Meet Mr Afrizal, the new manager in this hotel. Well, I love to discover an unique hotel or resort for a short stay and review. This place about 20 minutes journey from the train station in Malang. I took a Grab car to Padi Heritage with only IDR 23,000 (roughly RM7.50 I think). So kinda cheap for me eventhough it's quite far. The place is more likely "kampung" style in a city. If you want to feel the kampung retreat place, you MUST come here.

The hotel rates can be start as lowest RM90 per night for standard room (based on Agoda.com) or you may directly to the website and choose the type of hotel rooms that you prefer. Total of rooms that Padi Heritage have is about 20 rooms, if I'm not mistaken.

So, I got the Exotic Gold Room for the night! Price range for this room is IDR 425,000 (weekdays) and IDR 500,000 (weekends). Well, the room are extremely big for me to stay alone! Hahahaha! They have a big window to see the beautiful and calm scenery outside of the room. Let's see how it looks like!

This is the big window that I'd mentioned

So damn spacious!

The bed frame, can you imagine how big it is

So the bed are facing the windows

The Entrance of Padi Heritage

You have to follow this arrow if you want to find the place, otherwise you will get lost

Basically this is how it looks like, of course you guys need to wait up for my videos of this place, which is I will put the video link at the end of this post. It gonna takes me sometime to edit the video as I am currently busy working. I hardly to have time to edit it properly. The place is totally worth to stay! Best to discover a new place.

After my stay in Padi Heritage, I checked out in the afternoon and proceed to Arjosari Bus Terminal. I took a Grab and it cost me IDR 29,000 (RM10 during my conversion).

Here is the video I made for this place.


Feel free to watch and please keep supporting me! Thanks!

Recently I went to Surabaya for my birthday treat on July 20th, 2017. So, I am officially 26 years old this year! Yeay!

Supposedly this trip should be with my travel partner, Aimie. But, unfortunately she can't join me due to certain circumstances. However, the journey still need to keep going guys! The below is the rough itinerary I had planned throughout the journey.

Itinerary 5D4N Surabaya - Mt Bromo

Day 1 (20 Jul) - Arrived in Surabaya, stay one night in Surabaya (I stayed with local people apparently).
Day 2 (21 Jul) - Depart to Malang City (about 2.30hours journey by train) and stay one night at Padi Heritage Resort.
Day 3 (22 Jul) - Next to  Probolinggo by bus. Then, proceed to Cemara Lawang (nearby Mt Bromo). Overnight with local's.
Day 4 (23 Jul) - Let's hike up to Mt Bromo's! Return to Surabaya (2.30hrs journey). Again stay with local.
Day 5 (24 Jul) - Back to KL. Bye Surabaya. See you again next time.

Let's go we go through the details one by one. Actually I have video in the making. But, will update it once ready.

So, earlier I did mentioned that I stayed with local. How? My secret is Coachsurfing. Have you guys ever heard of it? It's a platform where you as a traveller, find a local to stay with. Travel like a local guys! No worries, this platform can be trusted. The most important is that you have to be smart on choosing your host. I have joined this platform about 3 years ago on 2014. During that time, I was wonder can it be trusted? So, I made a decision to try and have experienced it for the first time. Yes it can be trusted, but still you need to be careful. You need to choose a preferred host. Maybe you can go straight away to the website and try yourself and one more thing, they do have Apps in Playstore. You can download it there. Easy Peasy right!

On day one, actually I haven't taken much photos. But, I recorded a lot of videos for my travelogue of course. How about we go to day two in Malang city and see the place I stayed for the night, Padi Heritage Hotel. This place previously known as Paddy City Resort, and they have changed the name due to new management by Mr Afrizal. Click here to see more updates on Padi Heritage.



Will be continued on #2