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Property facilities
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WiFi available
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Free WiFi
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Parking
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Free Parking
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Non-smoking rooms
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Air conditioning
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Swimming pool
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24-hour front desk
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Restaurant
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Business center
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Terrace
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Family rooms
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Garden
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Pets allowed
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Hiking
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Lift / Elevator
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Laundry
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Luggage storage
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Fishing
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Express check-in/check-out
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Cycling
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Safety deposit box
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Bar
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Fax/photocopying
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Tour desk
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Golf course
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Facilities for disabled guests
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Ironing service
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Meeting/banquet facilities
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Tennis court
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Children's playground
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Dry cleaning
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Barber/beauty shop
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Table tennis
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Non-smoking throughout
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Outdoor pool
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Sun terrace
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Private check-in/check-out
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Daily housekeeping
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Designated smoking area
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Accessible parking
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Board games/puzzles
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Special diet menus - on request
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Snack bar
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Kids' outdoor play equipment
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Outdoor furniture
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Sun loungers or beach chairs
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Picnic area
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Wine/champagne
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Sun umbrellas
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Fruits
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Kids' pool
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Tennis equipment
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Staff adhere to local safety protocols
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Laundry washed per local authority guidelines
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Guest rooms disinfected between stays
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Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
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Physical distancing rules followed
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Cashless payment available
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Fire extinguishers
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First aid kit available
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Sanitized tableware & silverware
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Invoice provided
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Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
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Smoke alarms
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Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
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Guest room sealed after cleaning
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Food delivered to guest room
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CCTV outside property
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CCTV in common areas
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Access to health care professionals
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24-hour security
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Delivered food - securely covered
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Security alarm
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Walking tours
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Key card access
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Tour/class on local culture
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Property Description
Luxurious Accommodations
The Gamboa Rainforest Reserve, nestled in Soberania National Park, offers elegantly appointed rooms and suites with breathtaking views of the River Chagres. Each room features a private balcony, flat-screen TV, and a lavish marble bathroom for your comfort and relaxation.
Exceptional Dining and Services
Indulge in a culinary journey at the resort's restaurant, serving delectable international dishes. Enjoy the convenience of room service or explore the gift shop for unique finds. The tour desk is at your service for arranging thrilling jungle adventures and airport transfers.
Convenient Location and Amenities
Only a short drive from Panama City, the property provides easy access to the Panama Canal and Albrook Shopping Centre. With an outdoor pool, sensory spa, and free WiFi throughout, Gamboa Rainforest Reserve ensures a memorable stay for every guest.
Book now for an unforgettable experience at Gamboa Rainforest Reserve!
A deposit may be required at the property.
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Guest Reviews
Lindo hotel. Visual maravilhoso.
As atrações a parte tinham um valor bem elevado.
All good, big room, comfortable beds. Did meet our expectations.
A la carte restaurant is not much.
Perfect location at Soberania national park. They know it and price accordingly. The hotel looks like a 90's style Disney World hotel. Beds, towels, shower are comfortable and big. The view from any floor is great and the pool is superb. This is the best place to start your Pipeline trail and Plantation trail hikes, which you need to do at or before sunrise (6 am) to see the animals. After 9 am most of the animals will be gone.
Skip the buffet breakfast as it only starts at 7 am. Buy food at the Gamboa local store & restaurant (for a fraction of the Resort price). They also cater to many city tour operators and serve lunch and dinner up to 6 pm.
If you're someone who prefers buffet breakfast before doing anything else, you're the perfect target for the many short tours that the hotel offers for activity-challenged persons with deep pockets. You can spot animals (even the crocs are fed to stay nearby), zip-line in trees, ride the cable tram, have authentic indigenous people perform dances and buy their handicrafts, and make a boat tour for double the price you pay at the public harbor next-door. Do not expect the tour desk to know anything about the Pipeline, Plantation, or multitude of spectacular other historical trails that exist in the Soberania park. That's not in their business interest. They can't even produce a map. Keeping these caveats in mind, the hotel is a great and relaxing place to be.
Built on the grounds of the US sports club from the days the canal was constructed, adding information about the history of this place and its inhabitants would enhance the guest experience.
Rather than having useless old encyclopedias and comic strips in multiple languages to fill the shelves, the wonderful classic resort library on the 1st floor would be the obvious place for this information.
The hotel entrance is via a ghost town of deserted termite-affected colonial-style houses. It is located in the ten-mile US-zone where the local population was ousted during canal construction, their water supplies poisoned to reduce yellow fever for the construction workers, their business destroyed when the railway from 1855 was moved, and their lands inundated to form the canal route. For this, I highly recommend reading Marixa Lassa's excellent book "Erased, the untold story of the Panama canal (2019)."
