Meet Linn and Abdul
Family Hobbies
Football, Cycling, Running, Cooking, Chess
Hosting guests since
2002
About the Homestay
- Welcomes
- Males
- Females
- Couples
- Families
- Students
Our house is located in Central Java, Indonesia. Central Java is next to Yogyakarta and Semarang.
We can help you enroll to Javanese traditional dancing classes at the Surakarta's palaces. We ourselves open classes for Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese. Batik making classes is also available at Batik's home industries. Cooking classes is available at our own kitchen. Please kindly book your interest and we will help you.
If you like to go shopping in fancy malls, it is around 15 minutes drive from our home. If you want to go for an experience going and shopping fresh fruits and vegetables in the local traditional market, then you only need to walk about 15 minutes and you are there.
We have a bike that you can rent while you stay at our place. You can also rent our computer with internet connection. This is available during awake time. ;-) Next time, we try to get the WiFi ;-D
20 minutes by motor (motorbike or car), or a bit longer by tricycle (becak), you can find the the city stadium or famous as Sriwedari, banks, travel agents, airflight offices, restaurants, shops and many other facilities that you may want to stop by and feel the experiences or have the needs of going.
Our veranda is multi used as a little store. We have a balcony upstairs where you can seat and relax and even enjoy simple foods and drinks. We can prepare meals for you, just order the food for what time and whether you would like Indonesian food or western. Payment in cash in rupiah is necessary. The cost for room is including Light Breakfast, so don't worry... :-)
The balcony can also be multi used as a laundry hanger for your clothes, but we do not recommend it for a lot of clothing. Enjoy your holiday and let the inexpensive laundry service stations do the washing for your clothes. We can send them up for you if you like. For underwears, if you prefer to wash them yourself, you can hang them in roofing of the balcony. You can surely also hang your jacket, raincoat and other clothing if you want.
Okey... now about wheelchair accessibility. I must be honest and clear about this by what we mean by accessible here. It means that a wheelchair can go up and down the ramps with the help of a physically strong helper and accustomed to giving assistance to people in wheelchair.
Plus we at the moment only have the bathrooms and toilets downstairs. One is a seat-toilet and the other is a squat toilet.
If you are using a wheelchair and you are really interested in staying with us then we can prepare for you the spare bedroom downstairs. But this needs to be pre-arrange and organize, as we now only prepare room for guests upstairs.
We put prices in USD for easier understanding as to how much the room cost, however, we would like to receive the payment sent in rupiahs. Thank you very much and we welcome you so at any seasons here in Indonesia where tropical fruits are so tempting....
House Facilities
- Bikes for use
- Computer
- Laundry
- Patio
- TV
- Internet Access
- Wheelchair Accessible
Bedrooms available for booking
About the Area
Our home is located in Surakarta. It is only about 5 minutes to the city of Solo. Solo and Sukoharjo is in a region called Surakarta, among other areas, such as Karanganyar and others.
Surakarta is in the island of Java. Java is located west of Bali. Surakarta is in the Central of Java. The province city of Central Java is Semarang which is about 3 ,5 - 5 hours from Solo, one way, depending on traffic.
It is around 2 hours by car / motor to Yogya, one way. There are transportation where we can book to go there, otherwise you can choose the train, bus or we can arrange on going on a trip together if possible.
In Solo itself, there are two Javanese palaces called Mangkunegaran and Kasunanan. There are now more and more places for shopping, apart from the exciting traditional markets.
Apart from car, motorcycle is a common vehicle used in Indonesia. In Solo, there are also the pedicaps and horse-carriages. Walking is surely a good way to get to a place when you are not in a hurry and want to meet the local people and to chit chat bit here and there.
Do not forget to try the exotic local foods, I will guide you through as well when you get here, if you like. Foods verify from tasty, spicy, sweet and mixture of all.
Foods are delicious, there are foods that are usually being sold in the morning, noon, or evening. For some, we may find them for all 24 hours a day but each and everyone of them. Also some vendors prefer selling their foods at different times of the day. We can also prepare some foods for you, if you wish.
So that is some description of where we live, we hope to welcome you here, soon. :-)
Local Area Facilities
- Tennis
- Park
- Gym
- Golf
- Swimming
- Bowling
- Beach
- Cinema
- Library
- Museum
- Shopping Centre
- Amusement Park
- Horse Stables
- Sports arena
- Health club
- Fishing
- Restaurant
- Airport
- Bus Stop
- Train station
- Hospital
Meals
Hosts can offer a complimentary light breakfast at their discretion. All other meals, including a full breakfast, might incur an additional cost, if offered. Meals and any additional payment should be arranged directly with your host.
Included in the stay
- Complimentary Light Breakfast
- Use of Kitchen
Available on request at an extra cost
- Full Breakfast
- Half Board
- Full Board
- Packed lunch
Diet Type available on request
- Vegetarian
- Halal
House Rules
Please let us know what time you are to be expected to arrive at the house so that we can we know it's you entering and not strangers.
People from the outside are not allowed to stay overnight in the house. Maximum hours for a visitor sitting in the balcony upstairs is 8 pm, but allowed to hang out at the porch downstairs until 10 pm.
Please do not invite strangers into our home, if you would like to invite a friend, please let me know first to agree in advance.
Please keep the noise down to minimum level after midnight.
Alcoholic drinks should not be drunk at the presence of the public nor it be seen by others in the neighbourhood. Consuming alcoholic drinks is unacceptable in the society.
For safety reasons, guests cannot use the kitchen. However, we may alter the rules a little bit for long-term guests, such as allowing to use the stove when the hosts are still awake, we need to feel certain that you know how to use our stove just by showing the long-term guest how to function it for first time use, as gas may be dangerous and we all need to be cautious about it. We charge some amount of payment for using the kitchen due to gas and utilities.
Please enjoy your stay and let us know of any assistance that you might require or information that you need while you're here.
We are available for getting you around town, going to the Palaces, accompany you to traditional markets, museums, and other places. Charges are applicable for this service.
Thank you very much for reading through our profile. I hope that you are interested and would like to stay with us during your holidays, or semi-long term stay as students, employees or volunteers in Surakarta / Solo.
We are excited to become very good hosts to you all. I hope that we can be good assistance while you are in this country.
Smoking Rules
Your host is a non-smoker.
Smoking is not allowed.
How do I book?
Contact the host to check their availability and ask them any questions you have about staying with them. Once the host confirms they’re available for your dates, you can complete your booking.
When do I pay?
Once a host confirms they're available, you can go ahead and pay the 15% booking fee (maximum of 250 $£€ for longer term bookings) using a choice of payment methods: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro, Laser, JCB & PayPal (not available in certain countries). You then pay your host on arrival or as stated by your host on their profile and agreed by you on booking. Please be cautious if a host requests advance payment if its not included on their profile. Our hosts have been advised that if they wish to request advance payment they must make this explicit in their profile. We do not recommend the use of Money gram or Western Union.
When can I share my contact details?
Host and Guest email address, phone number and home address will be exchanged in a confirmation email sent to both immediately after a booking is completed. It's against our policy for Guests and Hosts to exchange direct contact details via our messaging system.