Bambuda Lodge - Hostel

The staff were great, helpful and friendly. The location was fantastic and so different to any other places I saw. Having a free boat daily to the town was really helpful and the activity suggestions were very good. My room was good and the facilities were all a decent standard.

The food was a bit overpriced, but it was great to have an option each day and the food was actually quite good. I would have liked more Panamanian options as the food was quite westernised which was something I was trying to not have! Also, and perhaps more the fault of the other passengers, the daily free boat to town always left late which meant we only had about 30 minutes to explore before it left again, instead of the full hour. It would have been good if the boat stayed an hour from whatever time it left Bambuda.

Really nice place with a lot of things to do: waterslide, jungle hike, snorkelling, trips to chocolate farm. The staff is amazing and very friendly. I highly recommend the food, in my opinion it was excellent value for money.

The smell in the dorm was a bit off, a bit like in an old closet. The following comment is actually a feedback for a transfer to Puerto Viejo that I booked with the hostel and not the hostel itself. But there is no other place to give feedback so here I go: I had the feeling that the transfer was a rip-off. There were always a lot of guys around when we had to wait who wanted tips for doing basically nothing. The transfer should have been Bocas to the hostel in Puerto Viejo. But my hostel was a bit outside so the driver just dropped me in Puerto Viejo or offered to drive me there for 5 dollars which is a joke since the whole transfer costs 27 dollars.