Mashpi Lodge

Guests appreciate the modern, clean, spacious rooms and well-maintained facilities. They also praise the friendly and professional staff for providing impeccable service. The spacious rooms and amazing bathrooms offer comfort.

Oh my goodness, this place is fabulous. The rooms are amazing, the food is sensational and worthy of Michelin stars, the staff are lovely, the birds are stunning. Everything about it is remarkable. Is it cheap? No. Is it worth it? Absolutely. You will never forget your visit. I know I certainly won’t. Thank you to Marc, Jonnathan, Edison, Xavier and all who looked after me so well. Worth mentioning that they have a doctor on staff, visits and medication is included and the doctor helped solve my illness. Turns out I was allergic to the altitude meds.

It is hard to define Mashpi. It is a staggering concept- a hotel which has no business existing in the middle of cloud forest, an hour on dirt roads from the nearest highway and an hour and a half from the nearest town of any size. If people are thinking of this as a relaxing wallow in sumptuous surroundings - think again. The hotel is not full of soft furnishings or drapes- they’d rot in the climate. It is functional concrete with as many glass walls as possible. The forest is the decoration and the forest is the point of being here. Each guest is allocated a guide for their stay and a programme of activities decided each day to get the maximum out of the location- sky bike, river hikes, humming bird viewpoint and so on… yes, some seem to resent the idea of putting out food for the humming birds as intrusive, yet it means all get to see these amazing creatures and have a chance of seeing them in the dense forest while hiking. The night walks, often preceded by a short lecture are amazing opportunities to move in small groups among the undergrowth and to see a wealth of species simply going about their business. On top of all this, the rooms are spacious, all with floor to ceiling windows, there’s a complimentary cleaning and drying service and the food is great- breakfast is wonderful and the hot food changes daily abd is beautifully prepped and served. It is wonderful . You will get wet and dirty and it’s not called a cloud forest without reason- there will be wet days and days when the clouds roll in and the views are non existent. That’s is a risk. The re of the reserve in preserving the cloud forest is amazing and makes the hotel good value. Think of it as a surcharge. If it was t 13 hours flight from home, we would come back!