The Hermitage Jakarta

The hotel is located in the upscale residential area of Menteng.   The location is not far away from buzzling Thamrin and Sudirman area but you can find some tranqulity in Jakarta which is rather rare.   Navigating to the hotel may be a bit a challenge if you are not familar with the area as the streets around are mostly oneway street.

Here is the entrance of the hotel taken from the roof top.

Here are the picture of the hotel lobby.  It is nicely decorated and many pictures of old Batavia (the old name of Jakarta during colonial time) and also map of the Menteng area during the colonial time.

 

As a Starwood Platinum, I was upgraded to the Executive Suite room (which is the second highest room category in the hotel).

The hotel has a huge living area with a door that separated the living area with the bed room area.   The bath room is quite long with seperate bath tube and shower area.   I found the wardrobe area is too big.  I guess this probably the limitation imposed by the old building stucture.

Most (if not all) of the suites room located in the old building and the Deluxe rooms are mainly located in the new tower.


Here are the pictures of the room.

Huge living area

A door that separated the living area and the bed room

Bath room area

 

    

 

The room was pre-prepared for me and here is the welcome gift which is very beautiful

The hotel does not have a lounge, but they provide evening cocktail and the best choice is to use it in Le Vue which is at the roof top of the hotel.

It is advisable to go up before sunset as the view is very nice and the place tends to get very crowded.

Here is the menu for the Platinum

The swimming pool and gym is rather small and located just below the roof top.

Breakfast has a quite good selection also.

 

Here is some random pictures taken from the hotel

I found this hotel is good for someone who wants to have some peaceful time in very busy Jakarta.  It is not too far from Thamrin and Sudirman area.  The service is also very good.

Fourpoint by Sheraton Kuta

Finally I managed to stay in this hotel in December 2015.   It was a 2 nights stay.

The biggest problem with this hotel is location.   Although it is Kuta (near Pantai Kuta), it is located inside the small alley with no direct way to beach.  The taxi may have a problem to locate the hotel and the street is very narrow (and it is 2 ways),

As I have been to this hotel before, as I posted the preview from my trip in May, so I have no problem to tell the driver how to get into this hotel.

(Maps is courtesy of Google Maps)

Again as I have posted before, the lobby is actually an open concept lobby and they have big Christmas tree in the lobby.  Hey it is December :)

From the lobby, you can have a nice view if the lagoon pool.   actually the below picture was taken from the 6 floor, which where the other pool is located.   I was not aware they have another pool until the staff told me so.

Essentially they call this pool as lagoon.   The hotel has 3 pools.  Most are rooms are surrounded this lagoon, either you have lagoon access which is at the ground floor (the lobby is at 2nd floor) or lagoon view room.

 Here are the picture of the lagoon (and lagoon access room) from different angle

There is another pool behind, I think it is a kids pool.  There are few room facing it.   This is what they called pool view/access room.

Hence, you need to be careful.   I do remember the pool view/access room is cheaper than lagoon view/access room.

As SPG Platinum, I was upgraded to the Family room which is on the third floor facing the lagoon.  Here is picture taken from my room at night.

Here is the picture inside the room.   The room has a living area but there is no wall partition.   There are 2 bath room.  One with only standing shower area and is a complete bath room which come with bath tube only and the toilet and sink.

There main bath room is a see through which there is blind that you can lower down from inside.

This is the other shower area across the main bath room.

There is small area I suppose this is a vain area nearby the wardrobe.

As mentioned there is another swimming pool at the 6 floors which is a roof top and there is some lounge area nearby the pool.   The pool has pool bar also.   This is a better place if you want to get sun tan.

They have a very nice sun tan area which expose you to the Bali sun which not too bad view of the surroundings.

The breakfast served in the restaurant in the ground floor (street level) which is 1 level down from the lobby, as mentioned the lobby is on the 2nd floor.   The restaurant is facing the lagoon.   It also have outdoor section which is facing the street.

The food selection for the breakfast is not too bad although I cannot say it is fanstastic either.

And finally this is again the building form outside

In sum, I do not really like the hotel location as it is deep inside the small alley and quite difficult to walk to the beach.  Even the Beachwalk mall which look not too far, it takes 10 minutes walk inside the small alley.  Hence those SPG member who thinks to do matress run between FP Kuta and Sheraton Kuta, you have been warned that it is not easy walk especially if you have to drag your lugagage.


However, I do like the service provided by the staffs of this hotel.   I think the staffs are very attentive.  I got a surprise when I saw this towel origami in my room which a thank you note from the housekeeping staff when I leave him with a pillow money.
 

Also the the hotel is offering good rate.  I think this is the cheapest SPG property is Bali now.   I will definitely come back to this hotel.