$100 Lion Air Flight to Surabaya, Indonesia 🇮🇩

I left Malaysia and headed back to Indonesia. This time to a city I've never visited before, Surabaya in East Java.

My hotel in Kuala Lumpur was connected to the central train station, KL Sentral. This made it very easy for me to get to KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) as there's an airport train that leaves every 20 minutes.

This ease of getting to the airport made me a bit too complacent about getting there on time. I ended up just missing the train I planned to take, and the one 20 minutes later would get me the airport not long before check in closed.

The airport train was nice and decent value at 55 ringgit ($12 USD) but I had to compare it to the previous airport train I'd taken in Jakarta. The Jakarta airport train is much cheaper and has better seats.

At KLIA airport there was a huge queue for my flight. Well, it wasn't just for my flight. Lion Air combined their flights into one queue. So that was annoying. It seems that Lion Air is a low-cost airline and like the budget airlines in Europe, you get a cheap fare but also a lot of hassle.

Lion Air is basically the Indonesia Ryanair. Except at least on Ryanair you can buy food and drink during the flight. On this Lion Air flight there was nothing. Not even bottled water.

At Surabaya airport I got my visa on arrival quickly. There can often be large queues for visa on arrival at the airports in Jakarta and Bali, but Surabaya has much less international flights arriving. Really it's just getting flights from neighboring countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

After bargaining for a taxi at the airport arrivals, because Grab and Gojek seem to be banned at the international terminal, I arrived in Surabaya city.

My hotel, Doubletree by Hilton was good value at $70 per night for a standard room, and with my Hilton Diamond status I managed to get a free upgrade to a suite.

I checked in to the hotel right in time for evening canapes in the executive lounge, also free for Diamond members. I had planned to go explore Surabaya for street food but I can't pass up on free food. I could only limit how much of the free food I ate, leaving just enough room to go out and enjoy a couple of local delicacies on the streets - Nasi Bebek and Martabak.

0:00 KL Airport Train
7:06 KL International Airport
14:11 Lion Air Flight
18:58 Surabaya Airport
23:42 Bargaining for a Taxi
28:50 Surabaya Luxury Hotel
33:14 Doubletree Executive Lounge
40:50 Luxury Suite Room Tour

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