The Jayakarta Bali

We liked the property but it’s just dated It was very loud during the day which is fair enough with a lot of young families there but wasn’t for us Also disappointed pool strictly closed at 6pm every night

Great location and great staff! Rooms are a bit musty but value for money

Love the location

The pools and gardens and the location are the best part about Jayakarta. The rooms especially the bathrooms need renovation. The food especially breakfast was average.

The rooms were dated but clean The staff were so friendly and the pool area was awesome. Right near the beach and great location

Roo.s are older but clean. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

The hotel bathrooms looking a bit worn and could do with a makeover. Staff were great, would recommend for young families as they have a toddlers pool and for young groups of friends as well. Good vibe around the pool with music playing. We've stayed here many times and the issue with the tiles around the pool area been slippery is still ongoing. Number of people slipping was a concern and my husband on this trip actually slipped and required stitches to his elbow from the cut.

The only thing that disappointed us was the fact that we could not bring bottles of water or alcohol in. I thought it was a joke at first but it was the rules. I exited and jumped the fence at the front later in the night! I would have thought that it would be ok to bring in bottled water as us blow ins can’t handle thier water. That needs addressing!

We stay every time we come to Bali Great location and great people!

A great place to stay, a bit dated now, but the staff and place overall is great for the price.

The grounds of the resort and common amenities are lovely and the staff extremely friendly, polite and willing to assist in any way. The resort is situated opposite the beach, close to shops, services and restaurants making it a very convenient location. Unfortunately the room we stayed was in dire need of a refurbish and was extremely noisy being opposite venue that played music until midnight 7 nights a week.

The gardens are amazing. The property is a little outdated but clean and the staff were great

Services were good

Beautiful resort with amazing tropical gardens and pool facilities. The staff were so friendly and helpful and the food was lovely. Unfortunately the rooms are a bit aged and have a mold smell. Overall, a wonderful experience.

First time in Bali the hotel was wonderful three pools, the service was brilliant friendly staff good breakfast buffet. The grounds were beautiful. Across the road from the beach and easy walking to shops . Wonderful place to stay

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Bathroom are a bit old but ok. Needs new towels for the bathrooms as they are very old.

Was with very mixed thoughts to book this hotel but boy was I proved wrong, wonderful location, staff super helpful - not a brand new hotel but our room was great, 3 pools and facilities (i.e. hair, nails, stuff for kids to do) was amazing, will definitely stay again

Great food! Live entertainment was very good. Staff very helpful and friendly plus reasonable pricing😃✨🙏💯🏆🌺🦋💃🌈💜

Great location and service

Staff were amazing and friendly, security guards around, perfect for families or women travelling alone. The hotel is a little dated but a great experience. We will be staying again.

I love this place. Has a mix of the old and the new

I liked the fact I left a couple of items I bought in my room on check out and was very pleased when I rang reception and they had kept them for me I did book our 3 rooms in Dec. 24 and asked for rooms close to pool but unfortunately we were right out the back Never mind , we had a great time and would highly reccomend staying there . Location excellent.

This place need a lot of work. It’s terrible

Old bathrooms, uncomfortable beds and pillows. Meals were awful , breakfast was boring. Will not stay at this place again.

The breakfast was ok but was repetitive and lacked variety. The service around the pool was quite poor and the beers from the bar were tepid at best. Access to beach was great and pool facilities were great. I would try other places before coming back here.

Best location and beach access. Staff are fantastic and the resort has all amenities to make family holiday wonderful. The resort is older but clean and comfortable. 3 pools and baby/toddler splash area great for young families. Stayed here 3 times and will definitely be back. Thank you Jayakarta for wonderful memories

The resort grounds are beautiful, the pools are great. Wonderful staff. The rooms are clean but are well overdue for a renovation.

I loved the atmosphere, highly recommended. I will definitely be back.

