The Melawai Hotel, is a run-down cheap hotel on the edges of Blok M. A few years ago it was known for its busy and popular disco but now it is a convenient place to take girls for the night who have been picked up in My Bar or Top Gun on the Blok. The room rates are reasonable and the staff are discreet, although don’t expect luxury.
However, within its walls is the real reason why this place has got a glowing reputation from those expats who have been here a while. The 5 + 1 bar as it is affectionately called or the sixth floor of the hotel is what gives it its legendary status.
There is no sign or poster proclaiming its existence, but if you take the elevator to the top floor of the Melawai you will be confronted with a tatty bar surrounded by sofas. On the sofas will be a number of girls of all shapes and sizes and ages.
If you haven’t guessed it yet, then this place is a thinly disguised brothel, with corridors running off the bar containing short-time rooms, although there is also the option of using one of the hotel rooms.
The girls vary in quality, but are renowned for their service and unlike some of their counterparts in north Jakarta, are used to expats. One of the main reasons that people go back here time and time again, is that the girls specialize in threesomes or even more if you can handle it. The girls work in shifts, with one group working the afternoon and one the evening. Beware that the bar closes around 10.00 pm so it’s not a place to visit after a night out.
http://www.hotelmelawai.com/index.htm
Prester has been living and working in Asia for the last six years and four of these have been spent sampling all the delights Jakarta and Indonesia has to offer.
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specialize in threesomes.. wow. *sigh* too bad I live in the “decadent West”.
The photo isn’t the Maribaya Bar at the Melawai, but great report. I love the girls there