Hotel Room Safety Tips

Hotel Room Safety Tips is taken from http://hotels.about.com/cs/travelerstools/a/hotelsafety.htm

To protect yourself:

• Keep the door to your room locked at all times. If you are inside the room, turn the deadbolt and fasten the security chain.
• When you leave your hotel room, pull the door completely closed behind you. Make sure the latch has engaged. Take a moment before you leave to try the door and make sure it is closed and locked.
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• Do not open your door to strangers. Use the security viewport to see who is outside your door. Do not trust someone claiming to be a hotel employee if you are not expecting one. If you are unsure, call the front desk to check. Leave the security chain engaged while opening the door for further protection.
• Check all windows and doors in your room every time you enter it and leave it to make sure they are closed and locked.
• When entering or leaving the hotel after dark, use the main entrance.
• If you travel often, consider buying a portable alarm system to hang on the doorknob for added protection. These movement-sensitive devices can awaken you if a door lock should happen to fail.

To protect your valuables:

• Use the safe provided in the room to store keys, wallets, extra cash and credit cards, jewelry, and other small valuable items you are leaving in the room. If no safe is supplied, check with the front desk. They may have locked storage available for your use.
• Don't leave cash, travelers checks and expensive electronics and jewelry lying around the room.
• Leave larger expensive or breakable objects at home, if at all possible. If you must bring them, store them in the closet and out of the way of the cleaning crew.

By using your common sense and taking a few precautions while on the road, you can protect yourself and your loved ones from danger and hang on to your possessions.

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What Traveling Means To You

What traveling means to you?
For me, traveling means a lot. Traveling means a lifetime learning lesson. It's beyond just relaxing, taking picture, or playing in the beach. Traveling is a effective method to accept the difference among us. Traveling doesn't have to be expensive. By the time you take your first step, you already decided that you are in it. Traveling can be effective way to create peace and spread love to the world. Imagine if you have a chance to know a lot of good people around the world, chance to feel the the atmosphere of different place, have a good time with local people. Giving you a hard lesson that not everybody in the world is just happy as you are. A lot of people keep dying, poverty, diseases, war, and another. It's a noble if you are planning to go to some underdeveloped country. Helping the kids, the people, and to know how they suffer.

Just as John Lennon's Imagine Song
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try
No people below us, above it's only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no country, it isn't hard to do
No need to kill or die and no religions too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And world will live as one

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing for all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
Take my hand and join us
And the world will live as one

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Kuta Beach

Wellcome to Bali. Kuta Beach is the most popular beach in Bali among the others. Well yeah I feel sorry to admit that most people don't really know where Indonesia is but they know a lot about Bali. Sometimes they do know Indonesia is, but with wrong idea like Indonesia is a part of Bali. I am as the part of Traveler Portal team will glad to tell you guys that Bali is a island of Indonesia. So okay back to the most beautiful beach again. When I asked people around the world, what are you thinking about Bali? Most of them will answer my question like the beach, the sunset, bikini, sunbathing, blue water, and white sand, sunset and the beach again. Yeah you are right, most of my people around the world have the same thinking about Bali, and they were thinking about Kuta Beach.

Kuta Beach is located in southern of Bali, in the Denpasar city the capital of Bali. One thing that really interesting is in the beginning where Kuta was not famous as it now, Kuta Beach was only a little village where the people passed by from Denpasar to Peninsula Cliff. But right now, Kuta Beach is so famous in the world. We can even compare it with another famous beach such as in Miami or Hawaii, Kuta is as good as the other world famous beaches.

Kuta has become major tourism spot of Bali since 70s. When you visit Bali you will feel different excitement than your tourism place in your country. You might feel as a king, with a flower necklace handmade given by the people of Bali when you step first outside the airport. The airport runway itself is located in the south of the beach means while you are in the plane ready to landing, you see the famous Kuta. Give you the feeling you must go to the beach.

Kuta is a perfect one for you to spend holiday. Sunbathing, playing with the sand, the waves, nice sunshine, everything are fit together. Coconut trees line the sand as long as you can see, it's nice spot to give you relaxing time in Kuta. The waves is good for surfing. For you who are young and like to feel some adventure you have to try surfing in Kuta's waves. There always a surfing board for you to rent if you don't bring one. I'm suggesting you to stay in Kuta for longer because you cannot miss the breathtaking scene of sunset. The sunset is so beautiful more than you can only imagine. It's the major attraction that Kuta has, as opposed with Sanur Beach. Sanur is well famous for sunrise beach, and Kuta is famous with sunset beach. Make sure to take a picture of the sunset, because it's a long time memory for you.

