A good hotel overall. As others have commented, the rooms are spacious, well appointed and clean. The staff were very helpful and accommodating. On arrival early in the morning, I was able to check in well ahead of the 1:00 pm standard and they were able to arrange a motorcycle rental for me on the same day. Throughout Indonesia, the 4:15 am call to prayer is a fact of life and is for many travellers, a charming reminder that we are 'not at home'. However, the volume from the mosque next door was exponentially higher than anything I had experienced in five weeks of travel.

It was almost dark and it rained when we arrived but that did not had any influence our view of this hotel.
It looked like a beautifull tiny palace. Our room was spacious, cool with very high ceiling and a huge bathroom.
In the evening, from outside in the dark, there came sounds of religious sort. Recalls for prayer from several Minarets. We loved it.
This is Indonesia, you know, and this is a part of it.
Later we had a great diner in the lobby restaurant of the Hotel. Both service and the quality of food was really good. Not just our opinion, but also from three people from Australia, they were the only other guests during our stay.

we absolutely loved the high ceiling interiors, even the rooms were designed like this! felt somewhat like royalty in this hotel. we got the standard room and it was spacious for both of us. amenities included basic toiletries, 2 bottles of water, room slippers, towels. shower area is separated from the toilet (some people are iffy about this) and water pressure was good. We were served welcome drinks upon arrival as well as a souvenir each the next day when we checked out.

The swimming pool area was also nice at night, although the pool tiles i think could be better. It was somewhat tacky and not befitting to the ambiance.

We stayed only one night, with the purpose of being near borobodur for the sunrise tour. Location is good, around maybe 10 minutes walk to the temple complex. we arrived at the hotel at around 9pm already (had dinner on the way) so we weren't really able to explore the area for warungs, etc. Breakfast consisted of an egg station, mee goreng (noodles), nasi goreng (fried rice), fruits, cereal, toast, fruit juices, coffee and tea.

We were initially supposed to stay at Manohara but it was full so we opted for Saraswati instead. Manohara's the most convenient since it is the closest to Borobodur and is located within the temple complex. However upon seeing the hotel and surroundings the next day, we thought Saraswati was nicer. Manohara just seemed too busy whereas Saraswati felt more peaceful and without the hordes of tourists passing through Manohara.

Take into consideration though, that you only pay IDR230,000 for the sunrise tour when you stay at Manohara as opposed to paying IDR380,000 if you're not a hotel guest. (also, foreigners pay a bigger amount than locals, who pay only DR250,000)

service was pretty good. Everyone greeted and smiled at you when you pass by. The next morning we asked reception if they can get details for Jomblang caving for us and the guy didn't know what that was. But he spent a good deal of time researching and calling people about it. He was able to give us contact details of this tour company and the latest time we should have arrived at the cave. We still arrived an hour late though, and found we can just get the local guides there to accompany us. Also, we asked for an adaptor and an extra towel for the room and those arrived within 3 minutes.

Since a mosque is nearby, at around 4:15am the prayer calls will have started and let me just tell you that they were pretty loud. Probably enough to wake people up but we had zero problems with that since we were up and about by 4am for the sunrise tour. I can imagine however that it'd be somewhat of a problem if you didn't plan on waking up that early. Keep this in mind and bring earplugs. i think other hotels also have this problem too so it's not limited to this hotel.