Ramadhan at top hotels
Ramadhan at top hotels
YOGYAKARTA: Since the start of Ramadhan, top hotels in this
ancient city have began offering attractive packages that suit
the spirit of Islam's holy month.
The programs range from dinner packages to entertainment and
talk shows.
The 5-star Yogyakarta Hyatt Regency Hotel on Jl. Palagan
Tentara Pelajar, for example, offers dinner packages at its
Paseban Lounge and Bogey's Teras restaurant, which includes
assorted traditional and modern snacks, cakes and drinks. The
package costs just Rp 30,000 (US$3.50) per person.
In cooperation with Trijaya FM radio station, the hotel has
also prepared a Ramadhan Live Talk Show every Sunday around
dinner time, when Muslims who are fasting are allowed to eat.
The hotel also works with the city's Swaragama radio station
and the Yogyakarta office of the Association of Indonesian
Marketing (IMA) to hold talk shows every Tuesday at the same
time.
"We will also have an Islamic Song Festival from Nov. 6 to
Nov. 8 at Bogey's Teras," Yogyakarta Hyatt Regency's Public
Relations Officer Jeni Handayani Ratnasari said.
The 4-star Yogyakarta Novotel Hotel on Jl. Sudirman is also
offering Ramadhan specials with their special Ta'jil Menu at the
Gula Jawa Bar every day from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and a dinner
buffet package at the Kedaton Restaurant every Friday and
Saturday.
The Ta'jil Menu offers a wide variety of food that local
Muslims have come to enjoy during Ramadhan, including kolak
pisang (banana in ginger and coconut sauce), es campur (iced
mixed with fruit and syrup), lumpia (spring rolls), bubur cha cha
(sweet potato and sago in coconut milk), dates and chicken wings.
The package costs only Rp 15,000.
The buffet package offers Javanese cuisine, according to
Yogyakarta Novotel's Assistant Public Relations Manager Dyah
Retno Wikan. It will be available from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. every
Friday and Saturday.
"You can also have the dinner package with a choice of menus
for Rp 45,000 net per person for a package of 30 persons or Rp
40,000 net per person for a package of over 30 persons," she
said. -- JP