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I went on vacation to take a break from people in peace and quiet, and my wishes came true. I got a quiet vacation on a huge sandy, almost deserted beach, surrounded by palm trees (as in the bounty ad) with a warm, gentle sea (there were big waves only on the last day before departure).
I liked the hotel, not big, clean, comfortable, quiet. we were lucky, because many Russian families rested in the hotel during this period, which helped to orientate themselves on the "locality". The staff absolutely does not understand Russian, they speak English. since we ourselves are not boom-boom in English, at the first meeting there were difficulties with breakfast. We arrived at the hotel at about 8 am - breakfast time. sat down and thought that they would bring us breakfast, which is included in the price of the tour. but it was not there. the waiter in English began to ask what we would be. he spoke, and we shrugged, then we heard the familiar word omelette and ordered it (earlier in the reviews we read that omelette is included in the breakfast price of this hotel), we somehow ordered toast, jam, butter and coffee. but there was a catch - at the end of breakfast, we were offered to pay 202 rupees for 2 people for an omelette (about 120 rubles of ours). later we found out that we had paid for a continental breakfast - tea or coffee (1-2 cups), 2 toasts, a box of waiting and 10 gr of butter. each and a glass of juice. since the hotel is really on the outskirts, we immediately got confused and decided that we would die of hunger, but our worries were not justified. You can find food there, there is a lot of it and it is tasty (for me anyway).
A little about the room, we were accommodated in a room on the first floor, which is opposite the reception. this is not a big room, in which there were 2 beds opposite the door, separated by a mini table, to the right of one of the beds there was a door to the "bathroom" where there was a sink, toilet and shower. everything in the tile is relatively clean, but there was no curtain between the toilet and the shower, so when you swim, the water floods everything around and the toilet too, even if it is covered with a lid (this is not convenient, you have to constantly wipe it). to the left of the entrance in the extreme corner there was a cabinet with a small TV, but we didn’t turn it on, as well as another mini table-bedside table with a telephone. on about 2 or 3 days they brought a small refrigerator, which gurgled and sobbed so loudly that it was not possible to sleep (I turned it off for the night). to the right of the door in the wall there was a wardrobe not large with a crossbar for clothes (without hangers) and 1 shelf below. the room had a fan and a window air conditioner built into the wall above one of the beds (also very noisy). but neither the fan nor the air conditioner was useful to us. at first we tried to change the room, we were told that if we pay $ 40 extra, then we will be moved to the 2nd floor (there the rooms are really better, more spacious, we went in and looked). I didn’t have much money with me, so we refused and didn’t regret it, because. only slept in the room.
The service is normal, though you have to ask for everything, and more than once, but if you politely insist, they will do everything, they can right in front of you. we did not leave the key at the reception, took it with us, and asked to clean the room about every 3 days, cleaned and changed the bed. the hotel territory is constantly cleaned, cleaned, watered, etc. the pool is also cleaned every day - they wash the bottom, take out the handrails, wash them, etc. we swam in the pool all 2 or 3 times during the hot hours, when it’s hard to be on the sea. near the pool there is a canopy, where there were sun loungers and umbrellas, you take you put it and lies. almost like at home. no tension. but to be honest, there was not enough time to lie near the pool; the days there fly unnoticed and very quickly (it gets dark at 18-20).
Our worries that the hotel is far from civilization dispelled the beach and the sea. by the way, they are very close - as you leave the hotel to the right, after about 10 meters there will be the first turn to the left, but it is a dead end, there is a house, and after about 10 meters the second turn to the left, we turn off and go along a small street of 5-6 houses 3 minutes and you are on a huge sandy beach with a beautiful view of the sea. the sand is light, fine, creaks underfoot like starch. at the entrance to the sea, on the left is a shake (in our cafe), in which Simon works (the owner Philip is a taxi driver). There is a menu in Russian in the neck, the choice is not very large, they cook without spices (not spicy) relatively tasty but VERY long. it is better to come to order and go swimming, they will cook in an hour or even an hour and a half. I can’t help but talk about the tricks that Simon goes for (I think others too) on the first day we were cheated on shrimp, showed one price on the menu - 150 rupees per serving, brought 8 large (in my opinion tiger prawns) and took the price 600 rupees. The explanation is simple, 150 rupees are small, and we gave you big ones, so 600 rupees, as in a joke about crayfish. Therefore, always ask to see shrimp (their quantity), fish, crabs, lobsters and ask the price right away so that there are no surprises. you can bargain with crabs and lobsters.
