Rich in beauty as well as history, this hotel, located in Pasuruan, East Java, is a slice of haven not to be missed.
The north coast road to Bali is one of East Java’s busiest.
Pasuruan draws hundreds of lumbering trucks overladen with tonnes of sugar cane for the five local mills. In colonial times, it was one of the richest provincial cities outside Surabaya.
In 1934, the regency capital was shifted to the higher and cooler Malang. Though the former Dutch fort and port now has only 200,000 residents, it retains and promotes a quality of well-preserved heritage.


Nowhere is this better displayed and easily accessed than at the Daroessalam Syariah Heritage Hotel,…