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Welcome to the February Edition of Bali Dynasty Resort Newsletter.

We recently hosted our Back to Bali Dynasty Party in Perth and it was a great success. Following the official announcement during the party, here we introduce our new charity commitment with Solemen. Read through to see more fun events coming up for the St. Patrick’s Day in Gracie Kelly’s and the Kids Easter Bunny at the resort.

On a cultural note, a big celebration comes early this March as Bali welcomes the Nyepi Day— the Day of Silence. Grand ceremonies will be held throughout the island on the 8th, before the whole activities stop for 24 hours and the island goes completely silent making it look uninhabited on the 9th!

We hope that you enjoy reading through the Newsletter and hope to see you soon at the Bali Dynasty Resort!

 

Thank you Perth! (Back to Bali Dynasty Party)

The 23rd Back to Bali Dynasty Party  on the 20th of February at the Corporate Lounge, Subi Sport Bar, Subiaco Football Club, in Western Australia was a big success.

It was a great night where we had the pleasure to meet with our beloved loyal guests and treated them with an extensive Indonesian feast prepared by our chefs.

We also took the opportunity to officially announce our new charity commitment. Now partnering with Solemen, the new project’s spirit is represented in a tagline “Helping Friends for Life” with aims to bring hope, welfare and health improvement to the lives of several “SoleBuddies” who suffer from various disadvantages.

A total of 87 prizes were offered in raffle draws, including a two return flight to Bali sponsored by AirAsia, holiday accommodation in Bali and entry tickets for many of Bali’s top attractions.

We’d like to thank our sponsors to this event: AirAsia, Asia Escape Holidays, Bintang Beer, Sanur Paradise Plaza Hotel, Amadea Resort & Villas, Menjangan Dynasty Resort, Waterbom Bali, Bali Adventure Tour, Bali Bird Park, Bali Hai Cruises, Bali Quad Discovery Tours, Bali Safari & Marine Park, Bali Zoo Park, Ena Dive, Odyssey Submarine, Sobek Bali Utama, Sketch and Portrait, Club Aqua, Taru Bali, Bali Nusa Dua Theatre, High Flyer Trapeze School, Marine Walk, Taman Nusa Indonesia and Bali Baby Holiday.

 

Gracie Kelly’s celebrates St. Patrick’s Day

This 17th of March, don’t miss the biggest Irish party in town and meet the Gracie Kelly’s Leprechauns! Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, Gracie Kelly’s will host a special party from 7pm onwards.

Entertainment includes our live band, Irish dance show and juggling bartenders.

Win great prizes through competing in our Irish Dance competition, Best Green Costume Contest, Drinking Competition. Join as well our Roulette and two up charity!

Enjoy special beverage promotions during the party, as green beer and green cocktails are sold at special prices.Guinness & Kilkenny are also available on tap.

Get further information by clicking here or contact us through fb@balidynasty.com

See you at Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub, Bali’s first and only original Irish pub!

 

Easter Fun at the Bali Dynasty Resort

Sign up your kids to our Easter celebration—“Kids Bunny Party”—on 27th of March with so many fun activities for your little ones!

The activity will start with Easter Greeting Card Making in the Kid's Club, before moving to the newly landscaped inner garden and duck pond. The kids will join in the excitement of the Easter egg hunt! Soon after, they can demonstrate their creativity with the Easter Egg Painting competition, followed by Easter Bunny Animal Balloon Making. At noon, all kids will be treated with Easter Buffet Lunch at Sen5es.

The winners of our Easter competitions will be presented with great prizes.

Kids Bunny Party is only IDR 140,000 nett/child which includes all activities and the kids lunch.

Schedule of Activities
09.00am Easter Greeting Card Making (Kid's Club)
10.00am Easter Egg Hunt (Duck Pond Garden)
10.30am Easter Egg Painting (Duck Pond Garden)
11.00am Easter Bunny Animal Balloon Making
12.00pm Kid’s Easter Buffet Lunch at Sen5es

 

Did You Know that we are on Instagram?

