Sumatra Orangutan Discovery Villa

Welcoming, friendly, knowledgable and fun! We all felt relaxed and at home.

They helped with ride from Medan airport, room was great, food was nice and well priced, staff is great and friendly. Cute dog. Decent value for money. If it fits your schedule: book a tour with them, their guides are nice guys.

Location is not superb, but you can work around that. Upon arrival I was mostly suprised that my primary contact was actually based abroad. They would set me up with a 5day tour from a partner company but unfortunately that failed last minute (not their fault) so I had to fix something else myself. Besides that a great stay.

Our stay was great. The hosts organized a driver for us to pick us up from the airport in Medan. As it was our first accomodation in Indonesia on our vacation, we needed a sim card and they made sure the driver will stop at a sim card shop for us. We also did a jungle tour organized by them and we got to see lots of Orang-Utan and other animals. Unfortunately we could not raft the way back to our accomodation on the river since it rained beforehand and the guides decided it was not safe enough. We spent the last night singing songs together outside the accomodation while the host was playing the guitar which was pretty cool. Another bonus is the view on the jungle while lying in a hammock, right outside the room. We would definetly recommend staying here if you want to visit Bukit Lawang.

There is no hot water, but due to the hot weather it was no problem. There are also mosquitoes (a net is provided) and some ants but the villa is in the jungle after all, so you can't avoid that.

The people who are extremely friendly and entertaining. For tracking and adventuring I think this would be a good group of people to go with, though we were unable to do any tracking on this trip. The service was very nice.  the accommodations are new. 

This place is just a little bit too far to walk for the minimart, but the people are so nice. I think they would just take us on the motorcycle to get anything we wanted. 

A beautiful place, wonderful people, delicious food and a wonderfully organized jungle trek. We will remember this place for a long time! Very homely, friendly atmosphere, evenings with the guitar.... Thank you to the entire team for a wonderful time!

We spent 2 days at Orangutan Discovery villa and everything was great. The rooms with view on stunning nature were comfortable and clean. The breakfast and dinner were excellent. But most of all, the personnel was so helpful and welcoming that we would have liked to stay more. We had a great time with Tyson, Dani and the people working or visiting the villa, chatting about Indonesian culture and playing guitar. We also did the jungle trek with them and it was a unique experience. Dani was a perfect guide to spot all the variety of animals ( among which Orangutans!) and, most importantly, he has a contagious smile :-) If you are looking for some wild nature and good vibes in Sumatra, do not hesitate to go there!

Everything was great!

Very warm welcome, staff is very cool! Nice quiet spot far from the noise with a nice terrasse with view on the jungle. Nice trek in the jungle

Slow to make breakfast (when you don't have much time, start of trek or bus) Small room but ok A bit far from the center (you need a tuk tuk or scoot to get there) Could have warn more about the difficulty of the trek... No hot water