Jakarta

[Jsxyz]

Hi Natty,

Have you stayed at any of those? I've stayed at Le Meridien in the past, but wouldn't recommend it.

Can you share why? I generally like Le Meridien, and the location looks pretty good.

[Menteng]

Hi Natty,

Have you stayed at any of those? I've stayed at Le Meridien in the past, but wouldn't recommend it.

I've stayed at Sheraton Gandaria City a couple of months ago and found it very convenient. Thanks to the mall. Heck, I even did some mall hunting there. But I wasn't very successful, unlike Mighty Spearsman some time ago.

[Smoothy]

Currently there are 6 Starwood Hotels operating in Jakarta: The Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City, LE Meridien, Four Points by Sheraton, Keraton At the Plaza, The Hermitage, and The Westin. The Aloft Jakarta Wahid Hasyim is scheduled to open September 15 and two more hotels are slated to open in 2019: the Aloft Jakarta Simatupang, and The St. Regis Jakarta.

Hi Natty,

Have you stayed at any of those? I've stayed at Le Meridien in the past, but wouldn't recommend it.

[Member #4698]

Currently there are 6 Starwood Hotels operating in Jakarta: The Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City, LE Meridien, Four Points by Sheraton, Keraton At the Plaza, The Hermitage, and The Westin. The Aloft Jakarta Wahid Hasyim is scheduled to open September 15 and two more hotels are slated to open in 2019: the Aloft Jakarta Simatupang, and The St. Regis Jakarta.

[LA Guy 5]

Just so no one gets mislead by false information earlier posted here, the one Sheraton in Jakarta is the Sheraton Gandaria, which is in South Jakarta. It has been open for close to two years.

There is no Sheraton near the airport although there once was.

[Jsxyz]

If you read through the Jakarta Hotel thread, you will find that all western hotels are girl friendly. Please stay at the Westin. That's a brand new hotel and there are no reports yet on that hotel. The Sheraton is way up near the airport, you wouldn't want to stay there regardless.

Thanks! I didn't realize there was a Jakarta hotels thread. Missed that.

[Smoothy]

I'm a free-lancer / take-out kind of guy, and I'm wondering if it's safe to assume Western hotels in Jakarta will be GF. I'm thinking of big Western hotel chains like Sheraton or Westin.

If you read through the Jakarta Hotel thread, you will find that all western hotels are girl friendly. Please stay at the Westin. That's a brand new hotel and there are no reports yet on that hotel. The Sheraton is way up near the airport, you wouldn't want to stay there regardless.

[Jsxyz]

I'm a free-lancer / take-out kind of guy, and I'm wondering if it's safe to assume Western hotels in Jakarta will be GF. I'm thinking of big Western hotel chains like Sheraton or Westin.

[Smoothy]

(At this point I realize that I didn't properly negotiate full service for 500 K.

Learning from day 1: I need to learn hooker Indo and load google translate to my phone. Also I feel like I overpaid compared to the market based on a quick RTFF. I left satisfied and hungry to learn more about Jakarta. Off to RTFF. I'm out here for a few more months. If anyone is very knowledgeable about South Jakarta and open to hanging out with a newbie shoot me a PM.

As far as learning the language for full service, that is quite easy. If you want full sex, simply say "ML" (which stands for making love). The girls all understand that. You already had the amount correct so once you say ML, you are set.

[Pipe Layer99]

Disclaimer: I'm a noob to Indonesia, I was sent here for business with one week notice and skimmed the forum but didn't RTFF yet.
Total damage: 215 K for room, 500 K to girl. 715 K IDR total or $54 USD.
Learning from day 1: I need to learn hooker Indo and load google translate to my phone. Also I feel like I overpaid compared to the market based on a quick RTFF. I left satisfied and hungry to learn more about Jakarta. Off to RTFF. I'm out here for a few more months. If anyone is very knowledgeable about South Jakarta and open to hanging out with a newbie shoot me a PM.

Definitely need to read up and get educated fast. Should have spent a few hours reading before you left, even with a 1 week notice. In any case, it seems like you learned pretty fast so you should be alright.

[Smoothy]

I think you will find that even if you do keep your passport with you at all times, the police are still likely to ask for money to "help you". The one time I got pulled over by the cops when I did actually have my passport, they still wanted money. They claimed I needed to have gone to the police station and filed a police report upon arrival in the country and asked why the police report was not in my passport. That being said, I've never given as much as 500 k at any time. I've probably been pulled over 20 times in 20 years. Half of those times, they let me off without paying anything even though I did not have a passport. The rest of the times I paid 100 k with the exception of 1 time where I had to pay 300 k. The one time I paid 300 k I was in a Silverbird taxi who had actually broken the law by driving in the busway when that was not allowed. It was not a police blockade, but the cop happened to be behind us on a motorbike. The cop originally wanted money from the taxi driver for his mistake, but once he saw me in the back seat he decided to go for more money. He refused 100 k and was a real ass about it telling me if I could afford a Silverbird, I could afford more than 100 k.

