Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay 2 * (India, Goa): reviewer photos and reviews

Recreation in the resort state of the west coast of India in North Goa entices tourists from the 70s. Then he was discovered by the hippies. Since that time, a powerful resort industry has grown up here (hotels, restaurants, bars, Ayurvedic centers, diving schools) and daily charter flights operate from Germany, France, Great Britain and Sweden.

Portugal, which owned its overseas province of Goa for more than 400 years, changed its appearance, implanting in the cities of the future state of India thousands and thousands of buildings of colonial architecture. Here was built a small Portugal with numerous administrative and other buildings: railway stations, sea villas, elevators, mills, etc.

If the south of Goa offers guests a measured and relaxed rest of the classic and premium level, the glory of North Goa is based on large-scale youth parties, discos accompanied by psychedelic music, and youth parties of trans-party.

Location

The small two-star Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay (ex Cuba Mandrem) is built in the resort village of Mandrem, on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The hotel is safe, it can be recommended to families with children and people of advanced age. Tours in it are in great demand, and they can be bought only in 3-4 months.

Often the charm of small hotels exceeds the universal comfort of the huge hotel complexes - "five-star". They are designed for those tourists who want to discover the quiet beautiful corners of the Earth, where harmony and family atmosphere reign.

In Mandrem, vacationers do not experience a cultural shock from the simultaneous contact with crowds of people who are benevolent, but of a different, unaccustomed mentality. There are no crowds, the hotel and the beach are on the outskirts, away from the main human flows. In the village of Mandrem, in honor of European concepts of cleanliness and order, and the ubiquitous in India, lean and dirty sacred cows, the inhabitants of Mandrem dare from these places. The resort atmosphere of this place is determined by the proximity of the same name to the village of the amazing Mandrem beach, which is considered to be the best beach for Goa. Go to him from the hotel in question for about 5 minutes along the path between the Osaba hotel and the wall.

The capital of the state, the ancient colonial Portuguese city of Panaji (in India it is called in another way - Panjim), is 36 kilometers from the hotel. The transfer from the airport to the hotel complex has a length of 56 km.

About the hotel

Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay (India) provides its residents with quality resort services of economy level. The price of the tour for 7 nights for a double comfortable room is 65 953 rubles. The best vacation here - from October to March (in the dry season).

This modern three-tiered building, built on a small green area, externally imitates the ancient colonial, secular utilitarian, Portuguese-style pombalino. Its features: an enlarged gable roof, casting a shadow; Long (to the whole floor) loggias with numerous entrances to them; Uncomplicated, symmetrical and harmonious repetition of straight lines of the facade.

The Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay is ideally and organically fit in the environment, facilitated by a compact landscaped with royal palms and tropical shrubs around it. Long, spacious large loggias are ideal for evening contemplation of the surroundings and meditation.

Infrastructure

Hotel Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay (India) is inherently a comfortable and cozy portal to the secluded beach of Mandrem. From the side of its facade, it is decorated with an avenue of royal palms, while it has a convenient access and a small parking lot for vehicles. From the back, the territory of the hotel complex resembles a small greenery in a summer cafe. The hotel guests in the evenings like to spend time here before bed.

Excellent work reception and restaurant. The attention is paid to the attention, their wishes are taken into account, and the requests are fulfilled. The nearest exchange office is on the same street with the hotel complex considered in the article. Near the hotel there is an inexpensive taxi stand.

Rooms

On the housing conditions at Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay reviews are positive. On the one hand, it is quite predictable that the economy class hotel complex will not offer its guests apartments with servants, helicopter platform services, an opportunity to become members of the golf club.

But, on the other hand, the hotel complex is distinguished by a special romantic, warm, family-friendly good-natured atmosphere inherent in good small hotels. Efforts of conscientious personnel in all 16 spacious (area - about 30 m2) rooms are maintained order and coziness.

The Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay rooms are spacious, clean and cleaned daily. The design is dominated by soft pastel colors. The walls and ceiling are plastered, the floor is tiled.

The rooms themselves are differentiated by floors: at each of the three levels of the hotel there are the same types of rooms that are unique to it. On the ground floor there are standard rooms. Their furniture is inexpensive, but neat: a small wardrobe, two single beds or one double bed. The second floor contains deluxe rooms with a balcony overlooking the back of the building. On the third floor are deluxe family rooms, they are larger in area, however, lacking balconies (a feature of the architecture of the hotel complex.

Each of them has air conditioning, fan, satellite TV.

Services and Services

Standard for its level and quality services is provided by the Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay 2 *. Reviews of its guests positively evaluate the work of the hotel reception. There is a bulletin board, a tour desk, bicycle rental. No complaints about the quality of cleaning rooms.

Guests are paid services of laundry, safe, doctor's services. In the rooms of families who come to relax with children, a cot is given free of charge, and babysitting services are paid for.