Later, from the taxi driver who took us on excursions - Rodriguez (clean, polite, Indian, speaks English well, lives on the street, on the way to the beach), we learned that if you walk along the beach to the right for about 10 minutes there is a shake where the locals eat , they cook faster, tastier and cleaner there. We did just that, we went to eat in the "local" shake, it is called ANOSHKA, and next to it is the NIKITOSHNA shake, locals also eat, but it is a little more expensive there. the menu there is really only in English, but we met a couple where the girl knew English well and translated everything to us. we really liked their local Kingfisher beer (in bottles), it doesn’t load easily, it doesn’t cause wild thirst like after ours. the principle of food is not complicated - rice (rice) or pasta (noodles) with seafood or meat (chicken, beef, pork) and sauces. sauces give the whole taste to the dish, they are very tasty (in my opinion, a successful combination of sour, salty and spicy). if you say "know spice" then the spiciness of the dish will be acceptable. portions are large, even men do not eat up, or eat through force. we took 1 serving for 2, if you eat another cup of soup, then you will overeat. their soups are puree-like, tasty, if there are spices, if not, then fresh.
The food at the hotel can only be judged by the Christmas dinner on 12/25/11, it was a buffet with vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, fried fish pieces, rice side dish, pasta with gravy already, and various gravies with meat, seafood, vegetables, etc. . as already said, the taste of the dish depends on the sauces (gravy). the hotel food was not very spicy, closer to European.
As for the remoteness from civilization, I can say that, in fact, the hotel is located in close proximity to the village of Velsao, and our beach was also called Veslao Beach. In about a 15-minute walk you can walk to a village where there are shops with food and industrial goods, a bank where you can exchange dollars at a better rate than in necks (although the difference is not big in 1-2 rupees. in the bank they changed 1 dollar at 51.11 rupees, and in the neck 1 dollar = 50 rupees). True, in the necks they begin to cheat and say that if you change less than 20 dollars, then 50 rupees is 1 dollar, and if more, then 51 rupees is 1 dollar. but with us, a guy from Moscow was exchanged 100 dollars at 50 rupees per dollar. and on the day of departure they wanted to change 1 dollar for 40 rupees, saying. that they do not accept small money anywhere else.
So, here in this village you can buy fruits - bananas, pineapples, papaya, mangoes (prices from other places, for example, Colva, do not differ much), you can also buy their famous rum "Old Monk". The price for it is fixed everywhere - 125 rupees for 0.750 liters, as well as other alcohol. the only souvenir you will not find there.
However, on a local bus for 10 rupees, you can get to the nearby more party village of Colva, where you can buy souvenirs. you can walk to this village - Colva, if you are hardy and like to walk a lot. from our beach Velsao beach you have to go to the left for about 1 hour. 40 minutes. We tried, we got there, but we went back by taxi - 400 rupees from the car. although we could get there and back from our hotel for this amount, while the taxi driver would have waited for us as long as we asked him.
Excursions: at the hotel, our guide Anna offers a range of excursions and the lowest price, in my opinion, a sightseeing tour is $ 60. But we all saw the same thing for $10 per person, taking a taxi for 4 people. taxi driver Rodrizes drove us to sightseeing places, while stopping where we asked, was not intrusive, made discounts (you just need to talk to him). I really remember a trip to another state of Karnataka to a large statue of Buddha, the Murdeshwar temple, where Hindus perform deadly rites for the dead.
On the way back, we stopped at the famous OM beach (Gokarna state, the beach has the shape of OM, the Hindu spiritual symbol). By the way, the beach is nothing special - not a very wide coastline - sand mixed with volcanic rocks. in the sea, going on the sand, you can come across a stone (I personally knocked my knee in the water). the water due to the bay is smooth, almost without waves, but more dirty than in our hotel. along the beach there are necks with "numbers" little rooms with lights and beds, more like a hippie haven, hairy, stoned young people live there, who eat, drink, smoke, swim and, in my opinion, do nothing else. this trip cost us $40 for 5 people only $200. despite the fact that we did not have a guide, it was still interesting, and you can find out details about these places via the Internet.
in the end, I want to say that if you need a quiet, relaxing holiday, without parties and fuss, then this is what you need.
