Whispering Palms Beach Resort

Nice hotel close to beach nice food. Staff very helpful would recommend

Room 303 poolside view…my friend and I had an excellent stay at this hotel. Waiting staff, reception and room servicing excellent. Could not do enough to make one’s stay comfortable. Food fresh and varied, cooked to order. Head chef was superb & could not do enough whilst I was unwell & unable to eat, offering many alternatives & making fresh ginger tea! First year at WP all inclusive and definitely not the last!

2 to 3 star hotel run on shoe string basis. The estate is dotted with 2 storey breeze block maisonettes with steep steps to rooms on first floor. In fact all steps leading to small entrance lobby or down to pool area are steep. There are no grab rails.Not mobility or disabled friendly. There was only 1 restaurant with buffet food and 2 small food stations at end of dining area. Tables and mats were never wiped clean after one set of guests finished eating. Hospitable, well meaning and proactive waiting staff but they lacked sense of hygiene as I don’t recall seeing anyone using hand sanitizer. Awful buffet food. Cooks were headed by a clueless Goan executive chef. All positive comments on food are written by Indian guests on short stay breaks or attending work conferences. They love a little variety thrown in for them with South Indian deep fried doughy food and excessive cheese filling in anything. Every lunchtime and dinner fare would include repetitive on the bone chicken curry In different guises, couple of seasonal vegetable curries, boiled and pullau style rice, fresh salad, same deep fried “mahee” fish with small fillet pieces marinated in different spices or herbs from one day to next and chicken drumsticks served in sticky sweet and sour sauce with or without noodles or stir-fried peppers and naan. Sadly most curries were laced with hot chilies. Not for western palate. Many guests from northern England were putting together chip butties and washing down food with on tap larger beer. Except for two the other frequently changing staff at the reception seemed unintelligent to comprehend anything guests were asking. We certainly would not return to this hotel. I also doubt if it would survive as just a stones throw away a swanky large hotel was being built.