Good hotel, but there is a significant but......

Written: 1 december 2016
Travel time: 19 — 30 november 2016
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 5.0
I see that there are no recent reviews for this hotel, I think we need to add information. This is my third trip to GOA (south) and two of them I stayed in this hotel with the only difference being that the first time we lived in a regular room, and now (we paid $ 30 for the possibility of early check-in and apparently for this (was booked standard) we were settled in a villa. We arrived together with my husband (usually we take older children with us, but not this time). The villa is just huge, 2 floors. A minimum of furniture and a lot of empty space. two bathrooms. Definitely a plus a large veranda , peace and quiet, shady paths - all that I lacked in the main building with standards last time, and now still (on the main territory on the basis of the dining room, the nearby lawn, then weddings are held (very wide, loud and, frankly, I b didn’t want to live there during this period) it’s just Indian parties and meetings (usually on weekends, but it happened on weekdays). But there is a shake and there is sun when there is something to catch up. In general, nothing has changed. For food in the necks. Prices have risen, which of course is not encouraging, plus everything is their monetary reform, and here we are once again glad that there are no children with us, maybe the problem is with the cash rupee, just give them new dollars (otherwise the exchange rate will simply be very, very unprofitable) , withdraw at an ATM - the limit is below the plinth (2000 rupees per day from the card and even wait in line for an hour). By the end of the holiday, this ATM stopped issuing money, the rest did not work. But at that time it didn’t bother us anymore, because it was towards the end of the holiday. They gave dollars in the neck, when we gave them twenty, and we had change in rupees (often there was simply not the right amount in the neck to exchange $ 100). Hindus love large $100 bills and accept them at the highest possible rate (if they are new), but there were not many vacationers and there was not enough cash to exchange, so in the neck where we ate constantly, we accepted dollars of any denomination at the rate of 66 rupees . When buying tea, they paid by bank transfer, it is also possible at the hotel. As for food in the necks, this is a separate issue. . You shouldn’t choose a Shake based on reviews, because at the end of the season all the necks are dismantled and reassembled for the new season and the name may remain, but the owner is already different, or a team is being recruited for the season, but they don’t cook as well as the next one, etc. so earlier, while relaxing in this hotel, we ate at Rosa and we liked everything, but this year, when we arrived at the beach, we ordered a sliced ​ ​ pineapple.... and we were given a frankly rotten product. Well, if we were buying a whole unpeeled pineapple, then it’s clear that it’s not always possible to guess what’s inside. But then, they cleaned it for us, cut it, and she saw that it was 80% spoiled and, as if nothing had happened, served it for use. We drew her attention to this, to which the answer was that it was not her fault that he had deteriorated. At lunch, we ordered fish from her and it turned out to be raw. . We didn’t go to her anymore, but went to eat in the neighboring Sheik, having previously tasted food from two others located nearby. It was delicious everywhere, but in the neck of Magzika (it is the first one at the entrance to the beach in lilac shades and a carpet laid by the employees of this neck leads to it so that it would be more convenient to walk on the sand and immediately in the right direction) but Nani (this is not the owner, but how would be the manager) a great guy, pleasant and cheerful, he could always explain what kind of dish, fulfill your wishes for food (both in cooking and in the import of sea reptiles that were not represented), it was also thanks to him that we had problems with the local currency bypassed us (he took from us all the old money, kindly handed to us during the exchange of currencies, due to our ignorance on the first day (they were no longer accepted for settlement in shops and shops (with the exception of fruit stalls), and from 24.11 they even announced termination of their acceptance throughout India) and in the future, regardless of the denomination and year of issue of dollars, the exchange rate was the maximum for us). He always tried to please us with pleasant little things (just like that) - he will fry chips for beer, then he will cut pineapple. And somehow We witnessed that the visitors did not like the soup and did not take money from the visitors for it, but clarified what they did not like, and in the future, it was for these visitors that the soup was cooked according to their preferences (I immediately recall Rosa with her rotten pineapple and raw fish). We were the first to come to the beach, everyone else had sunbeds in a heap, not spaced, and ours were already waiting for us in our place : ) Such pleasant little things are very pleasing. On the last evening, he organized an excellent farewell dinner for us on the shore, he made a fuss and found us a coin to throw into the ocean. By the time we left, new necks had grown like mushrooms on the shore, and even two (different owners) "Kolya cafes" appeared, one on the right, the other on the left of the beach access. In general, the rest was excellent, but this hotel, in view of its noise, is unlikely to be chosen again (this was not the case on our last visit, but the hotel advertises itself as a center for various events, while completely unable to protect vacationers from them). But in general, as for India, the hotel is good (already 4 stars). The hotel gives (we for 7 days) free Wi-Fi, but he lives his own separate life.... and he is more often not there than he is, but he finished off to the beach (if he worked). We enjoyed excellent wi-fi in the neck. We went out of old memory to the Coconut Grove4 * hotel (it is very close, on the left side of the Nanu Resort), where we rested for the first time and we really liked Joe and his shake, we wanted to eat ice cream there. but disappointment awaited us, now it is a Pushkin cafe with several young and fashionable guys who frankly "clung" to girls who had a rest without boyfriends (apparently everyone has their own methods to attract customers). We spent the whole day near this neck (this is when we were looking for a new place after the Rose feeding) and watched it all. In addition, I didn’t like the seafood soup (Nani’s cook it with milk and it’s much tastier) and the fried rice with seafood was interspersed with burnt ingredients. We made conclusions and went to look further.
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