- Fort Aguada Beach Resort includes the
Aguada Hermitage and
the Taj Holiday Village, Sinquerim, Bardez, Goa, tel # 0832-276201,
277501. Bombay booking tel # 022-2022524, 022-2043122.
Located 45 minutes from Dabolim airport, the Taj Holiday Village is spread out across many acres and borders
the beach. The restaurants are picturesque and many of the terracotta roofed cottages border the pretty,
centrally located pool that has a bar attached. The village offers facilities like a disco, a billiards room, tennis
courts, golf, fitness centre, business centre, beauty parlour, water sports and eight restaurants. These facilities
are available to the Aguada Beach Resort and Aguada Hermitage too. There are 144 rooms in all.
The hotel offers double rooms in two or three bedroom villas (there are a few
independent one bedroom cottages too) with separate private entrances.
The Fort Aguada Beach Resort, which is situated nearby on the site of a 16th century
Portuguese fort, offers standard rooms on twin sharing basis in its beach front hotel
There are 130 rooms in all.
The Aguada Hermitage's offers individual villas.
The villas are shady and secluded and perched on the hillside, with awesome views of the coastline below.
There are 14 villas in all.
The Taj Holiday Resorts are well located and
comfortable.
The place has an authentic Goan atmosphere.
The service is good. Candolim and North Goa is a "happening"
place. There are some great restaurants nearby (Refer to Where to
Eat in Rediff Goa) and plenty of nightlife.

- The Leela Palace, Mobor, Cavelossim, Salcette,
Goa, tel # 0834-246373,
246363. Bombay booking tel # 022-8363636 ext 1338. The Leela is a jumbo-size holiday resort with villas set in
acres and acres of beachside property; 45 acres in all. It offers a range of facilities from pools and children's
activity centres to a disco and a casino and plenty of sports facilities. There are 220 rooms in all.
The Leela resort is tastefully done but the atmosphere is not very Goan. Mobor is a
fairly lively corner of south Goa.

- Cidade de Goa Beach Resort, Vainguinim Beach
Goa, tel # 0893-53301,
221133. Bombay booking tel # 022-2881060, 022-2029188. New Delhi booking tel # 011-6469197, 6467961. Pune
booking tel # 0212-663479. Ahmedabad booking tel # 0272-4906566, 491821.
Rooms are located in the main hotel building and there
are no individual villas on offer like some of the other hotels. But the hotel is beautifully designed by India's best known architect Charles Correa and has all the luxury
facilities like tennis courts, pools et al. Vainguinim Beach is a bit out of the way from the hub of fun. Unlike Baga or Calangute there is not much happening on this beach in terms of good food or swinging places.

- Majorda Beach Resort, Majorda, Salcette, Goa,
tel # 0834-220025,
254345. Bombay booking tel # 022-6204444 ext 1880, 022-6204357 ext 1880. A luxurious resort with
facilities like a health club, a sauna, squash courts, swimming pools, and a billiards room.
The Majorda offers rooms in its six villas too.
Majorda is located at the Majorda Beach and quite close to the hot spots
in south Goa.

- Ramada Renaissance, Varca, Colva Beach, tel #
0834-745208,
745209, 745210. The Ramada provides all the luxuries of a fancy resort -- pools, sauna, water sports, and even an
in-house casino. The beach practically peeps into your hotel room. The hotel also has a few private
two-bedroom villas too. Colva beach -- where the hotel is located -- is a be-bopping place with plenty of
restaurants
and night spots nearby.

