Manohara Hotel Borobudur

According to Gary, the best place to stay is in Magelang is at the Manohara Hotel Borobudur.

Before that.. it is most important to know your objectives. Why do you want to visit the Borobudur temple? How long do you think you’d spend there? Does getting lost in the carvings of old appeal to you? Then yes, choose this hotel as it’s a quick 5-mins stroll to the UNESCO world heritage site.

Manohara Hotel Borobudur, Yogyakarta - views
The Borobudur Temple is just 5 mins away

We paid Rp1 million (approx RM275 or USD86) for one night in a twin room. It covered accommodation, breakfast and entrance fee to Borobudur Temple from 6am to 5pm. Plus the privilege of paying just Rp230K (approx RM63 or USD20) to join their 4.30am Borobudur Sunrise package. Non-hotel guests have to fork out an additional RM40 for the same experience.

Manohara Hotel Borobudur, Yogyakarta - room

The room was slightly dated but reasonably clean and spacious. Like most other hotels in the region, they only provide soap and not shower gel. Tough for a girl who likes her shower gel. The private balcony was welcoming, we had room service dinner there accompanied by sounds of insects in the night.

What to do if you’re done visiting the temple? You could rent a bicycle for Rp10K per hour. Cycle around the grounds, check out the elephants, whizz around the UNESCO site, get stopped by enthusiastic local kids asking to take photos with you.

Manohara Hotel Borobudur, Yogyakarta - around the resort

Or just sit around and chill out at the hotel. There’s no swimming pool, but there are plenty of huge grass lizard types at the bushes. They could keep one fascinated, if one has a penchant for the reptiles.

The only terrible part was that during our stay, it was elections fever. Bikers were vrooming around rallying and showing support for their political parties. And the Borobudur grounds being so vast, carry noise across the hotel all too well. It was very annoying as the peaceful silence was too often interrupted by the bikers.

Manohara Hotel Borobudur, Yogyakarta - with hostess
With the hostess

That aside, I think it was a good choice to stay at the Manohara Hotel Borobudur, JUST for the temple. One night is more than good enough, then you should scoot and see other attractions.

Manohara Hotel Borobudur
Komplek Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur,
Jl. Badrawati Borobudur, Magelang,
Jawa Tengah, 56553, Indonesia
Tel:+62 293 788131
Website: http://manoharaborobudur.com

Follow the entire Yogyakarta trip here: Yogyakarta 2014

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  1. Haha, at last! Still waiting on the full temple report though – I guess that’s coming 😉 The lack of a pool is a curious omission given that the hotel has extensive, nicely landscaped grounds in which to put one, but I was only there one night too. I found it pretty chilled and relaxing – it’s not a party into the night kinda place, given that most people are there to rise at the crack of dawn to see Borobudur. From a ‘Western visitor to Asia’ perspective (so it might not count for a lot) I thought the food good, which is just as well given there isn’t really an alternative to eating at the hotel. I can’t believe I missed the elephants though, where were they to be found? 🙂

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