Tabanan, Rainbow over Ricefields

Christmas and New Year
Setting Up the Casuarina Tree

During Christmas and New Year, the Dewi Sinta Hotel & Restaurant, Tanah Lot—Tabanan will set up a cemara pandak or pandak casuarina tree. "In years to come, we will celebrate such moments more joyously than in 2006," utters Ketut Sudiartana, Sales & Marketing of Dewi Sinta Hotel & Restaurant.

Stated, on those days will also be installed a banner saying "Wishing you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2007’. Though the celebration is immensely modest, however, the Dewi Sinta - having 27 rooms (standard, deluxe and suite)- stays to provide facilities like sound system for karaoke. "For this celebration, we will prepare sufficient sound systems that will comfort the in-house guests at our hotel. Hopefully, our room occupancy at that time will increase up to 80%," he says.
As he observes, the Christmas tree that will be set up is in the form of living cemara pandak or casuarina tree embellished with Christmas lights of various colours. This casuarina is the mascot of Tabanan Regency and will be installed a week prior to the celebration. "We’d just like to participate in gracing those sacred feast days," he adds.
Dewi Sinta Hotel & Restaurant of which entire buildings are designed by combining the traditional and modern architectural style, is located at the area of major Tanah Lot tourist object, 16 km from the Ngurah Rai International Airport and can be accessed within 20 minutes from Denpasar.
Dewi Sinta, that is intense with its Balinese dance performance, provides ‘Daily Buffet Lunch" every day. Its renowned product is the ‘Set Menu Dinner’ serving seafood basket, Indonesian, Chinese and European dishes. Similarly, the Dewi Sinta offers its food specialty in the form of grilled fish served with Balinese traditional condiment and klepon (typical fresh cake of Tabanan) for dessert.
On ordinary days, visits to Dewi Sinta Hotel & Restaurant is predominated by foreign tourists like Japanese and Korean. In the meantime, on religious holidays, the composition of tourist visits equals, between the domestic and foreign. "On every Christmas, New Year and Idul Fitri the tourist visits shows a drastic increase. Unfortunately, they just come enjoying sunset and they are later back to their hotel in Sanur, Kuta or Nusa Dua. They rarely drop in at Dewi Sinta, whereas they can stay here conveniently," he remarks.
Indeed, other than providing several facilities, Dewi Sinta also offers a cool ambience. Its surrounding is overgrown by enchanting tropical plants. In front of the hotel spread the terraced rice field and embellished with the view of golf course, swimming pool and performing stage reflecting the allure of traditional Bali. (BTN/015)