Ferreroroche’s Weblog

Today we r leaving bali for surabaya, the capital city of east Java province.

the Ngurah rai airport can be reached within 20 mins from the hotel. but since hotel breakfast sucks we just go early to the airport (ard 3 hrs early). luckily there is the free assisted baggage handling and check in if u have the BNI platinum credit card which mom has. so we dont have to wait for our baggages to be checked in, someone else is doing it for us.

but then we had to plastic wrapped the honey which cost 50000 IDR. what a waste, some of the honey spilled out too

here is photos at the denpasar lounge. very big which has quite huge varities of food although still not as good as the surabaya lounge. the food in the pic is called Bubur Madura (Madura porridge). It is a kind of dessert made from different flours with different textures and combined together and with Gula Melaka (gula jawa we called it ) and it taste really good.

and then we took Mandala airlines from Denpasar to Surabaya.

some pics we took onboard the plane

within one hour we landed at the brand new Juanda airport in Surabaya

then we tried to call our favourite hotel the sheraton surabaya, it was fully booked and crazy amt is charged although not as crazy as Bali prices (ard 1 mill rupiah per nite)

and then we went to book through KAHA tour (they have a counter at the airport) we are staying at JW Marriotts.

the hotel is located very near Tunjungan plaza (sheraton is just next to it) and the hotel provide shuttle service to the plaza every half hour. we went to the plaza almost everyday to buy mineral water and to eat too.

for lunch we have rawon setan (ghost soup) rawon is a kind of of black soup which has meat and taste nice. usually comes with small tauge and belachan chilli. the history of this ‘ghost’ food is actually varied.

the less spooky one is that they used to open at night only and was located next to a nightclub and ghost also come out in the middle of the night only so they make that connection

the more spooky one is that they were used to be located behind a hospital, so those unidentified dead bodies might be thrown to them to made into rawon thus the name ghost rawon.

it is supposedly one of surabaya’s favourite eating haunts n indeed it is quite crowded at all times we know because our room faces the street. and rawon setan is located just across the street.

btw that Kaha tour price is quite reasonable the marriott room cost only 550000 inclusive of breakfast for 2. and the room is quite nice with 2 queen size beds in the room and complete shower amenities with bathtub too.

in the afternoon, we went for christmas mass at the oldest church in surabaya is called Gereja Kepanjen. the architecture is famous everywhere and it is indeed majestic. too bad I dont have pictures so here is some pics taken from the net

photos taken from mimimama.multiply.com

there are other unique surabaya architecture too in that website. as well as the famous ice cream zangradi (exist since the 1940s) mom used to have dates there. maybe my sis too if she really attend universitas airlangga like mom used too.

anyway at night we eat at Pondok Tempoe Doeloe ( House of Yesterday pardon the translations). but being christmas night, they ran out of almost everything, leaving us to just eat fish, vege and usual stuff. their fried chicken is their speciality. actually this restaurant is available everywhere even in Jakarta so no pics

lastly here is some pics of Marriott Lobby , as expected it is very grand and nice

and the super huge christmas tree sssss

and the bathroom pics

no room pics sorry but they are nice and well furnished so yeah well recommended esp if the price is right