Very friendly host. Spacious and clean room. Tasty breakfast.

Stayed in May 2024

Fan would be nice. Loud in the morning (church before 5 am!) Hoise could do with a fresh paint A bit far away without a driver.

Very nice and friendly owner, very helpful with organizing driver and guide. Food was delicious!!!! Very clean. Allnin all a very pleasant stay!!

Stayed in October 2023

We like the nice bedroom with good view. Manaek is a great personne. Her food is fantastic very tasty. She is very kind and smiling. We recommand her homestay.

Stayed in October 2023

What a lovely homestay! Everything is done with love and attention. A warm welcome by the family, fantastic food, lovely rooms with a spectacular view. And no noise, only the sounds of nature 😊( in Rantepao the mosk will wake you up early in the morning, or great chance there is a karaoke bar somewhere). Highly recommended!

Stayed in October 2023

This homestay was wonderful! The host was very kind, helpful, flexible and an amazing cook (breakfast and dinner). She organized a guide and motorbike, which was perfect for the 4 days we stayed with Manai. The homestay is located a bit outside busy Rantepao surrounded by traditional Toraja-houses, in a quite (exept the chickens) and green evironement - beautiful! We would recommend the stay anytime.

Stayed in October 2023

I know toraja is cold 🥶 place but I wish atleast it had fans if not A/C . I suggest them to install ceiling fans for day time use atleast.

Amazing host manai . Very good location feels just like home 🏡.

Stayed in August 2023

Quite noisy because motorbike are crazy 🤣

Amazing food! Really nice view, room good 👍

Stayed in August 2023

Sadly, we were the only guests during most of our stay, but we really hope this was just a coincidence, as this place deserves to be discovered and visited!

This is a homestay in the best possible interpretation (in our opinion)! The family has converted their traditional farmhouse into a nice little boutique hotel with a few rooms - all have big windows to enjoy the beautiful views across the rice fields and mountains. On the yard you have the typcial traditional houses to look at, while the rooms are in a modern building with all the comfort you need (own bathroom, wifi, shared fridge, comfortable beds etc.). Breakfast and dinner is served at separate tables in a shared area or on covered balconies. The food was always delicous and freshly cooked, the host ... always asked for our preferences and even our sometimes picky son found enough nice options to eat (just a simple thing like serving the components of a meal on separate plates can do magic). Every morning there was a different fresh fruit juice to enjoy, the staff was all very friendly and they all speak very good English. They were always around if we needed them, could recommend a wonderful guide (Mr. Anis) who we booked for 2 days to take us around the area, did our laundry before we moved on and overall you still have a maximum of privacy around the house. The place is a bit outside of central Rantepao, so you will need some transport to get here, but either you are travelling with a driver or you can get a taxi. Not an issue for us, as we were away most of the day to explore the area and were happy to return to our relaxing "home" in the evenings.

Stayed in July 2023

It would have been nice with a fan in the room. Also a rack to hang towels and wet clothes on to dry would have been apreciated.

Nice and quiet location. Tongkan houses as our closest neighbour. Very good food at the homestay. Also walking distance to a few restaurants if you want to go out to eat. Excellent service with airport transfer and arrangements with driver and guide to get around Toraja.

Stayed in August 2023

Of course, luxuries could be better. But, to be honest, that is not why we are there.

Super friendly staff, food great, rooms comfortable, view stunning, privacy reasonable, location awesome…, Couldn’t ask for anything more!

Stayed in August 2023

The staff was exceptionnaly nice and helpful. The venue is pleasant. The food was very nice. The bathroom was very good. They were helpful to arrange the guide and taxi for us.

