Tety's Wooden Villa

Zeer vriendelijk maar wel wat afgelegen

We hadden twee kamers die een badkamer deelden. De badkamer kan een stuk beter qua hygiëne en heeft ook geen heet water.

It was a cute place and Tety went out of her way to be helpful & kind. She did extra things for me like take me in her car to the laundry and organise short turn around laundry service which I really appreciated. She was really chatty and friendly & fun. There is a great restaurant called Kitchen Garden just a short walk away.

I found the room quite hot even though there was a working Air conditioner. It just seemed to be working overtime. Maybe needs a service?

The room was very clean and perfectly corresponds to the description. Tety was adorable.

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Ibu Tety was very friendly. The main house has beautiful furniture. The terrace is nice and the cats are very friendly and cuddly. My room was large. When my son stored smelly squid in the fridge for fishing bait Ibu Tety had somebody clean the fridge (and asked only Rp 50.000 for it).

The neighbour turned on his music so loud, that the glass in the window rattled. Ibu Tety was not willing to go over together with us to complain, because she said it wouldn't make any difference. She had tried before. So my son and I had to go there alone twice and argue with the neighbour to turn it down. Both of us speak Indonesian. The second time the neighbour wanted to start a fight and was only held back by his son. I told her that the right way would be to complain to the RT, who works for the mayor, but she said that there was no point (without having tried it). The road to the house is in such bad condition that we nearly had an accident and I hurt my leg badly. After that experience I rather walked the last bit. Because of problems with the electricity we were only allowed to either use the shower or the air conditioning. So every time we wanted to use water from the tap or for the toilet/bidet we had to go outside and switch on the water pump before. We had agreed on Rp. 200.000 for the gas, because we wanted to use the kitchen. However, in the end Ibu Tety asked for Rp. 500.000, because we had turned on the light and the ventilator in the kitchen and used the washing machine twice (with our own detergent). The room where my son slept is tiny and has very little space to store clothes. I couldn't open the window in my room. When I arrived in my room there were still clothes from somebody else in the cupboard, and some stuff in the drawers of the writing table. The bathroom was populated with lots of small grey beetles that crawled out of every nook and cranny. Ok, it is rainy season, and I had been living in Indonesia for years, so I know about the fauna there, but every time you wanted to take a shower I had to clean it first, otherwise I would have stepped on them. Last not least: We had booked (and paid up front) for two weeks. Not once our bed sheets or towels were changed, nobody came in for cleaning.