Mercure Rekso Hayam Wuruk Hotel, Jakarta

For business activities this is the best location hotel at Jakarta. When at night there is still busy and a lot of Chinese food to select including Indonesia food ( Nasi Padang ). Sea food and Nasi Uduk with grill fish, grill sea food. And the hotel Sea Food Fried Rice is my best choice.

I booked the Mercure simply because of its location. I needed to be that part of the city and anywhere further south where the better hotel are located would have left me at the mercy of Jakarta's infamous 'macet.' The only good thing to say about the hotel is the pleasantness of the staff but they are badly let down by the management. The standard rooms are actually of a good size with good lighting and pleasing decor- on the walls and ceiling. The carpets are a different matter. They look dirty and they are dirty. Nothing else could account for the musty smell. The smell of the first room I was shown I actually put down to a very large wet patch outside the bathroom door but when I was shown a different room the smell was the same so I just got on with it after all I reasoned I had no choice if I wanted to be in that locality. One of the managers asked me did I have any suggestios for improvement and I advised him to take up all the carpets. Hope he gave that some thought. Little storrage space for the size of the room Moving into the bathroom it was ridiculously small compared to the size of the rest of the room. One has to actally manoevre oneself into the bathroom before closing the door. The bathroom could have been doubled in size and the rest of the room would still have ben larger tham a standard Marriott room. Little thiught was given to that part of the hotel design. At least the room was quiet. Breakfast was not included in the price of the room and it is rarely adviseable to pay for a hotel buffet breakfast. They are invariably not worth the money. Have a lie in and get up and eat out at your leisure is my advice. I did however have one evening meal. I was apprehensive when I saw only one table occupied when I entered the dining room and rightly so. None of the chef's suggestions were 'on' and the main course arrived before the appetizer. They saved the best to the last when I asked to finish wih a banana split only to be told they had no bananas. No