Shelter Beach Resort Reviews

Shelter Beach is a basic resort. The rooms are clean, but without perks. A few of the items had wear, but were still functional. It appears the resort is undergoing a small amount of renovation, especially to the restaurant. The evening we arrived, all dining options seemed to be unavailable. We left the resort in search of a nearby restaurant and found nothing. To the resort\'s credit, the manager offered us a private room and full menu. The resort also offers room service for reasonable rates. Having more information on their dining options would be helpful to their guests. The beach is well-maintained with a volleyball net, small palms and a dining area. The best maintained area of the resort, though, is their swimming pool. It was beautiful, clean and relaxing. The pool staff was attentive to the guests. Overall, our stay at Shelter Beach Resorts was positive.

Best Experience: On our last evening, the hotel offered a buffet by the beach. The sound of the waves and the cool of the sea breeze gave a soothing atmosphere. The buffet had a lovely variety of veg and non-veg dishes and also offered fresh, hot breads and rotis. The staff was attentive and polite. It was a lovely end to our stay.

Worst Experience: On our first evening, there was little to guide us on our dining options. After searching near the resort, we were offered a full menu and private room by the resort manager. This was very generous, but also failed to meet our expectations. The dining area was second-class, looking very worn. The power kept going out, which made the room difficult to cool. The food was nice, but overall we were disappointed with the availability of a finer dining area with better ambiance.

We drove in from bangalore for a weekend party which was happenin about 3 blocks away from this resort. Pretty close to the Taj Fishermans Cove. Initially we planned 2 stay @ chennai and then drive down to ECR ( East Coast Road). Change in plans since no1 was happy about staying in chennai and we decided to stay @ some place on ECR. Resort looked simply awesome, the place is amazing and the location,access to the beach,the beach side cottages and the lawn. We checked in and no discounts , all that was on our mind was some rest coz we all did work till late nite on friday and has only slept for abt an hour or 2 and then drove straight to Chennai. All of us was really enthralled by the looks of the place. The surprise was yet waiting in disguise to happen

Best Experience: -Ordered for pakodas at 11 am and was served @ 12:30pm. Order for lunch when the pakodas was served and lunch was served @ 2:30pm. -We were 8 of us in 2 cars and one set of guys lost patience and drove off on ECR to find a place for food. Thanks to some road side hotel , which served pretty good food.

Worst Experience: -Pathetic service and the staff is very very un-professional. -We had to order for food wait for abt 1 hr and finally had to call the Manager at the hotel to complain. This was after we made repeated calls to the restuarant. Call the manager and no change,still took another 30mins for the food to be served. -Breakfast was supposed to be complimentary served till 10am. We reach the restaurant by 9am for breakfast and no signs of the so called BREAKFAST. Checked with the waiter there and he says , wait for 15 mins we are making dosa\'s. Sad the dosa\'s never turned up and we left the place with nothing in our bellies. -Some how just wanted to get outta this place and reach chennai so that we cud eat some grub.