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M. de Winter -
2 months ago
Mixed feelings about this place. I’ll start with the positives and end with the negatives:
- Perfect location to discover Yogya (we didn’t like Yogya, but that’s another story)
- The hotel looks very cool on both the outside and inside, with lots of greenery.
- The room has a comfortable big bed, good pillows and an airconditioning that does the trick.
- The staff is not very polite, as in, they barely great or notice you when you walk in. But if you ask something they will be friendly to help you.
- The hotel presents itself as an eco-friendly sustainable operation, including a cool agricultural greenhouse on the rooftop. It’s a nice idea… but…
Negatives:
- The hotel doesn’t seem that eco-friendly. Plastic shampoo bottles, airconditioning that’s consuming lots of energy by default, all lights turn on when you enter the room, a old fridge that is humming all night.
- During our stay there were constantly 10-12 Indonesian men sitting in the lobby smoking cigarettes and watching woman walk by. They were rude, and the smell of the smoke is really awful. You enter the lobby after a long day of busy Yogya and you get this fume and faces looking at you. They were there for the restaurant, which brings me to the following.
- The restaurant is really really horrible. It’s primarily Indonesian food, which could be perfect. But it’s not. Tasteless, greasy, poor ingredients and too much of everything. Looks like quantity of choice over quality of meal. And also totally not eco/healthy oriented.
- The room is small, and aside from some plants it doesn’t have a whole lot of ambiance.
- The bed we had was super wobbly. It felt like there was small earthquakes happening, because of this weird wobble. Even when we’re laying still.
- The pool is not as inviting as we hoped. Only 3 beds to lay on, smoking men next to the pool, not really a way to make yourself comfortable.
Overall a fair hotel, price bit steep but compared to Bali hotels cheap. But then again there are cheaper hotels in the street that are a better value.