Hotel Sahid Toraja

Friendly staff. Poor facility that needs a thorough upgrade. Not worth the price. Inconvenient location

Very quiet and spacious. Super nice staff. And a big swimming pool. They also connected us to a very good guide that organised to go to the funeral ceremonies, but also a walk in the rice fields, a visite to a market, a visite to the buffalo market, a visite to the graves,…

The Sahid is an expansive hotel with rooms built in the Torajan traditional house style. The minimal staff work hard to keep the place running well. Our room was comfortable and clean. Hot water was powerful. Linen clean and unstained. Food was, however, slow. Its a very peaceful spot. Worth staying here with your family.

Apparently Torajan funeral "season" is the Indonesian school holiday period: June till August. Keep that in mind if planning a trip.

Though it is little bit far to Rantepao but it is still a nice place to stay , specially if your main agenda in Makale area. Its an old hotel but I love the ambiance. It is well maintained. The huge pool is nice and also clean. My friends and I enjoyed our quality time at pool so much.

The good thing of this hotel is only a very friendly staff.
The location is far from city or tourist attraction.
Very old room, poor lighting, dusty cupboard, dirty towel and bathroom shower was not work properly.

We started our family trip in Toraja from this hotel. The premises flaunt the Torajan culture, seen in the design of each pavilions that resembles a Tongkonan, Toraja traditional house.
The hotel area is surrounded by lush green paddy fields.
If you are in for star gazing, the top of the hill where the hotel is situated, its a wonderful spot to look up to the heaven.

The design of the hotel and the gardens are beautiful but the rooms haven't been updated since the early 90s. The carpets are stained and grimy and the room smells of mildew. There's no real common area either. We ate dinner at a banquet table, which was very odd. The staff were very friendly though. They helped arrange transport to Rantepao (expensive though) and agreed to refund our money for two nights when we moved to a cheaper and nicer homestay in Rantepao.

Most of the amenities in the hotel are outdated. However, everything worked fine. The hotel room was quite spacious and the location of the hotel is quite far from main tourist destinations. The wifi is free but the quality was not good. To get around, we rented a motorcycle from the security guide who was kind enough to lend his bike for the day for IDR75000.

I have changed 6 rooms and all smell very disgusting. I tried to sleep but I vomited because of the disgusting smell inside the room.
At the end I had to sleep on the balcony!

Sahid Hotel is a recommended hotel to stay if you visit Toraja. The location is not at the centre of the city, so for you who wish to have a calm and peaceful environment then this will be the best choice.

The room is clean and large, quite comfortable, the view from the room is also nice. The toilet is also clean basically nothing to complain about this hotel.

But i felt a little bit annoyed during my stay because there was a party at Saturday night at the hotel, they were partying and singing out loud until late at midnight which disturbed the guests who wanted to take a good rest and sleep. And the next morning around 7 AM, they were checking the sound of the speakers, making noises, which again to me it was very annoying and disturbing.

We had complained to the receptionist about this concern, but the hotel seemed didn't do anything about it.

Hope that next time the hotel would set the time when the party may start and shall end in order not to disturb other guests.

Had a good stay staff were very nice and helpful, but a good 15 minute taxi ride out from the nearest town

Had a wonderful time with an almost empty hotel, very accomodating staff and delivery of food and beverages right to our door. A great ambiance for anyone looking for a get away in the hills of Toraja

Away from the main tourist centers in the toraja area this hotel gives you the opportunity to stay in a affordable, silent, green surrounding with access via lokal guides to all places of interest in Tana Toraja. Especially the less visited in south toraja are very impressing ,some of them are unique. The Busses from and to Makassar stop just in front of the hotel if you tell the driver.

booked via booking.com didnt realise that so far out of rantepao but everything is ok staffs are wonderful room are large and clean breakfast was fine lovely tall pine,and palm tree around the garden,hotels is showing its age but still, lovely stay.
hired car from makassar for 2 days,wished can stay longer.

stayed there with the driver my room was upstairs overlooking the garden its comfortable overall staffs was very good and helpful we had problem with shower and was fixed when we return after a day out.
the hotel was far out of rantepao so would be nice if hotel had some arrangement with transport company [bus service from makassar] so visitor could be dropp off and picked up out side the hotel.

The hotel is really tired and outdated. However, it is situated in a very remote, calm, relaxing and beautiful place far from the noise of Rantepao. Have in mind that the hotel is in the middle of nowhere - 31km from Rantepao, which means that that you are dependent on the hotel restaurant, which we didn't find very good (no big choise and the food is not very good). Ask for a room on the second floor as they are much better, cosier and have nice balconies with a view. The hotel helps arrange the tours without any problem.

We learned that there were no modern or new hotels in Toraja. We chose this hotel because of the lower price than other big hotels in Toraja. The hotel looked very old, also our room furniture and carpet were old. But the room was very large and quite clean.
One weird situation was when the lights went off for a few seconds at the hotel (in the night). After that the electricity went on by the generator for some minutes.
The staff were very friendly, they greeted everybody (local or international tourists). The location was quite far from the tourist attractions (Lemo, Ke'te Kesu, Londa, etc). To get there from the hotel, you must drive for 30-45 mins through the beautiful scenery of Toraja (which I didn't mind). But overall it was a pleasant stay.

Sahid Toraja is a lovely property in Makale, approx an hour from main Tana Toraja sites. Although needing a bit of renovation, whole setting is still striking beautiful - Buildings are traditional Toraja style in a very beautiful, hilly garden and main building has attached restaurant and pool area. Rooms are very spacious with extremely comfortable beds, sleep quality is very good!

However staff and service are the reasons, why Sahid Toraja is an excellent choice when staying in Toraja area. The whole staff is willing to go through as many extra miles as needed to ensure that their guests have successful vacation - e.g. I had a very bad stomach flu and we asked if we could get late checkout and stay longer, since our bus to Makassar was bound to leave 10 pm, and they did not even charge any extra for the room! This is definitely something unforgettable! Also restaurant staff is adorable and efficient!

If / when you are seeking sightseeing trip to main Toraja graves & funerals, Sahid Toraja is a perfect place! We booked absolutely perfect guide called Joseph through Sahid Toraja and could not have been any happier to the services and knowledge of Joseph - Three days itinerary incl. one day for funerals was spot on with lots of variation and things to see.

All in all, Sahid Toraja made our Tana Toraja trip perfect and I can definitely recommend to anyone!