Jakarta

[Member #4698]

My take on the JW Marriott Jakarta:

This is a true 5* hotel. My room was spacious and elegantly appointed. The service I received at this hotel was white glove / 5 star. The staff was always super friendly and could not do enough for me. The hotel has 4 restaurants including a large 24 hour restaurant that serves great breakfasts and lunch buffets. There is also a Chinese restaurant and a Japanese restaurant, but I only tried the 24 hour restaurant. So in all these respects, the hotel was great and I enjoyed my very comfortable stay here.

But, I will not stay at this hotel the next time I visit Jakarta. The reason being location, location, location. The JW is located at the southern end of the Golden Triangle. This is an upscale neighborhood. Across the street is the Ritz-Carlton which is another 5* hotel. The proximate neighborhood is full of high rise high end condos, large city mansions, and a few shopping malls. The problem is that it is too damn far from most of the action. As I discovered later, it took an hour in heavy stop and go traffic to drive to the Alexas Hotel at prime time 7 pm. It took 40 minutes to drive to Malioboro at the same time. Even in daytime, it was difficult to go anywhere of cultural interest. For example, it took at least 35 minutes to drive to the National Museum at 11 am. As a result, I kind of felt trapped in this upscale enclave and after a couple of days, I gave up trying to explore Jakarta's cultural places or great restaurants. I found out the hard way that Jakarta traffic really is a big problem. Next time I visit this town, I will stay no further south than Selamat Datang Monument.

Traffic does let up after 10 pm. I had no problem taking taxis from Hotel Alexas back to the JW or to Bats at the Shangri-La at around 11:30 pm. So if I had wanted to sleep all day and start out at 10 pm or so to head to Alexas or Malioboro and then stay up most of the night hitting the bars and clubs, Jakarta traffic would not have been a problem. Note on this map that Hotel Alexas is at the top and the JW and Ritz Carlton are at the very bottom.

[Member #4698]

Day 4, Sunday March 2, 2014 Jakarta Intro:

First and foremost I want to thank all the great members and contributors of this forum. I don't think I would ever have gone to Jakarta if not for you guys. Thanks!

This was my first time in Jakarta. I had researched the city for a long time and I knew beforehand that it was going to be a good trip. I had previously been to Batam, Indonesia and also had a fling with an Indonesian girl for a few days in 2012 in Macau, so knew that Indonesian girls were both very sexy and passionate. I made up a short condensed list of bars and bordellos that are generally considered to be the worthwhile places to go. I booked a 5 night visit in Jakarta and therefore I knew there was no way I would be able to check out every place on my short list. That was ok with me. My plan was not to try to go everywhere and do everything, but rather to start at the high end and work my way down the list as far as circumstances would allow. So, if I liked a particular place and the girls in it, then I would probably go back to that same place the next night rather than try to hit new places every night.

This was my short Jakarta must do list:

Brothels Saunas Soapies (or whatever you want to call them):

1. Hotel Alexas.

2. Malioboro Hotel.

3. Classic Hotel.

4. Travel Hotel.

5. Melawai Hotel.

International Hotel Bars:

1. BAT's at the Shangri-La Hotel.

2. CJ's at the Mulia Hotel.

Blok M Bars (in no particular order):

1. the's Place, My Bar and Top Gun.

As I predicted, I was not even close to visiting all of these joints which means I had a really good time at the places I did go to. Furthermore, I know there are many, many more very excellent places in Jakarta that did not make my shortened list. All this is just one reason why I am already planning to go back to Jakarta in 2015. But the main reason why I want to go back is because I had a great time and met some outstanding girls here.

OK, so I flew Philippine Airlines out of MNL Ninoy Aquino Airport Terminal 2 to Jakarta at 9 am. The flight lasted nearly 4 hours. I had a reservation at the JW Marriott Jakarta. I was using my Marriott reward points for my entire stay here so my 5* room was essentially free. I had received an email from the JW Marriott Jakarta a few days prior to my arrival asking me about my exact arrival time and flight number. When I arrived at the Jakarta International Airport at noon local time, I went through immigration and then customs very quickly. It all took less than 15 minutes. Outside of the airport customs area I saw a Marriott representative holding up a sign with my name on it. He greeted me and escorted me to the taxi pickup area. He asked if I wanted a hotel limo or a metered taxi. I told him I wanted metered taxi. There was a Silver Bird already waiting for me. The Marriott rep took down the taxi's registration number and made sure my suitcase was loaded in the trunk. It was a Sunday afternoon so the dreaded Jakarta traffic was not a problem. It took approximately 50 minutes to drive to my hotel. The ride cost 250,000 are or around $22.

