Jakarta Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

We arrived in Jakarta at about 1am on Thursday night/Friday morning. We met a couple from Leeds in the airport and shared a taxi with them to the main backpackers area. We knew we would be arriving late in the night so we booked a double room with air conditioning and a TV in a place we had read good things about - the Borneo Hostel. When we arr...

So i left my beachside hammock just as the sun set on independance day, having watched the local kids march in time to a percussion band, there were lots of activities and stalls and competitions going on to commemorate the annual bank holiday where indonesia proclaimed itself as an independent country and each and every year they love to wave t...

A short becak ride from the hotel is Solo's main station for the train to Jogja. The two Dutch girls I rode up from Probolinggo with happen to be on the same train and we hop on board for the hour long ride to Yogyakarta (Jogja). On arrival, I cross over the road to the Jalan Sosro area which is the main backpacker enclave in town and check into...

After leaving our guide and getting some local money, as we were not sleepy, we decided to see Jakarta, despite we had been warned about getting lost or other things, so we take the bus to the center of the city, after great language problems for knowing where the hell is the right bus-stop. We dare to catch one, and after 45 minutes on it, we g...