A homestay is the Asian version of a Bed and Breakfast.
This is a homestay that we visited at Uluwatu Beach. The rates at this place varied from 30,000 to 150,000 Rupiah per night ($3.00 to $15.00 US dollars).
Not a very Indonesian sounding name…
The entrance….
The rooms….
Magnificent views from the dining area…
And something tells me that a German runs the place…
Hi,
do you have a contact for thomas homestay? thx thomas
Hallo Thomas,
Here the contact details:
Thomas Cliff Cafe & Homestay
Ph.: +62 81 337 56030
Jl. Padang Pecatu, Kuta Selatan, Bali
hello thomas,
I`m dedy and I would spend some days in “thomas homestay” from 20. – 22.09.2009.
Your Phone number did not work. Do you have a new Phone Number?
please let me know. (email : dedy.fenitania@gmail.com)
thanks a lot!
dedy
hey, I tried to call this number with my Singaporean cell phone, but it’s not working (error msg is “number error”). Do you have any idea why?
Thx, Frieder
Sorry…the number posted was incorrect.
The correct number is +62 81 3377 56030
Hi! I absolutely love the view of your place. Do you have vacancies for a 1 nite booking on the 10th or the 11th of May? I’m looking at the room facing the beach 🙂
Cheers!~
We have nothing to do with the homestay.
Here are their contact details:
Thomas Cliff Cafe & Homestay
Ph.: +62 81 337 56030
this was a big let down…we called ahead before we got in a cab from kuta and asked if they had availability and for how much. the woman said 180,000 rp and that they had wifi. when we got there the woman said the rooms were 250,000 rp and found out there is no wifi and the rooms were horrible. being our first time to bali, we didn’t know where to look. there was no running water in out scary bathroom, not even for the toilet. the view and the beach were amazing, but we soon found much better accommodations down the street for half the price, with wifi and friendly people who run it. Jack House Homestay, 120,000 a night and clean beds and working bathrooms, and motorbikes for 35,000 a day.
Hey jb
Do you have the information for the Jack House Homestay?
Thank you so much!
Sorry. We’re not familiar with the Jack House Homestay.
hey was just wondering if it was possible to stay here for over a year?
The only way you’ll know is to ask them. I think they would be delighted to have the long-term income.
I tried calling Thomas Home Stay in order to make a reservation this February (+62 81 3377 56030, as listed above) – but it’s not going through. An automated recording informs me that the number is incorrect/does not exist. Has the place closed down?
Sorry. Don’t know. These places come and go. You’ll have to do an internet search and see if you can find a more recent post by someone who has stayed there. We haven’t been back to Bali since this post.
Ok, thanks for your response. If I find any information, I’ll post it.
Hi,
We had lunch about one week ago (around April 30) at Thomas (homestay). You were playing some great music that we loved. We asked you the name of it. You said it was a friend of yours called Madison for the people. You mentioned they played at a party the day before.
Since then we tried hard to search for it on the internet and we were not able to.
Could you please let us know how to get this sound, we so much loved it.
Many thanks in advance,
Your place is very nice.
Hope to hear from you,
Thanks
Emilie and Jacques from Paris
Thomas’ isn’t the sort of place you phone and book, more of a turn up and see if there is any space kind of place- The Indonesian guy who runs it can’t speak any English.
I stayed there for quite a bit a couple of years back, left on a boat trip and when I came back there was no room- nice lady there said I could sleep outside on a mattress, went to the toilet in the night and there was a snake eating a frog in it! Not the best nights sleep I ever had!
Thanks for the information. It looks like it would be an adventure stay!
Come on you guys can’t be serious, you don’t phone and book accommodation in ullus or anywhere else in indo .. And if you did your getting ripped off … Get on you bike have a look around get a few price’s you might have to stay somewhere else for a few nights until there is room especially since they put Tomas’s in the lonley planet … It’s an amazing spot and the owners are a bit hard to work out at first but they are super friendly .. Tomas is always grumpy after loosing a chicken fight … And anyways I would also be ”rude” if I had to listen to tourist’s complaining all day about how things aren’t like home
Also try get the massive bedrooms with 3double beds and own bathroom if staying for anything Over 3weeks you should get it for around 150000 a night but we have got it cheaper depends how busy they are
Sorry…we are not the owners of Thomas homestay.
We just stopped there one afternoon.
Hi,
I stayed here for 10 days or so in april 2012. Was super cheap and amazing views etc. Not for the luxury traveler though, especially if you have problems with the heat. Try and pick a top level room because on a still night its really damn hot and sticky even despite the fact you are right next to the ocean.
Budget accommodation but you have to barter. They tried to overcharge us but it didn’t work. Its a turn up and check availability kind of place for sure… they want the business especially if you will be there a while so any room they have spare is one room less income for that night…. so.. they want your business but you should push on price. We didn’t eat there much and I think that pissed him off a bit but other than that they were friendly and we were satisfied. Make sure you have hired a moped though. Couldn’t imagine staying here without your own transport. We were on a surf trip and it was best central location for bukhit peninsula.
Thank you for you feedback Hannah. We’ve had a few people visit our blog and ask us about this place but we’ve never stayed there.
Ice
I won´t talk about the deficient facilities (same water problems, plus we took a look to the kitchen…well.. they are not specially clean to say it politely, of course is a homestay but) but I will talk about the terrible and threatening people that works and lives in this place. When we arrived we asked for the price of one room, they said 250.000 (Being in November that is expensive already for a homestay, but it was 6 am after a long trip and we wanted to sleep). The girl asked us how many days we were planning to stay and we said we were not sure, that we were thinking maybe to stay 2 nights. The next day we were treated quite badly (plus water and clean problems) so we went for a walk and we found another homestay (Rambo homestay, really nice, for 150.000). So the next day we pack our things and went to pay our bill. All mafia family was having breakfast, our suprise came when when they told us we had to pay 400.000 because we just stay one day (and that the normal price was 500.000 but he was making us a price…CRAZY). We say no, that she told us 250.000 and that she never said anything about different prices depending on the number of nights; and that is when things got aggresive. One of the man stand up (the white of the eyes was yellow, so I guess he has some drinking problems or at least hepatic) and threaten to hit us if we don´t pay what they say. We keep calmed, get some phone help from an indonesian friend of mine and get out of that place safe. (we had to pay 300.000 instead of 250.000).
In Sumary. Stay away from this place. There are a loooot of better, safer, cheaper, kinder, cleaner and a lot of …er places to be where you won´t be get any damage from a family worth of a movie of Francis Ford Coppola.
Thank you Adrian for this information. We’ve never stayed there but we did visit the place…quite some time ago (2009 I think). Bali has changed quite a bit in the last few years…there is a darker side to life as the people have given up their traditional ways of life in favor of Western ways which in my opinion is detrimental and fosters greed and then crime. At least with traditional ways, people could feed their families and there was community support.