Hotel is in a great location. The staff were lovely and very helpful. Great service at the pool bar. Rooms are old and bathrooms outdated. Need more shade around the pool. Has the bones of a great hotel just needs some love

Staff are so pleasant and attentive. Hotel is absolutely spotless, situated for all ammenities and right on the beach Great breakfast Good atmosphere I’ll be back next year for sure

Property had everything we needed staff always attentive

Great location, staff , pools, garden. Slightly dated rooms but clean. Have been many times and will go back.

Overall the resort was beautiful, the staff were very friendly but not all were good at English. The rooms are in need of a major overhaul

So convenient, great pools and staff

Great location, staff excellent, breakfast excellent, rooms dated but clean.

Location / breakfast / staff friendly

Very old Very rubdown and the staff at the check-in especially when you get inn late in the knight are very slow n rude

Beautiful gardens, great location, friendly staff, great food

the property is still very nice but the rooms have seen better days - showers are pretty ordinary and we had problems with TV reception but everything was put aside by the excellent service from our room attendant Ade. all in all we would return and would recommend the property to others.

Have stayed many times at the Jayakarta hotel over 25 years and feel it’s like home away from home. Though a very old hotel they have renovated some rooms and ours was very comfortable and clean. The staff are very friendly and happy and the grounds kept immaculately. The pool area is spotless and I would highly recommend this hotel.

This is a great relaxing place to stay. A little bit older but its in a great location across the road from Legian beach and in the middle of everything. Breakfast is delicious every day ,the 3 pools are beautiful and refreshing, the lawns and gardens are beautifully maintained. The rooms are a little bit older but still comfortable and clean. Only downside for me is the pool bar closes at 6pm regardless of how many guests are in the pool swimming and or drinking at 6pm they dump many litres of chlorine in ,so if you are out and about through the day and want to relax with a drink from the pool bar at 6.15 forget it. I do believe the pool does open again about an hour after the chlorine dump but not the pool bar. Also i believe you can get a drink from a near by bar and have in the pool but would love to see the pool bar open till 9 or 10pm after all we are on holidays and having a great time. This is my only negative and will be back again next year

Staff and service were excellent. Location is convenient to beach and shopping. Rooms a little tired, but clean and has everything you need.

The rooms are starting to look their age but apart from that it’s a tremendous place to stay.

the gardens are beautiful and we loved the location ,its away from the kuta hustle and bustle and we had a great time , room service was good and the staff were very helpful and friendly always

It's a nice but typical Bali resort. It's not far from the airport, 30mins. A lot shopping a dining options within walking distance and the beach is just behind the resort, which was great. Liked the landscaping, lush green and well maintained. Breakfast was great and had a lot of options. Lunch and dinner options were there but it was average tasting, nothing stood out. We ate there mainly for of convenience. Overall the resort is aging and needs a bit of renovation, but it's clean and the green gounds compensate for that. Staff was friendly and service was prompt. One incident that left a bad taste was when my son forgot his room key at the restaurant breakfast table in the resort. I returned went to to ask for it at the restaurant and nobody had a clue, they did not have any lost and found protocol. The front desk person was rude and started berating for forgetting it and said they will charge $5 for a replacement key. That's kinda a wierd. But someone form the restaurant staff found the key somewhere and returned it to me. So don't lose stuff there. But overall I would recommend the resort, rooms were adequate and the prices were affordable.

Great pool

The service was absolutely amazing and the staff so friendly. Conveniently located close to shops, dining and more ! Hotel a little older but fairly clean inside, outside immaculate, would stay here again with the location 💗

Close to beach live music rooms are good apartments are a bit old an not close to pools breakfast buffet good the gardens are lovely an well maintained staff very nice would stay here again

I last stayed there in 2002. Found it to be wonderfuĺly unchanged 23 years later.

