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We rested with a family with a child of 6 years old at the Mahindra Club Hotel in late February - early March 2009 through Lanta-tour.
ACCOMMODATION AND SERVICE. Upon arrival, we waited 1.5 hours for accommodation. It was a terrible ordeal after a sleepless night on a plane with drunken tourists, given that it was hot and we just melted in the hotel lobby, there is no air conditioner there, because there are no doors, it probably means that the draft will be fresher. The child's head was sweaty, his hair was wet, as if he had bathed somewhere. They gave a small number (No. 1236), even extra. do not put a bed for a child. But a married couple without children was given a bigger room - for what reasons, it is not clear. After all, we paid and they "standard". But I didn’t want to get in touch, because we fell off our feet and would have to wait again for 2 hours, because the service is oh-oh-very slow and forgetful. You ask for 3 bath towels, they bring 2.
Well, in general, we are not offended by them, in principle, everyone is friendly and our room turned out to be quite cozy and pretty, despite some tightness. Every day they made figurines out of towels.
GENERAL MOMENTS. They don’t say a word in Russian at the reception, at least they learned the word “hello”, because they offer a hotel on the Russian market, but in the bar the waiters understand and explain themselves a little, and in the eateries on the beach they also mumble a little in Russian and even the menu on Russian is in the cafe "Gloria" (or something similar). Well, the beach and cafes there do not belong to the hotel. The hotel has a lot of local people resting, wealthy Indians from all over the country. This hotel specializes in compatriots, and we are Europeans, so, for the exotic, they look at us like white monkeys.
The Hindus asked us to take pictures with them more than once, especially our son - a little white-skinned boy in the company of dark-skinned Indians looks very, in their opinion, apparently, exotic.
There is nothing to do outside the hotel, a wasteland, dirt, several shacks, and walking pigs and cows.
Be vigilant, they tried to divorce us by inviting us on an excursion to the Holiday Inn hotel. There, instead of an excursion, they began to sell a time-share. I think they work with a tip from our guides from the meeting side, otherwise how could they know in which room the newly arrived people stayed, and call us on the very first evening and invite us to "see another hotel", and we, without waking up from the road, agreed to another day for a meeting, and we didn’t know about such a divorce.
By the way, India prohibits the use of tobacco.
BEACH. Municipal beach. Sunbeds only at those same cafes or sheks in their language.
If you order juice or beer or eat, then you use the sunbed for free. Merchants walk along the municipal beach, selling beads and all sorts of rubbish - they are also familiar with the Russian language. Gypsies walk around, give performances (almost like in Indian cinema). The villagers drive away their sacred bulls. But it somehow does not bother, the beach strip is wide, there is enough space for everyone, and in general it sometimes seems that the beaches are deserted. The sea is warm, but already at the beginning of March it is restless, big waves understand the sand and sorry for the details, then you have to shake the sand out of the swimming trunks. Before going to the beach, either a security guard, or a policeman, in general, a man in uniform, sits and asks and then writes down in a journal what number we are from, back - the same procedure.
NUTRITION. Food to the conscience is flavored with spices, although we are omnivores, but after a few days nothing climbed into the throat.
Even in scrambled eggs in the morning, the cook who fried them managed to throw in some spices if you didn’t have time to say “know spice”. Therefore, we went to cafes on the beach where we ordered soups with chicken or seafood, but we already agreed with the waiters that they would cook without spices. Probably, you can advise people who go to this hotel to take only BB (breakfasts), we took ALL, we thought that we would not risk feeding the child in eateries, and there would be no problems with food at the hotel, but we were bitterly mistaken. The child ate scrambled eggs in the morning, and for lunch and dinner from the offered buffet he ate nothing but ice cream, well, the Indians hadn’t thought of throwing their spices there yet. and in a cafe on the beach they ate and everything was in order with their bellies.
