Originally Posted by
southlondonphil
For the purposes of disambiguation, Sudirman Baru (the new station) is being rebranded as BNI City. The older Sudirman commuter station isn’t served by the airport train, so don’t make the mistake of having your taxi drop you
there!
Manggarai is still a bit of a building site at the moment though, particularly if you’re transferring to/from the commuter lines for elsewhere.
If you pre-book online at
www.railink.co.id the price of a single drops to 50k for a specific train, 100k for a ‘flexi’ - I did this for my return to CGK on the first part of my double-hop since the Doubletree is conveniently opposite Cikini station, one stop on the commuter rail from Manggarai - if you can deal with the faff of getting the ticket link by email or text (and have access to a printer), though there is also an App, the precise mechanics of which I did not investigate.
Perfectly correct, thanks for that. Though I think Sudirman Baru (New Sudirman) will be known as such for a generation: indeed the Railink App uses that name, and the SDB code. As I remember, Grab fudges it as BNI City Sudirman Baru. I guess corporate adhesions take time to replace well-known names.
Manggarai is an odd one. There's a calm, spanking new and efficient terminal for airport trains across the (many) tracks and quite separate from the bonkers main station. It's accessed by a very unprepossessing local road. For some time many drivers were simply unaware of the Airlink station and had to be guided to it. Grab now identifies it clearly under the Stasiun Manggarai heading: I guess corporate branding is some way off.
And you are right again, the app can be a bit of a mare to master. Easier to rock up and buy with a card from the machine: keep things simple.