House in Tropical Country
Overview
Our house is located in Central Java, Indonesia. Central Java is next to Yogyakarta and Semarang. We can help you enroll to Javanese traditional dancing classes at the Surakarta's palaces. We ourselves open classes for Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese. Batik making classes is also available at Batik's home industries. Cooking classes is available at our own kitchen. Please kindly book your interest and we will help you. If you like to go shopping in fancy malls, it is around 15 minutes drive from our home. If you want to go for an experience going and shopping fresh fruits and vegetables in the local traditional market, then you only need to walk about 15 minutes and you are there. We have a bike that you can rent while you stay at our place. You can also rent our computer with internet connection. This is available during awake time. ;-) Next time, we try to get the WiFi ;-D 20 minutes by motor (motorbike or car), or a bit longer by tricycle (becak), you can find the the city stadium or famous as Sriwedari, banks, travel agents, airflight offices, restaurants, shops and many other facilities that you may want to stop by and feel the experiences or have the needs of going. Our veranda is multi used as a little store. We have a balcony upstairs where you can seat and relax and even enjoy simple foods and drinks. We can prepare meals for you, just order the food for what time and whether you would like Indonesian food or western. Payment in cash in rupiah is necessary. The cost for room is including Light Breakfast, so don't worry... :-) The balcony can also be multi used as a laundry hanger for your clothes, but we do not recommend it for a lot of clothing. Enjoy your holiday and let the inexpensive laundry service stations do the washing for your clothes. We can send them up for you if you like. For underwears, if you prefer to wash them yourself, you can hang them in roofing of the balcony. You can surely also hang your jacket, raincoat and other clothing if you want. Okey... now about wheelchair accessibility. I must be honest and clear about this by what we mean by accessible here. It means that a wheelchair can go up and down the ramps with the help of a physically strong helper and accustomed to giving assistance to people in wheelchair. Plus we at the moment only have the bathrooms and toilets downstairs. One is a seat-toilet and the other is a squat toilet. If you are using a wheelchair and you are really interested in staying with us then we can prepare for you the spare bedroom downstairs. But this needs to be pre-arrange and organize, as we now only prepare room for guests upstairs. We put prices in USD for easier understanding as to how much the room cost, however, we would like to receive the payment sent in rupiahs. Thank you very much and we welcome you so at any seasons here in Indonesia where tropical fruits are so tempting....
House Rules
Please let us know what time you are to be expected to arrive at the house so that we can we know it's you entering and not strangers. People from the outside are not allowed to stay overnight in the house. Maximum hours for a visitor sitting in the balcony upstairs is 8 pm, but allowed to hang out at the porch downstairs until 10 pm. Please do not invite strangers into our home, if you would like to invite a friend, please let me know first to agree in advance. Please keep the noise down to minimum level after midnight. Alcoholic drinks should not be drunk at the presence of the public nor it be seen by others in the neighbourhood. Consuming alcoholic drinks is unacceptable in the society. For safety reasons, guests cannot use the kitchen. However, we may alter the rules a little bit for long-term guests, such as allowing to use the stove when the hosts are still awake, we need to feel certain that you know how to use our stove just by showing the long-term guest how to function it for first time use, as gas may be dangerous and we all need to be cautious about it. We charge some amount of payment for using the kitchen due to gas and utilities. Please enjoy your stay and let us know of any assistance that you might require or information that you need while you're here. We are available for getting you around town, going to the Palaces, accompany you to traditional markets, museums, and other places. Charges are applicable for this service. Thank you very much for reading through our profile. I hope that you are interested and would like to stay with us during your holidays, or semi-long term stay as students, employees or volunteers in Surakarta / Solo. We are excited to become very good hosts to you all. I hope that we can be good assistance while you are in this country.
Amenities
Local Amenities
Rooms
This room is on the second floor. It fits for 2 adults single beds and one baby / toddler box. It has two large windows where the room is getting a lot of air and sunlight. Extra futons are available for extra people with extra charge.
The shape of the room is like the 'L' letter so we name the room Elle :-). There is a lot of light and natural air in this space / room. The place is comfortable and next to the balcony.