ENTERTAINMENT AND SHOPPING. There was no animation in the hotel. For us, the best entertainment was "Old Monk" rum (it seems) - not even expensive and not bad, and dubbing Indian films that were on TV.
Then there were taxi rides to the nearest village of Cavelossim to buy the same rum and souvenirs, as well as excursions. By the way, taxi drivers stand at every hotel, because civilization is far away and you can’t walk on foot. It seems that for 600 rubles of theirs they drove us back and forth and waited 1-1.5 while we went shopping and bought goods. Pharmacies surprised us a lot. In addition to medicines, cosmetics, food, water, you can still buy alcohol and exchange currency there. The rate here is much more profitable than at the hotel at the reception, but here, in different pharmacies, the rate is different - look for it and find it.
The hotel has 2 shops - one with gemstones and food, the other - with souvenirs and children's toys.
In the village where we went, you can also buy hats - a taxi driver brought us to a small shopping center, and saris and stoles, and jewelry, and tea and coffee - ask a taxi driver and he will take you to a specialized store (home to Russia - although I didn’t feel anything special in the inn tea that we brought) - and don’t forget to bargain.
TOURS. We went on 2 excursions to the neighboring state of Karnataka and to the spice plantation. Both liked, all very exotic. A riot of colors, colors, smells. At the spice plantation, girls were greeted with songs and dances, showered with flower petals, smeared each with a red dot on their foreheads. They showed how certain types of fruits and spices grow. There we were fed, given the opportunity to choose the freshest spices in the shop as a souvenir. During the second excursion, we left the state of Goa and entered the state of Karnataka. Each state, as a separate state, has customs on the border of the state
. We traveled to several temples and holy places for the Hindus - after all, they are very pious, every 10-15 meters they have either a temple or a holy place or a holy tree or something else sacred associated with their religion. In general, it was very interesting and informative, and we were lucky with the guide, we got a lot of useful information about the country. We swam in the Indian Ocean, by the way, the coast of Goa washes the Arabian Sea. On the way back there was a skirmish between our driver and the local population, here we suffered fear, they took our car into the ring while the disassembly was going on, they probably spent more than an hour surrounded. Everyone's faces are wild, they shout something and you don't know what to expect from them, because their mentality is different. Who are we to them? We are not sacred bulls, I think if there was a more serious conflict, we would be torn apart like Tuzik a heating pad, without a twinge of conscience.
But in the end, we still returned home safe and sound, except for the lost time and nerves.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS:
ABOUT THE TRIP. Everything is not very clear. Interesting, bright on the one hand, and the dirt and ignorance of the local population on the other hand. But the country is interesting with a rich history and cultural heritage, and it seems that the inhabitants of India have remained mothballed in this, because as they prayed to their Gods for thousands of years, they still pray now and do not particularly strive for civilization.
ABOUT THE HOTEL. Still, even compared to the Egyptian ones, this hotel is inferior in many respects, in my opinion: spicy food (it is clear that in order to disinfect the body, but still you cook for Europeans, but we are unusually spicy and it seems that everything tastes the same ), lack of animation (we entertained ourselves with rum, but where are the children?
The children's room does not count - they don't speak Russian there, and our cub doesn't understand English), slowness of service, remoteness from civilization.
But on the other hand - a pleasant, well-groomed territory, the presence of a pool and even with a children's slide, the presence of hammocks in the shade of trees, 1 line of the beach, cozy rooms and flower arrangements in the lobby, the friendliness of the staff (for the most part) - still speaking different languages, they sometimes figured out what we want from them, and even (we never met this in Egypt) in the morning daily fresh newspapers in English about events in India - we guessed this from photographs, because we don’t read English.
CONCLUSIONS AND ADVICE. If you are not a gourmet, you do not need discos until the morning, you are not picky and capricious, you speak at least a little English - you will be fine here.
If you have extra money - choose something else - you will only like the well-groomed, green area in the hotel.
I would say CLUB MAHINDRA is a budget hotel. Although in the time that has passed, after our visit to this hotel, maybe something has already changed for the better.
