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Hotel K

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan or Hotel K Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans surf beaches and palm trees on one side while on the other it's a dark bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex drugs violence and squalor. Hotel K's filthy and disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous and the tragic: a Balinese King Gordon Ramsay's brother Muslim terror bombers beautiful women tourists and surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers rapists and gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists who've seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail and its inmates revealing the wild 'sex nights' organised by corrupt guards for the
prisoners who have cash to pay the jail's ecstasy factory the killings made to look like suicides the days out at the beach the escapes and the corruption that means anything is for sale - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page.
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    Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan or Hotel K Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans surf beaches & palm trees on one side while on the other it's a dark bizarre & truly frightening underworld of sex drugs violence & squalor. Hotel K's filthy & disease ridden cells have been home to the infamous & the tragic: a Balinese King Gordon Ramsay's brother Muslim terror bombers beautiful women tourists & surfers from across the globe. Petty thieves share cells with killers rapists & gangsters. Hardened drug traffickers sleep alongside unlucky tourists who've seen their holiday turn from paradise to hell over one ecstasy pill. Hotel K is the shocking inside story of the jail & its inmates revealing the wild 'sex nights' organised by corrupt guards for the prisoners who have cash to pay the jail's ecstasy factory the killings made to look like suicides the days out at the beach the escapes & the corruption that means anything is for sale
    - including a fully catered Italian jail wedding or a luxury cell upgrade with a Bose sound system. The truth about the dark heart of Bali explodes off the page.

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    Hotel - An establishment which provides lodging for a fee
    Italian - A word used ot descibe something from Italy
    Palm - The centre of a hand when facing upwards
    Palm - A hardware manufacturer of smart phones and personal digital assistants
    Beach - An area on the coast consisting of a sandy or pebbled area
    Dark - A colour which absorbs visable ligt so apears less light than objects that reflect light
    King - The figure head of a monarch
    Heart - An organ that pumps blood around the body. Usually related to love.
    Luxury - An exquisite way of living, an sometimes come at a higher price.
    Home - A place of permanent residence for families.

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