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Padangbai is a beautiful place with magnificent views and many accommodation places are dotted up the mountain side. The township itself is a vibrant little place mainly used as a place for catching a ferry to one of the islands off mainland Bali. There were many scuba divers in the area and it appeared that Padangbai was geared to people who were either going on scuba dives or travelling to the next island.

You don't need to stay over night unless your a diver, snorkelling this site can be done in two hours, come early morning to avoid the afternoon sea breeze. The taxi drivers are aggressive and more expensive than anywhere else in Bali, wonder why? It's run by an organised cartel.

Beautiful beaches, need own transportation which easy to access to desire location, quiet town during night, limited restaurant, if you plan for relaxing SPA or massage need to plan ahead of time, the shop closed early.

We had never heard of PadangBai and only visited to catch the ferry to Nusa Lebongan. Pleasantly surprised to find this small town offering good restaurants, live music (Omani Omang), good diving (Absolute Dive), and pretty scenery. The negative is the amount of plastic garbage in the sea and on the beaches. I don’t know if this is common to the region, but I strongly recommend the communities make a concerted effort to clean this up. The plastic garbage was appalling and detracted from the ambience.

The pier wasn't as bad as expected although the condition could be improved considering it's very busy and frequented by many tourists every day! Be careful if porter scam as someone will approach you asking to help and will charge you in the end for the service. If you need an assistance, do agree in advance on the fee. Do note that a harbor tax is compulsory at IDR10,000 per person.

We stayed at Padangbai to catch the fast boat to Gili . We got up early as the drive in showed us a very pretty part of Bali we have never seen. This is a very cute little fishing village and gateway to Lombok and all it's Islands. The locals are very friendly and honest. My husband left his mobile phone in the taxi and the hotel called the taxi driver who had it back in 5 minutes (he was thrilled at the 100,000 Rp roughly $10 AUD tip) There was a good selection of restaurants on the waterfront offering lovely fresh Indonesian and Western food we loved the Ikan Bakkat (fish in banana leaves) spicy and delicious. The Cocktails did not disappoint either and my husband welcomed a few cleansing Bintang Beers.