ACCOMMODATION AND SERVICE. Upon arrival, we waited 1.5 hours for accommodation. It was a terrible ordeal after a sleepless night on a plane with drunken tourists, given that it was hot and we just melted in the hotel lobby, there is no air conditioner there, because there are no doors, it probably means that the draft will be fresher. The child's head was sweaty, his hair was wet, as if he had bathed somewhere. They gave a small number (No. 1236), even extra. do not put a bed for a child. But a married couple without children was given a bigger room - for what reasons, it is not clear. After all, we paid and they "standard". But I didn’t want to get in touch, because we fell off our feet and would have to wait again for 2 hours, because the service is oh-oh-very slow and forgetful. You ask for 3 bath towels, they bring 2.
Well, in general, we are not offended by them, in principle, everyone is friendly and our room turned out to be quite cozy and pretty, despite some tightness. Every day they made figurines out of towels.
GENERAL MOMENTS. They don’t say a word in Russian at the reception, at least they learned the word “hello”, because they offer a hotel on the Russian market, but in the bar the waiters understand and explain themselves a little, and in the eateries on the beach they also mumble a little in Russian and even the menu on Russian is in the cafe "Gloria" (or something similar). Well, the beach and cafes there do not belong to the hotel. The hotel has a lot of local people resting, wealthy Indians from all over the country. This hotel specializes in compatriots, and we are Europeans, so, for the exotic, they look at us like white monkeys.
The Hindus asked us to take pictures with them more than once, especially our son - a little white-skinned boy in the company of dark-skinned Indians looks very, in their opinion, apparently, exotic.
There is nothing to do outside the hotel, a wasteland, dirt, several shacks, and walking pigs and cows.
Be vigilant, they tried to divorce us by inviting us on an excursion to the Holiday Inn hotel. There, instead of an excursion, they began to sell a time-share. I think they work with a tip from our guides from the meeting side, otherwise how could they know in which room the newly arrived people stayed, and call us on the very first evening and invite us to "see another hotel", and we, without waking up from the road, agreed to another day for a meeting, and we didn’t know about such a divorce.
By the way, India prohibits the use of tobacco.
BEACH. Municipal beach. Sunbeds only at those same cafes or sheks in their language.
If you order juice or beer or eat, then you use the sunbed for free. Merchants walk along the municipal beach, selling beads and all sorts of rubbish - they are also familiar with the Russian language. Gypsies walk around, give performances (almost like in Indian cinema). The villagers drive away their sacred bulls. But it somehow does not bother, the beach strip is wide, there is enough space for everyone, and in general it sometimes seems that the beaches are deserted. The sea is warm, but already at the beginning of March it is restless, big waves understand the sand and sorry for the details, then you have to shake the sand out of the swimming trunks. Before going to the beach, either a security guard, or a policeman, in general, a man in uniform, sits and asks and then writes down in a journal what number we are from, back - the same procedure.
NUTRITION. Food to the conscience is flavored with spices, although we are omnivores, but after a few days nothing climbed into the throat.
Even in scrambled eggs in the morning, the cook who fried them managed to throw in some spices if you didn’t have time to say “know spice”. Therefore, we went to cafes on the beach where we ordered soups with chicken or seafood, but we already agreed with the waiters that they would cook without spices. Probably, you can advise people who go to this hotel to take only BB (breakfasts), we took ALL, we thought that we would not risk feeding the child in eateries, and there would be no problems with food at the hotel, but we were bitterly mistaken. The child ate scrambled eggs in the morning, and for lunch and dinner from the offered buffet he ate nothing but ice cream, well, the Indians hadn’t thought of throwing their spices there yet. and in a cafe on the beach they ate and everything was in order with their bellies.
ENTERTAINMENT AND SHOPPING. There was no animation in the hotel. For us, the best entertainment was "Old Monk" rum (it seems) - not even expensive and not bad, and dubbing Indian films that were on TV.
