Yikes...now I'm getting worried that the hotel I've chosen for my upcoming Bali trip is going to be the way you've described here! I did read that it is used by some travel agents to place groups, and that it is popular with German and Austrian tourists.

Can anyone tell me if the Resor Seminyak has the qualities described in this thread? If so, I'll quickly change my reservations to some place else!

By the way, I have a strong aversion to chair hogs. I personally have my own tactic for dealing with them. If I see a chair that hasn't had a human form in it for more than an hour or so, I'll simply remove the belongings on it to some place nearby, move the chair a bit away, and if/when the chair hog returns to confront me, claim that I have no idea what they are talking about. I've done this on several occasions (both at land resorts and on cruise ships), and most of the time they don't bother to confront me. The few times they have, nobody nearby said a word, even though many of them had seen me remove their stuff! Eventually the chair hogs slink away. ;)

LeeAnne