Over 100 years 5 stars Hotel in Surabaya

The Hotel Majapahit is a historic hotel in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, opened in 1911.The opening was celebrated with a royal party attended by Crown Prince Leopold III from Belgium, Princess Astrid from Sweden and Charlie Chaplin. During the WWII Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1945, the hotel was renamed Hotel Yamato. It was used as the headquarters of the Japanese forces in East Java. The hotel was the site of the famous "Hotel Yamato Incident" on 19 September 1945 when pro-nationalist Indonesian youth revolutionaries tore away the blue portion of the Dutch flag flown above the hotel to change it to the red-and-white Indonesian flag in the lead-up to the Battle of Surabaya. Following this incident, the hotel was renamed the Hotel Merdeka (Independence Hotel). In 2014, Hotel Majapahit was officially recognized as a cultural heritage landmark by the Ministry of Education and Culture.#historicallandmarks ##history #trip #localguides #familytrip