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Fast facts

Check in from:		15:00
Check out before:		12:00
Pets		Pets not allowed

Amenities

Wi-Fi
Parking
Airport shuttle
Pool
Restaurant
Non-smoking

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Belum Rainforest Resort

Belum Rainforest Resort offers top-notch services and amenities, ensuring guests experience utmost comfort.Maintain seamless communication using the complimentary Wi-Fi at resort.Discovering Gerik becomes even more accessible, thanks to the shuttle amenities provided at the resort. For visitors traveling by automobile, complimentary parking is available. During your stay at this fantastic resort, the attentive front desk personnel can provide you with a range of amenities such as luggage storage and safety deposit boxes.Obtaining passes for the town's top entertainments becomes effortless with resort's tours. For extended visits or whenever required, the laundry service ensures your preferred travel garments remain fresh and accessible. During leisurely days and evenings, on-site amenities such as daily housekeeping enable you to fully enjoy your accommodation.Kindly note that smoking is prohibited in the resort to ensure fresher air for all visitors. For visitors wishing to smoke, designated smoking zones can be found. Begin your day with a scrumptious on-site breakfast available each morning at Belum Rainforest Resort.Begin your day feeling refreshed and invigorated as you enjoy a delightful cup of quality coffee available at the cafe situated within the resort.At the resort, an assortment of easily accessible and delicious meal choices are available to satisfy your appetite whenever it strikes.At Belum Rainforest Resort, they are committed to catering to your unique requirements. They offer a variety of meal choices, encompassing halal alternatives for those with special dietary preferences. At Belum Rainforest Resort, guests can access vending machines that provide light snacks and beverages 24 hours a day.Belum Rainforest Resort provides a superb assortment of leisure amenities for guests to enjoy.Be sure to drop by the pool at resort at least once during your stay.

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Group traveller

Comment: 4 Jun 2026

Stayed in: May 2026

The tamed jungle.

Resort on the shores of Lake Temengor. The rooms are spread across the hill surrounded by a lush garden, high-end villas by the water. Welcome with fruit juice, fresh towel. The restaurant hall is spacious above the lake. Buffet dinner on weekends, by order on other days but with limited choices. The breakfast is decent (good bread and good jams). The pool is magnificent. Belum Park, to be discovered by boat, offers visits to the orang asli village and numerous hikes to waterfalls, varying in difficulty.
Family traveller

Comment: 15 Aug 2026

Stayed in: Aug 2026

Lovely location but some what underwhelming experiences

We stayed in Meranti one of the separate houses and the accommodation was excellent , very high end , beautiful rooms with plentiful space and a wonderful view over the lake. I would recommend it as a place to stay . However the actual rainforest experience is a bit so so . It’s a lovely location and the guides and kind and enthusiastic . However the amount of the rainforest that can be accessed is limited - great for wildlife of course but not so good for tourists . Therefore the tours are relatively large groups of westerners all following the same small route and seeing very little in the heat . It should probably more accurately be advertised as a boat trip with added small walks amongst trees . Lovely in itself but not really a rainforest trek like you might get in say Costa Rica or Brazil . I’m pleased we went as it was on our way across the country but I wouldn’t make it a destination in itself . It’s a relaxing atmosphere and probably we would have been better just staying one night for rest and lovely views and maybe a little lit of rafting
Couple of specific points - the food is buffet style and perfectly fine but nothing to write home about .
The pool is lovely - great views - but ji where near big enough for the number of guests and because everyone is on the same itinery everyone wants to use it at the same time and the number of loungers needs to be tripled at least
I wish them all the best though - lovely people
Family traveller

Comment: 14 Aug 2026

Stayed in: Aug 2026

Do not expect a resort in the jungle

It is a simple resort with decent facilities, but it is located right next to a busy road. The road is visible from different points of the complex, for example, from the pool, so the feeling of being near the jungle disappears. The cleanliness and the food are decent, but the staff working there is unprofessional and, especially, very slow. The infinity pool is nice, but the space is small and there is no room for all the guests to enjoy it.
Regarding the excursions, they are very weak. The jungle experience is limited to a boat ride through the (artificial) swamp, a 30-minute hike in which the guides give up on finding animals from the very first moment (because they are not seen), a swim in a small waterfall, and a brief visit to a village.
Apart from this, there is nothing else to do. Therefore, the stay is quite frustrating.
Group traveller