[Goferring]

I spent 2 weeks in Jakarta recently for mongering purposes and visited many places:

On my way back from King Cross the police stopped the taxi and I had to pay 500 K for "The Commander" since I did not have my passport with me. After that night I had my passport in my jeans pocket every fucking night.

Great to hear you had a good time but when you return continue to leave your passport in the safe. Never hand it over to someone clearly looking to top up their income for the night. Once they have your passport you will find that there is another problem and the "fine" will rise substantially just so you can get it back. Much better just to pay the $50, book it to the cost of a night's entertainment and move on.

You were unlucky to get stopped at all so don't expect it to happen repeatedly or in return trips.

[Kerrstar]

Jesus if you use dating sites and have some time to spare you can even get laid for free here!

It's the spare time that's usually the limit for some of us, especially if it's a quick, unexpected trip.

[Muzungufotsy]

I still don't get it why people will pay 1 or even 2 millions roupiah for ST with an average old girl in 1 place while in the same city you can get laid for 350 k with a young and beautiful one in some places that we all know.

Jesus if you use dating sites and have some time to spare you can even get laid for free here!

[Arn Poddict]

I spent 2 weeks in Jakarta recently for mongering purposes and visited many places:

1. Malioboro was clearly the nicest brothel which I visited in Jakarta. I went there 5 times. The club has tens and tens of attractive dancers with trimmed bushes and tight bodies dancing naked on the stage and later asking for drinks. I have never seen so many good looking naked young slim girls on a bar stage at the same time in any bar in SE Asia. Amazing. Some of these girls will fuck for 3 M, I did not take anyone up to the rooms. Mostly they seem to do BJ's. Also Malio lounge had nice looking dancers dancing topless but not showing pussy. I found Malio Lounge couch girls were a bit better looking than the ones in Malio Club. But the dancers are hotter downstairs.

2. Alexis. This was the nicest spa I visited in Jakarta (Tuesday). Good selection of girls, both local and imported. Nice and clean facilities. I fucked a pretty Viet girl.

3. King Cross. I visited KC once (Wednesday). Quite nice selection of girls on the couches and sexy dancers both at downstairs and upstairs. Very aggressively asking for ladies drinks. Not as nice place and girls as Malioboro in my opinion. But worth a visit at least once in a lifetime if in Jakarta.

4. Emporium Spa (Thursday). Pretty decent selection of girls and nice facilities. Not as good as Alexis though. One of the mamasans has pictures of some of the girls tits on her mobile phone. This was a new feature for me and I liked it. At least you get an idea of how the girls boobs look like. So many of these girls have padded bras which is misleading for many mongers. I hate them.

5. Tease Club at Emporium. Relatively small strip tease club and annoyingly full at times. Some good looking dancers. I did not ask option to take them to a room or the price.

6. Illegals club. Went there on Wednesday midnight. Empty place with handful of people.

7. Illegals Spa. I visited on a Friday afternoon. Some nice girls but a bit sparse number of hookers available. Good facilities, I would go again.

8. Classic. Visited all 3 levels, Bunker, Level 2 and 5. Not my kind of a place. I did not fuck there. Some good looking girls but aggressive and loud atmosphere. Caters to local guys mostly, I guess.

9. Kota Indah. I checked some of the bars there out of a curiosity. Crap, not much more to say.

10. BATS. Visited 2 times, Friday and Sunday. Not many attractive girls, I took one to my hotel on a Sunday night.

11. CJ's. Also visited twice here, Saturday and Wednesday. Better looking babes on Wednesday. I took one freelancer to my hotel. Not the prettiest face but quite a nice body.

12. Dee's place and Top Gun. Both were pretty quiet on Saturday at 02 am. Not any nice looking girls on the menu.

13. Immigrants. This nightclub was OK on a Friday night. Hottest girls were not pros and not available for a bule. Only a few freelancers around, nothing special.

14. X2 nightclub. This place was packed on a Saturday night. Handful of WG's, the rest were local girls and again no chance unless you are a young and handsome dude (which I am not anymore).

The traffic sucks big time in Jakarta as everyone knows but I managed to visit all the places within 40-50 minutes from my hotel (Grand Hyatt).

On my way back from King Cross the police stopped the taxi and I had to pay 500 K for "The Commander" since I did not have my passport with me. After that night I had my passport in my jeans pocket every fucking night.