Garuda Indonesia Business Class – Bali to Jakarta (plus a short stay at the airport hotel)

Made’s cousin, Kadek, picked us up from the hotel and whisked us off to the airport for our flight to Jakarta. It would be the first of four flights back home to Toronto.

We were dropped off at the domestic terminal and with our goodbyes said, we entered the hall.

Found the premium check in area after looking for the Garuda area

The check in agent was busy handling other passengers but she did ask us to take a seat and informed us that she would help up soon. She eventually came by, collected our passports and check in luggage to process the formalities. After 5 minutes, she came back with our passports and boarding passes

Security was right next to the premium check in area and we were through very quickly. After that, we took the escalators up to the airside portion of the terminal. The Garuda lounge was located on the very end of the terminal close to gate 2 (there were no signs posted but we eventually found it).

The agent welcomed us and waved us through after scanning our passes.

There was an upper and lower area to the lounge – we went up and glad we did because soon after, the lower area was packed. Only issue with the upper area is that it is not properly air conditioned and it was quite warm.

Upper area

Our chariot

My seat

Mrs and Junior next to me

Cabin shot

Oh look! A cold towel – I’m throwing shade at your SQ.

Boarding was eventually done and pushback shortly thereafter. Our taxi to the runway was quick but held up due to incoming aircraft and other planes departing ahead of us.

Peace out Bali! Until we meet again.

Seatbelt sign was turned off soon and lunch was served 30 minutes after. The cabin crew member serving our side asked if I wanted “chicken or fish”. No menu was provided – went with the chicken while Junior went with the fish. He had the better dish IMO – mine was ok.

We eventually made our descent into a smoggy Jakarta.

Final look at our birdie.

After collecting our bags, we took the Skytrain over to T2 where I booked the airport hotel. Even though we only needed it for 7 hours, the site was only offering a day minimum for booking but it was still cheaper than booking 6 hours at the Yotel Changi or Abu Dhabi airport hotel.

Up the escalator into the lobby. A staff member was actually outside and helped us our bags.

Check in was friendly and quick. The same staff member who helped us earlier, guided us to our rooms with bags in tow.

Lobby

The LONG walk to our room

Looking out the hallway window towards the Skytrain

When I saw bathroom, the first thought in my head was “I’ve been in worse” followed by “this is only for a few hours but at least its ‘clean’ “. Also, it was a good deal for CA $ 95.