Follow us on Instagram to see the latest insight as to what is going on at the resort.

A few months back, we launched the Instagram for Bali Dynasty Resort (@balidynastyresort) and Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub (@graciekellysbali). Now adding to our social media account is the Golden Lotus Chinese Restaurant that you can follow through Instagram @goldenlotusbali

Stay updated by simply following the accounts above. Take great pictures when you are in the resort, at Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub or when dining in Golden Lotus. Put on the hashtags to your post so that we can repost them.

We will be doing some cool Instagram competitions so keep on watching!

 

Stay stylish during your holiday

It’s always good to look good during your holiday, especially when you have all the beauty facilities within your reach at a very affordable price!

Brighten up your days with your favourite shade of colours on your nails with Manicure and Pedicure service from Ashoka Spa. Say goodbye to chipped and smudged nails with a gentle filing, shaping the free edge and cleaning the cuticles, followed by a relaxing massage and a final application of OPI branded polish of your choice.

Get your hair done at Flair Hair Salon that is open every day between 9am – 9pm. Located at our lower lobby, Flair Hair Salon is the perfect place for every hair treatment, thanks to our great team who have extensive hair dressing and make up experience. Say NO to a bad-hair day during your holiday!

You can also arrange a haircut for your kids in Cutz4Kidz that is open daily from 9am -7pm in our lower lobby. Cutz4Kidz provides a great, fun experience in a kid-friendly environment with stylists who are specially-trained to style children’s hair. From funky haircuts and strawberry cream baths to 3D nail art, Cutz4Kidz menu includes all your kid-specific salon needs, using child friendly hair products, gentle on the skin, hair and eyes.

 

“Helping Friends for Life”

After working with East Bali Poverty Project for the past 15 years the Bali Dynasty raised a total of 3.1billion rupiah. It is now felt that the project has reached a stage of sustainability and that our efforts can now be focused elsewhere. 

Bali Dynasty Resort is now reaching out to the less fortunate people in Bali through a charity project called “Helping Friends for Life” in partnership with Solemen. The initiative represents our social commitment to the community by supporting the good causes in Bali.

Given the unique tagline, we are seeking ways to alleviate the suffering of several “Solebuddies” that we have and will adopt. Our main focus will be to assist them with sufficient funds to get medical support, health care, education and therapy, as well as to provide  items or equipment that can give them a better life and welfare.

Our charity commitment with Solemen has various causes where you can easily take part to support. Please click here to learn more of our charity and how you can help to make a difference.

Yayasan Solemen Indonesia or simply “SOLEMEN” is a Bali-based Indonesian registered non-profit foundation working alongside accredited agencies and projects to alleviate suffering and support the disadvantaged in Bali. Solemen was formed in October 2010 by founder Robert Esptone, who then vowed to walk barefoot until he raised a million dollars. The reason for being barefoot is “to be in solidarity with those who don’t have a choice to wear or not wear shoes”.

Solemen currently strives to provide health and safety education as well as teaching how to respect and protect the environment. Solemen has a very small team that are fast acting, with a huge knowledge of aid groups and rehabilitation centers across the island.

 

Bali News

Tigerair’s fleets from Australia to Bali

Tigerair has unveiled the first of three Boeing 737-800s that will be used to fly its first international short-haul routes from Australia to Bali. Flights will begin in March 2016 from Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth to Bali and vice versa, just in time for the Easter’s holiday.

Previously owned by Virgin Australia, the planes have been rebranded to the livery and interiors of Tigerair and new seating has been installed. The planes will be configured for 180 all-economy seats.

According to Traveller.com.au, Tigerair is currently promoting one-way fares to Bali Fares from Melbourne staring from $169, Adelaide from $139 and from Perth from $119.