- Park Plaza
Resort
, Bogmalo Beach, Goa. phone: 0834-513311,513291. Bombay booking tel # 022-2850951, 2850952, 2850953. New Delhi tel # 011-3354277,
3736030. Calcutta booking tel # 033-2487825. Madras booking tel # 044-8524961:
The Park Plaza is a monlithic,
dull-coloured hotel of uninspiring appearance that one would expect to find in the centre of a city. The excellent
location of the hotel however adequately makes up for its lack of appeal. It is situated bang on the beach and the
Bogmalo beach is rather secluded.
All the rooms in this hotel offer a seaview from their balconies and the hotel possesses a health club, a
swimming pool, a sauna, a bar, a hair salon, several restaurants and provides opportunities for sailing, water
skiiing, golf course, para sailing, squash, water scooters and several restaurants. It is fortunate that the hotel
offers this variety of facilities under its roof as there is little else to do in the vicinty of Bogmalo beach except
sunbathe.
- Golden Tulip, Majorda, Salcette, tel # 0834-754180, 754184, Bombay booking tel # 022-5555587, 5578386, 6151742: Luxurious resort with rooms and chalets bordering a
clover-shaped pool.
Click here for a photograph of the hotel.
- Holiday Inn Resort, Cavelossim, Mobor, tel # 0834-746303, 746304.
Bombay booking tel # 022-2886813, 2886814. New Delhi booking tel # 011-6219700/ 6219708: A three star resort
located at Mobor that offers facilities like a pool, two restaurants serving Goan, Indian, Chinese and Continental
food, a health club, tennis courts and a 24 hour coffee shop. The hotel is U-shaped and is built around the
pool
Click here for a photograph of the hotel.
- Taj Exotica, Calwaddo, Benaulim. Phone: 0832-276201, 276210. Fax: 0832-276044: This new hotel run by the Taj group is cushy and comfortable. The hotel is still offering fairly reasonable Introductory rates
Spread over 55 acres the hotel is landscaped with tropical plants,
palms and trees.The hotel offers 136 standard
rooms, two presidential villas and two deluxe suites all of them facing
the Arabian sea. The airport is 45 minutes from the hotel.
Its facilities: a restaurant, a bar, a coffee shop, conference facilities, a
swimming pool, a health club, tennis, golf, water skiing and wind
surfing. Click here for a photograph of the hotel.
- Sun Village Resort, Arpora. Phone: 279409, 279410, 279411, 279412, 279413, 279414. Fax: 279415. EMail: Paradise Marketing. Website: Sun Village: Sun Village, a four star hotel, is situated in the Arpora-Baga hills. The view: salt pan lakes and green paddy fields. It is not on the beach and Baga beach is a walk away. Design: "portrays Lusitanian Portuguese ambience".
Its facilities: 135 individual air-conditioned rooms with separate
living, bedroom and a private balcony, swimming pool, kiddies
pool, health club, massage parlour, salon, shopping arcade, a multi-cuisine restaurant, pool side snack bar, 24 hour room service, pub with pool table, and a lobby bar. Click here for a photograph of the hotel or here for another photograph.
- Old Anchor, Cavelossim Beach, Salcette, tel # 246335: This resort run
by the Dalmia industrial house lacks visual appeal; largely because of its trademark imitation Viking ship that
occupies centre place on its lawns. However, it offers a luxurious environment with a pool, sauna and
multi-cuisine restaurants.

- Resort Dona Sylvia,
Cavelossim Beach, tel # 246321-28. Bombay booking tel # 6150152. A 240-room, four star resort and cottages
surrounding a pool located in south Goa. Facilities: tennis courts, Chinese food restaurant, a bar.
Click here for a photograph of the resort

- Ronil Royale, Baga Road, tel # 0832-27605. Bombay
booking tel # 6150152. This three star hotel is
not located on the
beach. But for the price it is a good deal. Red-roofed Portuguese
style apartments overlook the pool. A good restuarant and coffee shop are attached.The room rate is
approximately US $ 68 plus 15 per cent taxes for an air conditioned double room. A non-air-conditioned room
works out to approximately US $ 62 plus 15 per cent taxes.
- The Aguada Holiday Resort, Baga Road, near the Taj Holiday Resorts.
A two star hotel located between Candolim and Calangute beaches in north Goa. The resort offers facilities like a
pool, a bar and an in house restaurant and the rooms are sparingly furnished.
Click here for a photograph of the hotel.
- Silver Sands Beach Resort, Colva Beach, tel # 721645, 721646, 721651:
A group tour hideout and its sixty odd rooms are often booked out by tourists on package holidays. For the
price of approximately US $ 31 plus 15 per cent taxes per double room facilities like access to a pool, airport
transfers, health club are thrown in.
Whispering Palms Beach Resort, Candolim, tel # 276140, 276426-35:Located about 15 kms from Panaji, this hotel offers double rooms for approximately US $ 71 plus 15 per cent
taxes.
- Hotel Mandovi, Dr Bandodkar Road, tel # 0832-4627071, 0832-467072,0832-467073, 0832-224405. This three star hotel is located in the heart of Panaji but borders the Mandovi River.
Many rooms have a riverside view. If you are not a beach person and would like to live near the hustle and bustle of a city that has been dubbed the Rome of the Orient, then this is the place to come to.
The rate for a double room is approximately
US $ 47 plus 25 per cent taxes per night, including breakfast.
- Hotel Fidalgo, 18 June Road, tel # 0832-226291, 0832-226299:
This three star hotel is located in the heart of Panaji and is one
of the city's older hotels. It provides facilities like a health club, an in-house shopping arcade and a travel agent.
The room tariff is approximately US $ 35 per double room.
- Nova Goa, Dr Atmaram Borkar Road, Panaji, tel # 0834-223204,
22333205, 46231, fax # 224958. Bombay booking tel # 022-6428618.: A two star hotel located in Panaji. It has
facilities like a pool, closed circuit television and a continental, Goan and Chinese restaurant.
Click here for a photograph of the hotel.
- Sterling Vagator, Vagator, Bombay booking tel # 022-6051493, 6051508:
The fanciest hotel on Anjuna beach, this Sterling resort, a three star, is set admist 50 acres. Close to the beach,
the Sterling Vagator is equipped with every facility from a pool to two restaurants. The hotels 80 rooms are
located in cottages that dot the property.
- Resorte de Goa, Fatrade Varca, Salcette, tel # 245066, 245067.