Bali hotels fully booked for year-end holidays

Islands in focus: Bali hotels fully booked for year-end holidays The Jakarta Post | Archipelago | Thu, December 27 2012, 10:30 AM DENPASAR: Some hotels in Bali have seen all their rooms booked for the year-end holiday as domestic and foreign tourists flock to the island to celebrate the New Year.

In Kuta, the most popular area for tourists to celebrate New Year’s Eve, some hotels already have occupancy rates of 80 to 90 percent, but from this coming weekend until the first day of 2013, their occupancy will reach 100 percent.


In many of these hotels, especially the three-star hotels that are mushrooming in Kuta, most of the guests are domestic tourists.

Kuta Station Hotel is one of the three-star hotels that will have 100 percent occupancy during the year end.

“Currently, our occupancy is still less than 60 percent, but starting this Saturday [Dec. 29] until Jan. 1, all of our 132 rooms are booked,” Candy Juliani, the hotel’s assistant director of sales, said on Wednesday.

“Seventy percent of our guests are domestic tourists from big cities, like Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya,” she told Bali Daily.

The iconic Hard Rock Hotel currently has 80 percent of its 418 rooms occupied.

“We will have 100 percent occupancy starting Dec. 31 until Jan. 4,” said the hotel’s marketing communications manager, Wangi Duarma Putri.

Meanwhile, Harris Sunset Road Hotel, which is located around 20 minutes from the center of Kuta, recorded 85 percent occupancy on Christmas Day. Occupancy will reach 95 percent during the New Year celebrations.

“Our occupancy will reach its peak from Dec. 29 to Jan. 1,” said public relations manager Adinda Ashrinintya.

Many of the hotels are holding special events and serving special dinners for the New Year celebrations.

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