Explorer's Inn — Hotel in Tambopata

After a 2 night 3 day stay here we left to go to a different lodge. |Epxlorer’s Inn may look nice at first sight but there’s too many drawbacks. Explorer’s Inn seems to have some kind of agreement with group tour companies which means they have new groups of 20-30 people arriving every day. The groups exist out of westerners of older age (around 50-70), meaning that the tours, walks, and basically anything else is a very slow and unadventurous experience, with lots of sighing and complaining from your fellow group members. |Besides that it is absolutely unforgivable that there was electronic music and construction noise from 8am until 6-7pm. Daily my partner woke up from hammers and saws instead of birds and crickets. And not to do repairs, no, to make this commercial place even bigger than it already is. If you’re an airport hotel and have to do construction, I could maybe find some understanding, but the last thing you want during your Amazon experience is to hear hammering all day long, this is absolutely insane to me. ||The surroundings are okay, it’s a nice sunset with hammock area, but relatively little wildlife to the other lodge we are in now - where we saw a group of 50+ butterflies, 3 monkeys, and multiple bright colored lizards within 10 min of our arrival - in contrast to explorer’s inn where they have a big field of… grass, and obviously no monkeys or any of those with so many big groups of loud Americans and construction noise. ||The food is fairly good but you have to eat with 20-40 other people in the lobby at their given time. And if you miss a meal because of the nap you might take after being waken up from construction noise, you might get hungry, as there is no extra food to order, except for mushy apples and bananas. |They do put in good effort and hold your dietary needs in account which is nice if you need that. ||The guides, especially Gilbert, is great. Knowledgeable, kind and understanding. Whatsapp contact prior our stay was good as well. ||The rooms are very spacious, the mattress is good, but you pay a LOT extra for… a hammock, and warm water (which wasn’t working except for literally less than 15 seconds on my very last shower in this place). However, you don’t necessarily need warm water as it’s hot, so if I were you, I wouldn’t pay hundreds of dollars extra for it. (You pay 500usd extra for warm water, hammock and a chair if you book the 3 nights, 4 days experience). |So the spaciousness and mattress is nice BUT, the rooms are incredibly noisy. You can hear your neighbor with sleep apnea snore through the thin walls and you have no privacy for a personal conversation. You pay literally more than 3x the price for an upgraded room compared to that of the neighboring lodges where a hammock, a fan (which Explorer’s Inn doesn’t even have), working warm water, and WAY more privacy is already included in the base price. ||We communicated our complaints early on and asked for a private guide on day 1 (we ourselves offered to pay money for that as well to find a solution for a more authentic experience) so we could go our own pace. After 2 days they came back to us that a private guide could be arranged for the last day. But honestly after reaching out to neighboring lodges, knowing their groups were 4-6 people in a calm place without construction noise, we decided to leave Explorer’s Inn for what it is, and check a different lodge. Which for us definitely was the right move. ||In summary, it’s an okay-ish place for those of older age, exploring the world for the first time or those who are traveling in massive groups and want to drink cocktails and wine and go on an easy walk. ||But for anyone of younger age in good health who wants to have a way more authentic experience with a company that doesn’t treat this as a conveyer belt for mass tourism, wake up to CONSTRUCTION noise instead of birds and crickets, listen to the blabbing of 40 other people, I recommend you go somewhere else where you’ll find longer hikes, expeditions further away, more wildlife, quiet nature, all for a...

After a 2 night 3 day stay here we left to go to a different lodge. Epxlorer’s Inn may look nice at first sight but there’s too many drawbacks. Explorer’s Inn seems to have some kind of agreement with group tour companies which means they have new groups of 20-30 people arriving every day. The groups exist out of westerners of older age (around 50-70), meaning that the tours, walks, and basically anything else is a very slow and unadventurous experience, with lots of sighing and complaining from your fellow group members. Besides that it is absolutely unforgivable that there was electronic music and construction noise from 8am until 6-7pm. Daily my partner woke up from hammers and saws instead of birds and crickets. And not to do repairs, no, to make this commercial place even bigger than it already is. If you’re an airport hotel and have to do construction, I could maybe find some understanding, but the last thing you want during your Amazon experience is to hear hammering all day long, this is absolutely insane to me.

