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Home » Reviews » Hotel Reviews » Airport Hotel Over Lounge For Our 6-Hour Layover In Jakarta
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Airport Hotel Over Lounge For Our 6-Hour Layover In Jakarta

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 7, 2024December 7, 2024 8 Comments

I’m sharing in real-time style about my SAS EuroBonus SkyTeam Million Mile challenge this week. Click here for background and route information.


a sign on a wall

We arrived in Jakarta at just after 5:00 pm and our connecting flight did not depart until 11:45 pm. Rather than stand around and wait for check-in to open three hours before our next flight, I secured an airport hotel room for our extended layover, an option that worked out brilliantly at the Ibis Styles Jakarta Airport.

We Spent Our CGK Layover At The Ibis Styles Jakarta Airport – A Hotel Review

This time, our transit through Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport was much smoother than last time. Lines were short and we were out in 15 minutes…which left us with some time on our hands.

a sign in a building

Traffic in Jakarta is among the worst in the world and therefore it was way too risky to try to go into town…and for what? Jaarta’s draw is its cheap luxury hotels and we had a redeye to Shanghai. Rather than try to find a coffee shop or restaurant to sit in while we waited for the Chian Eastern check-in desk to open, I booked us a room at the Ibis Styles Jakarta Airport, a budget hotel that is five minutes away from the airport. Cost for a night? About 40 USD…a price I was happy to pay even for four hours. What a bargain!

a glass door of a building

We hopped in a Grab and were soon dropped off at the hotel. We checked in, were assigned room 520, and mentioned that we would be going swimming.

“Oh, the pool is closed.”

Ooh, you should have seen Augustine pout!

I was a bit sad too…he wanted to swim and it seemed so silly to close the pool at 6:00 pm (though I later found out why).

We went up to our room and found it was quite small, but clean and perfectly practical for our purposes.

a child walking in a hallway

a door in a room

a room with a bed and a desk and a chair

a bed with a purple couch and a map on the wall

a bed with a map of the world on the wall

a room with a bed and a desk

There was even a room service menu and a massage parlor.

a paper with text on it

a sign on a table

a brown sign with white text on it

The bathroom was very small, but I took a shower before we returned to the airport and the water was warm and pressure good.

a bathroom with a sink and shower

a shower head and a hand shower

Augustine said he was hungry and wanted to eat dinner at the hotel. The hotel had a BBQ-style buffet downstairs with live music and fresh fish and poultry. It was actually quite nice…

a group of people playing instruments in a room with a pool

a row of food on a table

a trays of food on a table
You chose your fish and they grilled it in front of you.

a table with plates of food and utensils

a child sitting at a table with a plate of food

a child holding a plate of food

And becuase all the seating was poolside, I suppose it made sense why the pool was closed so early…

a pool with a building in the background

The restaurant also had indoor seat and an adjacent bar.

a glass window with a sign on it

a man sitting at a bar

By 9:30 pm we were on our way back to the airport…for our flight to Shanghai.

This worked perfectly..what a comfortable way to spend our layover. I highly recommend this anywhere, but especially in places like Indonesia where hotels are so reasonably priced. Augustine loved it too.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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8 Comments

  1. Alert Reply
    December 7, 2024 at 9:03 am

    Wow . “Fresh fish” on ice . Grab one and gnaw , crunch , and chomp .

  2. JoeMart Reply
    December 7, 2024 at 9:36 am

    Did you finish the meal with a slice of Klepon cake?

  3. GUWonder Reply
    December 7, 2024 at 2:22 pm

    Accor hotels are a very good value across Southeast Asia, particularly Ibis. I use Ibis as a de facto dayroom or to book two nights on the cheap when I really just want one night stay with a very late checkout the next evening. And the breakfasts and menus for pool-side ordering of decent food for lunch or dinner are reasonably priced compared to more expensive hotels where the pool-side food is often no better.

  4. William Reply
    December 7, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    For a short break you could have used Anara hotel right in the airport, and a 2 minute walk to check-in.

  5. WorldTravelGuy Reply
    December 8, 2024 at 1:29 am

    You must be really tired seeing how you spelled Jakarta and China wrong, lol

    Jaarta’s draw is its cheap luxury hotels and we had a redeye to Shanghai. Rather than try to find a coffee shop or restaurant to sit in while we waited for the Chian Eastern check-in desk to open, I booked us a room at the Ibis Styles Jakarta Airport, a budget hotel that is five minutes away from the airport.

  6. simmonad Reply
    December 8, 2024 at 3:30 am

    CGK has more pax than KUL. The latter offers a fast train into the city centre every 15 minutes and it’s a great service! By contrast, CGK’s rail service – if you can find it – has gaps of 30 minutes, sometimes 60, for trains into the city. It’s pitiful, really.

  7. dee Reply
    December 8, 2024 at 10:30 am

    How did Augustine do with the fish??

  8. Tony in Indy Reply
    December 8, 2024 at 2:52 pm

    Million. Finally

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