When I arrived at the JW, I noticed that the hotel had a great deal of security. A car or taxi could not drive up to the building. There was a security check point just as you enter the drive way and passengers had to get out of their cars here. This is because in 2003 the JW Marriott lobby had been car bombed and 12 people died and 150 people were injured. And then again in 2009 another bomb was detonated in a restaurant area of the JW Marriott resulting in 9 fatalities. Fucking Islamic Terrorist Scumbags! Anyway, after getting out of a car at the driveway checkpoint, anyone wishing to enter the hotel has to next go through a metal detector and personal pat down. No matter how many times I entered or left the hotel, and they all knew me in a couple of days, security always checked my personal belongings and gave me the pat down. I took it all in stride and good spirits and I was very polite to these people. They always smiled and apologized for the inconvenience security was causing me. But I guess it is better to be inconvenienced for 60 seconds than be dead or wounded.

After I passed through security, a pretty hotel representative met me in the patio area and escorted me into the lobby which was 60 or 75 yards away. She knew who I was and was expecting me. There was no check-in. She took me straight up to my deluxe room which was on a high floor with a good view. My suitcase was soon delivered by the bell man.

[Smoothy]

I went to Grand Wijaya Center today for a massage. I used to go there for a massage frequently in the past, but I hadn't been there in about a year. There are so many massage places there, and I thought I had tried them all. But there is a fairly new one that's only been open there 4 months called Cherry Spa and Karaoke. I'm pretty sure it's the same Cherry that can be found at Lokasari and Fatmawati. Anyway, I decided to check it out.

The girl at the front desk downstairs is quite cute so I go ahead and head upstairs to book a massage girl. Shockingly the girl on the 2nd floor who assigns girls to the guests can speak English. She asks me what kind of girl I like. Tall, white, big breasts, etc. I find that describing a particular type never works because there could be a much hotter girl working there who meets a different description. So I just tell her to give me the best looking and most fun girl there "and if the girl you give me is good, I will give you 100,000 rupiah tip". I figure since the room and massage is only 240 k (for king suite room), I can afford the extra 100 k to get the best girl there. She picks number 57 and shows me to a room on the floor above.

The room is pretty big with a king sized bed, mirror on the wall (like at Maribaya), shower, and television (showing only local indo channels). This place reminds me a lot of La Luna (for those of you who used to go to La Luna before it went out of business. I loved that place.).

The girl shows up and she's a 27 year old from Jogja named Mona wearing braces (braces are normally kind of a turn on for me for some reason). She's not bad looking, but if that is the best looking girl they have there, that is disappointing. So I take off my clothes and the massage begins (she leaves her black dress on). Her massage skills leave much to be desired, but having a girl's hands rub oil on you in any manner is rarely a bad thing. As I chat with her, I find that she has a 4 year old kid (I should have told the girl choosing the girl, I do not want one who has a kid, stretch marks and a soft tummy are a turn off). She's fairly pleasant, but not flirtatious and fun like the majority of Indonesian massage girls.

At the end of the massage, she asks me if I want to have sex with her ("you want ML?") And says she wants 500 k extra for that. I am not turned on by this girl, so I decline her offer. I shower, put my clothes on and give her 100 k tip and I go down stairs and pay the bill. I did not give the selection girl 100 k tip (whether that girl she gave me was truly the best one they have or not, I don't know. But she definitely was not worth 100 k finders fee.).

Has anyone been to this place and know of a keeper they could recommend?

[Orangganteng]

I just went and read his posts on the Philippines forum from a year ago. Exactly the same crap as he's posting here with the exact same responses.

You are correct. It's best to ignore posters like him.

Does anyone have any recommend for a place to go Sunday night?

[Traveler1234]

Meanwhile I hope somebody can represent me and accept this invitation / challenge in October.

FastEddie.

Menteng can vouch for me. If I happen to make it in October, free to take me for a tour? PM back!

[Member #4410]

I'm in Medellin, Colombia, now and will not be in Jakarta before 8 December. I'll be there, with short breaks, until the end of April. I hope to meet you then.

Meanwhile I hope somebody can represent me and accept this invitation / challenge in October.

I'll be in Jakarta (not Jarkata as Eddie insists it is called) late December to mid January. Perhaps we can meet again.

Pm if you like the idea.

Regards,

Ko.

[Menteng]

But do you know what this is getting tedious, let's leave CaliPro to his own devices and just let him get on with it.

