Located 40 minutes from Goa's Dabolim Airport on the western coast of India, the Radisson ... more
White Sands Resort offers a serene refuge of comfort and hospitality, 20 minutes from Margoa, Goa's commercial hub, and just two kilometers from Banaulim. It lies...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Located 40 minutes from Goa's Dabolim Airport on the western coast of India, the Radisson ... more
White Sands Resort offers a serene refuge of comfort and hospitality, 20 minutes from Margoa, Goa's commercial hub, and just two kilometers from Banaulim. It lies...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: New, Spacious Disadvantages: Out of the way, expensive, no facilities
Just come back from a week in the Radisson Golden Sands Hotel (October 2007). The Hotel and Rooms are clean and spacious, however beds especially the sofa beds are every uncomfortable. The food is very expensive and unfortunately is nothing special. Good view overlooking the small beach, and good outdoor swimming pools. Bring your walking boots as the hotel is miles from anywhere. There are no shopping facilities apart from a small gift store, a jewellery store, and a poorly stocked excuse for a food store. Overall comments and experience, overrated, overpriced, not a 5*, out of the way, and no facilities. NB: Beware the timeshare reps as they are out to get you. We also experience very bad weather for the week, cold, wet, and very windy and this might have also tainted our view. ...
Advantages: Proper brand name Coke and large bottle servings - I'm easily pleased, y'see Disadvantages: The busy areas are even busier at night
Spanish whenever they came into view. My Spanish is pretty limited, so I suspect that by the end of my week everyone in the vicinity knew that "Quien no ha visto Sevilla no ha visto Maravilla" since I parroted it again and again.
Eating and drinking in Golden Sands, you might forget for a moment that you're in Bulgaria. As you walk along the promenade you come across stands selling candy floss, popcorn and whippy ice cream. To both sides of the path are bars, restaurants and cafes selling a whole range of cuisines, mainly from other countries. Italian food is popular here, but so are Chinese, Turkish and, unfortunately, establishments offering 'full English brekfasts'. We went to a place called 'The White Lady' several times because it was one of the larger places near our end of the prom, and had everything from crepes to ice cream to fruit ...
Advantages: quiet beach, nice pool, big room Disadvantages: Long way from the airport, mediocre buffet
Ever since some friends of mine were raving about Goa, about ten years ago, I'd been wanting to visit. You see, many moons ago I might have liked the idea of being a trailblazer, a pioneer, travelling to places where visitors were rare and no souvenir shop had yet opened but now - with two destructive minimees, I don't even pretend to fancy myself as an explorer any more. Nope, we are no longer ever in the first boat to new territories - we wait till there is at least one five star hotel, sun loungers on the beach and a bar that sells a decent vodka!
So, how did we finally end up in Goa? Well we were in the neighbourhood, so to speak, so decided to pop in. And we were enticed by a great offer! It was off season so we managed to get an unbeatable deal at the Intercon Resort - otherwise I would not stay at an Intercontinental (they ...
