upstairs where we can see almost at least 30 people were there sitting down at the individual discussion tables and chairs, with a small bar counter at the side and a small computer seating area too.
Freddie starting with the history of the company etc., and asking us a number of questions this time, most of that regarding to our family travelling styles.
He explained to us the concepts of the traveling plans. And, both of us felt that this is quite a good plan to have, of coarse we knew that the membership fees sure enough is not a cheap one. Thus, we asked straight to the point of how much are the fees are like.
Freddie later introduce his manager to us, and his manager insisted that we should take a look or a tour on their hotels nearby to have a view and experience their hotel quality.
Well, we just followed the flows as it is ok for us too, to have a look on their current hotel. At first, we were brought to their first Karma Hotel in Bali – Royal Karma Jimbaran.
It is a private resort adjacent to Jimbaran Bay, one of Bali’s most beautiful beaches. Karma Royal Jimbaran has just 16 luxury apartments, as well as an intimate restaurant and stunning pool. We do agree on the 5 stars of their hotel chains.
Later on, we were brought to their latest in Bali – Royal Karma Kandara at Ungasan. It is so beautiful! Freddie showed us the amenities of the hotel. We were quite excited when seeing that!
We came to their di Mare Restaurant which served the award-winning Mediterranean cuisine and it is located at a stunning cliff-top setting overlooking the Indian Ocean. The view was so breath-taking!
Connect to it a little bit down is the curving around the cliff top, lantern-lit infinity pool appears to flow into the Indian Ocean and horizon beyond.
Later part, there is a private lift took us down from the cliff to the Karma Private Beach, where their another Karma Kandara Beach Restaurant.
The restaurant served freshly cooked pizzas, succulent grilled meats and gastro salads, and barefoot dining at their informal beachside cabana restaurant also a new experience.
The Karma Beach Club is here too. This is a toes-in-the-sand, head-in-the-stars, beat-in-the-heart destination offering music, relaxation, spa treatments, water sports and the unique, hedonistic Karma vibe. Enjoy by day; indulge by night; remember forever.
Set on the rooftop of di Mare, is their Temple Lounge evokes a North African ambience, colourful banquettes & lanterns, create a Kasbah like, setting where guests enjoy custom cocktails and middle east inspired tapas.
Lastly, we came to their famous Karma Spa and Sea Spa where Karma Spa Kandara offers soulful health, beauty and wellbeing.
The open-air platform where soft breezes caress your skin as you indulge in a cleansing ritual in our Infrared Detox Sauna and Himalayan Crystal Salt Pool.
With Traditional Chinese Medicine, massage and wellness therapies, this is a true sanctuary for mind and body. It is truly a beautiful place to be!
We took quite a number of photos during our visit at Karma Royal Kandara. Actually, the whole presentation end up about 3 hours.
During our way back to their office, it was almost 12.30pm and it was jammed too, as there was road closure due to the connection of the pipeline works were going on.
Daddy called Resen, as initially we asked him to meet us at our hotel, but it seems it is better to ask him to fetch us at the Karma Royal Group office instead.
Freddy’s manager sat down again with us, and explained to us the whole membership plan.
It is really quite a shock to us that we have to pay for the whole membership of RM67,000++ and have to compete the instalments within 5 years and not to mention that, there is still yearly maintenance fee of USD1,076. And, the maintenance fee itself still would increase every year.
Then, he counter offer back that, if that is too expensive for us, they could offer a second alternative membership which the 7 days free hotel staying happened in 2 alternate years, by decrease the membership fee to RM37,000++.
First he requested RM25,000 deposit, we said we didn't have it, then he reduced it to 10% of it.
However, both Daddy and I were in the same opinion that we need to consider first before we can able to make such a big financial decision, as we know that next year there would be so much we need to plan about the children education fees.
Then, Freddie’s manager start to sound a bit sarcastic when we mentioned let us consider first. After the presentation, we did explain to Freddie that the initial 10% is not an issue for us, just this is another commitment which we have to consider and we do not have any intention to purchase something like this.
Freddie quite a nice guy and he sent us to the downstairs where we waited for Resen come and fetched us for our afternoon half day tour at Uluwatu.
At the same time, he did help us to redeem the 2 free T-Shirts and the said, free 7 nights stays at one of their hotel. The voucher can be use after 2 months and the validity is 2 years through booking online with additional USD50 for the booking.
Well, it was quite an experience we gained here, but I was a bit feeling like it is really wasting our holiday time here spending the whole morning just to listen to them and it is really not in our plans at all at the very first plan. Just Daddy was so excited about it…
Anyway, it really gave us the opportunity to see, feel the hotel and how the luxury hotels all about.
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