Stayed in August 2023

This is a GREAT homestay. The rooms were nice and spacious. Everything was clean. The staff was so helpful and kind, they even went with my mother to the town and helped her buy a new and cheap phone after other one broke down. The food was AMAZING, so tasty! There was also a guide that greeted us when we came, his name Yusuf, he planned a glorious 2 day tour around the area and we even got to witness a Torajan funeral ritual. The hotel also helped to arrange transportation to Rantepao from Tentena and then from Rantepao to Sengkang, the drivers name was Indi and he is a really good driver and takes good care of his passengers in the bumpy and hectic roads of Sulawesi

Stayed in July 2023

Some challenges we had during our stay (but that were not that much of a problem for us): - electricity / water cut every day in the morning - There are no taxis / transfer available to Rantepao so we had to go walking there to rent a scooter.. and it is 1h walking!! We were lucky we found a taxi after walking for 20 min. Same to go back to Rantepao to take the night bus, we had to go by scooter with all the luggage… a bit complicated!! - Also, we didn’t like the guide they recommended, we couldn’t understand his English, we went to a ceremony with him which was nice but super little explanations and not good english… we don’t recommend taking the guide with them, also the prices the guide was asking us at the beginning were 10x times the ones offered in Rantepao.

The room was super super nice! amazing views to the Toraja houses with little terrace!! super calm and great food! super nice owners. Would definitely come back!

Stayed in June 2023

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Our host was most helpful, friendly. She prepared us tasteful breakfasts and dinners, always taking into consideration our wishes. The room was large, airy, very comfortable. There was always cold drinks in the fridge.

Stayed in May 2023

A very recommendable homestay! Manaj is great and cooks excellent, also dishes on request!

Stayed in June 2023

There was nothing we did not like about staying at the Rura Raya Homestay

We stayed here for only one night before beginning a tour of Toraja. The room was large and comfortable and had the most amazing views across the fields to the hills beyond. The lady who owns the property could not have been more lovely. We are vegetarian but that somehow got missed, so when they brought us dinner it had meat, but she was apologetic, although it was probably my mistake, and brought us something else to eat in no time. We loved our short stay here.

Stayed in May 2023

the house overlooking a scenic view of Toraja house/tongkonan and rice field on the backdrop of Sesean mountain.

Stayed in April 2023

As other reviewers have said , a very comfortable home stay in a beautiful location . comfortable beds , hot showers and a lovely view from all of the rooms . The hosts Monike and Geri are very responsive on what’s app and helped us make a night bus reservation from Makassar and arranged for us to be collected from the bus stop at 5am. Monike really is a wonderful cook , extremely generous meal sizes too! they put us in touch with a local guide who provided an excellent overview of Toraja in 2 days including a funeral ceremony . highly recommend

Stayed in February 2023

We really enjoyed our stay at Rura Raya Homestay. Our Room had a really nice view over the ricefields. The host is really friendly and caring and the breakfast and dinner were fantastic :)

Stayed in October 2022

Brother of the female host was talking with our driver about prices, after our driver was asking for more money than the appointment from us.

Wonderful food, the host ist cooking so delicious and food is a lot. The bed was comfy.

Stayed in October 2022

Great views from the room to the traditional architecture, rice fields, and mountains. Peaceful location. Helpful hostess. She arranged for a guide for us for three days and arranged a car to take us from the Tana Toraja area to Tentena. The meals, breakfast and dinner, were fantastic! The best banana pancakes!

Stayed in October 2022

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What a great stay we had! Lady who runs this homestay is so friendly and helpful, she cooks so good, both breakfasts and dinners are delicious, rooms are quite small but clean, bed is comfortable (fresh and clean bedding & towels), owner halped us to ogranize trips (we had a great guide and driver), easy contact via Whatsapp, location is quiet, approx. 3km from Rantepao center which is ok as owner arranged pick up and dropp off to bus station. Quite expensive but still ok for what you get comparing to other homestays. Highly recommanded! :)

Stayed in September 2022

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the owner helped us to organize a taxi for our 5 days in Sulawesi and a guide. the food was really good. the family of the owner integrated us into their life, it was wonderful 😀

Stayed in August 2022

See other review. (We stayed twice.)

Stayed in August 2022