Stayed here in Jan 2012 Santana & Teresa were really helpful & polite. The room we had was room 3 at the side of the guest house, overlooked gardens from another house from the one balcony & overlooked Antonio’s next door from the kitchen balcony.
We found this room small, the double bed was pushed up against the wall. There was a TV & A/C, wardrobe which didn’t lock although there was a key for it, & we had a bamboo two seater in the room. The kitchen area was big, full size fridge, even a cooking ring kettle. Plates, cutlery, plenty of cupboard space for food if that’s what you want. …
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Our room 6 was big, plenty of space, big wardrobe with a lockable draw, & plenty of coat hangers. Two bedside cupboards. Large coffee table. Only one electric point you need to take an extension for more appliances.
Bathroom clean, plenty hot water, on the small side though. The balcony was massive with two cane chairs, lovely garden views, think it’s the biggest balcony out of all the rooms. Our room faces the back, it’s the back of Angarra restaurant.
Would say there’s roughly 20 steps up to the first floor where our room was, it’s on a long landing. We paid 1,300 rps a night; bet you could get it cheaper if you haggled hard. But all in all it was a nice holiday & we would stay there again no problems.
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We stayed at La Ben Resort in Colva in November & were very impressed by this budget hotel. It is excellently located just a short walk from Colva beach & in the center of the resort.
The hotel is spotlessly clean with spacious rooms, air conditioning & balcony. The beds & towels were changed daily & nothing was too much trouble for the cleaning staff.
The reception staff are extremely friendly & helpful. We would certainly recommend La Ben for anyone looking for a no frills budget hotel in an excellent location. Colva beach is beautiful & Pappillion Shack was very good as well.
A restaurant we would recommend is Kentuckee just beside the beach entrance. Lovely food & great music. We had a nice holiday at a nice price overall, and would return again.
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We stayed for 3 weeks in what we were lead to believe was a self catering apartment, but far from it as we only had a fridge, a kettle & a sink!
The rooms were cleaned every other day but not to a very good standard. The food available in the restaurant was nothing special. The location is great though as it’s right on the beach.
The staff appear friendly at the start of the holiday but once they have your money this soon changes.
5 star prices but not 5 star by any means! You can stay in far better accommodations for half the price!
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We have stayed at this hotel on the last 8 visits but will not stay here again. We found standards had really dropped, unfortunately. There was no one on reception who spoke English; JoJo was very rarely around for some reason, and we couldn’t find out why but on speaking to him found he had been doing some taxiing.
Most people had to change rooms as the rooms were very musty & damp with one person having water running down their wall. One of our party had no hot water for 3 days & had to change rooms, then the room she had to spend the rest of 3 weeks in had a very musty smell that never disappeared. …
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Rooms come in two categories, super deluxe & deluxe. I negotiated a price of 2000 rupees per night for the super deluxe room, the room is immaculately kept by the boys (cleaning staff). The deluxe rooms are very similar, only difference I found was the super deluxe were quite a bit bigger & with a jacuzzi bath in! …
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