The Gateway Hotel Reviews

The hotel is great and the destination also ideal for people looking for a relaxed vacation. The beach is nice and warm, clean and ideal for swimming or lazing around on the shores or just taking a long stroll along the beach. Options for veggies are limited and the place is full of restaurants offering fresh sea food. There is not much to see around but one does not miss that much. You can rent a bike and just roam around the city along the shoreline.

Best Experience: Mornings - wake up before the sun rises and go down the beach. It is just 5 mins walk by road and 2 mins by the backgate of the hotel. I preferred the back gate. When you reach the beach, the freshness is infectious. You can take a dip in the sea and the water is warm and feels really good. You can practice yoga as there are so many groups engaging in yoga. Learnt suryanamaskar and enjoyed the regime there. The hotel pool side was great to laze around. My six year old also enjoyed as there was a separate kiddies pool as well.

Worst Experience: No bad experience really. Food could have been better but being a veggie in a coastal place can't really complain!

a hotel with a difference in service and ambience. very good hospitality by staff.very co-operative service staff. overall good returns for the money spent.

Best Experience: chef prepared delicious fish curry on our demand .

Worst Experience: not up to the level spa centre

A wonderful choice of destination and hotel with wonderful memories.

Varkala- The destination for a perfect holiday in south india. we went there as honeymoon couple, enjoyed our stay in gateway hotel to our best. the hospitality was very good. we stayed in room 101, the garden view. the hotel is very well maintained and the service provided also was upto the mark. Our room was always cleaned in our absence so we never felt our privacy was being hindered.

Best Experience: 1. THe restaurant Cape Comorin serves you a variety of cuizine but i vouch for their pizzas. the buffet breakfast also had served several options to choose from. 2. The beach is at a 2 minutes walk from the resort and maintained spic n span

Worst Experience: never ever

Overall, rather nice. Though, the value for your money is average.

Best Experience: Great view from the room. Attentive staff.

Worst Experience: The beach is a good 15 min walk away, along a narrow path. It (the beach!) is, however, quite clean. The resort is a tad run down, and could do with some sprucing.