Beach holidays

Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay Resort is located near a relatively small and quiet Mandrem beach with white, in appearance like flour, fine sand and original bridges. Guests of the hotel celebrate the fascination and comfort of a beach holiday. The beach is not overcrowded and planted with palm trees, casting a shadow. Near the coast there are cafes - necks. Tourists, having come to them by companies, buy a pair of bottles of beer and then for free all day use the deck chairs belonging to the cafe.

If you go along the coast to the left relative to the hotel, then in 10 minutes you can go to another beach - Ashvem, if you go half an hour to the right - to the crowded and party Arambol.

Breakfast in the hotel

Guests, settling according to the purchased tour to the hotel Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay, have already paid for the breakfast option. They are closer to dinner, the hotel guests daily treats working on the ground floor of his building a small restaurant. So traditionally eat all Indians. In its menu - dishes of European and local Indian cuisine.

Breakfast is prepared in the morning in the all inclusive. And from lunch to evening this institution works as a restaurant, according to the record. By the way, very well. There is a team of one of the best chefs in the district. If tourists order a lunch or dinner from him, they will receive them with a 10% discount. Tourists like how they are served by waiters: somehow especially, in Indian, unobtrusive and cordial.

The success of the guests enjoy traditional Indian cuisine:

• Soft and sparing stomachs of Europeans cheese soup with spinach paneer.
• A variety of flat cakes - a feature of Indian cuisine. The most popular of them are: roti, chapatis, naanas, paratas, samosa, puri and many, many others.
• Kari from chicken or chicken-feed.
• Wright is an analog of minty okroshka with spices.
• Навратан корма - vegetable mixture in nut-cream sauce.

Lunch and dinner at the resort's restaurants

More often than not, hotel tourists who decide to dine in a place different from the hotel restaurant, opt for the nearest NIS "Sunset".

There are many such restaurants on the Arabian coast. Guests of India are tempted by the opportunity to eat seafood at low cost. At the same time, steaks from tuna and royal fish (the price of 110-140 rupees), baked in the oven fish, squid, shrimps are very popular.

Leisure

Not a beach holiday alone enjoy guests Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay 2 *. The most dynamic take scooters at the rental price of 500 rupees for two days (the nearest hire - at the hotel Shiva Beach) and sent to explore nearby attractions.

From the recommended trips - visit the Juice Center, which offers visitors inexpensive fresh fruits of exotic fruits of Thailand, as well as ice cream with fruit. Especially tasty freshly squeezed juice from kiwi. Captures the spirit from the panoramic scenery that opens from the walls of Fort Chapora. You can go to the fish market in Siolim (it works after 5 pm), buy squid, shrimp, fish at the lowest price (200 rupees per 1 kg), then ask the chefs of the favorite chef (beach cafe) to cook them. Most of the guests of the hotel complex chose the Sheck "Sunset".

Excursions

Guests of Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay 2 * buy excursions, and sometimes organize them themselves, having agreed with the taxi drivers, constantly working at the hotel. On the most secluded beach of Mandrem there are no sights. But near it you can visit the coconut grove, the Alex church, Friday bazaar. An important local sightseeing facility is the famous fort of Aguada. This ancient formidable military fortification with thick walls and arches, defended by 79 cannons, withstood many battles.

Tourists in Goa guides, working from travel agencies, traditionally offered a list of excursions. Guest reviews Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay, as a rule, give high praise to such of them:

• A trip to the Dudhsagar waterfall;
• Excursion to the objects of the colonial Goa;
• Visit to the temple in Muroudushvar and a museum located inside a 37-meter statue of Shiva;
• Visiting the ancient buildings of the Vijayanagar Empire;
• Examination of the ancient temples of Aichole, Badami, Pattadakal.

Shopping

Guests Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay can purchase directly on the beach women's spa clothing pareo for 100 rupees, and pearl beads - for 300. However, one should not hurry, because their quality is doubtful.

Therefore, they still have to make their main purchases, having arrived at the remote state capital of Goa, 40 kilometers from the hotel, Panaji. It is advisable to visit the night market. Analysis of reviews of tourists-shopaholics allows briefly to name the most popular purchases:

• Inexpensive and high-quality cosmetics brands "Himalaya" (cheaper) and "Swati";
• Rum "Old Monk";
• Cashmere scarves and pareos;
• Any summer clothes (shorts, T-shirts);
• Leather shoes, jackets, bags;
• Nepalese bronze ornaments.

Conclusion

Many tourists who visited the Mandrem Retreat Chillax Stay, in their reviews express their readiness to buy at least once a tour to this hotel. It is distinguished by cozy spacious rooms, excellent cuisine, goodwill and helpful staff.

However, the main know-how is the beautiful and crowded Mandrem beach, impressive with the smallest white sand and emerald water. The guests of the hotel complex are impressed and inspired by the sunsets of the Indian Ocean. They are pleased with the gastronomic variety of delicacies from the local cuisine: from outlandish seafood to exotic fruits.