my first visit to jakarta and wanting to be near the old dutch batavia district. this was an excellent hotel, friendly, helpful staff, excellent food, evening entertainment, and pool. i had a massage and it was great. The hotel staff booked 2 excursions for us, one to Sunda kelapa and the cafe batavia and the other to Bogor botanical gardens,... more

A recent stay for two nights over Christmas 2007 at Jayakarta, Jakarta, for which I paid nothing, was a rather 'strange' experience. Requesting a non-smoking room, I was given a room where the curtains obviously had not been washed in years and certainly smelled heavily of smoke. Never mind the carpet which was full of all sorts of 'crumbs'. Most... more