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Fast facts

Check in from:		13:00
Check out before:		12:00
Pets		Pets not allowed

Amenities

Wi-Fi
Parking
Air conditioning
Non-smoking
Laundry
Television

More about Borneo Hostel

Borneo Hostel

Located in Central Jakarta, a neighborhood in Jakarta, Borneo Hostel is in the entertainment district and near a train station. Grand Indonesia and Thamrin City Shopping Mall are worth checking out if shopping is on the agenda, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore White Sand Beach PIK 2. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's happening at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium or Jakarta International Velodrome. This smoke-free hotel features a 24-hour front desk, free self parking, and free WiFi in public areas. Borneo Hostel offers 10 accommodations with air conditioning. 32-inch LCD televisions come with digital channels. Bathrooms include showers. This Jakarta hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access.

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Solo traveller

Comment: 9 Jul 2022

Stayed in: Jul 2022

Former backpacker hub

Long running guesthouse, just off jalan jaksa, the former backpacker hub...the whole area is now just a shade of it's former self...but it's still ok to stay here as the location is central, in fact I could just walk there to/rom Gambir station and airport bus...there are various types of rooms, ranging from 100.000 rupiah (fan cooled room, shared bathroom) to 200.000 rupiah (aircon, tv, private bathroom)...some interesting and colorful long term guests here, mixed with some very short time guests (if you know what I mean)...the wifi is ok though occasionally connection gets lost...the central courtyard has common seating and is a good place to hang out and meet various characters
Solo traveller

Comment: 30 Apr 2015

Stayed in: Apr 2015

Cheap but very basic

This place has been around for a long time, and it shows...the rooms are very basic, basically a bed and a chair and a small table and that's it! But at just 100.000 rp for a single room with fan and shared bathroom, that's about as cheap as it gets in jakarta these days!
The common areas are nicely decorated with plenty of seating...wifi works fine too...all in all an acceptable lodging for a night in transit, as it's near the main railway station and the airport bus!
Couple

Comment: 12 Nov 2015

Stayed in: Nov 2015

Need to paint the walls

We were looking for a place to stay with air conditioning since it was a bit too hot. We are usually fine with just a fan. We saw a few places but rooms with air con were high priced. We were tired after a long flight and at the end decided to take the room here. It was supposed to be 180k but when we paid he said that 150k were fine. Thanks for the discount. We looked at the bedsheets and they were clean, the air con worked perfectly but honestly... that was it. The walls are so dirty is almost unbelievable, so many blood stains of splashes mosquitos... plus some otger black stains everywhere. Some painting would give the place at least a cleaner more comfortable look.
When I went to brush my teeth I realised that there wasn't a sink... !!! So need to brush in the open shower.. and getting completely wet was the result. No toilet flush.. just bucket but that's fine lines. And WiFi worked very well.
It was fine for one night. No insects in the room beside mosquitoes and midges especially in the bathroom.
Couple

UK

Comment: 11 Oct 2014

Stayed in: Oct 2014

Ran out of water. Not hot water, just water.

We stayed here for a night on the strength of a mention in Lonely Planet. Don't. We got one towel between 2, no loo roll, and the shower stopped, er, showering, partway through. Despite having an AC room, it wasn't airtight so mozzies could still get in, and even if you had a mosquito net there'd be nowhere to hang it. I've stayed in quite a few cheapass places in SE Asia now, and this one is firmly in my bottom 5. We only paid 200,000IDR (no breakfast) and it's still not good value at that price - and the cheaper fan rooms will be horrible in Jakarta's brutal heat.
One tiny plus point: the wifi did actually work reliably in our room (22, very close to the front).
Location - despite this being the backpacker zone, the location really isn't great -- there are a couple of bars around the corner (avoid Jokers, it's a hole: service is SLOW and portions are TINY), but insofar as there is anything worth seeing in Jakarta at all, it's not here. You want to either be up in Kota, down near Mini Indonesia, or at the airport. It's a good 20-25min walk from Gambir station thanks to the insane road layouts, traffic and lack of safe crossing points (possibly due to the militarized US embassy nearby). The very local location is awful too - open drains under the sidewalk stink.
Couple

Comment: 4 Aug 2016

Stayed in: Aug 2016

Schlimmste Absteige..

Wir sind hier aufgrund einer hervorragenden Bewertung des lonely planet her gekommen (offensichtlich hat sich seither viel verändert), spät abends und sehr erschöpft von der Anreise. Das war das Problem, wir waren blind vor Müdigkeit. Kommt hier nicht her! Nicht einmal für eine Nacht. Wir sind sofort am nächsten Morgen noch vor dem Frühstück umgezogen, haben es keine Sekunde länger ausgehalten. Das Zimmer stinkt, ist verdreckt, die Wände sind voller großer, undefinierbarer Flecken, das Bett ist dreckig und hart. Eigentlich alles ist kaputt, die Klimaanlage hat so gut wie nicht funktioniert. Und das Bad.. Das Bad! Es hat diesen Namen kaum verdient. Es stinkt wirklich bestialisch! Die Toilette scheint nur Deko zu sein, ein Plumpsklo hätte es vermutlich besser getan. Keine Klospülung, sondern ein Eimer zum schöpfen, jedoch fließt das, was man damit weg spülen möchte, nirgends hin.. Die Benutzung von Toilettenpapier ist deshalb und weil es im ganzen Zimmer keinen Mülleimer gibt, unmöglich. Daher sind längere Toilettengänge praktisch auch nicht möglich. Weiterhin gibt es kein Waschbecken.
Die Straße und Umgebung des “Hotels“ fanden wir recht dubios und wenig bietend, obwohl sie vielfach als Backpacker-Hochburg beschrieben wird.
Fazit: Ein Loch. Das Hotel ist seinen günstigen Preis absolut nicht wert. Wir sind nun seit Wochen in Südostasien unterwegs und das ist die mit Abstand schlimmste Absteige in der wir bisher waren.. In Anbetracht aller unserer vorherigen Unterkünfte ist das Borneo Hotel absolut überteuert.

Location

3.0

Jalan Kebon Sirih Barat 1,No:37, Kotamadya Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta, 10340, Indonesia|1.22 km from city centre

Check in and check out

Check in from:

13:00

Check out before:

12:00

Good to know

Pets

Pets not allowed

Extra beds

Please contact the hotel for details about adding extra beds.

Borneo Hostel: FAQs

Borneo Hostel is 1.2 km away from Jakarta city centre.
Borneo Hostel is in Jakarta, Indonesia and is 1.2 km away from Jakarta city centre.
At Borneo Hostel you can check in from 13:00, and you'll need to check out before 12:00.
Yes, there is parking available at Borneo Hostel.
We don’t have any information about restaurants at Borneo Hostel, please check with them when booking.