Urbanview Hotel Crown Tasikmalaya by RedDoorz

I often travell to Tasikmala, and every time I ask to the hotel receptionist, they always offer me the expensive room, the strange is, when you look in the parking area, you will not see lot of car there

might have the best rooms in its city, but not very recommended. The cleaning service is not good.

Noissy, especially fr 22.00 to 0.30, the food was terrible, I recomend you to chose another hotels

Myself and my 3 children stayed here overnight twice, en route and return from Pangandaran to Bandung and back in order to break the 6 hour drive in half. Bad idea. No sleep. The rooms themselves appear fine, in fact the Superior triple ( 3 single beds) and Superior ( 1 queen plus a single )are both huge and the staff were more than happy to throw down an extra mattress on the floor. The air con worked fine and there was hot water - my two main criteria in Java. 3 star it certainly is by appearances. The price is absolutely outrageous for a small town stopover with little infrastructure in Java though, I paid around USD $ 70 which seems low by global standards, but trust me, in the middle of West Java, that's just ridiculous. I might also make mention of the shower cap I pulled out of it's teeny tiny resealable plastic bag to find it was already wet and soapy. Eww. But I guess somebody went to a lot of trouble to pack that sucker in. The good news for food is the restaurant is great for dinner and cheap as chips. Breakfast is included and is Indonesian style,basic nasi goreng and condiments, and surprisingly, a man making eggs to order alongside the buffet table. The thing is though, Indonesians all smoke during meals. Heavily. It was tough to see the food under the smoke cloud and really puts you off your food. We couldn't escape breakfast fast enough and unfortunately, your choices are pretty much limited to the hotel or a dodgy street stall where they rinse your dish in a bucket of filthy water. But the noise was phenomenal. The first night we were there we were backed up against the restaurant/cafe. Seemed OK as there was no-one else at dinner and we thought we had it all to ourselves. Wrong! At 10pm,(and this was a Tuesday) the band started in the cafe. Until 1am. Then, my daughter was treated to a generator behind her headboard until 6am. It seemed, according to the manager whose chest was puffed out in pride at my noise complaint, that the Crown hotel is THE place to karaoke. Every night. So, I thought, well I will just book a room on the other side of the hotel for the return trip. Well that was foiled by the conference being held there. I am not kidding, they were like college kids on spring break, yelling and running in the hallways, slamming doors and at one point, playing cards with a boombox on the floor right outside my door.And when I say it did not stop, I am not exaggerating. At 6am after nearly 12 hours of this with repeated calls to the front desk ( who did not come) I finally lost my temper and flung the door open and yelled at the lot of them, who all just kind of ignored me. We were so tired we could barely drag ourselves to the car to get out of Dodge. Part of the problem is the style of the door, with a large, uncurtained glass partition above it ( probably for extra light) but what a sound funnel. So, if you are travelling through Java, avoid this one unless you are a heavy sleeper, head on straight through to Pangandaran or Bandung and hang the extra couple of travelling hours.