Southern Advice!

GxMx

Hello All,
i have been a Goa regular(sometimes with friends,other times with my wife) and like most of you hooked to this wonderful place( even though it is getting crowded lately)i visit every year for a week and usually stay in the Baga-Calangute area,strangely am not the party types and always avoid visiting when the mad rush of christmas,new years or diwali holidays and preffer a peaceful shack with friendly service where i can drink on Kings non stop thru out the day and am mostly vegetarian but dont mind seafood occasionally.Its 8 years of the same routine up North and i am keen to try out the South( its gonna be with a couple of friends this time to recce things out and if i find the place great, next time to visit with my wife)!i would like some help/advice on where i can head! i dont look for star hotel style accomodation but i like clean safe rooms with or withour air conditioning with attached bath/wc with friendly reliable service,am not keen to stay in the middle of nowhere and be the solitary person on the entire beach as well, i hope i can get some helpful advice here!

sweet-thursday

I probably shouldn't be replying to this, as will be visiting Goa for the first time in December. But have a friend who has lived near Palolem for the last eight years and I've done a lot of research. Palolem is supposed to be a paradise beach, but with wall to wall huts, and lots of nightlife. Great for backpackers.

We're planning to rent on the next beach along - at Patnem, quiet and idyllic, a few hotels and huts, but just 20 minutes walk to Palolem.

vandy

Kerala is Terrific, Hill stations,backwaters and
beaches,great variety.

Rgds

vandy

Mabsentt

even though im not a great fan of Goa, i have been a few times and i agree with sweet thursday. Patnem is the place that matches what you are looking for (in South Goa), unless you want to voyage on beyond Goa.......Have fun.....

GxMx

Hello Vandy,thank you for your suggestion,i have already been to Kerala couple of years ago and really liked the place,visited Cochin,Munnar,Thekkady,Alleppy ,Kumarakom and Kovalam, so i got to see the great variety the Malabar coast offers,but i am keen to check out South Goa this time!

GxMx

Hello,thanks for your time and help,i want to stick to Southern Goa only and nowhere else,Patnem, how close is this to Palolem?i am planning to visit in the first week of october, so will there be shacks on the beach by then?like i was saying in my first post,i am not the party types but i dont want to be the only person on the beach,i feel its a little safer with people around and i can mind my own business.

GxMx

Hello and thanks for your time and suggestion!a second reccomendation for Patnem!now thats getting me intrested.i may decide to stay a few days in Palolem and a couple of nights in Patnem maybe.i have heard/read soo much about Palolem that am really keen to check the place out,any good hotels/huts in Patnem?are Palolem/Patnem expensive like what the northern beaches have become?is getting to Patnem easy from Chaudi? thanks again for your advice.

Mabsentt

Thinking about it in the first week in october you'd probably be good at Palolem. It wont be too busy but things will be up and running and a few people, although there should be shacks up at Patnem, which is only 15-20 mins walk from Palolem and while definetelly be quiter than Patnem. I suggest getting there during the morning/early afternoon and have a look at both and decide there and then. This can be done easily.

Mabsentt

Sadly, yes.

GxMx

i will be staying for around a week maximum or till my money lasts,i have found Baga/Calangute to have become really expensive since the the last couple of years and the shacks more commercial and flashy than how they used to be,friendly,affordable and homely.I still feel Palolem may be slightly more reasonable than their counterparts up north.hope i am right...

GxMx

really appreciate your time and advice!i was thinking of going to Palolem first,check the place out and stay there for a couple of days and then maybe go to Patnem.cool to know that it wont be too busy and the shacks will be up!I will be travelling by bus from Bangalore so i should reach Chaudi in the morning so i should have time to check the place out before deciding where to stay! thanks again!any suggestions on where to stay in Palolem?

GxMx

would any of these places in Palolem be open in the first week of October?

ciarans

chattai

ordosounsar

camp sanfrancisco

cleopatra resorts

Home(Patnem)

and any suggestions/reccomendations?

GxMx

not much reccomendations or suggestions here i think!

johngradycole

Hi there!

My boyfriend and I went to Goa in February, and we spent a few nights in a lovely, welcoming place called Palolem Guest House. It was clean, felt safe, and the staff were lovely, especially a girl in the reception, who fixed us up with a scooter to rent in no time at all. I should mention that, hadn't it been for that scooty, we'd never found our way to Agonda beach, which must be the next big thing. There was hardly a soul about, and the little restaurant served up the best Goan curry ever.

Hope this helps,
Annie

ssharonuk

You are going at a great time No need to book just turn up and look around alot of the beach huts will still be closed but the some will be open and just to think the beach will be very quite is bliss
p.s
This time last yr palolem resembled a bomb site as they bulldozed half of the place down (due to taxes on shacks and huts )but it soon got back to normal
sharon