7th Heaven's Cafe & Lodge — Hotel in Banaue

We stayed here 11/16 to 11/19 2023. Rooms, service, location par excellence, bar none. Louillen's resourcefulness, personableness, and entrepreneurial savvy is evidenced in vision and detail. Overall the Lodge is a "one-stop-shop" providing food and lodging, transportation, and concierge service (guided tours). Who could ask for more? The staff friendliness and skill sets are matched perfectly to their roles. Rooms are clean with a warm, rustic feel and great balcony view. Location ideal, only few minutes walk to town and short drive to bus terminal. Food is a plenty with local offerings, plus. Great hot coffee. We got the "biggest-bang-for-the buck": Making the trek to Batad rice terraces all the way to Tappiyah Falls, then next day to the Hapao rice terraces/hot spring to soak the sore muscles from previous day, and dip in the invigorating river; with visits to and views along the way of Bangaan rice terraces and Banaue rice terraces as well as another day shorter visit to Hiwang Native Village -- all this with transportation and expert guides. It was a trip of a lifetime exceeding all expectations. Shout-out to David, who met us at bus station and set us up with an itinerary of our choosing within minutes of our arrival, making a super first and lasting impression. Shout out to Reginald (sp?) who filled our insatiable desire to learn and absorb as much as we could about the Ifugao people and customs. High-five to Clara (sp?), who didn't merely fulfill a task of walking us to the Falls and back, but truly guided and mentored at every twist and turn. The guide to Hapao/Hot spring also superb in wealth of knowledge and experience. Kudos to Daves (sp?) for professional driving. Addy (sp?), you personify hospitality with your welcoming presence, style, attentiveness, and anticipating needs. Kudos to the cook/s and housekeeping and whoever maintains/repairs/keeps up the lodge. The same spirit of resilience and resourcefulness that permeated the Ifugao taking up residence among the hills to survive and celebrate is demonstrated no less in the challenges and your response today. Andrew and I give heartfelt thanks to...

I can call this place a home in Banaue since David the tour guide and Louie from the lodge welcomes us like we're an old friend. Somehow I missed them and hope we can meet again someday in Bali or when we're back to Banaue.

As we stay here, it such a relaxing place as you can observe village activity from the window. In addition if you wake up early around 6.30 AM you'll get an amazing sunrise view rising up between the hills of Banaue.

The food is good too as we ordered Chicken Adobo that still has similar taste to Indonesian food 'ayam kecap'. Its also in am addordable price and big portion for us Indonesia. So we only order chicken adobo and one rice, thats enough for two.

They also serve high quality brewed coffee that you can refill after the first glass. It's light and has a little bit of chocolate aroma. Try it!

David that I mention earlier has a tour guide package and he will give you a brief and detailed explanation about the culture in Banaue in more...

Rooms have a see-through curtain soooo I don't understand why it's even up. Staff are nice. Hot showers, decent food but zero wifi. Hard beds with a thin blanket. View from the balcony was nice. 60¶ beers. Do not get the nachos. Check out 9:30am. They were going to book a bus for us and forgot to so we had to stay another night. They gave us the room for half price. We did a taxi with them to the rice fields. You have to still pay the full day wage even if you don't use them as a tour guide. your guide cost more and locals will try and send you the wrong way if you don't have one. Easy enough to figure out though. We managed. Lots of tourist came into this cafe so it seemed like a prime spot. I would of gave it 3.5 stars cuz it wasn't worse just the check out at 9:30am is silly and beds are harder than other I've slept on in Asia. Clean, no bugs and complimentary...