The 90's style quasi-colonial design includes rooms with TV screens on thin walls, with some neighboring rooms having interconnecting doors. It allowed us to 'enjoy' the loud movie programs of our apparently late sleeping neighbor and his extensive snoring once he finished watching it.
Last but not least: stay away from the Piña Colada's. They were the worst (with cubes in place of blended ice) and most expensive ones we ever had, without any traces of rum.
This place is a nature lovers dream. Surrounded by lush green rainforest,waking up to birds singing was absolutely blissful. The reception desk staff was so friendly and accommodating. The staff at the Monkey Bar just lovely. The Tour staff: Ernesto,Iker,Captain George were the best!
The hotel needs some updating,while it was clean, my room was quite dated and unimpressive. Not even pictures on the wall, but I went there for the scenery and not the room. I also didn't like being " upsold" a meal plan when I checked in, which leads me to my other issue of no microwaves in the rooms. Since the only options for meals were the restaurants at the resort; I would have liked to be able to heat food up.
Our stay at Gamboa exceeded all of our expectations. The property is so generously constructed, spacious, airy in the middle of the rainforest right on the Chagres river. The staff goes out of their way to make your stay memorable, everyone is so kind, sweet and polite. The tours are perfectly designed and there is so much to explore and see. We really loved it here and will tell everyone about this place. We also really enjoyed that there were pool towels available and plenty of clean bathroom towels every day.
We opted for the all-inclusive package and enjoyed many perks. The large pool is surprisingly refreshing and we saw many animals like beautiful birds and iguanas right outside the property.
Nothing to report
Beautiful surroundings and a wonderful place.
Some facilities need an update like the hallways but everything else was wonderful
Op slechts een half uur van Panama stad, middenin het regenwoud. Ideale plek om je eerste vogels, luiaards en kikkers te spotten. En vlakbij het Panama kanaal. Het ontbijtbuffet is ook fantastisch, evenals het zwembad.
Het hotel en ontbijt zijn best prijzig
Prachtige ligging in de jungle, heel mooi uitzicht vanuit het restaurant, indrukwekkende inkomhal en zeer groot en mooi zwembad. Er werden veel tours georganiseerd die wel wat kosten, maar alles is wel duidelijk en in orde. Ruime mooie kamer met een uitzicht op de tuin. Ook een ruime parking voor de deur.
Zwembad kan wel wat opsmuk gebruiken.
L'emplacement est parfait, la literie et le cadre de l'hôtel.
Le taux d'humidité dans les chambres, la piscine n'est pas en très bon état. Le prix exorbitant des services proposés. Bonne qualité mais le rapport qualité-prix ne justifie pas ce que l'hôtel propose
The best hotel we had in Panama. So beautiful and the views! Very nice staf. Close to al lot of things to do. Very big and clean swimming pool. We went by the Summit hotel because they cancelled our booking, happy that we stayed in Gamboa instead. Do not hesitate anymore!
Het ligt in een prachtige omgeving. Toekans, leguanen, kolibies, luiaarden, brulapen, alles is er te vinden
Wat gedateerd allemaal. Het mag wel wat beter onderhouden worden. De excursies zijn leuk maar behoorlijk prijzig.
The property is set right in the middle of a rainforest. It is absolutely beautiful. You are surrounded by wildlife, we saw a toucan and capybara from our hotel room the very first night. Went on a night jungle tour and saw howling monkeys, agoutis, and a cayman. Pretty incredible! The tours on site for great, my kids enjoyed the aerial tram and the sloth sanctuary. I’ve done the monkey island tour in the past at the same property and it was great!
It’s clearly 15 years behind the times. The property deserves a renovation, it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL to become a 4/5 star hotel. The bones are there, my parents are Panamanian and said this hotel used to be a U.S. military hotel specifically for the military officers and high ranking officials, it was luxurious for its time back then. The bones are so there, it needs a renovation badly. Our patio had a hammock, great! Then a random dated round table without chairs? The room’s AC was so loud and kept revving on/off, that it kept us up at night. The de-humidifier had to get emptied 3x per day otherwise it would stop working and you’d come back to a damp room that felt like a wet swamp cooler. Dining options…we stayed here 12 years ago and the food was fantastic and cheap. The buffet food was bad, the menu items were wayyyyy better but the customer service was poor, it took over an hour for the first night to get our dinner. The second night, it took 1.5 hours to get our food. Remember, you’re in the middle of nowhere, so your food options are slim. I remember being disappointed because the food was so good and cheap back then and now it’s over priced and meh.
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Such a beautiful place!! We loved everything about it!
I can’t think of anything I didn’t like.
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