The surroundings are okay, it’s a nice sunset with hammock area, but relatively little wildlife to the other lodge we are in now - where we saw a group of 50+ butterflies, 3 monkeys, and multiple bright colored lizards within 10 min of our arrival - in contrast to explorer’s inn where they have a big field of… grass, and obviously no monkeys or any of those with so many big groups of loud Americans and construction noise.

The food is fairly good but you have to eat with 20-40 other people in the lobby at their given time. And if you miss a meal because of the nap you might take after being waken up from construction noise, you might get hungry, as there is no extra food to order, except for mushy apples and bananas. They do put in good effort and hold your dietary needs in account which is nice if you need that.

The guides, especially Gilbert, is great. Knowledgeable, kind and understanding. Whatsapp contact prior our stay was good as well.

The rooms are very spacious, the mattress is good, but you pay a LOT extra for… a hammock, and warm water (which wasn’t working except for literally less than 15 seconds on my very last shower in this place). However, you don’t necessarily need warm water as it’s hot, so if I were you, I wouldn’t pay hundreds of dollars extra for it. (You pay 500usd extra for warm water, hammock and a chair if you book the 3 nights, 4 days experience). So the spaciousness and mattress is nice BUT, the rooms are incredibly noisy. You can hear your neighbor with sleep apnea snore through the thin walls and you have no privacy for a personal conversation. You pay literally more than 3x the price for an upgraded room compared to that of the neighboring lodges where a hammock, a fan (which Explorer’s Inn doesn’t even have), working warm water, and WAY more privacy is already included in the base price.

We communicated our complaints early on and asked for a private guide on day 1 (we ourselves offered to pay money for that as well to find a solution for a more authentic experience) so we could go our own pace. After 2 days they came back to us that a private guide could be arranged for the last day. But honestly after reaching out to neighboring lodges, knowing their groups were 4-6 people in a calm place without construction noise, we decided to leave Explorer’s Inn for what it is, and check a different lodge. Which for us definitely was the right move.

In summary, it’s an okay-ish place for those of older age, exploring the world for the first time or those who are traveling in massive groups and want to drink cocktails and wine and go on an easy walk.

But for anyone of younger age in good health who wants to have a way more authentic experience with a company that doesn’t treat this as a conveyer belt for mass tourism, wake up to CONSTRUCTION noise instead of birds and crickets, listen to the blabbing of 40 other people, I recommend you go somewhere else where you’ll find longer hikes, expeditions further away, more wildlife, quiet nature, all for a...

