Hotel Mega Cikini — Hotel in Jakarta

The location of this hotel is great, it's close to Taman Ismail Marzuki and some well recommended restaurants like Lara Djonggrang and Vietopia. Or if you opt for fast food chains, you can go to McDonalds or KFC. The neighborhood is friendly, and it's rather quiet in the evening. There are some taxis that park outside the hotel, but it may be best to try and find a taxi on the street as the ones at the hotel usually don't use meters and would charge double the price we pay for other taxis. As usual, only choose the brand you trust. Blue Bird, Express and Taxi Cab are some of the favorites.||Staff at the front desk are quite polite and helpful, but don't speak English much. Service at the restaurant is good, although the food is just so so. Majority of the hotel staff are nice and helpful despite their limited English, only one person in particular (a room cleaning guy) was very rude.||The room is okay, the carpet and furniture are old. The bathroom is clean. Our room was right across an old office building and a small piece of land that looked like a dumpsite. The elevator is old, smelly, and a little bumpy when it moved, it scared us so we used the stairs instead.||To sum it all up, this hotel is not bad, but there isn't much quality that would make us want to stay...

We arrived in Jakarta and had a booking mishap with a Bakcpacker Hostel thus we needed a place to stay in to rest until the next day- thus Hotel Mega Cikini. We entered the hotel thorugh their restaurant thickly clouded with cigar smoke from drunk group of old men. We needed to cover our nose until we reached the lobby.||||We booked only for one night, and it was worth our supposedly 3-day stay with a nearby hostel. Expensive but we though it is appropriate since it was a full-pledge hotel. We went up to our room, had our hot showers and fell sleep...only to wake up sweating because our AC was not working. We called reception for help and they sent a repair man who could not speak a word of English making our bad day in Jakarta worse as it is.||||The only thing I liked about the hotel is their breakfast buffet. That's it. It's a hotel that would worked for the 80s but not today, especially if eveything (furniture, amenities, et al) were the same since the 80s- dust,...

just a quikie while i am still staying in jakarta mega cikini are not honourable when a request for a room type is requested before leaving for your trip so if you stay here do not expect to have the room you booked on line from the photo gallery they have on their web page . more on this subject when i return to London with photo's of disgusting room conditions and poor customer relations from reception staff and lack of management skills from front of house manager. my initial advice do not waste your money on mega cikini or mega proklamasi i stayed at both with a intention of a two week stay and moved out pretty fast after one night. check out Treva international in same area for a extra 100,000 rupia 6 pounds in sterling you get bigger better cleaner rooms better views and service with a roof top swimming pool to work off the stress of the Jakarta traffic...