Επισκέπτης Χρήστης
31 Ιανουάριος 2023
I am not a person who normally posts hotel reviews on the internet but I had to take the time out to review the monstrosity which is “The Gopinivas Grand”. There is nothing “Grand” about this place. Like umpteen others, we were also fooled by the paid reviews on Tripadvisor and Agoda and booked this so-called 3-star hotel in Kanyakumari for our 3-day trip. The website advertised driver accommodations but we were told that was not possible. Worse, the front desk informed us the parking is 1 Km away. Our driver informed us that the parking facilities were really bad and he had to make do with sub-par facilities. This was just the first of the ***y shocks that we had to endure in this so-called 3-star “hotel”. The room was another shocker. There was a musty smell in the room and the bedspreads had holes all over them. The hotel carefully advertises its front desk and the beds in its pictures in all the travel sites. What they don’t post a picture of, is their bathrooms. Even roadside motels provide better bathrooms. Forget looking for luxury bathroom amenities such as bathtub/shower area and toiletries, this hotel did not even have the basic amenities that one expects from a so-called top-rated hotel. The doors were rusted with the rust dripping on the bathroom floor. From the dingy shower area to the rusted shower head, to the damaged mirrors and handle-less doors and cabinets, this hotel’s bathrooms check all the boxes. If you are thinking that this was the worst of it, then let me brief you on the biggest shocker of them all. RATS!!!. Yes, rats in the bedroom!! I have stayed in ***y hotels in my life but this is the first time I had rats running around the room at night. The hotel refused to accept that there were rats in the room though we showed them a half-eaten snack packet (see attached pics). The second night of our stay, my husband was up all night to keep the rat at bay. If there was no noise, the rat would come inside and run around the room pushing our water bottles, eating from our snack packets and generally, creating a racket. At the end of it all, we just wanted to get out of this place as soon as possible. The only reason we put up with this place for two nights is because Agoda deducted our entire money two days in advance. Since we had booked three rooms for two days, we would have stood to lose a lot of money. In fact, when we were checking in, we saw another family refusing to check in after seeing the state of their room. Wish we had been intelligent enough to have not paid in advance for this horror of a room. The only saving grace in this place was the in-house restaurant, The Curry, which provided some decent food. Lastly, my sincere request to Trip Advisor, Agoda and other travel websites – try to filter out all the paid reviews. Most of us, travellers, tend to believe the ratings and get fooled in broad daylight by these hotels. I realize it is “buyer beware” at the end of the day but this kind of daylight robbery sh
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