Canopy Tower

The Canopy Family sites are a dream come true. Beautiful nature, excellent food, guides who can tell you everything you want to know, and it is very SAFE. I have been to all 3 Canopy properties and they are experts in customer service. Go NOW!

I did an all-inclusive tour with the Canopy Family, which included 3 nights at the tower. The tower is located in a national park, so you're staying in the middle of the forest, which provides for a very cool experience. Rooms are located on the second and third levels of the tower, and a communal lounging/dining area is on the fourth level. During the day, you're able to go all the way to the outdoor platform at the top, which is a great place to bird and look for other wildlife in the canopy. The tower doesn't have air conditioning, but the rooms are equipped with ceiling fans. The rooms themselves are pretty basic, but you don't come to Canopy Tower for the rooms! The birding tours and guides were excellent, and the staff were very friendly. Would highly recommend a visit if you're a birder.

Canopy Tower is spectacular and a MUST DO for any nature enthusiast. They are the complete package unlike any other nature lodge. Wonderful service, home cooked meals on the property, in-house guides, transportation, logistics, and a beautiful location. Carlos, Jorge, Eric, and Eli each spent time with us and were fantastic guides. Their skill, communication, enthusiasm, and passion were a sight to behold and their positive attitudes were infectious! The food provided in the tower was absolutely delicious. I will surely be back to Panama to visit the other two properties (canopy lodge and canopy camp).

We spent 5 nights at the Canopy Tower with Nature Ninja tours. The accommodations are basic but clean and more than adequate. The food is delicious and there was something new every day. The staff is very attentive to any need we had. My wife is gluten free and dairy free and they specially prepared dishes and snacks for her every day, All of the guides were awesome. They worked very hard to make sure everyone got on the birds. Before I could find a bird in my binoculars they had a great view of it in their scopes resulting in 138 lifers for me. We not only saw birds but also sloths, monkeys, a porcupine and many more. We loved every minute of this trip and when we got home, feeling confident that we would be well taken care of signed up to go to the Canopy Lodge next year

Wonderful views of the Rainforest canopy. The Canopy Tower is a converted air force communications tower. It is a terrific place to stay for those who love wildlife. All the rooms look out on the forest and he bird guides are spectacularly good and keen to show both birds and mammals to all guests. The atmosphere is friendly and it is really like staying with a family. It is a basic but comfortable hotel with good hospitality. However, you must be able to cope with all the steps up the tower as the dining room and sitting area is on level three and the viewing area on level four, but it is so worth it.

Amazing views of the rainforest canopy for birding from the observation deck on top. Plus, watch Three-toed sloths, Geoffrey's Tamarin, and Central American Wooly Possum from the floor below the observation deck with the dining room. The food is excellent, and the service is awesome.

I enjoyed my trip to Canopy Tower very much. The guides and staff were extremely friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. The guides we worked with were able to find so many different species and worked to help us see the ones we wanted to see the most. Every trip out we saw something different or got a better look at a reclusive bird. ||The kitchen staff were really good with dietary needs (gluten free and vegetarian). They always made sure to have a replacement for anything we couldn’t eat. All of the food was amazing. It was so delicious and always too much. ||All of the field trips were interesting and we saw so many birds. We also learned more about the Panama Canal and Pipeline Road. I really enjoyed the side trip to Cerro Azul in the highlands to see so many different species. I would definitely do that again. ||The night tour was overpriced. Night tours we have taken in the past have been walking tours rather than riding on the truck and we have seen so many different insects spiders, birds and mammals, even the one we did in the pouring rain showed us so much more wildlife. ||I really hope to return to the Canopy Family in the future and have nothing but praise when telling others about the experience.

Canopy Tower rooms are small and clean. Guest room doors are wooden slat doors, so noise travels and one can hear neighbors coughing, talking, etc. Ear plugs available. Rooms are cleaned daily. Gift shop has few souvenirs. Closest town with shops is about 30 minutes away via car arranged in advance. Front desk is typically unattended, at least in afternoon onward. A staff member is somewhere on site overnight.||All mealtimes are exact, not a window of time. Earliest breakfast time was 5:30 a.m. At mealtimes, a table is set for exact number of guests so it is not really open seating, but rather communal social seating.||Morning hikes last about 3 hours. Afternoon hikes are slightly shorter, around 2 - 2.5 hours. Trail walking is very slow-paced, similar to strolling through a museum. Can generally spot at least a couple of birds and mammals on hikes.||Summer months increase risk of heat exhaustion. Stay hydrated but be aware of restroom availability. There are no restrooms on most hikes. Relieve yourself by squatting/standing off trail in bush. Boat tour is about 3 hours and there are no restrooms at dock. If restroom is needed while aboard, men can urinate off of the side of the boat, or boat driver can pull over to small island for guests to relieve themselves in bushes.||Most time is spent with fellow tour guests at every meal and activity, so there is an abundance of socializing. Lots of travel happens via open air vehicle (pending weather) for rides lasting about 15 - 30 minutes.||Approximately 2 hours of siesta time between lunch and afternoon activity. Time on observation deck is somewhat limited due to activity-filled day. The broad strokes of each day’s planned activities are briefly explained the night before.||Visit to Panamá Canal starts at visitor center with an IMAX film about the canal’s construction; following the film, tourists are directed to bleachers to watch next boat pull in, which takes a while.||Transfer from Canopy Tower to Canopy Lodge takes about 2.5 hrs on highway and long twisty road. Lodge has large clean rooms. The manicured grounds include a couple of short walking paths. Meal times and hikes are similar to that at Tower.||Someone on my tour got sick and spread it to others. Wear a mask while traveling in the van. Avoid second helpings at mealtimes; people who got second helpings used their dirty plates thereby touching the communal serving spoons onto dirty plates.||Light snacks are provided on hikes, and chips served before dinner. However, snacks are not provided outside of these times (unless perhaps you go to the kitchen and ask the cooks to make something). Consider packing your own snacks. This will come in handy if, for example, you need to take a pain pill with food in the middle of the night.