Phoenix Park Hotel

We are going to the Phoenix Park on April 4th with Thomsons, flying from Manchester, our first time to Goa. I have been looking at the reviews and note that most of them seem to be bogus. Strange that they have all joined tripadvisor on the same day of posting, both good and bad reviews. So my request is for anyone that has been to the Phoenix this season to say how it really is.

Phoenix Park Hotel

well the hotel is in Thompson/cosmos/first choice brochures. so if it was really that BAD I am sure they would drop it?

we are there for 2 weeks and arrive the day before you (so we can get the best rooms lol) know what you mean re reviews, always a bit suspicious but what else can you go by. maybe the hotel asked the posters to post on there return if they were happy......who knows!

it is our first time as well.

Phoenix Park Hotel

Hi stewbert I have just got back and have been to this hotel before. I have been a tripper for a few years now and speak as I find. I love the hotel and the staff are great they are what make the hotel.

When you check in go and look at he room before you take your suitcases to it. There are better rooms than others. There are as far as I can see three levels of rooms and you might be lucky and get a premium room which are the new rooms. If you don%26#39;t get given one and ask for it then it will cost 2000 rupees a night extra, they only give them out if they are overbooked on the standard rooms. You are better off with a first floor room as it gets you above the wall going round the outside. Basically if you don%26#39;t like your room ask for another.

Breakfast is buffet style with a selection of English and Goan. You can have eggs boiled,scrambled, omellette and fried cooked to order. Next to where eggs are cooked you will find the toast which is very slow he usually puts it in about 5 times before it is brown enough. There is usually a potato dish and a meat they call ham but it tastes like smoked bacon,cooked tomatoes. You can have porridge or cornflakes, fresh fruit, cakes, rolls and jam. Tea and coffee is freely available and until 10.30 you can go back as many times you like. The downside is they have enlarged the hotel over the last couple of years but they haven%26#39;t increased the amount of cups bowls and glasses and sometimes you wait for these. We had our own mugs and we used these. In the room they have a kettle and a minibar which was reasonably priced. We never used there tea making things we took our own but you can buy things at newtons. I hope you don%26#39;t find this bogus and no I have not been asked to write this by the hotel, this is my opinion. When my husband was ill they were all very concerned and even lent him there wheelchair so he could get around after he came out of hospital.

Hi Judgemental

How do you know I have not reserved the best room lol. I hear what you say about being in premium holiday brochures but standards do slip. I do not tend to take too much notice of reviews as they are all subjective and really depend on what your original perception was. I read terrible reviews about hols in Maldives and Dominican and they both turned out to be great, but then I may be easily pleased. Anyway we can compare rooms when we arrive.

Stewart

Hello Sylviebabe

No I wouldn%26#39;t say you are a bogus poster and as I said to Judge-Mental I am not guided to much by reviews as what one likes another does not. At the end of the day as long as the room is clean and reasonably comfortable then I am OK. Its the sun and sand I go for, and the beer, the food, the culture, the socialising, the scenery, must I go on lol. Anyway thanks for the re-assurance, my other half needs it, she is easily put off.

That is exactly what I look for in a room aswell. Normally we spend very little time in it. So you should be quite happy.

sylviebabe, Does the a/c work okay in the rooms?

we have paid for ';premium'; rooms, they where nearly twice the price of the deluxe. and I am hoping to avoid any confrontation......

You won,t have any problems in the premium rooms as they have been completely refurbished. There are two blocks of these. If anything you might say it gets a bit cold, but you will be glad of it.

Hi stewbert. Just back from 2 weeks at Phoenix Park. Agree with slviebabe comments. We booked via cosmos for a premium room and stayed on first floor in %26#39;Rosa%26#39; block - large bed, decent bathroom with shower,AC, balcony, flat screen TV, mini bar, kettle etc. Other good rooms were in %26#39;Zai%26#39; block - think these were slightly larger. Enjoyed our first visit to Goa and would stay at Phoenix again.

garden2002, thanks for that update....Maybe you should post a review over on tripadvisor proper, as there has been some dodgy ones recently lol

was it very hot when you were there? have seen reports that it is 40 deg at the moment! OMG!!

Judge-

The heat is on out there we got back Friday,the locals said this would be the weather they get in April saying their monsoon weather could come in a bit earlir.

Met up with sylviebabe hubby and sister at the hotel.

Nice to put faces to names

We booked Standard room as that was all were available at time of booking, rquested a Pool View. Due to our A/C not working constantly, we felt through the nights we were being cooked alive lol AS IT DID NOT WORK,ROOM 2301, we were upgraded to Premier, bit more luxury but on the 4th floor to high up for my liking but couldnt complain again.

COUNTED 64 STEPS UP TO OUR ROOM.

OUR ROOM WE HAD LAST YEAR HAS NOW BEEN UPGRADED.

They class these rooms Deluxe, we had a look in on one, Sandheep the supervisor of cleaning remembered us FROM LAST YEAR so showed us a room in the block, these are only 3 floors high and not as built up as the other blocks there.

These are now the best rooms where Premier was the best last year.