Originally Posted by
IAN-UK
The HGI is good value, if you can overlook the location, even at the $56 I paid last week (including a hefty 21$ in service+tax). It's best not to bank on a suite .... and the breakfast set-up might not suit everyone.
As for the Hilton and suites, they don't include full suites in their Diamond offer. They don't have to. To try to bludgeon your way into one while paying for a standard room is a manoeuvre unlikely to succeed. The lounge is pretty grim: they stopped serving breakfast there some time ago, and probably leapt at the excuse to shut down the evening booze-fest.
The hotel isn't even close to 30% occupancy, the pools have families, but not all the tanning chairs are full. They closed 2 out of the 6 restaurants, the executive lounge just got even sadder now, they turned the bar on the 2nd floor of the "Shore" beach restaurant as an open air temp lounge. The hotel is clearly not operating all its services due to the low capacity and they are more concerning about renovations now. I'm just upset that even during these times, the hotel prefers to profit and "upsell" these empty suites to practically nobody than give them as upgrades to their elites. Hotels with this kind of greed should be blacklisted among elites, especially when Bali is a destination no lack of other options.