Collection O Orchard Resort — Hotel in Maharashtra

I visited this place Sunday afternoon as part of office colleagues get together (day outing).||||We arrived here at 3.30pm. We were served with tea/coffee which was good in taste.||||It has ample parking space. There's a small Ganpati temple after you enter the premises.||The resort area is pretty big. It has children's park with slides, swings, seesaw, climbers. It also has a toy train and small Columbus Ride.||It has a swimming pool. Swimming costumes can be bought on rent.||It has a decent dining room. Restaurant staff was polite and helpful. I requested them to warm food which I had got from home for my daughter and they did it willingly.||||We were served snacks at 5pm. Onion bhajjis, which were complimentary, were crisp and tasty. We had also ordered omelet sandwich, veg grilled sandwich and finger chips which were good.||It has lot of space to sit in group and chat or play games. We played cricket and badminton. Equipment was provided by the resort.||We were served dinner at 8.15-8.30pm. It consisted of 1 soup, 2 veg and 1 non-veg main course along with rotis, rice and ice-cream and other regular items. The taste was decent.||Inspite of having so many pros, I wouldn’t recommend this resort atleast for outing because the whole place was stinking (I guess because of leftover food). It was smelling of cow dung. ||It had 2 washbasins out of which only 1 worked. No handwash liquid or soap. Washrooms were pathetic, worse than Indian public toilets. ||||Pros:||1. Ample space||2. Nice play area for children||3. Decent food||4. Good staff||Cons:||1. Terrible washrooms||2. ...

We arrived here as part of a huge group of 130 people. It was meant to be a 5 star hotel but aspects of it were very poor indeed.||||Dirty bed sheets ( a few people complained about this) one towel between two (again multiple people said the same). In rooms of three people sharing (often friends and not families) they were given two towels between three people. ||||Probably the biggest and most ridiculous thing, was one wifi code per room. Yes, that's right, one wifi code so only one person in the room could use it. Even in the rooms where three people had to share. There was of course mass uproar, we had been on the road all day and every other hotel we stayed in India (often much lesser stars) had wifi for everyone, towels for everyone and clean bedding for everyone.||||Having worked in hotels before, when I was told by the waiter that every room was booked out and there were three weddings there the next day, I knew instantly they didn't have enough bedding and towels for the turnovers so were chancing their luck in the hope no one would notice.||||Wanting to be able to use the wifi to contact my children, I called down to complain to the manager at ten pm and whilst in bed. I was told I could come down and speak to the manager. I said no, ask the manager to come and see me. No one came. At six am the next morning, I had to call for a towel as didn't really fancy the wet towel my partner had used. ||||All in all, pretty poor for the...

Swimming pool had no support rods to get inside the pool. They were kept near the pool waiting to be installed.arger rides were not working. The smaller ones had nails by the sides hurting kids. Changing rooms are not functional. Seating by the pool side is of poor quality.|The much publicized mango orchard are 10 trees in a small patch of land.|Restaurant had broken furniture, poor air-conditioning. The access to kitchen from the restaurant looked shabby - speaks of the hygiene kept inside the kitchen.|Kids rides - no employee to man the electromechanical switches to turn on and off the rides - parents managing it at their own will with considerable risk. ||The kids rides had a fuse blown while we were using the rides. ||Food is average - not sure whether it was purposefully made super spicy - resort offers unlimited buffet food as part of the package. ||Buffet had poor variety - just vanilla ice cream in the name of desserts. ||It is one of the most pathetic resorts I have ever visited with friends...