Ancol Dreamland, Favorite Tourist Attractions In Jakarta, Indonesia

Ancol Dreamland

Ancol Dreamland is a favorite tourist attractions in Jakarta and even Indonesia, many schools in Indonesia made ​​the Ancol Dreamland as a destination for study tour. Ancol Dreamland a tourism icon for Jakarta and a pride for Indonesia because of the large selection of interest place at the Ancol Dreamland.

 

Ancol Dreamland Park is a recreation area located at the seashore of Jakarta Gulf. Ancol Dreamland Park is better known as Ancol by most of Indonesian people. There’re several recreation facilities you can find at  Ancol Dreamland Park: Golf Course, Ancol Marina Bay, Art Market (Pasar Seni), Dunia Fantasy, SeaWorld Indonesia, Gelanggang Samudera, Atlantis Water Adventure, and Beach Park (Taman Pantai). Ancol Dreamland Park provides facilities for those visitors who wants to stay in the Ancol area. Visitors can choose between three hotels and one cottage provided which respectively are Raddin Hotel, Mercure Hotel, Wisata Hotel and Putri Duyung Cottage.

Dufan at Ancol Dreamland

To Get There

Most of Ancol Dreamland Park’s visitors get to Ancol by personal vehicle or by chartered bus. However, for those visitors who do not bring their own personal vehicle, Ancol management provides mini bus in a unique shape and color as a transportation facility. The mini bus provides freely to get the visitors around Ancol Dreamland Park complex seeing the recreation facilities provided there. You can use the cable car facility located at Ancol Festival Beach to enjoy the view from the sky.

There’re several transportation alternatives for Ancol Dreamland Park visitors in order to reach the area:

By taxi or TransJakarta Busway. To reach Ancol by busway you can use the fourth corridor, route from Kampung Melayu to Ancol.  As an alternative you can tak the busway from first corridor, which route from Blok M to Kota Tua. Later you reach Kota Tua busway station, you can take taxi, bajaj or other public transportation to reach Ancol Dreamland Park. The closest Ancol games facility to TransJakarta Busway terminal is Dunia Fantasy (Fantasy World).

You can also reach Ancol Dreamland Park by public transportation facilities from Tanjung Priok Terminal, Senin Terminal, Kota Tua Terminal and Grogol Terminal.

Ancol touring train. The management of Jaya Ancol Dreamland Park provides touring train from other cities around Jakarta such as Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, Serpong and Tangerang. The touring train operated on Sunday and holidays. 

You may see Ancol touring train schedule as follow:

Tangerang to Ancol, depart at 08.05 am and return at 16.05 pm. Ticket fare is Rp19,500 (including return ticket).

Serpong to Ancol, depart at 08.30 am and return at 17.05. Ticket fare Rp19,500 (including return ticket).

Bekasi to Ancol, depart at 08.30am and return at 16.05pm. Ticket fare is Rp19,500 (including return ticket).

Depok to Ancol, depart at 08.48am and return at 17.05pm. Ticket fare is Rp19,500 (including return ticket).

Bogor to Ancol, depart at 08.25am and return at 17.05pm. Ticket fare is Rp22,500 (including return ticket). 

Other Interesting Places Near to Ancol Dreamland Park 

Other interesting places that near to Ancol Dreamland Park are Mangga Dua Square (about 1-2 km away from Ancol), and Kota Tua, about 2-5 km away from Ancol. There’re many interesting spot you can visit at Kota Tua area, such as Jakarta History Museum, Wayang Museum, Fineart and Ceramic Museum, Maritime Museum, Sunda Kelapa Harbor, Kota Intan Bridge, Syahbandar Tower and old building inheritance of Dutch colonial time. On the Dutch colonialization time in Indonesia, Kota Tua area was a city well known as Batavia.

Tips

Jaya Ancol Dreamland Park is a tourism area which located on the seashore, which has quite hot wheather temperature.

The most crowded season at Ancol Dreamland Park are on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. It’s recommended to visit Ancol on weekdays if you do not like crowds.

Hopefully in the future could Ancol Dreamland worldwide such as Disneyland. need the support and hard work the people of Indonesia and the manager to make it happen.

source: http://www.indonesia-travel-guide.com