Hotels in Surabaya - Prices and Reviews

At last - we feel we have really arrived! We invited our teaching assistant, Indah and her housemate to dinner this evening on condition they took us to one of the local, native, tent-like, side-of-the-road-style eateries (a warung)and start to teach us some Indonesian. First of all you take your life in your hands because you have to walk there...

The view from Mount Bromo during sunrise is breathtaking and majestic. One should not miss this trip to the volcano as the trip is certainly worth it. Getting there : you can enlist the services of a tour agent or you can rent a car and drive to this mountain yourself. The drive takes about 2 hours from Surabaya. Bring : A thick jacket as the te...

Pozdravljena Slovenija! Zadnjic sva se oglasila s S Sulawesija, sedaj pa se nahajava ze na vzhodnem delu otoka Java, v 7-milijonskem mestu Surabaya. No, vmes sva na Sulawesiju obiskala nacionalni park Tangkoko, kjer sva imela moznost videti nekaj endemicnih zivalskih vrst - ki jih je mogoce videti samo tu - in sicer tarsierje, opice makake, in n...

Bali is predominately Hindu, the biggest Hindu outpost in the world. Java however is nearly 80% Muslim. Going by recent news reports I was expecting to get my head kicked in as soon as I set foot off the ferry. Not so. All the people I've met have been so friendly. Everyone has a wave and a "Hello Mister" for you as you walk down the street. Aft...

This is the Trip to Surabaya as following to Youth Study Tour with Permugazsi Social Association Group from 13 Cities in Indonesia

After a pleasant six hour train ride from Yogya, we arrived at Gubeng train station in Surabaya. Our guidebook didn't list many budget/backpacker-friendly places to stay as Surabaya really isn't somewhere that backpackers stay. There was one hotel about 600 meters down the road (sorry, I'm trying to convert myself to metric) and the next closest...