Kalibaru Cottages

Lovely setting beautiful gardens, friendly staff.

Couple Kalibaru Cottage is a stopover on the road. The staff are fabulous. They just need training and support to bring the room cleanliness up to Jakarta standards. The food is good. The room well appointed. The swimming pool is a delight. Highly recommended.

-8.273547, 113.951044 Kalibaru Cottages is located between the city of Kalibaru and the Garahan Kibul Baru forests on the Jember road. This is a large, well-run resort with facilities and a restaurant, 4km outside the city. The sprawling, manicured grounds with a T-shaped pool bordered by large palm trees is the main attraction. Parasols to shelter from the intense sun are lacking. Retreat to the veranda of your villa before you get sunburnt. In September 2023, our villa 214 had one double and a single bed, a television, good air-conditioning, intermittent Wi-Fi reception, a refrigerator and a semi-open-air hot shower. As always in Indonesia, hotel cleaning and maintenance was basic. Check your bed first. Continental and Indonesian breakfast is served. The restaurant is a bit pricey as it has no competition and serves unremarkable food, such as the sirloin steak (Rp90K). Kalibaru must be the next best Muslim town after Mecca. Imams see their duty to call their own congregation to prayer five times a day as a struggle for survival. Their competition is cut-throat. From the call before dawn, megaphones surpass other megaphones in volume and duration, not in minutes but in hours, sounding like migrating wolves in the forest. Even false-singing imams and children are called into action to call Muslims to prayer far beyond the borders of the city of Kalibaru. Use your earplugs. Kalibaru is a good resort outside the city, but not beyond the reach of imams.

Kalibaru cottages ligt in een mooi aangelegd park met geschakelde huisjes (cottages). Het hoofdgebouw is groot en uitgebreid en je kunt er goed eten. De huisjes zijn goed maar wel gehorig. Het zwembad op het Kalibura is lekker groot en je kunt er heerlijk zwemmen. Het grote nadeel is de drukke weg en spoorweg die langs het park liggen. Daarnaast zijn er veel moskeeen in de omgeving die al heel vroeg beginnen met een gebedsoproepen (rond 3:30 uur). Een goede nachtrust is dus lastig in het hotel. Dat is jammer want verder is het geheel goed verzorgd. Een aanrader is een plantagetour!