Travel to Bali

I'd like to visit Bali for 2 weeks in September. However, some UK
travel agents are still not dealing with trips to Bali on advise of
the Foreign Office. Has anyone been recently and if so, what was the
atmosphere like? Having lived in Northern Ireland for over 10 years,
instinct tells me that there's nothing to worry about, however I've
got to try and convince my wife! Any advise would be much appreciated

Rich

Of course I want to buy things in lower price. Especially things like
brand bags or brand clothes. However, can I believe in merchants in
Bari? Do they cheat us ?

Some brands make only the cheaper end of their product range in Indonesia.
For example, Reebok are from both Indonesia and Korea, the Indonesian shoes
are a good price, the Korean are more expensive than at home. Then, of
course, there are the really cheapimmitation Reeboks. Buyer beware!

> >
> > >Of course I want to buy things in lower price. Especially things like
> > >brand bags or brand clothes. However, can I believe in merchants in
> > >Bari? Do they cheat us ?
> >
> > I don't think real (not copy) name brand stuff will be especially
> > cheap in Indonesia.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Spehro Pefhany
>
> You are partly right, generally genuine top-end imported designer brands
are
> more expensive than in Europe.
>
> But there are some middle range brands which are made in Indonesia which
are
> much cheaper here - Arrow, Van Heusen, etc, To confuse things, some of
these
> brands seem to produce some cheaper models under these brand names for
sale
> just in Indonesia.
>
> Also Bari is not in Indonesia but Italy as far as I know.
>
> Roger
> in Jakarta
>
>
>

RAK wrote:
>
> "Spehro Pefhany" <speff@interlog.com> wrote in message
> news:grm7hvg916982h4408i8k27smmd7qmpd77@...
> > On 14 Jul 2003 23:43:44 -0700, the renowned
> > yusukenegishi400leadingm (Yusuke) wrote:
> >
> > >Of course I want to buy things in lower price. Especially things like
> > >brand bags or brand clothes. However, can I believe in merchants in
> > >Bari? Do they cheat us ?
> >
> > I don't think real (not copy) name brand stuff will be especially
> > cheap in Indonesia.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Spehro Pefhany
>
> You are partly right, generally genuine top-end imported designer brands are
> more expensive than in Europe.
>
> But there are some middle range brands which are made in Indonesia which are
> much cheaper here - Arrow, Van Heusen, etc, To confuse things, some of these
> brands seem to produce some cheaper models under these brand names for sale
> just in Indonesia.
>
> Also Bari is not in Indonesia but Italy as far as I know.
>
> Roger
> in Jakarta


I went there in 2000 and there was a good low price mall in the
southeast of Bali (Nusa Dua). They had for example Lacoste and Jockey
(no fake) at VERY reasonable price, about 1/3 to 1/4 of the European
price at that time.

/Anders
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