What an awful experience! Our room that we booked since 2 months ago was actually given to someone else when we arrived at the front door ready to check in!!! They told us we could stay at some cheap unacceptable hotel nearby! The reason was some government official was already using our room. The manager was very unhelpful & rude,... More

i spend one night here when come from Surabaya - Sukapura Terminal (4 hour) and Sukapura Terminal - hotel pick up by Java Banana Shuttle Bus (30 minuets). the hotel employee was helpful (pak purwoko) for arranging picking up and also organize the jeep when i need to see sun rise, bromo volcano, and also savanna at 3 AM in... More

The hotel is tastefully designed and makes for a very comfortable stay if you plan to make the trip to Mount Bromo. The staff was very kind and helpful, the rooms were clean and fresh and the food ok. We had a small misunderstanding with the staff on reservation of the jeep tour for Mount Bromo. Since they used the... More

I have to say that our experience at Java Banana was somewhat surreal. It was somewhat of a "ghost hotel", with only one other room occupied as far as we could tell. Let's start with the positives. The views around the hotel are stunning, and indeed the hotel design itself (the exteriors and gardens) are very eye catching indeed. However,... More

The Java Banana is located very close to the entrance to Bromo. They welcome you with their very tasty warm ginger tea in the lobby. The rooms are made from beautiful wood and have the feel of a log cabin, but are too sparsely furnished. We had the largest room in the hotel that could sleep 9 people, (queen beds... More

First the good points: - The hotel is in a beautiful location, and has some nice gardens to walk around. - It's about an hours walk to the Bromo volcano itself. - The nearby village is a nice place to walk around and has a lot of friendly locals to talk with. Unfortunately the bad points outweigh the above: -... More

We stayed at in the most basic room at java banana for 1 night and enjoyed the tranquility of the surrounding as the location. We like the fact that it is not facing the main road and is not too near the entrance of Bromo, which is always crowded with cars, motorcycles and tourists. We expected the room to be... More

We stayed here for one night in order to ascend Mount Bromo at dawn. The hotel is qhite a distance from main towns so we were expecting something a bit "rustic". It turned out to be much better than we had expected and we believe it is a good place to stay if you wish to see the mountain.

You do not have many proper hotel choices in this area so close to the Bromo Vulcano. Java Banana is probably the best place to stay but you pay too much for what you get (we paid 96 euro for a very small room). There are 32 modern, decorated rooms varying in size and with different views on the surrounding... More