A visit to Yogya's latest eco-friendly hotel
Designing a hotel that’s different is always a challenge — there are limited ways to assemble blocks of concrete cubicles and make them desirable. One Yogyakarta hotelier is going green to lure visitors.
Peckish guests too drained by Yogyakarta’s delights to descend to the open-plan kitchen on Greenhost’s ground floor can nibble a lettuce or pluck a tomato growing just outside their door.
But they’ll be unable to immediately lay their hands on a hairdryer, even though their lodgings have all the facilities expected in a modern hotel, like Wi-Fi and cable TV.
“That’s because everything has been designed to use little energy,” said Arbiter Gerhard Sarumaha, general manager of the city’s newest hotel.
“Guests may borrow a dryer, but the rooms are limited to 1,300 watts. If they try to boil a kettle at the same time, the circuit breaker will trip.
“The vegetables they can savor will be grown in a vast hydroponic array using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes. The system could produce 1.4 tons of fresh produce if all 9,000 plants are harvested at the same time. Excess food will be sold.”
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