The tall thin light skinned guy at the front desk tried to scam us into inferior rooms even though we paid extra for the bay view rooms. He was racist, rude and kept shouting at my parents and I (we are of Indian origin) until my white husband showed up and then we suddenly had no trouble getting the rooms we paid for. The amount of racism I faced in a hotel in my own home country would have been funny if it did not make me so angry. Also, they have a 'Travel Desk' run by someone called Xavier that charges more than double the rate for car rentals anywhere else in Port Blair. We also ended up getting food poisoning, likely because the kitchen was unsanitary. The rest of the staff (other than ones at the front desk) were sweet and the property was pretty. Definitely not coming back, and I am considering lodging a complaint through the embassy.