Mi familia y yo fuimos de vacaciones a la selva peruana durante enero de 2011 (época lleviosa en tambopata). Antes del viaje, tomamos muchisimo tiempo para planearlo bien, y escojimos este hotel debido a que se encontraba completamente al interior de la selva virgen en la reserva nacional tambopata, uno de los lugares con mayor biodiversidad en todo el mundo. ||Personalmente siempre me ha gustado la naturaleza, y soñaba con conocer la selva tropical. Averigué mucho sobre cuales eran los lugares mas adecuados para mi proposito, y finalmente estaba entre costa rica y tambopata. Finalmente decidimos Tambopata ya que era menos turistico, por lo que a la vez menos intervenido.||Evidentemente sabíamos que no serían vacaciones de descanso, haríamos mucho esfuerzo fisico ( caminatas de 10 kilometros, a veces bajo la lluvia) y sabiamos tambien que las condiciones sería bastante duras, es decir no hay luz, ni agua caliente, pero si vas a uno de los lugares mas pristinos del planeta, hay que sacrificar un poco ciertas comodidades! ||La verdad es que poco antes de partir estabamos un poco asustados por el viaje, ya que se corre el riego de contraer enfermedades tropicales, y ademas no sabiamos bien que bichos podriamos encontrarnos en la pieza, pero al llegar, todo era tan hermoso, mucho mas que en las fotos de la la pagina web. Este viaje fue unico, vimos una variedad de animales increible! Nuestra guía, Natalia, era fenomenal; nosotros estuvimos los 5 días solo con ella, y no nos juntaron con otros turistas, es decir teniamos guía privado, y la verdad es que era fantastico, ya que se adecuaba completamente a nustro ritmo y necesidades (tengo un especial interes por las ranas y natalia nos acompañó toda una noche en busca de estos simpaticos anfibios, y gracias a ella pudimos encontrar mas de 15 especies diferentes, ademas de serpientes y millones de insectos.||La comida era deliciosa, mucho mejor de lo que me esperaba, y todos los días diferente. Nos daban desayuno a las 8, almuerzo a las 13:00, y la cena a las 20:00. Ademas de esto podiamos sacar frutas gratuitamente cada vez que quisieramos, y teniamos agua potable a nuestra dispocision en todo momente. Ademas tienen un bar en el que puedes pedir bebidas y licores a muy bajo precio.||Las habitaciones eran bastante rusticas, pero muy adecuadas para el lugar. El techo es totalmente impermeable (uno de mis miedos era que el agua entrara a los bungalows), y las paredes eran de palos, por lo que, como otras criticas dicen, se podía escuchar en la pieza del lado, pero no no produjo ningun problema ya que eramos los unicos huespedes en ese bungalow (que tenía 4 piezas) ||Y bueno, si vas a la selva es imposible que los insectos no te piquen, pero la verdad con un buen repelente las picaduras de zancudos y demaces se reducen bastante! Durante los 5 días no me picaron mas de 10 mosquitos. Al fin y al cabo te acostubras... ya que los insectos estan por todas partes, hasta en la habitacion! De hecho en nuestro techo había una tarantula viviendo, pero no nos produjo ningun problema, ya que casi no salía de su guarida.||Al ser temporada de lluvias, casi todas las trochas estaban inundadas, pero se podían recorrer sin ningun problema, ya que el hotel te provee de botas especiales, por lo que hasta con lluvias fuertes es posible hacer los paseos. Caminar por estos senderos es una experiencia genial, este soleado o lloviend, ya que te dan la posibilidad de avistar innumereables animales y plantas extrañisimas; vimos arboles gigantes, palmeras caminantes, muchisimos hongos debido a las lluvias, lagartos y mariposas los días de sol, y muchas ranas cuando llovía. Tambien pudimos ver la familia de lobos de rio nutrias del lago cocococha, que estan en serio peligro de extincion. En las excursiones nocturnas era cuando mayor cantidad de animales se podía observar, como zarigueyas, murcielagos, monos nocturnos, grillos gigantes, insectos palo, caimanes, capybaras. Cuando fuimos a la colpa pudimos observar gran cantidad de loros pertenecientes a 4 especies distintas.||Un consejo si van en temporada de lluvias; Lleven ropa de secado rapido adecuada para la selva, y bolsas plasticas hermeticas para evitar que la ropa seca se moje con la humedad ambiental, que es realmente elevada. La lluvia en si no es un muy gran problema si tienes ropa limpia y seca para cambiarte luego, por lo que asegurense de llevar en cantidad suficiente, ya que si les toca una lluvia fuerte (como nos toco a nosotros al regresar del lago, que es una caminata de cerca de 3 horas) se les mojara hasta la ropa interior aunque lleven puesto un impermeable. Pero a pesar de esto enero es una gran epoca para visitar el lugar ya que la vegetacion esta en todo su esplandor, y es posible ver hongos hermosos y de todos los colores, ademas que muchos animales, como las ranas y sapos, se pueden ver en esta época.||En resumen, este fue uno de los mejores viajes que he hecho, y no me arrepiento para nada del hotel que escojimos. Lo recomiendo enormemente a todos los que aman la naturaleza y quieren tener una verdadera...