Originally Posted by
Sam Bee
It's been a while since I needed to visit this thread, but planning a brief trip to Jakarta next month.
Been trying to get my head around the Soekarno-Hatta Rail Link. Reason being is that I want to use to get to a hotel in central Jakarta. And back.
It's an in joke, a reward for 30 years of travelling to relatives by ever longer taxi journeys. Hotel wise I get decent discounts in the usual chains, so probably looking for that.
But it's surprisingly hard to map out a route on the train. It looks like BNI City / Sudirman is the main central station on the line. Are there any hotels I can walk to from the station (i.e. within 150 metres!) or hotels that will pick up / drop off?
Or have I misread the map? I've a few places i'll be heading to, so central works fine. I'll be spending plenty of time in Bluebirds, so would like to do this by train, for what i'm hoping will be my last ever Jakarta visit
You are right in saying that BNI city is the main central station. There are not exactly any hotels that are walking distance, perhaps except for the 'All Seasons'(?). The Shangri-La is just across from the station, but to get there you must find the bridge cross the river, which involves a significant detour. Mandarin Oriental does free SilverBird Taxi transfers worth a certain amount (couldn't remember if it was Rp 50,000 or Rp 150,000) and this may or may not only be so during the weekends.
All in all, nothing in Jakarta is very walking distance, unfortunately.