I liked the hotel, not big, clean, comfortable, quiet. we were lucky, because many Russian families rested in the hotel during this period, which helped to orientate themselves on the "locality". The staff absolutely does not understand Russian, they speak English. since we ourselves are not boom-boom in English, at the first meeting there were difficulties with breakfast. We arrived at the hotel at about 8 am - breakfast time. sat down and thought that they would bring us breakfast, which is included in the price of the tour. but it was not there. the waiter in English began to ask what we would be. he spoke, and we shrugged, then we heard the familiar word omelette and ordered it (earlier in the reviews we read that omelette is included in the breakfast price of this hotel), we somehow ordered toast, jam, butter and coffee. but there was a catch - at the end of breakfast, we were offered to pay 202 rupees for 2 people for an omelette (about 120 rubles of ours). later we found out that we had paid for a continental breakfast - tea or coffee (1-2 cups), 2 toasts, a box of waiting and 10 gr of butter. each and a glass of juice. since the hotel is really on the outskirts, we immediately got confused and decided that we would die of hunger, but our worries were not justified. You can find food there, there is a lot of it and it is tasty (for me anyway).
A little about the room, we were accommodated in a room on the first floor, which is opposite the reception. this is not a big room, in which there were 2 beds opposite the door, separated by a mini table, to the right of one of the beds there was a door to the "bathroom" where there was a sink, toilet and shower. everything in the tile is relatively clean, but there was no curtain between the toilet and the shower, so when you swim, the water floods everything around and the toilet too, even if it is covered with a lid (this is not convenient, you have to constantly wipe it). to the left of the entrance in the extreme corner there was a cabinet with a small TV, but we didn’t turn it on, as well as another mini table-bedside table with a telephone. on about 2 or 3 days they brought a small refrigerator, which gurgled and sobbed so loudly that it was not possible to sleep (I turned it off for the night). to the right of the door in the wall there was a wardrobe not large with a crossbar for clothes (without hangers) and 1 shelf below. the room had a fan and a window air conditioner built into the wall above one of the beds (also very noisy). but neither the fan nor the air conditioner was useful to us. at first we tried to change the room, we were told that if we pay $ 40 extra, then we will be moved to the 2nd floor (there the rooms are really better, more spacious, we went in and looked). I didn’t have much money with me, so we refused and didn’t regret it, because. only slept in the room.
The service is normal, though you have to ask for everything, and more than once, but if you politely insist, they will do everything, they can right in front of you. we did not leave the key at the reception, took it with us, and asked to clean the room about every 3 days, cleaned and changed the bed. the hotel territory is constantly cleaned, cleaned, watered, etc. the pool is also cleaned every day - they wash the bottom, take out the handrails, wash them, etc. we swam in the pool all 2 or 3 times during the hot hours, when it’s hard to be on the sea. near the pool there is a canopy, where there were sun loungers and umbrellas, you take you put it and lies. almost like at home. no tension. but to be honest, there was not enough time to lie near the pool; the days there fly unnoticed and very quickly (it gets dark at 18-20).
Our worries that the hotel is far from civilization dispelled the beach and the sea. by the way, they are very close - as you leave the hotel to the right, after about 10 meters there will be the first turn to the left, but it is a dead end, there is a house, and after about 10 meters the second turn to the left, we turn off and go along a small street of 5-6 houses 3 minutes and you are on a huge sandy beach with a beautiful view of the sea. the sand is light, fine, creaks underfoot like starch. at the entrance to the sea, on the left is a shake (in our cafe), in which Simon works (the owner Philip is a taxi driver). There is a menu in Russian in the neck, the choice is not very large, they cook without spices (not spicy) relatively tasty but VERY long. it is better to come to order and go swimming, they will cook in an hour or even an hour and a half. I can’t help but talk about the tricks that Simon goes for (I think others too) on the first day we were cheated on shrimp, showed one price on the menu - 150 rupees per serving, brought 8 large (in my opinion tiger prawns) and took the price 600 rupees. The explanation is simple, 150 rupees are small, and we gave you big ones, so 600 rupees, as in a joke about crayfish. Therefore, always ask to see shrimp (their quantity), fish, crabs, lobsters and ask the price right away so that there are no surprises. you can bargain with crabs and lobsters.
