When you need a getaway but can’t get away

view from 8th floor *swimming pool

You really need getaway, but you can’t get away. Why not try on staycation?

Staycation lately become hits for urban people. They are too busy or maybe don’t have any leave left so, to avoid the stress from work or life, they took short staycation.

This weekend I also with my junior (junior due to age-haha) decided to try staycation.

She texting me in the mid day when I still working. Neechan, aku lagi bête nih. Minggu depan coba nginap hotel yuk. Berenang dan sarapan enak. And with no doubt, I said YESSSSSSS!!

Then we decided to choose which hotel that we want to stay.

Usually the business hotel located in central or south Jakarta offering cheaper price on the weekend than on weekdays.

So we were browsing through the hotel booking site and also googling which hotel we want to choose. 

Actually my favo hotel for stay located in central Jakarta called Intercontinental hotel, but at that time we don’t have enough budget so we try to searching another option that still comfortable affordable yet.

And finally we choose Manhattan hotel. Located at bilangan mega kuningan, and a lot of shopping mall around hotel into consideration to choose this hotel, and the range price as well. 

anddd,,,, jang jaaaang,,,, saturday!!

arrived at 2 PM we directly go to front office for check in. 

we have to waiting about 15 minutes although the queue was not too long. around 3 guest in a row.
after that we got the key and we just going upstairs.

we got smoking room in 11th floor.
and after we open the door the smell of smoke was toooo strong. :(
how can i say, usually in the 5 stars hotel even we booked smoking room but the smell of the room not like this. this is so terrible smell. :(
we calling receptionist to make the room more fresh with air freshener, they said yes but the room service never come. T_T
and we're not found the towel also (even floor mat) we have to calling front office desk to asking towel. and we also need long time to waited the towel come and need to calling over and over. fiuuuuhhhhh......

i don't want to ruin our staycation but yaa, with this service hhhmmm, its kinda lil bit ruin my mood.

yaaaa unfortunately for hotel that claim 5 stars hotel, their standard was not soo 5 stars at all. :(
but yaa, as indonesian always said apa boleh buat, we have to enjoy it until the last. :)

in the afternoon we going down to the swimming pool area. to enjoy the breeze and wind in the rooftop and also take a pics of course. hahahah,,,,, ^^

we back to the room and go to the shopping mall next to hotel building. and eat dinner there.
after that go back hotel and do sauna, the take a shower and time to sleep. *turn off the light

in the morning we take a breakfast. the breakfast was so so. nothing special.
the ground staff also didn't offer coffee or tea for us. :(
but ya at least the breakfast has so many kind of varian and yaa was good. *luckily i'm kind of person easy to satisfy.

after that we go back to the room and wait our time to check out.

yaaa, for this staycation not so satisfy but we enjoy it.
but maybe to choose this hotel for next staycation maybe no. hehehe....

so sorry... ^^

at the end don't forget to be happy and there is always a way to have fun even don't have much time... :))