Bali named centre for Clean Energy Excellence

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has launched the Clean Energy Center of Excellence (CoE) program. The CoE, stationed in Bali, will serve as the country's center for integrated researches, development and investment facilitation.

The CoE program is the main supporter in accelerating the development of renewable energy. Indonesia aims for renewable energy to account for 23 percent of the national energy output by 2023.


Direct flights from India to Bali and Jakarta are on plans

Indonesia's national carrier Garuda aims to launch direct flights to India this year to cater to the growth in business and tourism traffic between the two countries. Garuda Indonesia has received the Indian government's permission and the first service is likely to connect Mumbai, Jakarta and Bali, according to Indonesian officials.

Apart from Garuda airlines, AirAsia Indonesia X, a long-haul service arm of budget airline AirAsia, is also in talks with Indian authorities to launch direct flights. The airline is seeking approval to connect either Jakarta or Bali with Mumbai this year.

Having identified India as a key source market, Indonesia has stepped up its tourism promotion in major Indian cities. India is among the 90 countries to which Indonesia has extended its visa-free facility.

Bali is a hugely popular Indonesian destination for Indian travellers, especially newly-married couples.


Garuda Indonesia to fly direct Jakarta service from Heathrow

Garuda Indonesia is leaving Gatwick to launch a direct service from Heathrow. From 31st of March 2016, the airline will use its fleet of Boeing 777-300ER’s to operate a five times a week service to Jakarta, an increase to the three times a week service it currently operates from Gatwick, offering passengers a more flexible flight schedule. Flights to Jakarta will also no-longer stop at Amsterdam, with the move to Heathrow enabling the Skyteam airline to draw on transfer passengers to fly direct from London for the first time.

Even though this new Heathrow service will operate non-stop from the UK, the service from Indonesia will make a supplementary stop in Singapore, albeit operating as a direct service.

Arrival figures to Bali show the UK market to among the strongest performing European markets to the Island.

 

Bali Events

Bali Spirit Festival 2016 will see its 9th annual running this 29th of March through 3rd of April, once again gathering like-minded yoga instructors and practitioners of all different levels from Bali and around the world. The festival is also a celebration of east and west through world arts, dance and music through colourful concerts and performances. A packed agenda features numerous health and wellbeing workshops held in various yoga centres in Ubud and around Bali.

As in its preceding years, Bali Spirit Festival 2016 anticipates over 6,000 festival goers from various countries, who’ll descend upon the festival’s outdoor festival grounds. This year’s theme is ‘Tri Hita Karana’, a Balinese philosophical axiom that translates to a harmonious relationship spiritually, within society and the natural environment. In all, the festival sets out to foster positive change and spread messages of love and peace towards a global impact.

Please click here for further information regarding the festival.

 

Cultural Calendar

Melasti Pilgrimages – 6th of March

In conjunction to the coming of Nyepi Day (the New Year according to Saka calendar), the whole island performs Melasti Pilgrimages. This is the procession where the Hindu people in Bali take heirlooms in long walks from temples towards the coastlines where purification rites take place. Parasols, banners and small effigies paraded along the horizon make for a stunning and only-in-Bali scene.

This year Melasti Pilgrimages will be on 6th of March 2016. Visitors can see the rituals in Kuta or Sanur beach. It is advised to check with the locals when the celebration will begin.


Nyepi Day – 9th of March

Nyepi is a Balinese "Day of Silence" that is commemorated as the New Year celebration according to Saka Calendar. It is a Hindu celebration mainly celebrated in Bali, Indonesia. Unlike the grand celebration of other calendars’ New Year, Nyepi is celebrated in a complete silence, fasting and meditation.

The island will observe Nyepi from 6am on 9th of March to 6am the following day. Local regulations concerning Nyepi that consists of no lighting fires (and lights must be kept low), no working, no entertainment or pleasure and no travelling will apply. All of these will make the island appear deserted.