Later, from the taxi driver who took us on excursions - Rodriguez (clean, polite, Indian, speaks English well, lives on the street, on the way to the beach), we learned that if you walk along the beach to the right for about 10 minutes there is a shake where the locals eat , they cook faster, tastier and cleaner there. We did just that, we went to eat in the "local" shake, it is called ANOSHKA, and next to it is the NIKITOSHNA shake, locals also eat, but it is a little more expensive there. the menu there is really only in English, but we met a couple where the girl knew English well and translated everything to us. we really liked their local Kingfisher beer (in bottles), it doesn’t load easily, it doesn’t cause wild thirst like after ours. the principle of food is not complicated - rice (rice) or pasta (noodles) with seafood or meat (chicken, beef, pork) and sauces. sauces give the whole taste to the dish, they are very tasty (in my opinion, a successful combination of sour, salty and spicy). if you say "know spice" then the spiciness of the dish will be acceptable. portions are large, even men do not eat up, or eat through force. we took 1 serving for 2, if you eat another cup of soup, then you will overeat. their soups are puree-like, tasty, if there are spices, if not, then fresh.
The food at the hotel can only be judged by the Christmas dinner on 12/25/11, it was a buffet with vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, fried fish pieces, rice side dish, pasta with gravy already, and various gravies with meat, seafood, vegetables, etc. . as already said, the taste of the dish depends on the sauces (gravy). the hotel food was not very spicy, closer to European.
As for the remoteness from civilization, I can say that, in fact, the hotel is located in close proximity to the village of Velsao, and our beach was also called Veslao Beach. In about a 15-minute walk you can walk to a village where there are shops with food and industrial goods, a bank where you can exchange dollars at a better rate than in necks (although the difference is not big in 1-2 rupees. in the bank they changed 1 dollar at 51.11 rupees, and in the neck 1 dollar = 50 rupees). True, in the necks they begin to cheat and say that if you change less than 20 dollars, then 50 rupees is 1 dollar, and if more, then 51 rupees is 1 dollar. but with us, a guy from Moscow was exchanged 100 dollars at 50 rupees per dollar. and on the day of departure they wanted to change 1 dollar for 40 rupees, saying. that they do not accept small money anywhere else.
So, here in this village you can buy fruits - bananas, pineapples, papaya, mangoes (prices from other places, for example, Colva, do not differ much), you can also buy their famous rum "Old Monk". The price for it is fixed everywhere - 125 rupees for 0.750 liters, as well as other alcohol. the only souvenir you will not find there.
However, on a local bus for 10 rupees, you can get to the nearby more party village of Colva, where you can buy souvenirs. you can walk to this village - Colva, if you are hardy and like to walk a lot. from our beach Velsao beach you have to go to the left for about 1 hour. 40 minutes. We tried, we got there, but we went back by taxi - 400 rupees from the car. although we could get there and back from our hotel for this amount, while the taxi driver would have waited for us as long as we asked him.
Excursions: at the hotel, our guide Anna offers a range of excursions and the lowest price, in my opinion, a sightseeing tour is $ 60. But we all saw the same thing for $10 per person, taking a taxi for 4 people. taxi driver Rodrizes drove us to sightseeing places, while stopping where we asked, was not intrusive, made discounts (you just need to talk to him). I really remember a trip to another state of Karnataka to a large statue of Buddha, the Murdeshwar temple, where Hindus perform deadly rites for the dead.
On the way back, we stopped at the famous OM beach (Gokarna state, the beach has the shape of OM, the Hindu spiritual symbol). By the way, the beach is nothing special - not a very wide coastline - sand mixed with volcanic rocks. in the sea, going on the sand, you can come across a stone (I personally knocked my knee in the water). the water due to the bay is smooth, almost without waves, but more dirty than in our hotel. along the beach there are necks with "numbers" little rooms with lights and beds, more like a hippie haven, hairy, stoned young people live there, who eat, drink, smoke, swim and, in my opinion, do nothing else. this trip cost us $40 for 5 people only $200. despite the fact that we did not have a guide, it was still interesting, and you can find out details about these places via the Internet.
in the end, I want to say that if you need a quiet, relaxing holiday, without parties and fuss, then this is what you need.
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