 Guest Reviews
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Recommend This Property
Overall Experience 4
79%
Recommend This Property
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“Summer Holidays”
By
June 26, 2016
Nice place to be in with family. I love the food and drinks.
Staff is very polite and helpful.
Prefer room on 1st floor with pool view. You can rent bike/Car from hotel in affordable rate for sightseeing.
Enjoyed my stay
Nice vacation destination
ByRahulAbhyankar
May 06, 2016
Property is very nice and so is their staff. Will revisit!
Regards,
Rahul
Excellent Stay
ByPkapo
May 04, 2016
Great Hotel, Great room, Great food and Excellent Staff.
Thanks all the team members who made my stay memorable one. Will definitely come back.
Friendly & welcoming
ByTaffy Cymro
March 05, 2016
Spent 2 weeks for the 4th time in this friendly, relaxing hotel. Excellent food both in quality and variety. Fabulous location right on the beach. Lovely gardens lawns and pool. weather reliably perfect in February. Can't wait to return!
Paul & Alison.
aweful and chaotic
Byindianm
February 28, 2016
very badly managed with results in untrained staff, who are unable to apprectiate a problem let alone solve it.do not know what a ihg reward program is let alone offer or acknowledge your benefits.
is only interested in weddings and other guests are treated as second class
several hour wait at check in for a room seems common
hotel has smoking and non smoking room ie they remove the ash tray if you want non smoking
evening buffet Goan food which is hot and spicey. other restaurants closed to guests because of weddings
would not stay here again or recommend hotel is not worthy of holiday inn name
Enjoyable four night stay
ByJanpet
February 25, 2016
This was our fourth visit to the Holiday Inn and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We had a garden view room opposite the gym which had a nice view from the balcony. The grounds are very well kept and there are plenty of sun beds around the pool, in the grounds and on the beach so plenty of space for relaxation. A good buffet breakfast with a large choice of Western and Indian food. We always find the staff very helpful and accommodating. We look forward to another visit sometime in the future.
Great location but not quiet
ByBugg
February 21, 2016
We spent 8 nights at this resort and were mostly very happy. A lovely room, very comfortable. Plenty of bottled drinking water provided with hotel compliments. Very clean, lovely grounds. Beautiful beach, polite staff. Just two areas of concern: there was a fairly continuous stream of weddings, great fun to watch, especially the very colourful clothes.However there seems to be no limit placed on the noise level permitted from the huge outdoor speakers. On one occasion the music was so loud that our whole bedroom, most especially the window frame, resonated with the deep bass booming producing unbearable sound levels. To the hotel's credit the music stopped each evening around eleven pm, but it was very intrusive, there was no escape possible! The other issue related to total loss internet and a seeming inability of staff to tell the truth. We learned from other guests that a fire had wiped out both phones and internet. It took two days of asking at reception for this to be finally confirmed by the hotel staff. Eventually limited internet use was resumed, but the lack of information provided was not helpful. However these two issues did not put us off the possibility of returning. This is a well maintained property in a very beautiful location.
Fantastic Gateway
ByLazier Traveller
February 14, 2016
We loved it with Wife and 2 kids. We just wanted to go to some safe/fun place without much crowd and have quality time. Hence was great choice. If you want to party all time, then probably this may not be the best place for you. Kids loved it, staff was great - loved the genuine smile on their face (Many other places, I see smiley faces which always expect something from you).
Food was great. They can potentially focus on more variety in Indian veg food (which max Indian prefer and unique for western world). Restaurants focus more on non-Indian food, which is intriguing, as I hope, folks want to eat local (Goan or Indian food) when in India.
Great customer service
Bysachinaxis
February 10, 2016
This was my second time at this property and I was impressed again by the customer service. Front desk staff Suzzana was great in her job and she assisted very well in whatever we needed help with. The best part was the Housekeeping team, they did an excellent job of cleaning the room. The downside was the food we had on the beech, the set up of this restaurant was nice but food was terrible.
Holiday Inn Resort still remains my favorite place to stay in Goa.
Perfect Location to just relax
By
February 07, 2016
The property is located in a very secluded south goa. The beach is uncluttered. The ambience,room,staff,food all are great.
Fantastic beach Resort
ByRed79
February 04, 2016
I chose this resort for its easy access to the long golden sand beaches of Goa and was glad that I was not wrong on that score. Every day, in the morning and evening, we could access the beach after just 5 minutes of walking and catch glorious views of sunrise on the hotel side and sunset on the sea side.
Later I realized that the hotel was also on the direct bus route to Margao, the nearest town some 17 kms away. So for just Rs. 20 each way, we could sample the way locals travel, and buy cashew nuts, babinca (a wonderful Goan sweet meat), and Goan spices.
I was happy to be accorded the welcome due to a Club Member and the upgrade to a slightly bigger room with a view of the pool. The room amenities were fine and amply met our needs of bath robes, tea, coffee and drinking water. Wi-Fi in the room was also great.
The restaurants attached to the hotel viz. The Beach Grill and Whispers of the Orient are fantastic. Surprisingly, they served dishes at almost the same rates as the other nearby beach shacks but in vastly superior hygienic conditions. So although we did venture out to the legendary Fisherman’s Wharf, which is 15 minutes away on foot, it is not really necessary to go anywhere outside the resort for your meals.
The swimming pool is a bit on the small side but was not too crowded. With a maximum depth of 4 ft 3 inches, and a separate kiddie’s pool, it was also very safe for every member of our family.
I was a little disappointed with the breakfast buffet. I specifically disliked the bakery items which looked to me stale. There were NO local Goan dishes. There were no whole fruits like bananas or apple. Choice of juice and cold cuts was limited. The spread was not at all like any other Holiday Inn I had stayed in, including Delhi or Cochin in India.
Hotel transport was expensive. I was charged almost Rs. 1000 more than what the taxi from the Holiday Inn Taxi union would have charged me for the Airport pick up. So for the return airport drop, I made my own arrangements.
On the whole, however, it was a fantastic holiday that I won’t mind repeating every five years or so.
Overall Good experience
By
February 02, 2016
Facility need to upgrade the bathrooms especially the shower heads