Pengguna Tetamu
31 Januari 2023
Had booked this homestay for 2 nights considering the reviews & pictures on Google, but our experience was not at all good & definitely not as expected because of the unexpected behavior of the host. Mr. Vinit Nair who handled our booking was not present at the property, but his father Mr. Venugopal was managing the property & the guests. He behaved very friendly in the beginning welcoming us but we felt something was off here. He never gave us our space & interfered in everything that we did which made us feel very awkward & controlled. Our booking mentioned room on a higher floor facing the backwaters, but the room was facing a muddy land & there are no rooms on the top floor. He offered to arrange for lunch which was too over priced. He sat besides us the whole time while we ate which made us feel very very awkward. He arranged for a boat ride which took us around the backwaters of Alleppey & a few sightseeing places (church & the broken statue of buddha) but charged us 2000/- for it which in my opinion was way too overpriced & surely not worth. My wife & me decided to have dinner at a restaurant & wanted to explore the place in & around Alleppey, but he had already arranged for dinner without even checking with us as he knew we would not be able to gain access to the city without his boat. This made us feel very unsafe & trapped. At night, suddenly the mains of the AC was switched off & there was frequent power cuts. We knew that the mains were controlled by the owner himself. Location - Access to this property is only by boat which only the property owner can arrange. Nothing was organized properly, neither the home, nor the system & in our opinion the owner should not run this as a homestay.
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