I was meant to write this since a long time, and long story short: I stayed at this hotel a while ago and had a scary experience, like some other tourists. I was the only tourist and only girl and at night things became really dodgy, a lot of local men gathered around me when I was downstairs and I felt threatened. Luckily I was able to call some local people I met in the afternoon who came and got me out of this hotel right away.
They also tried to sell me fake bus ticket. I also think there was some sort of prostitution house next to it. I don't even know how to start to explain how bad this hotel was. We arrived with the train at Probolinggo and a minivan brought us there and was not specially cheap since it is far from the train station. There was noone in the reception and had to wait a bit until a guy came to give us our room.
We then followed him to the room, which he basically sprayed with insecticide. The room was relatively big but very old. It is humid and the painting in the walls is just falling apart see photos. But that was for us not so terrible. We then realized that the bed had no sheets and went to the reception. The guy then took a random bedsheet behind him, smelled it and gave it to us.
It was a sheet for the mattress, we told him that We went back to the room and then: a Scorpion was just walking in our floor. We killed it and wanted to speak with the hotel guy. He was nowhere to find. Some other people smiled to us and just said "Sorry". And then to finish the worst night of our trip, at 02AM we had to live to Bromo, and went out to find the driver, which we couldn't at the beginning.
Reception was empty. A drunk indonesian guy came to us and started to ask us for money and threaten us with signs like "I will kill you". Luckily the driver came up in the moment where the guy was already pushing me I'm a girl. The receptionist was not even in the hotel!!! I never had such a bad experience in a hotel in my life, nor in campings, nor in cabins. I don't even know how the Lonely Planet reccommends this.
