Best Hotels with Activities in Bandung

Bandung sits nearly 770 metres up in the hills of West Java, keeping its air noticeably cooler than Jakarta and giving the city its old nickname, the Paris van Java, for the Dutch Art Deco streets that still line Braga and the area around Gedung Sate. Families come here for the mix of factory-outlet shopping along Cihampelas and Dago, day trips to tea plantations and the Tangkuban Perahu volcano, and a growing set of hotels built with children in mind, from family suites and kids clubs to on-site water parks inside the Trans Studio Bandung complex. The city works well as a cooler, slower counterpoint to Jakarta or a beach-based itinerary elsewhere in Indonesia.