Comment: 13 Aug 2026

Stayed in: Aug 2026

How to ruin best location

Royal Belum Rainforest is the kind of place where the location itself creates very high expectations. Surrounded by ancient rainforest, a huge lake and spectacular scenery, you naturally expect an unforgettable experience.
Unfortunately, the experience was unforgettable for completely different reasons.
The biggest problem is the complete lack of customer orientation. Everything seems slow, complicated and organized around what is convenient for the hotel rather than what is convenient for the guest.
We booked a boat to explore the lake — arguably the main reason to come here — only to discover that the boat was unavailable. Apparently there are three boats, but only one was operating. What made this particularly frustrating was that there is a public jetty nearby where private boat services are available. Nobody suggested this alternative. We had to figure it out ourselves.
Even after that, instead of simply arranging for a boat operator to come and pick us up, the hotel organized an expensive taxi to take us there. Problem solved — in probably the least efficient and most expensive way possible.
The rooms deserve a separate chapter.
Some creative designer apparently decided that the toilet should effectively be inside the bedroom, separated only by a curtain. Privacy, it seems, was considered an unnecessary luxury. Meanwhile, the shower has a glass door. I am still trying to understand the architectural philosophy behind this arrangement.
There is also no telephone in the room, so there is no simple way to contact reception. In a remote rainforest resort, where guests depend heavily on the hotel for transportation, activities and other arrangements, this is particularly strange.
Then there is the restaurant.
Anyone arriving here dreaming of enjoying wonderful Malaysian cuisine should adjust their expectations immediately. The objective quickly changes from “let’s enjoy Malaysian food” to “let’s find something reasonably edible and fill our stomachs.” The food was genuinely disappointing.
And then came perhaps my biggest cultural shock: no beer in the restaurant.
We are in a hot, tropical location marketed largely to tourists, including international visitors, yet you cannot order a cold beer with dinner. Apparently, however, beer does exist — in a vending machine next to the billiard table. So somewhere in the management philosophy, serving beer in a restaurant is problematic, but buying it from a machine beside a pool table is perfectly acceptable.
The frustrating thing is that Royal Belum itself is magnificent. The lake, rainforest and surroundings have enormous potential. This could easily be a destination people remember for years for all the right reasons.
Instead, there is a huge gap between the quality of the location and the quality of the hospitality.
I had seriously considered returning here specifically for fishing. After this stay, however, I am reconsidering. I can accept basic conditions when travelling somewhere genuinely remote. What is much harder to accept is poor service, bad planning and the absence of any real effort to find solutions for guests.
Royal Belum Rainforest deserves a hospitality experience worthy of its extraordinary surroundings. Unfortunately, at the moment, the rainforest is doing all the work.
Family traveller

IT

Comment: 11 Aug 2026

Stayed in: Aug 2026

A more eco-friendly approach would be needed

Hotel
Inserted
In a beautiful natural setting. Unfortunately, it is all 'concrete' with a view of the viaduct. The rooms inside are very beautiful

Location

3.8

Timur-Barat Hwy, Pulau Banding, Gerik, 33200, Malaysia

Check in and check out

Check in from:

15:00

Check out before:

12:00

Good to know

Pets

Pets not allowed

Important information about the city
It is prohibited to bring durian and mangosteen to the hotel. Effective 1 January 2024, Foreign nationals entering Malaysia are required to fill in the Malaysia Digital Arrival Card (MDAC) via the Malaysian Immigration portal.
Extra beds

Please contact the hotel for details about adding extra beds.

Belum Rainforest Resort: FAQs

At Belum Rainforest Resort you can check in from 15:00, and you'll need to check out before 12:00.
Yes, there is parking available at Belum Rainforest Resort.
Yes, Belum Rainforest Resort does have a restaurant.