Hotel Medan Banda Aceh
Jl. Jend. A. Yani No. 15 Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Medan Banda Aceh
“Good value ”
pnaka 4 contributions
Jindabyne, Australia 
Mar 1, 2011
Large clean rooms, not overpriced. Very helpful staff. Hot water. Breakfast a bit mediocre though
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Medan Banda Aceh
Arrival in Northern Sumatra
From Bangkok, we flew down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and from there over to Northern Sumatra to a town called Banda Aceh. We intended to immediately head from the airport to the pier to catch a ferry to a small island just north called Pulau Weh. However, as we flew into Banda Aceh, we saw a patchwork of green farmland fringed by mountains that …
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ACEH!!! Bless you.
... so that the coach wouldn’t leave without me. The driver used the horn so much it was funny, bombing it through all the roads as if to say ‘get out the way, I’m here’. So I was getting a bit worried that I’d have nowhere to stay when I got to my destination. "arrive in daylight and you’ll have no problems" people always say – So I arrived at midnight! I’d written the addresses of a couple of places down but to ...
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... ferry was actually running until almost lunchtime. Then it was a quick pack up and taxi over to the harbour on the other side of the island. Geoffrey was our young driver and he’d lost a brother of 26 and a sister of 13 to the tsunami. His parents escaped, because they were away from Banda Aceh on the day. Geoffrey was working in Pulau Weh at the time.
Sitting firmly inside the ferry this time, with a bit of a swell going on, I updated ...
Diving delights - they don't get any better!
... high waves that annihilated large tracts of coastal development and human life. Estimations believe that more than 170,000 people died and made more than 500,000 homeless.
During a trishaw ride from the bus station to the harbour, it quickly became obvious that this incredibly unfortunate town had a very vulnerable low coastline and I could see the odd decimated building left from the tsunami (its 7th anniversary due shortly). ...
Elephants in a tropical paradise
... tall white geese and hens & chicks strutted about the lanes and houses as if they were the owners!
We passed far too many palm oil & rubber plantations, while there were many durians having just been picked. Loads of banana trees sported huge, proud bunches of bananas, while passion fruit (sweet frogspawn) and rambatans (lychees) were being sold in the villages. As always, there were lots of happy children playing and ...
