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Goa is a tiny Emerald land on the West coast of India and provides a superlative location for luxury hotels. It is home to some of the finest hotels in the world, and many of the five star international chains have found their own idyllic location here. It is the ideal honeymoon destination, as the hotels provide grand and impressive exteriors, opulent and exotic interiors, wonderfully comfortable accommodations, first class amenities and facilities, an array of world cuisines and warm hospitality that will envelop and caress your every need to experience Goa luxury first hand.
Goa is most famous for its fabulous beaches that are white, sandy, fringed by coconut palms and lapped by the warm, Arabian, crystal clear sea. Goa offers a wonderfully calm pace of life allowing a harmonious holiday adventure. On first entry to Goa, there is a feeling of the familiar this is due to its history, as Goa has been home for some 450 years to Portuguese rule.
The European influences are everywhere seen in its architecture, art, culture, cuisines, infrastructure and celebrations. Goa is one of the richest states in India, largely due to its active tourist industry; it is the destination that perfectly exhibits the results of East meets West. It is the confluence of two religions Christianity and Hinduism that results in a huge number of festivals, carnivals and holidays celebrated with great enthusiasm throughout the year.
Goa is situated on the western coast of India, its main capital Panjim offers great access to the rest of the country, it is India's most attractive tourist mosaics, providing churches settled in eclectic colonial architecture, sleepy hamlets, enchanting forts and monuments. It offers a plethora of markets where bargaining is expected, renowned relics of St. Francis of Xavier at the Bom Jesus Basilica, beautiful coastlines and interiors blessed with wildlife parks and tropical landscapes.
Goa and luxury are synonymous and there are a great many high end deluxe hotels, resorts, boutique sanctuaries and spa destinations. The hotels and resorts designed by visionary architects boast their own private stretch of white Sandy Beach, set over many acres of tropical landscapes.
The Spa destination Resorts are often found more remotely, sometimes in the interior, on the sides of hills, resting beside wildlife conserves, providing privacy and exclusivity to distinguished patrons. The boutique hotels are in a class of their own and are fortunate to be housed in some of the world's most classically beautiful architecture, whose interior canvas has inspired the individual designers to create spectacular environments, sometimes-traditional colonial, sometimes modern chic and sometimes edgy Art Deco.
Luxury is first encountered at the airport where and air-conditioned limousine chauffeur warmly greets and escorts you to your designated hotel. Every effort has been made to ensure that your time spent in Goa will be remembered, the first impression of pure luxury is found in the spectacular lobbies, atriums and receptions, detailed sympathetically to the overall architectural schemes. The boutique hotels specialize, in smaller, highly detailed spaces and are specifically tailored to the individuals needs.
The accommodations provide every possible luxury to ensure a heavenly experience. The room types vary from en suite deluxe rooms to individual villas situated in peaceful surroundings in undulating landscapes, populated by trickling streams and waterfalls.
The rooms are individually designed often following in the overall theme of the hotel, appointed with fine furnishings, detailed with fine works of art, artifacts and antique furniture, they are spacious and lead seamlessly onto exterior areas, providing the guests with peaceful surrounds in which to relax and soak up the magnificent views. The rooms house oversized King size beds topped with a menu of goose down pillows and crisp white linens.
The en suite bathrooms provide heavenly retreats furnished with marble sunken baths, plush walk-in showers, double vanities, overhead mirrors, slippers, bathrobes and deluxe international toiletries.
The facilities and amenities provided throughout these rooms include hairdryer, Internet access, satellite TV, plasma screen, coffee and tea making facilities, international newspapers, international telephone service, mini-bar and 24-hour room service.
The hotels proudly boast a wide choice of delicious cuisines, taking inspiration from their multicultural history and include Portuguese, Indian, Chinese, Thai and a fusion of French and Italian. The designers have spent much time in plying their craft, which has resulted in detailed havens of varying genre.
Grand Dining Rooms housing Portuguese colonial influences where elegance, opulence and style is detailed through chandeliers, ornate drapes, crisp white tablecloths, silver cutlery and crystal glass. Other culinary retreats found in idyllic beach settings, accessorized by columns of candles, overseen by whispering palms on the waters' edge providing a sumptuous bouquet of seafood delicacies.
The resorts 'Spas' offer extreme pampering facilities, providing various treatments including Ayuverda, Balinese and Thai therapies, their settings are infused with aromatic candles, mystical music and an abundance of fragrant of lilies, form the backdrop for the highly skilled therapists to rejuvenate mind, body and soul.
The spaces are populated with a steam rooms, saunas and Jacuzzis and often provide their own specialist restaurants specifically designed to renew the body. The on-site gymnasiums are sophisticatedly equipped, with up to the minute apparatus that may be used under the guidance of an instructor for a thorough body workout.
The luxury hotels provide comprehensive menu of facilities including: swimming pools, tennis courts squash courts, golf courses, shopping arcades, hairdressers, beauty parlors, concierge and currency exchange. The resorts lying on the waters' edge allow the guest to indulge in scuba diving, water skiing, fishing, sailing and snorkeling or just relaxing under an umbrella sipping a refreshing cocktail.
Celebration is an important factor in the Goan way of life and this is carried through into the luxury hotels where you may enjoy a meal whilst being serenaded, or watch spectacular limber dancers and fire-eaters on the beach in the evening to the strains of frenetic music. There are many discotheques, and on-site casinos, as well as traditional bars, smoking lounges, cocktail bars and wine bars, offering a wide variety of ambiences catering to the romantic honeymoon couple or those who want to mingle with the rich and famous.
Goan luxury is to be found throughout these resorts, hotels, spas and boutique retreats. From their indulgent and opulent atriums to their sumptuously comfortable accommodations, high tech facilities and amenities, gastronomical delights and overwhelmingly warm hospitality of the hotels staff, will ensure a wonderful and memorable vacation.
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