If things don't lighten up around here I may be forced to post pictures of my last jilbaber conquest (alas I have none of the Bible student).

Agree, so let's have the pictures now (grin).

[Menteng]

To Menteng.

I will be in Jarkata mid OCT for a few days coming in from Singapore, this is my third trip this yr you can PM me no problem for a meeting.

Fast eddie 48.

I'm in Medellin, Colombia, now and will not be in Jakarta before 8 December. I'll be there, with short breaks, until the end of April. I hope to meet you then.

Meanwhile I hope somebody can represent me and accept this invitation / challenge in October.

[CaliPro]

Video? They have video now? Who knew?

Just for the record Smoothy has been on this site for over 10 years, while you were still in elementary school. He has posted almost a thousand posts here and on another blog back in the day, there is little he doesn't know about the scene in Jakarta and unlike yours his posts are actually informative.

But do you know what this is getting tedious, let's leave CaliPro to his own devices and just let him get on with it.

If things don't lighten up around here I may be forced to post pictures of my last jilbaber conquest (alas I have none of the Bible student).

Just for the record I don't give a poo how long Smoothy has been on this site or any other site. And if by informative you mean attacking other posters and making false accusations (which I dispelled) than yes he is very informative.

[Smoothy]

I may be forced to post pictures of my last jilbaber conquest (alas I have none of the Bible student).

You must have a special charm. I have never been able to get the jilbab girls to allow me to take their photo sans clothes. I can't even get the naughty girls to wear jilbabs for nude pictures because they claim it's "dosa".

[Hilo77]

One came with a video.

Video? They have video now? Who knew?

Just for the record Smoothy has been on this site for over 10 years, while you were still in elementary school. He has posted almost a thousand posts here and on another blog back in the day, there is little he doesn't know about the scene in Jakarta and unlike yours his posts are actually informative.

But do you know what this is getting tedious, let's leave CaliPro to his own devices and just let him get on with it.

If things don't lighten up around here I may be forced to post pictures of my last jilbaber conquest (alas I have none of the Bible student).

[TheBigChill]

Yes, it is possible. I don't think all of the dancers will go to the rooms, but the majority will. I took one once and it was 1,200,000 idr. That was 2 years ago so I am not sure how much it is now.

Things have changed it seems.

Now the dancers and drinkgirls will do only blowjob for 2 mill plus some extras, adds up to + 3 mill for BJ.

BTW the "shots" you buy for the girls are lemonade.

There are lesser attractive girls in the sofas round the stage you can fuck. Locals and imports from 800.000 and up. I tried it two nights, very bad experiences both times. Girls do all they can to make you loose mood and management lets them get away with it (I complained the second time where I only was in the fuck room 2 minutes with girl who became impossible the moment we entered the fuckroom, but I still had to pay).

Go to Malioboro to see the show and have a drink some of the dances are really sexy, but don't buy sex or (lemonade) shots for the girls. Its a waste of money.

[Fast Eddie 48]

I don't think it is fair to place MasterDiverII on the same level as Calipro. I have witnessed several times how the word "master" in his handle, is true!

More important, he's not afraid to meet others to proof his existence. And yes, I'm implying something about you!!

To Menteng.

I will be in Jarkata mid OCT for a few days coming in from Singapore, this is my third trip this yr you can PM me no problem for a meeting.

Fast eddie 48.

[CaliPro]

I just went and read his posts on the Philippines forum from a year ago. Exactly the same crap as he's posting here with the exact same responses. Seems he's just out to cause arguments and add nothing to the forum. I notice Jackson even deleted 5 or 6 of his posts on that forum. It's not often you see that happen.

Add nothing to the forum?

Guess you missed the extensive list of apartelle's I made for Manila and Cebu. You also must have missed the extensive map of Manila I made. In addition, you seem to have missed the 4 Philippine's trip reports I posted (Manila x2, Cebu, Dumaguete). One came with a video. This is not even mentioning the field reports from Central America & Colombia on my old handle of TarHeelBred.

Don't quit your day job my friend.

[Menteng]

To J Choo.

I think you should go ask CaliPro and MD II for advice they know so much about how to bag freebie in Jarkata maybe you can ask them to be your tour guide even that CaliPro never even been to Jarkata before.

Fast eddie 48.

I don't think it is fair to place MasterDiverII on the same level as Calipro. I have witnessed several times how the word "master" in his handle, is true!

More important, he's not afraid to meet others to proof his existence. And yes, I'm implying something about you!!