Hotel Orangutan

The staff is friendly and helpful, providing a welcoming atmosphere. Guests enjoy a good breakfast and spacious rooms with beautiful views. Convenient location with easy access to amenities.

Great location with good views of the village and surrounding jungle. The staff are friendly and the food is good. Has a large balcony with a hammock.

We stayed here for 3 nights including a 1N2D trek. It’s very good value for money and the staff are absolutely lovely and couldn’t have done more for us. The rooms are spacious and have amazing views of the valley. Basic facilities but it’s in the middle of the jungle so didn’t expect more. Beds are clean and comfy, could do with another pillow each. You can’t drive to the hotel so you are dropped off 20mins walk away which with suitcases and the heat was a struggle but would be the same with any hotel in the area, not clear when booking that’s the case (if you have a backpack you can get a motorbike taxi). We also woke up to poo all over the floor from geckos and on clothes if you hung them out. Keep everything in suitcases. The rooms aren’t cleaned during your stay which might be a nice addition. The main issue we had was the noise. Every Saturday night there is live music opposite and since the windows are mesh and it’s in a valley you can hear everything until 3am and it was like being at a live concert. The other nights the ‘night club’ next door was really loud. Unfortunately this did mean we got barely any sleep in the nights we were here. We organised the trek with the hotel and whilst our guide was so lovely, there wasn’t so much information on the plants and wildlife. Our only sighting of Orangutans came 20 mins into the trek. If you do spot them make sure to spend as long as you can with them as there isn’t a guarantee of spotting more. The Orangutans are semi-wild, having been descendants of a former rehabilitation centre and so a bit more tolerant to human presence. The overnight stay in the jungle was pretty poor, again I expected basic but it was really quite dirty and the mat you slept on stunk of damp and sweat. Unfortunately my partner also got horrific food poisoning whilst here. Our guide was so kind in helping us the next day and carried his bag as well as his own. The other camps looked nicer than ours but they really only needed slight adjustments/airing out to make them more sleepable. All in all the hotel is nice and a good base to explore Bukit Lawang and the staff are all lovely.