Sandalwood Hotel & Retreat

Great Hotel - compared to some of the other properties around the same price range, Sandalwood offered more room space and an excellent ambience. While some of the staff was young and bit raw, they more than made up for it through honest effort. Would love to go back again - only this time for a vacation !! Hotel could do well by having an in-house shop/store offering simple beach accessories like beach slippers etc though. Kind regards Shrinivasan

Ok hotel. Not great service and there are much nicer beaches in Goa where you can spend your time. Internet also didn't work for the entire duration of my stay.

too isolated

I think that Sandalwood is perfectly adequate, although I have stayed in several places in the vicinity of Sandalwood that cost roughly the same amount, but offered a lot more charm. Sandalwood is situated close to a lovely beach ( a rare find in Goa, since private beaches tend to be filthy) Sandalwood boasts a pool as well. Both of these things I consider a giant plus. Otherwise, the rooms generally have a "motel" feel about them. The restaurant service is great, however the space is sad, and the food is just so-so. I will stress however, that the people who work there are lovely and kind. I particularly liked a waiter named Francis with a personality that helped make my dining experience tolerable. He managed to take my mind off the food and the shabby ambience. I was perfectly content there, and was willing to overlook shortcoming, but when pressed for an opinion, I have to admit that compared to other places I've stayed in the same price range, Sandalwood is just a little on the shabby side, but it has potential. This is only my opinion. One man's trash is another man's treasure. There is nothing about the place that is unacceptable, but there is a HUGE amount of room for improvement. And by the way, my job is reviewing hotels and restaurants for a well known travel magazine and series of guide books. For the same price but with oodles of charm, another resort close to Sandalwood called Prainha made me feel that I was getting a huge value for my money!!

Satisfied, but the Resort needs to have more economical internal transport faciltity. Extremely expensive. May be they should consider running an airport drop sharing facility for all the hotel guests, in the morning.