on the verge of a meltdown at the moment
not sure where we're sleeping tonight again for the third time today
hey guys welcome back to another video i'm mandy i'm a digital nomad currently traveling around the
world with my fiance lloyd in search of the best place to live as a digital nomad so if you like
travel based content or learning how to make money online hit the subscribe button so today lloyd and
i are currently in seminyak we're about to check out of this incredible airbnb that we stayed at if
you haven't seen the video i'll link it above bit devastated to be leaving this place it's
had been so nice having the extra space and the pool and everything to ourselves it's just been so
amazing we've got a lot to do before we actually fly out to thailand not tomorrow but the next day
up until about an hour ago we didn't know where we were going to be staying we left it till last
minute to booking a hotel for the next couple nights and everything's booked out in bali
at the moment which is awesome obviously we really want that uh the tourism and
everything but yeah it just shows like polar opposites because up until now we had just
been booking pretty much day by day when you know we'd book somewhere one day just in case
we didn't like it and then we could always like book somewhere else or extend if we wanted to but
yeah i mean all the affordable in our price range that we like to spend
was all booked out so we did manage to find one place we're a little bit unsure of it we did want
to stay near the airport and so we'll see what happens it looks a little funny on the pictures
but all we really care about is that it's quiet and that there's enough wi-fi because we have
tons of editing to do before we head to thailand so we're just going to pack our bags and head off
ah did you have any last night i completely forgot we had that
it's nice and frozen cool yeah because fridge belongs in the fridge belongs in
the chocolate chocolate belongs in the fridge you don't even break me off a piece honey
so i'm so sick of packing already
we gotta get rid of these bags so it looks like the hotel that we booked is a giant construction
site like there's no hotel here it used to be a hotel um we're not sure if it's the wrong address
or what's going on um lloyd's at the back with gojek driver trying to figure it out i'm so tired
we're in like a not so beautiful area of bali
at the moment too it's just like really run down and not taken care of and the streets
are a bit dirty that's a bit worrying that we might have just got hustled out of our money
but we'll find out we just got to the hotel in cuda and it's a construction site
so the gojek driver is calling them just to see what the deal is i don't know what happened
look through a goater so you would think everything would be legit yeah so we made
them they might have changed their address and not updated i swear this stuff always happens
when you're really tired we've been traveling around non-stop for the past few days and
this was meant to be like slow down i'm like this close to having a nap and the hotel doesn't exist
where are we sleeping this is our room
honestly not sure what we're gonna do if we can't find the actual hotel this is saying
that this is it because everything's booked out so not very good so we're homeless tonight
um we're just getting dropped off at mcdonald's and we're gonna go see if we can find somewhere
else to stay tonight today just got extra exciting unfortunately hopefully we can find somewhere so
we've just come to starbucks with all of our luggage
um we're gonna try and book somewhere we actually booked that place through agoda which is a bit
worrying because i thought that's supposed to be quite trusted to both you there but apparently
that's a bit worrying um but yeah we're gonna see if we can poke somewhere that actually exists
so this is the place that we booked and as you can see they're promoting it on
sale and that they've got excellent reviews and then there's some left um
don't book this one see where it says in the last hour yeah
conned in the last hour also i don't want anyone to get the wrong idea
everything today okay it's taking about a half an hour but we
think we've booked another place through airbnb this time okay lloyd says it exists so we're
gonna jump back in the gojek with all of our bags and hopefully it's there when we get there
all right we're in the go jack or i'm in the gojek voids following behind i have the bags with me
again and we're heading to the next place so hopefully this one exists another thing
that i find really funny about this is i'm pretty much wearing pajamas right now because i thought
i wasn't going to be getting out of the car except to check into the hotel and then going to bed
um yeah we've just had to be out in public this whole time but it's all good it's all good
okay um you guys aren't going to believe this
we just got to the hotel and got told that there are no rooms available
and that our booking doesn't exist at a second place
on the verge of a meltdown at the moment
not sure where we're sleeping tonight again for the third time today
i don't even know where to begin with what just happened
so we arrived at the second place that we had booked
through airbnb and they said they had no rooms available we started driving around
to all the hotels in the area to see if anyone had any space available and everywhere was fully
booked apparently it's a holiday at the moment in bali which we were not aware of so we came back to
this hotel that we were meant to be booked through airbnb with and we just started messaging every
airbnb that we possibly could and they were awful like everyone was coming back saying it wasn't
available and taking their listings off after we had messaged them for about four hours we were
sitting in the lobby of this hotel and after four hours they come over and offer us a room
after four hours of them saying they had no rooms available
and we had to pay again yes sir not sure what happened why he just said there was no rooms
available maybe there wasn't or they didn't know there was a room available but that's
like the biggest mess around with hotels i've ever had first one was
non-existent which we kind of thought was pretty funny but then when we found this
one and we got here and they said there was no room and they had no record of our booking
