Hotels ready for Christmas, New Year

In preparation for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations, star-rated hotels in the city are busy preparing special programs to attract more visitors.

Five-star Melia Purosani on Jl. Suryotomo, for example, is offering a series of programs to celebrate Christmas at the hotel. They include Christmas Goodies (Dec. 20 to Dec. 27), Children's Christmas Choir (Dec. 24 at 6.30 p.m. through 8.30 p.m.), Christmas Eve Buffet Dinner (Dec. 24), Christmas's Eve Set Menu Dinner (Dec. 24), Christmas Candle Light Buffet Dinner (Dec. 25), and Christmas Set Menu Dinner (Dec. 25).

Similar attractions are also on offer at other star-rated hotels here, including Grand Mercure, Santika and Novotel, all on Jl. Sudirman, and Jogjakarta Plaza hotel on Gejayan, both for Christmas and New Year.

Special packages are on offer, too, for those who want to spend the holidays here. Mercure, for example, is offering a package of Rp 1,050,000 net per room per night with a gala dinner presented in the style of Old Jogja, or Jogja Tempo Doeloe as it is popularly called.

Jogjakarta Plaza, similarly, is offering a New Year Package for Rp 975,000 net per room per night for double occupancy. The package will also include a free invitation for the hotel's Pokok'e Jogja party to celebrate New Year. -- JP