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We stayed 2 nights to relax from a harsh trip to bromo and to visit Ijen. Altough the room stink to naphthalene and the views were quite bad, it was a spacious room with a confortable bed. The hotel facilities are nice and you can enjoy a decent local dinner in an outdoor lounge by the garden (even you have to wait a long time). We asked the crew to help us to hire a driver to Gunung Ijen (it takes like 3 hours to get there), we agree having a driver at 4am for 650.000ird, but by that time there was no one waiting for us in the lodge as we have agreed and prepayed, they forgotten booking our tour, finally, 1:30h later another driver came and we took the tour. When we were back in the afternoon to the hotel, We had to bargaing to pay less as we didn't get the service we had agreed, and we finally payed 550.000ird, it was like a meat market... In addition, in the evening we met another gueste staying at Palms hotel, that were also having problems with the tour to Ijen, because they have prebooked in advance for 600.000 ird (not 650.000 ird as we were offered) but when they get to the hotel they ask them to pay 750.000 ird! Finally, they also manage to get the price agreed at the beginning but having to bargaing a lot and calling others hotels in Bondowoso to get better prices and being able to negociate with Palms hotel... Quite bad, so staff not really servicefull and sometimes tricky so we cannot recommend them