Green Hope Lodge

We decided to stay at Green Hope Lodge while visiting Cat Tien National Park and it was a mistake! While still approaching the National Park, our driver asked why we chose Green Hope Lodge, since he had heard a lot of negative things about this place. Arriving at the place, we found that there was practically no staff there. After some time, we were finally given a key and explained how to find the room. No one helped us find our room, much less with our luggage. The room is located on the 1st floor of a two-story wooden building. There is a musty smell all around. The air conditioner works very poorly, most likely it just ran out of gas. Dinner is a set of incomprehensible content. Drinks include sovt drinks, beer and water. So we spent the night with the children in a hot room. And we decided that we would definitely not stay here the second night. After visiting the National Park early in the morning, we had breakfast on the park grounds rather than at the Green Hope Lodge and stopped at the Lodge only to pick up our belongings. Complete lack of service and any conditions! I do not advise anyone to stay in this place, especially with children!

My adult son and I stayed at Green Hope Lodge May 14th-17th. Booking with Mr. Luan was very easy via Whattsapp. He secured a driver to meet us at HCMC airport. We arrived around 10pm on a Tuesday, had a relaxed morning (Wednesday) in Cat Tien National Park, a bicycle ride that afternoon, the Green Hill jungle tour on Thursday, Primate Center on Friday morning and then private taxi to the sleeper bus stop for an easy ride back to HCMC. The accommodations were rustic, adequate, food was simple and freshly prepared and the rates were reasonable for all. Highly recommended staying here.

Amazing stay with the most friendly people. They can book any tour for you and accomodate you with any food requirement. Very good dinners and set menu. Really good and comfortable room with lots of space. We loved the boat tour and the local culture tour especially. Cacoa tour was great too. Amazing lady and lots of knowledge. All amazing experiences. The park is beautiful too. Not that many crocodiles in the like unfortunately.

Lovely atmosphere at lodge - friendly and relaxed and would recommend for solo travellers as well as couple/friends. Luan and his team, especially Tan, were brilliant. Communication via Whatsapp, responding quickly to questions and requests eg. Pick up from Saigon, arranging tours Breakfast simple, but the pancakes are fresh and the coffee is strong. If you want to explore for dinner, there are a few restaurants/lodges within walking distance. Really impressed by quality and value of tours. We did night safari, local village bike tour, and a dawn boat trip. The bike tour in particular was excellent, and a great way to see how people live in a rural area. Our guide had outstanding English, and demonstrated a clear love for his home, rather that just taking us to go buy things from his friends stalls (which can be my experience with these sort of local tours). Boat tour also stunning, with the guide being able to spot a bird or monkey from miles away! It’s a great way to explore the reserve. We also borrowed the Lodge bikes for an afternoon to visit the Crocodile Lake - a great mini adventure on good quality bikes. Luan was really helpful in arranging all tours, including being flexible on time to accommodate our travel arrangements.

The accommodation was fairly basic and comfortable. It's located next to the river and has some great locations to relax. The food was tasty and good value. There were local homemade drinks such as pineapple beer, which were also delicious. Luan and his family were very friendly and organised tours for us in the park and made recommendations for an itinerary and walks. He was also able to organise transport from Dalat and to HCMC which made our trip much more convenient. Luan's English was excellent and he had a good sense of humour. Overall I'd highly recommend if you're thinking of going to Cat Tien. It was much better value for money than an organised tour and is a great place to stay and enjoy the park.

Thank you Green Hope Lodge! I had such a brilliant time on the beautiful fringe of Cat Tien National Park. This was the perfect way to re-energise after the intensity of the city. Luan and the Green Hope Lodge family are wonderful, welcoming, helpful, hospitable hosts and go above and beyond to ensure your stay is everything you would like it to be. The facilities and surrounds are both incredible and Luan and the team have endless, in-depth knowledge of activity recommendations to suit your interests during your stay in Cat Tien. Cannot recommend enough! Do yourself a favour an book Green Hope Lodge for your stay in Cat Tien (:

The stay in the lodge was great: Service, food and the offered tours. Everything was clean. We did the gibbon tour and a boat tour at the lodge. I highly recommend to do both of them. Especially the gibbon tour was breathtaking. One of our best stays we had in Vietnam.

We had an amazing stay in Cat Tien Nationalpark. The accommodation was great and we could see monkeys from the relaxing area at the other side of the river. The hiking in the national park is really cool. But don’t forget to rent leech socks. These are very helpful.

Our family stayed for 2 nights in the stilt house. It was clean and comfortable and you definitely felt you were amongst nature. It was nice having the fan, air con and mosquito nets. The jungle and wilderness is all around and you quickly understand why 6am is a reasonable time to start the day - it's when all the animals wake up! Luan and his family were extremely laid back, have excellent English and were friendly and always available to answer any questions we had. The Green Hope is just ten minutes stroll from the 1 minute ferry ride across the river (appears to be manned from dawn to dusk). The breakfast set us up for the day and our kids loved the pancakes. The dinners were very reasonably priced, simple and filling dishes. In fact, all the prices were very reasonable across the board, especially considering how isolated the location is. As a remote location it's really important to state that the friendliness and helpfulness of the family stand far higher than the nice setting and the good facilities. The Green Hope is a lovely place to stay and we'd highly recommend.