uh started to get a little bit frustrated and when we found out we couldn't book anywhere else in
the area i mean while we had all of our luggage and our scooter so it's not like we could just
go to any other hotel we had to find somewhere available
so i'm pretty much going to be emailing a go to
an airbnb all night trying to get refunds and we still need a room for tomorrow
so fun
and we're supposed to be editing uh the vlogs we've just done over the last few days before
we go to thailand but might be a little bit late depending on how much we have to move around
tomorrow we might just squat here we've decided we said for we're in they can't get us out now
oh man anyway we're gonna try and get some editing done
lloyd's gonna try and get some refunds and um we'll see you guys in the morning bye
morning guys so yesterday we because of our fiasco with the hotels and everything we ended up being
able to figure out our booking at this same hotel we stayed two nights here um yesterday we had to
just post up at starbucks all day so we could get the vlogs out and edit we were there for neat like
just like over eight hours just editing um but we got it done which was awesome also got the podcast
done but now it's flyout day we're flying out to thailand we've just packed up all our things
we don't have quite enough time to get food unfortunately so we're hoping that there's going
to be something open at the bali airport which we've heard there isn't a whole lot but hopefully
now that things are busier there might be fingers crossed we get to eat today yeah lloyd's just
getting us organized we're gonna head down to the lobby now and we're heading off i
think i have everything here i don't know like mine's always stressful but after covered now
it's just there's so many things you have to remember so we have our thailand pass qr
code i have a screenshot of our insurance i have screenshots of our vaccinations i have screenshots
of our outgoing flights from thailand which i booked last night you have to have an outgoing
flight or they won't let you in i think that's it hope you're not missing anything we'll find out
just discovered this drink about a month ago
and i love it apparently it's a health drink yeah like medicine or something and we're having it for
breakfast this morning because we don't have time to get food you drink this one what is it
oh when you're dehydrated yeah oh okay oh it's good for your throat okay
all right we've officially left indonesia
and it looks absolutely dead at the airport yeah it doesn't look like much is open ooh
is that food well no premier lounge it looked like a pub there was a god checking in to the flight
next to us who didn't have his thailand pass yeah and they were saying he can't get on the flight it
felt bad for him yeah so make sure you do it as soon as you can yeah very ahead of time because
you don't know how long it's going to take there's lots of people probably applying at the same time
but we're going to try and see if we can find something to eat
let's get the green tea you wanna know no these are big croissants
we managed to find some food all there is is donut shops here though there's two donut shops
which if you like donuts i guess that's good news healthy breakfast we got two ham and cheese
croissants a donut some pringles and two bottles of water and it was nearly 35 australian dollars
oh well anyway at least we get to eat so this is it we're about to leave bali it's bittersweet
we've really loved the last six months here but we're ready to see somewhere else yeah like we've
seen every corner of bali at this stage well there's a few places like we wanted to get to
the gili islands so hopefully when we come back we can do that but um it really just came down to
like our visas are running out we already had flights to thailand that we had booked
months ago so we could use them it just made total sense to go to thailand um we're going
to save a lot of money on visas and also just give us a chance to go and see something else
we're pretty excited to be in a new country six months in bali has been great but um because we're
digital nomads we want to keep moving around and checking out other places so although we feel like
bali could be a home base um or a long-term home for us i think we ought to ourselves to
check out some other spots first yeah i'm excited to compare even just like prices what the living
situation's like if it's more comfortable in thailand we really just want to be able to
experience as many digital nomad places as possible so we know wherever we do call home
will be the best option for us yeah so far we don't really have much of a plan we're flying
into bangkok which i'm really excited about because i've sort of craved a big city after
being in bali for six months even though bali is pretty hectic bangkok's just like on another
level i've been there once i've never been so i'm very excited lloyd's talked it up a lot so after
that who knows we're gonna probably spend a month but it's probably gonna end up being two months
in thailand we can extend our visa to two months if we want we'll probably decide that pretty soon
uh there's a few spots we want to go to but we're just kind of leaving it all open at the moment so
if you have any suggestions uh leave them in the comments below thank you to all the locals that
have been so welcoming and nice to us since we've been here it's been awesome and thank you guys
for watching all of our bali videos and helping our channel grow it's been absolutely amazing we
can't believe the growth that we've seen yeah since we've been in bali we hope you enjoy our
thailand series just as much and wherever we end up after that yeah hopefully you guys follow us on
our travels because we feel like now we're a bit refreshed going to a new country and we can create
some really good content that we want to create nothing's going to be forced we're just going
to be doing all the things we want to do and that we think is helpful to our viewers this
vlog is to be continued we're about to jump on our plane to bangkok so tune in for the next
episode which will be our first day in thailand we hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did don't
forget to hit the like button and subscribe to our channel and we will see you guys in thailand bye
you