Then there were taxi rides to the nearest village of Cavelossim to buy the same rum and souvenirs, as well as excursions. By the way, taxi drivers stand at every hotel, because civilization is far away and you can’t walk on foot. It seems that for 600 rubles of theirs they drove us back and forth and waited 1-1.5 while we went shopping and bought goods. Pharmacies surprised us a lot. In addition to medicines, cosmetics, food, water, you can still buy alcohol and exchange currency there. The rate here is much more profitable than at the hotel at the reception, but here, in different pharmacies, the rate is different - look for it and find it.
The hotel has 2 shops - one with gemstones and food, the other - with souvenirs and children's toys.
In the village where we went, you can also buy hats - a taxi driver brought us to a small shopping center, and saris and stoles, and jewelry, and tea and coffee - ask a taxi driver and he will take you to a specialized store (home to Russia - although I didn’t feel anything special in the inn tea that we brought) - and don’t forget to bargain.
TOURS. We went on 2 excursions to the neighboring state of Karnataka and to the spice plantation. Both liked, all very exotic. A riot of colors, colors, smells. At the spice plantation, girls were greeted with songs and dances, showered with flower petals, smeared each with a red dot on their foreheads. They showed how certain types of fruits and spices grow. There we were fed, given the opportunity to choose the freshest spices in the shop as a souvenir. During the second excursion, we left the state of Goa and entered the state of Karnataka. Each state, as a separate state, has customs on the border of the state
. We traveled to several temples and holy places for the Hindus - after all, they are very pious, every 10-15 meters they have either a temple or a holy place or a holy tree or something else sacred associated with their religion. In general, it was very interesting and informative, and we were lucky with the guide, we got a lot of useful information about the country. We swam in the Indian Ocean, by the way, the coast of Goa washes the Arabian Sea. On the way back there was a skirmish between our driver and the local population, here we suffered fear, they took our car into the ring while the disassembly was going on, they probably spent more than an hour surrounded. Everyone's faces are wild, they shout something and you don't know what to expect from them, because their mentality is different. Who are we to them? We are not sacred bulls, I think if there was a more serious conflict, we would be torn apart like Tuzik a heating pad, without a twinge of conscience.
But in the end, we still returned home safe and sound, except for the lost time and nerves.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS:
ABOUT THE TRIP. Everything is not very clear. Interesting, bright on the one hand, and the dirt and ignorance of the local population on the other hand. But the country is interesting with a rich history and cultural heritage, and it seems that the inhabitants of India have remained mothballed in this, because as they prayed to their Gods for thousands of years, they still pray now and do not particularly strive for civilization.
ABOUT THE HOTEL. Still, even compared to the Egyptian ones, this hotel is inferior in many respects, in my opinion: spicy food (it is clear that in order to disinfect the body, but still you cook for Europeans, but we are unusually spicy and it seems that everything tastes the same ), lack of animation (we entertained ourselves with rum, but where are the children?
The children's room does not count - they don't speak Russian there, and our cub doesn't understand English), slowness of service, remoteness from civilization.
But on the other hand - a pleasant, well-groomed territory, the presence of a pool and even with a children's slide, the presence of hammocks in the shade of trees, 1 line of the beach, cozy rooms and flower arrangements in the lobby, the friendliness of the staff (for the most part) - still speaking different languages, they sometimes figured out what we want from them, and even (we never met this in Egypt) in the morning daily fresh newspapers in English about events in India - we guessed this from photographs, because we don’t read English.
CONCLUSIONS AND ADVICE. If you are not a gourmet, you do not need discos until the morning, you are not picky and capricious, you speak at least a little English - you will be fine here.
If you have extra money - choose something else - you will only like the well-groomed, green area in the hotel.
I would say CLUB MAHINDRA is a budget hotel. Although in the time that has passed, after our visit to this hotel, maybe something has already changed for the better.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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