Impersonal Beach Hotel!
Room Type: Lagoon Suite with Balcony
Stay: 5 Nights
I deeply regret booking this hotel.
Arrival
Very lack lustre welcome, no welcome drink and a wait to get to the room as you have to go by buggy.
Room
Located around the lagoons, the room was on the second level and was actually not bad. Large and modern in style, it was clean and comfortable with patio doors opening on the balcony with seating looking over the lagoons.
The only drawback was the distance back to the main building and the beach, you could call a buggy but a long wait for them.
Size: 90 sqm
Leela Room Facilities
- Toiletries
- Tea and Coffee making facilities
- Bottled water
- Hangers
- Safe
- TV with international channels
- Minibar
- Bathrobes & slippers
- Hairdryer
- Limited Wifi
Balcony view overlooking the gardens with the pool at the end
Dining
We only ate breakfast at the hotel because we had paid for it, we chose not to try any of the other choices as they looked expensive for what was on offer. The restaurant for breakfast was like a canteen, getting a table was nearly impossible and there were not enough staff to clear them. Large buffet style but not much in the way of western choices.
We ate a small local restaurant just outside the gates every evening.
Service
Dreadful, hotel is too big and impersonal.
Amenities
Swimming Pool - busy with children
Shops
Spa
Beach - long sandy beach with sun beds under the palm trees, no water provided and it is a long walk to get to the sea. There was a lot of oil around.
Restaurants / Bar
The Restaurant - buffet multi cuisines for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Jamavar - Indian cuisine for dinner
Riverside - Italian fine dining
Susegado - Grill for meat, seafood and salads - lunch, dinner, snacks
Aqua - lounge with disco
Pool Bar - cocktails and drinks all day to 7.30 pm
Yale Lounge - tea and drinks
Conclusion
Unfortunately the service and quality of the food at the hotel was dreadfully and it is your typical impersonal beach hotel. After our experience with them in Udaipur we were not surprised but somewhat hopeful it would be different but I cannot recommend it.
The Leela brand does seem to be more a 3 to 4 star level although they have the buildings to be 5 star.
The Leela, Goa
Not 5 star, chose somewhere else possibly The Taj. Click the logo to visit their website
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