Octopus hotel — Hotel in Goa

This was my 'local' for breakfast for about 11 days. My accommodation didn't offer meals, so being a 30 seconds walk away...The Octopus was the obvious choice.

The staff here are excellent and always welcoming. Unfortunately I lost the paper which I'd noted their names...so can't name them. But there is one older guy, who deserves a mention. He is the one who takes most of the breakfast orders...he's a truly lovely guy who goes out of his way to help you.

The food here is good and reasonably priced. Beers too are fairly priced, local spirits are very cheap.

The only downside is that their WiFi isn't available at all times, but Rajesh, the young owner, will allow you to use his mobile as a WiFi hotspot.

Definitely recommend this place...can't comment on the rooms...but they seem to be VERY popular among the young Indians who visit Calangute for...

The only USP about this place is it’s accessibility to the beach is 100 meters walking from the hotel, other than that it’s pathetic. Rooms are not clean enough, dust everywhere, pillows were dirty as hell, bead-sheets stinky & stained. We asked to change them before check in as we have rights coz we are paying for the stay, staff did change but with attitude & arrogance. We stayed in 101 room. 105 had no curtains, no door handles both for the main door & washroom door. They asked us to pay in advance hence we had to stay or else I will never suggest or stay there in my life. Got allergies over my body & sneezing...

Me and my cousins checked in by 11PM and one more batch of my friends were on the way. The behaviour of the guy at the registration place was worst and changing the prices for 15- 20 minutes he was using our need in wrongly and due our need we unwillingly took the room. I don’t know how there room timing are calculated. wherever I checked in different places we used to get 24 hours but this hotel we checked in at 11PM and asked us to check out by 10AM next morning.

Totally I’m very disappointed with this hotel and would not recommend this...