Location is central gardens are well kept staff are friendly rooms sre clean but in need of some work the bathrooms are very old and in need of urgent renovations bath and sink were stained and rusted tiles and doors were water damaged with timber doors rotting there was a strong musy moldy smell when you walked in rooms when reported to front desk reply was not possible as rooms were in comstant use

Love staying here. Close to everything and staff are so helpful. Pool and outside area is fabulous

Location was fabulous. Breakfast was fantastic. Ordering food was expensive. Cocktails were expensive. Staff were wonderful. Room was very dated, no hot water for the first 3 days. Hot was system was leaking and had a constant drip (located in bathroom in a bordered up area). They kept saying it will be 'ok'. Was told to run bathroom sink on cold then hot to get it to work (this eventually worked on day 3). Smell of mold in the room was terrible, worse in bathroom where they made superficial repairs. Mattress were old (had single beds in room) Gap above balcony door meant mosquitoes came into the room - worse in bathroom. Cleaning daily was not the best, did not wipe benches. Overall the location, pools and staff were amazing.

Compared to my stays there in the 90s and after, the rooms have be let run down and neglected.

We love the service the location and everything about this place, it is always our first stop when going to bali

We had an amazing stay and the hotel staff were very friendly, helpful and thoughtful. They certainly made my son's 18th rememberable. A perfect location and facilities for all in our group (11 all up and multi generational). This was our second time staying here and will definitely be back.

As a first time trip to Bali The Jayakarta was the perfect place to stay from the boom gates and security at the front and back entrances 3 wonderful pools to swim in across the road from the beach and a few minutes walk to restaurants bars and massages, everything that I wanted The resort has a real Balinese feel to it buffet breakfast in the morning the food was good a couple of restaurants pool bar you don’t have to leave everything is there However the rooms do smell we had 3 rooms in different buildings and they all smelted a dampness kind of smell the beds were comfortable I felt the bathrooms thou they were clean perhaps could do with a good deep clean a disinfectant clean I also thought that there should be sanitizer around the resort at least ad you enter the resort and at the entrance to the restaurants there was none anywhere May I also suggest more umbrellas for shade there was not enough for everyone to enjoy lying around the pool and grounds Overall I did enjoy my stay and I would stay again

Been going here for 30 years and will never return. So many other people were saying the same thing.

When we arrived at the Jayakarta they hadnt met the room requirements that we were assured would occur. We did end up in a different room upon 2 requests but the hotel was smelly. The front desk service was pretty poor too.

The resort is in a great area. Accessible to shop's and dining. Also walkable. My biggest complaint is the room is out dated. The restroom looks like a rundown public washroom. It needs immediate renovation.

We arrived and were put in room 506. If you are given this room don’t take it! The drain in the bathroom was so toxic that the whole room smelt like sewerage and you could feel it in your breathing. The room had no hot water pressure subsequently washing your hair was out of the question. The hot water took ten minutes to come through and then low and behold the air conditioning started leaking. We asked to be moved and five days later they did. They did try to fix everything but the toxic drain and water pressure were not able to be rectified. Worst stay ever. We have been coming here since the 1990s and will not be returning here again.

They close the pool at 6pm for chlorination which I’ve never seen before in a tropical location.

A reasonable location with plenty of place to eat close by. Only ate once at the restaurant on the first night as the service was very slow ( it was quite late though). We did have the free breakfast every day which was ok. Staff are very friendly.

Little old especially the rooms… but pool, breakfast, location, staff and atmosphere were all excellent

It was central to shops, restaurants & across the road from the beach. And also its family originated which is great.

We had a great holiday.

It was good service by staff

Older hotel but very clean and staff were lovely. Convenient location

Nice traditional hotel, fair priced, we got the interconnecting family rooms which was far away from the main hotel, but it wasn’t too far, would have loved to have stayed closed to the pool and restaurant. Easy walking to outside bars and restaurants and across the road from Legian beach. Heaps of shops around and little convenience stores close by. Staff were friendly but pool service staff not very attentive. I recommend to eat at the cultural buffet night where they had traditional Balinese dancing and a play/story which lasted a long time and good experience for adults and kids. Food was average but good enough. Overall a good stay. Travelled in early January 2025

Big hotel with a few different rules I never heard of before

Amazing!! Every one friendly ans very welcoming rooms were good air con was cold

The location wasn’t bad and a great cafe across the road at coffee cutters. Food at the hotel was pretty average. The pools were nice and staff were friendly but unfortunately I wouldn’t stay there again. There’s better around for the price.

