Country Inn Bhimtal Reviews

Awesome hotel. One of the best i had been to till now. Worth what you pay for.

Best Experience: Best hotel. Suggest people to go there

Worst Experience: Nothing

We went there as a group for team outing. The services were pathetic - promises made were not fulfilled, their disc is so suffocating as it is made in one room, no body is there to take care of the issues plus they always come with feedback book, which after noticing for 2 days, we hardly had seen any difference in the quality of service. They are just spoiling the country inn brand name. Food quality was even worst. Tasteless - even we have to add salt in every dish they served. No feedback worked upon. We had some more groups from our compant planning a visit there but we got it cancelled after our experience. Please never ever visit this hotel.

Worst Experience: Pathetic food and even pathetic service. Even Pathetic is an understatement.

the location of the hotel is best and the activities are best & done by very experienced executives and very entertaining

Best Experience: bonfire dance comptetion was very good

We went to Country Inn Bhimtal from Country Inn Corbett with lots of hopes but were a tad disappointed at the ambience. For one, it looked more like a hotel and less like a resort. There is a pool but an indoor one. There isn't much of a lawn to talk about. Strangely the place looked very dry in spite of being in the hills. Bhimtal was generally like that. But Bhimtal will be a much better option to stay than Nainital as they have lots of restriction about vehicle entry, parking etc, unless you are one of those heavy walkers! Bhimtal is a much relaxed and calm place to have a holiday all by yourself - the perfect place to do nothing! The rooms are HUGE. Obviously because it is an old place...there is more than sign to show you that. We stayed for 4 nights at the place. We went to Nainital one day, went around Bhimtal another day, checked out the lovely Ghor kal mandir the third day. Again this temple was not on the Cox and Kings Itinerary but luckily the staff at the hotel mentioned it and wow! what a place that was. Said to be a Swayambu (risen on its own but not man-made) Durga Temple dating back to the 12th Century, this is probably the only place where you can find the maximum number of bells in one place. There is a belief that you make a wish here and if it comes true, you can tie a bell as note of thanks. And there are zillions of people who have already thanked this Godess. The pictures will tell you more. Don't miss it if you happen to go to Bhimtal or Nainital - it is in between both towns.

Best Experience: Part of the holiday activities were good. The boys over there entertained our restless kids one afternoon with some painting and the Karaoke sessions and live music performances were okay. I honestly can't recall any wow! moments at the hotel except for one evening when the chef made sincere attempts to satisfy our cravings for our good Rasam (with average success though!)

Worst Experience: Worst experiences...well..first thing, the hotel has a terrible interior designer. The first thing that strikes you as you walk into the lobby is this broken pillar, one half hanging from the ceiling and the other half from the floor, with the rest of it missing. On enqiries, we found that it was meant to be that way and call it artistic symmetry if you please, there was another such contraption on the other end of the lobby. You then climb the stairs that lead you the rooms and you are convinced that there is something wrong with the interior designer. All along the passage you have so many paintings and terrible ones at that. Such negative themes, silly ideas - won't believe me? There's one where there are 2 monkeys dressed in suits, one is trying to push the other one from the top of a building. Then another one with a tiger's face peeping out of a post-box and another one that looked like a canvas shoe in extreme close-up - just the network of shoe laces...we were too scared and ran into our rooms. Worst situation - the eager beaver of the designer didn't spare the rooms even... While chatting with the boys at the holiday activities department, one led to another and one of the poor boys blurted out that most of the painting that are inside the hotel were made by him. Ah! we nodded as we finally found our explanation..cost cutting and perhaps frustration due to over work and poor pay was the reason for negativity in the paintings!! And then the disco nights. Gosh, who ever came up with the idea. We waked into the disco the que (not a typo, that's what the sign board said) and ran out in a few seconds - couldn't bear the blaring music, plus there was no one there. We went up to our rooms and still could hear the terrible bhangra beats. We had to call the reception and ask them to please close the doors. Ah, the receptionist. So proud of her roots. Will not utter a word in English even to save her life. All of us are from the south (and luckily for her knew Hindi) and found it rather strange that a front office person should be rattling off like this in Hindi without even checking if the other person knows the language or not. It is the same with almost all staff of the hotel. The food. It was generally very good but got boring after a while. Rotis and parathas for lunch and dinner with koftas and dal makhnis for lunch and dinner, with rare appearance of chinese. 1 day in delhi, 2 days in Corbett and 4 days in Bhimtal got a bit too much for our South Indian stomachs to digest, literally and otherwise. We had our elderly parents and kids to feed. We requested the chef and he agreed to make exclusively for us, some Rasam one day for lunch. Poor thing, he did try and arrived at a cross between Muligatawny Soup and South India Rasam! The breakfast was comparatively good. I don't want to sound like a south Indian snob but what beats me is that is it so difficult to incorporate one or two south indian items or continental items in a buffet spread? Just a day before we left, I noticed a very familiar black and gold framed picture on the front desk. I went closer and realized it was an RCI Gold Crown Certification won by the hotel for 3 consecutive years? Man, RCI Gold Crown? What were they thinking. On looking closer I noticed that the certification was not renewed last year and this year. So the receptionist, interior decorator, painter, oops sorry artist and the chef must have all joined the hotel in these 2 years! PS: For the uninitiated, RCI is supposed to the Big Brother of all resorts - a group that sets standards for resorts and a Gold Crown is the highest rating a resort can get!

Beautiful place and lovely resort

Best Experience: very good leisure activities

Worst Experience: poor house keeping