Although Nyepi is primarily a Hindu holiday, non-Hindu residents and tourists are not exempt from the restrictions. Activities may be held with minimal noise within the hotels’ premises but it is strictly forbidden for the guests to stay outside onto the beaches or streets. The only airport in Bali remains closed for the entire day. The only exceptions granted are for emergency vehicles responding to life-threatening conditions and women about to give birth.

On the day after Nyepi, known as Ngembak Geni, social activity picks up again quickly, as families and friends gather to ask forgiveness from one another, and to perform certain religious rituals together.


Omed-omedan, Festival of Splashes and Smooches – 10th of March

The day after Nyepi on 10th of March, head up to the village of Sesetan in southern Denpasar for the omed-omedan also known as the “festival of splashes and smooches”. This is a much-localized event, pertaining to the lesser Banjar Kaja community of Sesetan. The youths take to the street where water is splashed and sprayed by the surrounding villagers, and the highlight being two sides, boys and girls, in a tug-of-war-like scene with successive pairs in the middle ‘forced’ to smooch at each shove and push.

 

Tour of the Month - Sunset Dinner on a Cruise

Have you ever tried a sunset dinner on a cruise? It may be one of the best ways to spend a tropical evening in Bali with the whole family.

Watch the colours of the sky change from just a hint of a colour to shades of deeper orange, purple and red while you cruise along the harbour sipping a drink on the open-air top deck of the Bali Hai II. Enjoy the graceful sunset which you usually only see on beautiful pictures. This time it is you making the magnificent photographs and memories that will last a lifetime.

As the sun goes down, set off on a relaxing cruise around Benoa Harbour in South Bali aboard their luxury catarmaran, Bali Hai II. As you take in the cool night air on the top deck you will be entertained by live musical entertainers. This is followed by a delicious international buffet dinner before you dance the night away at the cruise’s disco or enjoy the live cabaret show.

The Bali Hai Sunset Dinner Cruise is suitable for the whole family so bring the kids along to enjoy the party. Book now at our Tour & Information Centre at the lobby to get discounts up to 15% off.

 

Dynasty Rewards for Dynasty's Friends

Pay for a minimum of 3 nights, and then redeem your additional nights at 50% off the normal point redemption rate.

For example, the normal redemption value for a deluxe room is 3,000 points however during this promotion period a night in the deluxe room can be redeemed at only 1,500 points on the 4th night or more.

This promotion applies to stays between 1st February to 25th March 2016 and 1st May to 31st May 2016.

The free extra night(s) only applies to the fourth consecutive night of the same redeemed stay. Please be reminded that no refunds or credits for unused portions of fourth Night Free redemptions.

For further information on how to redeem your points and how many points you need for each redemption reward please click here.

For reservation enquiries please contact reservations@balidynasty.com

 

Review us on TripAdvisor

Social Media is all the hype and TripAdvisor is becoming an ever popular source that people are turning to for advice! Please share your experience during your stay in the Bali Dynasty Resort or your experience at our Golden Lotus restaurant and Gracie Kelly's Irish Pub and help us increase our ranking on Trip Advisor It means a lot to us!

 

Guest Feedback

The food was absolutely amazing. The nasi goreng was the best! The variety of food especially at breakfast was excellent and we loved your lattes! Fantastic omelettes too! Philip & Kylie AUS

Lovely Garden. Love he kids slides.H2O restaurant is really nice, love the music band. Irish bar is really nice. Robert AUS

It was all great – we enjoyed the activities and the kids club.We enjoyed the food in the bars and restaurants. The happy hours was a treat. Rudy INDONESIA

 

Spent a lot of time in Gracie Kelly’s, staff brilliant, food excellent. Some Bands and Singers good. Would like to see karaoke in Gracie Kelly’s would be entertaining. Have to say overall one of the best hotels and holidays. We have enjoyed. Congrats to you and your staff. A Coslett UK

Thank you Son for making our kids feel so special all the time, even when not in the kids club. You showed them all such attention. It was great. Nigel AUS

 

 

 
 

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