Tabo Cottage, our home in Samosir

Most of the Guesthouses in Samosir Island located at Tuk Tuk, and it took months for me to choose the best accomodation for this trip. Most of the reviewers in Chinese Cari Forum(a great place for me to do homework for my trips) recommended Samosir Cottage, Samosir Villa and Bagus Bay, while some travellers in TripAdvisor suggested Tabo Cottage, Toledo Inn and, Carolina Cottage. 

At the end, we booked a stay in Tabo Cottage even though her price is consider high among the rest. Well, we think we made the best decision.

Entrance to the cottage from main road

Tabo Cottage was built on a big compound area, where the rooms in Batak architecture are surrounded by tropical garden.

                                                                    Batak style cottage.

Restaurant area.View from restaurant.
Such a pleasant view while having meals.

A relaxing place to chit chat and reading books.

I woke up early during the 2d1n stay in Tabo Cottage and I simply love the pleasant and tranquil lakeside area. A great place to watch the sun rise and enjoy the calmness and serene morning in Lake Toba. We did a “short swim” in the pool and lake, but gave up due to the chilling water. *shivering*

Swimming pool that facing the lake

Relaxing in a hundred years old Batak Gazebo.
Puffy face in the early morning.

Tabo Cottage offers 6 types of different rooms, and we stayed at the  Junior Suite for 4(IDR 600K) and Junior Suite for 2(IDR 450K). Both rooms are great and have ample space for us to move around. The rooms do not have air conditioner(well, the cooling weather in Lake Toba is the natural air-cond), but it have hot shower bathrooms.

The restaurants offers Indonesian, Chinese and Western dishes, and the price we paid for rooms are inclusive of breakfast. The breakfast is buffet style and the other dishes are in reasonable price. Foods are excellent and the lake fish is a must try when you are in Lake Toba. No forgetting the lady boss of Tabo Cottage is a Germanese and the bakery by her is delicious. The in house band will entertain us during the dinner time with local traditional songs and musical instruments.

Dining areaIn house bandBreakfast

Tabo Cottage, Samosir Island

Phone: +62-625-451318
Website: www.tabocottages.com
Email: info@tabocottages.com

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