my friend booked this hotel I won't be back. free wifi rooms are decent size sleep was ok 75 a night or 600k local money for standard room there is two discos one on main one on 8th floor I was here for new years eve I stayed on 3rd and 6th floor some rooms the air con doesn't work properly look this is a budget hotel u get what u pay for and that's that unless you shell out 200 you can't complain just not for me if your budget is under 80 usd then this is fine it's far from the clubs like red square and x2 and the really nice part of town. cheers

My husband and I booked this hotel because we wanted somewhere quiet to come home to after a day of shopping and exploring the city. Our priorities when booking hotels is: Cleanliness. Quality of breakfast buffet. Quiet. Treated well by staff. None of these were met at the Sparks hotel. We stayed on floor 7 and were kept up all night by the techno music on the 8th floor. And yes, there are "working women" using this hotel to bring clients. We were kept up by the music on the 8th floor (room literally shaking)...and entertained by the symphony of banging doors, noisy cleaning staff (1am in the morning they came round to the rooms on our level) and people who had left their doors open in order to have loud conversations with neighbours who were staying in the opposite room. GREAT! The buffet is really sad. A lot of fried food. Very limp produce. When we complained to management, they did move us to another room the next day. Which was an upgrade. So we got one nights sleep, but we skipped breakfast at the hotel and headed out on our own. The front desk staff were friendly, but all control was out of their hands, and the Manager goes home at night, so if there is an emergency, or something goes wrong, they tell you to wait until he comes back in the morning. I do not recommend this hotel. The only thing going for it was that it was clean.

Fate caused me to stay one night in a hotel I SWORE I would never step foot into again. However a cancelled booking, a long flight, and my phone failing to pull up the web (to search for another hotel) led me to tell the taxi driver 'Sparks'... (albeit with a LONG sigh)...

Have to admit the place was significantly improved this time. Not sure if it was luck of the draw, a better room, or a real overhaul... Wifi worked flawlessly in my room, I was averaging 1.75mb down, enough to watch Netflix and Skype if nothing else. The staff were VERY friendly and service was excellent for this price range. So seems as of Sept-2011 you can disregard my wifi warning from 2010...

if u have stayed in this hotel,the rooms are okay,but once i been to the ground floor u are supposed to enjoy the company of dancing gals dancing in front of you when u are made to pay redicolous price of the tequilla they drink.OMG the bill came to about rp4million for buying the gals 9 rounds of tequilla.and surprisingly you have to settle the bills ON THE SPOT