Sahnan Guest House

Warm welcome and hospitality of Andry, the son of the owner and who speaks English well enough to give all the information you want. He will do his utmost to help and assist you to make your stay comfortable and enjoyable. E.G.: he helped me to buy a local sim card in town and to go to the bus station the day I checked out. The guesthouse has a restaurant with nice and healthy meals at reasonable prices.

There is NOTHING I can think of what I didn't like. Everything was just perfect.

Really nothing to complain about. The rooms were very clean. The bed very comfortable, large bathroom, good shower. In front of the room there is a small, nice seating area with a hammock. The restaurant and lounge area is located directly on the river. There you can eat good food, cold and warm drinks or delicious fruits at good prices and enjoy the view. The host family is very friendly. No matter what you need - just ask! Special praise and thanks to Andre, who took a lot of time, often talked to me and fulfilled all my wishes. I will be back in the future and if I sleep somewhere then in the Sahnan Guesthouse.

Friendly, gracious, and accommodating staff; comfortble and cool hammock on porch, pretty garden, basic and good food and coffee

Nothing could have been better

Staff was very helpful and place was nice. We had big bed and own shower and toilet. Place was very clean. We did jungle trek and It was worth of every pen! We saw orangutans and it was amazing. Thanks to Andre who helping us with trek, bus and take us to Friday market.

- Beautiful room - Great bed - Mosquito net - Great shower (but no hot water) - Lovely breakfast - They organized airport transfer for us from Medan for a very fair price & the driver had no problem stopping a few times for cash & food. - Organized a really great trek for us with a fantastic guide who was very funny & had great knowledge and English. (Vishnu) - We saw a lot during our trek including orangutans, Thomas’s langurs, macaques, etc. - As well as the trek, our lunches were prepared for the trek which was great. - Great and friendly staff who were always there to help.

We didn’t want to mark down the guest house as it wasn’t their fault and they weren’t aware of this. We booked transport with them from Bukit Lawang to Parapat in association with Happy Tracks. We were told it would be a bus - then in the morning we were told it’s a car & we would be going to Medan first and then to Parapat - which added 3 hours to our journey. In Medan, we had to change car and driver who then asked for 25k p/p more for tolls, which we were not told about. The drive to Parapat from Medan without tolls would be 5 hours, but with tolls it would be 3 hours. So we then asked if we could do the tolls as we just wanted to get there faster at that point. The driver then asked us for 60k which was more than we were told already. The driver then continuously tried to pick up random strangers off the side of the road so he could make extra money. He got one guy and only charged him 50k for the journey (when we paid 230k each plus the 50k). We felt completely screwed over! This wasn’t the guest houses fault as we texted them during then journey and they rang the transport company and enquired and apologized profusely. Just don’t book transport with Happy Tracks.