Hotel Orangutan

Our stay at Hotel Orangutan and visit to Bukit Lawang was the highlight of our trip and one of my favorite places I have ever visited. . First, our trekking guides Amin and Holland were exceptional and our experience seeing the orangutans was magical.  . Abdoullah, our driver was also excellent. . Easy to communicate with, an excellent driver, and a very pleasant, interesting man.  . Staff at the Hotel Orangutan, including Vyca, were very pleasant, good fun, and helpful. . Everything was very well organized.  . Anastasia, who helped organize our trip was excellent- considering our flights, dates and plans changed 3 times! . Bukit Lawang is so charming. . We had great food, many monkeys, and music in resturants every night. . The people were so nice. . I cannot recommend a trip to Bukit Lawang and Hotel Orangutan enough.  .

The design of this hotel is amazing with a lot of attention to detail. It has been built into the hillside - so a very steep climb up a lot of steps if you are in one of the suites, but amazing views of the village and jungle. We just had a standard double so only one flight of steps, which I was pleased about! The bathroom is carved out of the rock, so a very jungle funky feel to it. However although trendy it was rather dark and a bit damp just like a cave! Also the basin water pressure was just a dribble even though it looked really nice it wasn’t very practical. Shower -cold water only - was very good. Staff here are lovely and this is the first place we’ve stayed in Asia where they don’t sell water in plastic bottles, but will re fill your own, and use metal straws not plastic. ? for that alone we would recommend Orangutan Hotel.

There is one ceiling fan which is too slow to be effective when the lights are on. An additional side fan would have really helped us sleep in the 30 degree heat. 2 little bed side tables to put things on would be really useful, the hammock is too low to use, you end up on the floor - but hey these are very minor problems and for £15 a night an absolute bargain!

Beautiful balcony with great views, welcoming staff, nice food, amazing jungle and rafting tour. Very serene and relaxing. Water in the room, mosquito net, nice decent sized bed, big bathroom. Thank you!! ?

The Food is really nice! Restaurant overall could get a bit more attention - bit more lively and menu a bit better presented. One of the boys played the guitar amazingly - make something out of it ?

What an awesome place! Such nice people who greet you and help you with your bags. Hotel Orangutan is right in the mix of it all with many places to eat/get coffee nearby. I loved my overnight jungle trek with them, my guide Rio was amazing and I saw 12 orangutans, white handed gibbons, siamang gibbons, and all 4 types of monkeys. I will remember this stay forever.

Sometimes the shower water wasn't hot or was very low pressure but it's the jungle so it didn't bother me.