Bandung Guest House Hotel

Arriving on Bandung, Accommodation at super budget level. New niche within Bandung Budget Hotel segment is constantly appearing. They are not in business to compete head on with other established Budget Hotel, but rather to complement by offering individual home sweet home cosy quality; the kind of warmth they have claimed could not exist at other Hotel’s “Effective Production Machineries”.

The latest player is presumably “Guest House SEVENTEEN's” located near the down town at Sumatra St. The de' Tropis Guest House is another well established player located within the city center. Then another two players located in the vicinity of city outskirt; Cassadua Guest House and Retanata Home-Stay Guest House.

Bandung Guest House Hotel typically emphasize on home quality accommodation and being smaller with up to a dozen rooms to let is comparably less busy and thus is more quiet than the ordinary Hotel in general. The Guest House is also positioned at the lower end to its Budget’s rates, but there are few players now gradually getting into upper end level of the scale due its recent popularity to even amongst expatriate guests.

As most of these Guest Houses are being managed by its own owner, their personal touch is often the key of the services which distinguish from other type of accommodation. Hence this distinctive difference excludes the fierce fully head on competition and eventually invites new entry, each with new individual differentiating taste.

For example by capitalizing many Dutch Indies Heritage Buildings from the 1930s era as well as offering convenient location to those bountiful Factory Outlets in the whole Bandung City. Such buildings are normally situated within certain areas particularly to be found in still high concentration numbers at one location that used to be known as “European District” in that period.

Ironically it was exactly the location where the European was detained in the Second World War by Japanese emporium troops at what was known as “Tjihapit Internment Camp”. SASKAVA GUEST HOUSE located at number 4 Lapangan Supratman St. is one of such Guest House with a distinctive aura of a Grand Ma’s house, offering merely 7 rooms with one large family pavilion room, each is named after every family hierarchy; Grand Ma’s room, Uncle’s room and so forth indicating its individual original usage in the past.

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Why Paris Van Java ?

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Do you know why that Bandung was designed and developed as a beautiful city as those of european major cities ?

In 1916 the Dutch Indies government decided to shift their capital city from batavia (now, Jakarta) to Bandoeng. They commissioned a number of well known architect to design ; town plan, parks, government buildings, government officer housings. You could still see the evidence today. Though a large proportion of those buildings have gone, some are being revamped into well known outlets. One example is the Heritage outlet, see our Leisure Guide to locate this Factory Outlet. That is why driving around Gedung Sate is such a pleasure, there are quite a number of old houses still existed.

Are you still with me ? Should I bore you, you could skip this article and proceed to look at the excerpt of Bandung History below,

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The impact of colonial design is being regarded as the embarking footstep into current Indonesian architectural basis. These Dutch architect did not just copy the trend of their era, but also some manage to blend european style with the traditional one. One being the case is ITB's building.

Such contributions by prominent architect in early '20s like among others Ghijsels, Mclaine Pont, Aalber, De Waal, Schoemaker, H Thomas Karsten and many others had earned Bandung in 1930 nicknamed : "Paris van Java". Hence, we all know by now the beauty, the charm of Bandung's attraction is due partly to these circumstances.

Further reading on characteristic of colonial building is available. Hit the link on my blog lists under the heading of Heritage Building.

Leisure Guide

Ramadan is nearly ending in a couple of days. There will be a large influx of the Jakartan people going to Bandung Paris Van Java (mudik/ pulang kampoeng). Most Hotel are booked already for the last fortnight.

Attempting to ease the burden for those people seeking out hotel in last minute, as depicted here is the glimpse of Bandung map. The map only covers the area which early in the century known as "European District" declared by then the Dutch Indies Government.

It is essentially the Northern part of Bandung with highlights of certain tourism objects; such as historical building, restaurants, few street milestones, shopping areas, bank and Hotels.

Furthermore it also depicts the famous Tjihapit Internment Camp during the 2nd World War, where Europeans were held by Japanese military. It has long gone but supposedly located to now between cihapit traditional market and Siliwangi stadium.

Ibn Idl Fitr, Selamat Hari Raya 1429 H