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04-30-24 16:48 #2031
Posts: 703Cigarette smoke
Originally Posted by Gabacho [View Original Post]
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04-30-24 14:04 #2030
Posts: 137Hotel 88 across from Hotel Travel
Has anyone stayed at the Hotel 88 Mangga Besar VII? I saw this hotel while walking out of Hotel Travel. It's 3-star and the price is about $21 night and photos and reviews look good. Holiday Inn, Aloft, and Lumidor are my favorites, but this one appears to be convenient, and you can walk to Hotel Travel without getting Uber or Grab, and rest between sessions without haggled by mamasans.
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04-22-24 03:29 #2029
Posts: 1469Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
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04-21-24 19:41 #2028
Posts: 99Originally Posted by AddictedToWomen [View Original Post]
I believe the higher the cost the higher the smoking enforcement will be. I doubt there will be any problems above the $30 level. WARNING: Stereotype coming soon. Higher cost in general means better clientele.
Nobody talks about the other side of the coin (the down sides) so I do it. I feel bad for guys expecting ABC but getting XYZ instead. Cigarette smell in your hotel room for a non-smoker is huge and can ruin a vacation. I never had it nearly this bad in Colombia, Philippines, or Thailand (countries I am used to for comparison).
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04-21-24 18:28 #2027
Posts: 740Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
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04-21-24 17:58 #2026
Posts: 500Originally Posted by InTheClouds [View Original Post]
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04-21-24 16:52 #2025
Posts: 6592Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
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04-21-24 14:18 #2024
Posts: 99Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
Notice the details in my post BB? Almost as if I am actually here.
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
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04-21-24 06:57 #2023
Posts: 3580Originally Posted by BananaBoi [View Original Post]
G.
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04-21-24 05:40 #2022
Posts: 6592Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
But to help other members on this board who have never been to Jakarta who don't think I'm story telling, it is not often that hotel rooms are sold out in Jakarta. There are always plenty available. Just pick one and book it for 2 nights. If you like it stay. If not move to one of many in the Mangga Besar area. Even if the hotel you've chosen is awful and you want to leave right away hotels are so cheap you can afford to take the loss and move on.
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04-21-24 01:54 #2021
Posts: 3580Originally Posted by LoveItHere [View Original Post]
Be sure to manually sort ratings by "most recent" to get up to date reviews, if you want an idea of what customers found.
PS. I should have added.... A very handy list
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04-20-24 19:57 #2020
Posts: 99Just a few hotels I looked at. Agoda.com ratings versus my ratings when I visited and asked to see a room.
Hotels near Travel / Lokasari.
8. 8 (7. 0) LEAF listed in many wrong locations. Middle of nothing. Big rooms but dirty pillow cases and walls.
7. 4 (7. 1) 88 HOTEL across from Travel had dirty bathroom and kids playing in the hallways.
8. 6 (4. 5) ARWANA dark and smelled like stall cigarettes and mold.
8. 2 (7. 3) INFINITY good for the price.
8. 3 (0) CITY BIZ Horrible! Dark. Dirty. Smelled like an ashtray. Got mites there like bedbugs.
8. 3 (0) CITY STYLE Horrible! Dark. Dirty. Smelled like an ashtray. You will get mites there like bedbugs. First room was so small I could not even put my suitcase down to open it so they moved me to a slightly larger room at CITY BIZ where I got attacked by mites. I had a doctor see the bumps and she told me there is a problem in Indonesia. Two street girls I saw had the same red bumps which I assume they had the same thing.
INFINTY, CITY BIZ, CITY STYLE are the same owner. All check ins are at the INFINITY Hotel.
Hotels near Classic.
8. 2 (7. 3) COVE Huge rooms but walls and bed sheets are dirty.
8. 4 (8. 8) HEEF was the cleanest I saw but very small rooms for the price.
Listen the hell up! If you are staying at the high end hotels I am sure you are fine. But all you guys that stay at the cheap hotels like me. You need to stay at a higher level hotel than you normally do or you will be sorry! The ratings by the travel sites and pictures are so off the mark. Basically anything under IDR 270,000 ($18 US) is a no-no.
I have read many times about the pollution here but I have never been out walking when the streets are a parking lot so it has not been bad in my view. What is bad is the cigarette pollution in the hotels. I stayed in a room and it smelled fine whenever I left for a few hours and came back. But as soon as I turned on the air conditioner I could smell cigarettes. I am in a better hotel on a non-smoking floor. Every day for 5 days straight there is some "A"-hole smoking on my floor. To get away from this issue I probably would need to stay at a Holiday Inn or Hyatt level hotel where I am sure they enforce the no smoking rules.
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04-20-24 08:18 #2019
Posts: 13Swimming pool?
Originally Posted by ExpatAmerican [View Original Post]
Do you know what is the length / depth of the pool at Holiday Inn?
I am a good swimmer, I would like to know if it is big enough for me to practice (2. 5 km / 45 min).
Any other pool option in North?
Thanks.
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03-05-24 06:13 #2018
Posts: 88Originally Posted by BKKguru [View Original Post]
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02-29-24 12:30 #2017
Posts: 460Originally Posted by BKKguru [View Original Post]