The property like many in Bali is suffering from years of neglect in capital improvements. It is clean but tired. The staff are, on the whole, friendly and attentive. The buffet breakfast is adequate but like the property lacking in inspiration. It is centrally located to the beach, restaurants and shops which is a plus.

Kind, helpful, friendly staff. We had a 1 bedroom apartment located closest to driveway entrance. Extremely noisy at night with extremely loud music & singing blasting all night long. Yes, it is Bali & you will expect a lot of fun & noise, however, double glazing would be advised for this section. Room was serviced daily & a good job was done, however, this room on level 4 was very outdated & almost looked like a relic from the 1970’s or something. There was an extra guest of ours who had the fold out sofa lounge- this didn’t have a mattress, it was the rock hard leather seating which folded out only. We had laundry service twice which was excellent & priced accordingly. Buffet breakfast had a lot of variety & open from 6am - 10am Thank You

The property is huge so many different people staying there. We had to ask to move from our apartment which was near a road with a thumping nightclub over the road! We were moved to a much quieter room which was fine. There were 3 swimming pools one with a swim up bar ( which we hate) but patrons were allowed to play their own raucous music from the am until 6 pm daily which was super annoying to say the least. There was no peace anywhere during this time - not every day. Many clients were elderly and I’m sure hated it as much as we did. However the staff were terrific all lovely. The food was great and the gardens beautifully maintained. However too many “ yobbo “ type people staying there- annoying My husband had an accident while there and there’s an on site nurse and a Dr was also called. The staff definitely made up for the loud music.

Great place to stay, older resort but has everything you need. Good location and price was great.

Great location. Hotel is looking old and tired requiring some work to be done on it. Ie cracked/ missing bathroom tiles, pavement brocken, main pool needs some attention to tiles and area.

Good hotel.

Location

We woke up at 1am to find our room flooded with toilet water (2cm deep). The toilet was overflowing and everything on the floor was soaked in dirty water. We were forced to pack up to move rooms in the middle of the night. This incident occurred after our toilet got blocked 5 times over the course of a week yet the hotel still claimed it was out of their control. The staff are friendly enough until there’s a problem and then they deny all responsibility. Very disappointing.

Large property, staff excellent, accommodations good.

Hotel rooms were clean - perhaps not “western” clean. Lots of ants. Booking here very much for the location. I stayed in a one bedroom apartment and there was loud live music every night until midnight so never got much sleep before then. Staff were friendly. Buffet breakfast was average and flies were an issue

Very good

The staff are always willing to help with anything and get you whatever you want

Very dated in need of refurbishments

Very hot in November, pool was warm with no shade around all pools. They put on a special day Friday that was fun. Rooms are older and quite dark. Our request for a ground floor room was met. All in all nice pools and grounds on the beach but just not for us.

Great place close to beach and shopping

We loved the hospitality of the staff, always friendly 😀 👏

Needs some upgrading. Deluxe rooms more like stf. Great beachfront location. Great breakfast n lovely staff but probably wouldn't stay again

Room was terrible

We love the jayakarta for its location! It is getting a little old and dated. However the staff were friendly and we enjoyed our stay

For such an old resort it is in such good condition, there is an army of workers looking after the place and the guests every need.

Management was amazing to deal with, we had an issue with the room and they attended that issue straight away and resolved the problem quickly

We loved everything about the Jayakarta, definitely coming back with our kids

Very old hotel with large grounds and garden areas. Breakfasts were good, tiles are ridiculously slippery around pool areas, many guests slipping over.

Great place to stay

Great location and friendly staff but the place needs a good scrub and refurb

Rooms clean, staff lovely,food good. Dislikes. Needs a good lick of paint etc , large swimming pool exit stainless steel steps horribly to stand on to exit also needs rubber matting as same as swim up bar pool stop slipping and burning feet, No welcome drinks /cool towels on arrival 4 the six of us However our stay was wonderful ..

Lots of building work going on all through the night no hair dryer rooms are dated

Good