Indo Trip Day 1: Arriving in Surabaya
Last year, my friends and I spent ten days covering Surabaya, Jogjakarta & Kuala Lumpur. We had planned to take the scenic train ride from Surabaya to Jogjakarta, which was why we decided to spend the first two days of the trip there. The flight tickets from Singapore to Surabaya was also about fifty bucks cheaper too, so everything just kinda fell into place.
Related: 9 Reasons To Visit Surabaya
To be honest, we didn't really do much in Surabaya. We kinda rest up a whole lot on the first day, since we had been up all night at the airport before that, and our train ride to Jogjakarta was in the afternoon of Day 2 so, it was really like a stopover rather than a complete tour or visit. Nonetheless, Surabaya was an interesting stop!
We started the day earlier by staying overnight at the airport because our flight was at seven in the morning, and we had to check-in at five. Isky didn't tag along for the trip but he stayed over and sent us off at the airport. I honestly hated the early morning flight but we tried to save as much as possible for this trip, seeing that we were going to cover three countries in ten days, so the early flight was the only way to go.
Everyone fell asleep on the flight and before you know it, we arrived at Surabaya's Juanda Airport. I didn't really take any pictures after this because we were all swamped from staying up all night (age is catching up guys). All we did was check-in to our hotel, unpack a little and then continued crashing until one of us got hungry.
We stayed at Surabaya Suites Hotel for that one night in Surabaya. Unfortunately, I won’t be writing an accommodation review of this place because I didn’t really take that many photos but it was a pretty standard hotel — the kind you would stay with your family. It had the basic amenities and even a fitness centre where I managed to spend some time at. The lounge was a really good place to unwind and listen to live music too!
All four of us crashed in a suite room - but it only had one bed and a sofa, so we kinda crashed all over the place. Hahaha. I was given the bed, thankfully. Kinda great being the only girl honestly, I really did get pampered a lot by my brothers on this trip. Hehe, thank you guys.
The mall was just walking distance from the hotel, so we went to grab lunch at A&W at the mall beside our hotel. After that, Shadiq & Jujul went to get a haircut while Haikel and I went to get our nails done. After that we grabbed some snacks to munch on back at the hotel. This was when I realised my love for somay and pempek goreng - it's basically fried siew mai and fish cake. Shiok!
The boys had a mutual friend from when they were still doing gigs and Sandy (that's his name!) willingly became our unofficial tour guide during our time in Surabaya. I honestly think that we would have done a lot less than we already have, if we were there without Sandy with us.
Later that night (our first night) he bought a whole variety of satay (meat skewers) for us to feast on in our hotel room. It was really nice to just chill, talking about traveling and then sharing ghost stories. Hahaha. After the feast, we headed down to chill at the restaurant located at our hotel lobby and just lepak to the live band - which was really, really good - and then simply called it a night.
I will write another post for Surabaya Day 2 but I’m sorry for procrastinating so much that I took so long :(