Some guy in Bali will offer you to give a temporary tattoo for you. The tattoo usually last for 2 weeks. You can find them easily, they always carrying some books filled with all the designs of the tattoo. It's not expensive to get the tattoo, they will create the tattoo with the ink, don't worry because they use the pen, not the needle. For your friend, it's nice one to give them some souvenirs. Along the way in Legian street, you can purchase some unique Balinese handicraft. It's not a rude thing to have a bargain with the seller, but don't insult them with bargaining with too low price that irrational. If you want to spend the night at Kuta, the accommodation in Kuta range from a modest home stay for a few dollars a night to luxurious, five star, international hotels costing several hundred to several thousand dollars a night. It's up to you.

Make sure you visit Kuta Beach when you have a chance to go to Bali, because you will never regret what you see, what you feel, the excitement of Kuta Beach. The kindness of Indonesian people when they meet tourist, you are not gonna miss your country because you will be accepted as a family to them. Not mentioned that Indonesia is the country with the most smiling people in he world. Visit Indonesia 2009

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Dreamland Beach

You might wonder where you will find a way to spend your summer vacation this year. Going to the movie, mall, and other sophisticated places perhaps is not really good idea for you this year. Yeah you can always go to those places in every weekend. So, why don’t you go far away, going aboard, and feel the real traveler? It’s time for you to try new experiences that your place doesn’t have one. Dreamland Beach in Bali, Indonesia is the perfect place for your destination this summer. Question number one. Why Dreamland Beach? Okay, here is the review about Dreamland Beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Dreamland Beach is located in the Pecatu Village, south of Bali. You can access Dreamland Beach 30 minutes from Kuta to the direction of Jimbaran. Or when travel go to famous Uluwatu, you will find Dreamland location. Dreamland Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in Bali, the others are Kuta, Sanur, and Jimbaran Beach. Kuta Beach is well known as one of the most beautiful beach in the world, so exotic, but here is the major difference. Kuta Beach is so crowded right now, perhaps you don’t have more time to feel it beauty and it famous sunset alone, because you have to share it with other people. Dreamland itself looks alike with Kuta Beach, white sand, bright blue sea, warm water, good wave for surfing but with natural looks. Dreamland itself has a cliff surrounding the beach, where the entrance is, along in the way with the beach far away, so huge and give you spectacular view. The cliff made you feel that you are having a private beach for you. Isolated from the outside, giving you the feeling of free private time by yourself to enjoy every moment of your life at that moment. It’s a nice one to have you enjoying the sunset or just watching the surfers doing great stunt in Dreamland’s wave.

Perhaps you may wondered, why they named it Dreamland beach because all the tourism spot in Bali use native language such as Kuta, Uluwatu, and Sanur. The history of the name itself began long time ago. In Pecatu area where the beach is located, there was a big project for the biggest and the most unique tourism center in South East Asia. It would be a luxurious resort combined with tourism spot that offered the natural beauty. It was a dry land before they started to build it. When the economic crisis destroyed Indonesian’s economy in 1998, this project was left out and never be done. But people in neighborhood really hoped that the project can be done so they can change their occupation from the farmer to the tourism job such as tourist guide or another, so they called it the land of dream which is called Dreamland in this day.

Dreamland may be known as a new beach in Bali. But from every aspect that the beach has, Dreamland is going to be famous as Kuta in the world. If you are planning to stay in Dreamland for a night or so, it has villa or resort that you can check in with your friend or family. Some of the villa and the resort are built in above the cliff. So you will have a chance to see the Dreamland from the top of the cliff, giving you spectacular view from your balcony, or either enjoying the starlight with some beverage in your balcony with friends. According to the tourist guide, Dreamland Beach is the only place in Bali which using the International Law so that makes people can do things more freely. You may notice some people drinking alcohol or some women in topless without given a fine or punishment.

Whatever you want to do, you want to just chilling out in the beach, do some surfing, and do not forget this one, all beach in Indonesia have warm water every year, every day. People get disappointed when they go to some beaches in USA including myself when I touched the water, it was just cold as ice. Indonesia has tropical weather so if you want to spend your holiday, Dreamland is the right choice to go. Visit Indonesia.

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