Symphony Palms Beach Resort

The staff were great and helpful and the rooms were spacious and comfortable. We did not eat in the restaurant but the breakfast was fine and varied. The biggest issue for us was the constant building work. Expedia makes no mention of it on their website. Behind the restaurant, which everyone has to pass there is a huge mound of rocks and rubble. There’s a partially built bar area and behind the room block is another block being built. The pool is lovely but there are no loungers and when we asked for somewhere to sit the staff bought out two dining chairs. At the pool area there was the constant noise of tile cutting and dust. Each room has its own patio with seating but sitting here you could hear construction work. Either side of the pool is a path and this was used by trucks to transport materials to the building site beyond. They claim that it’s a private beach but it’s a section of the beach, which not unpleasant, can be accessed from other hotels along the beach. Many people walk back and forth along the beach so I’m not sure this qualifies as private. There some very heavy wooden loungers but they are out of the sun and have no mattresses. The beach is across the road from the hotel The photos shown on line are a row of newish cabins which are from the road to the beach. If using one of these you would have to cross the road for breakfast and the pool. We were bitterly disappointed, and let down by Expedia

The hotel welcome is wonderfull. The made the room was made available earlier. But our cottage was opposite a building site, the hotel seems to be expanding building new rooms, this was never , mentioned when booking, so the noise was hard to tolerate. The rooms are in need of an upgrade, there is no fridge , just an empty old cupboard where the fridge shld have been the rooms are spacious but just dated. I asked for a hair dryer, which was bought over immediately but again it was so old, it barely dried my hair. The beach is very nice and you could easily spend good time relaxing The bar staff and service was excellent the location of the hotel is great with restaurants and spa services nearby

La struttura ha camere grosse e pulite. La colazione a buffet è adatta a tutti i palati. La spiaggia davanti all'hotel (basta attraversare la strada) non fornisce lettini.

Very bad experience! All rooms smelly, water leaking into the rooms, no clean towels, bathroom wires were open. Worst experience i ever had in my life. I booked for 2 days but i checked out on first day only because of these hell of experience. So requested refund for my 2nd day.

It is good hotel with polite and friendly staff. They served us well. Few things they need to improve about cleanliness and comfort. I am happy to accept that hotel maintains it's image around.

It was a pleasant stay and everything was well managed. We were able to enjoy the scenic beauty and hotel's private beach.

Good property with great beach view of the resort. Spacious room, with poor light's if screens are closed. Breakfast spread was ok. Food from restaurant was good in taste.Close to most of the attractions.

The good: 1. The rooms are large, clean, comfortable and well equipped 2. Room service and food is decent The bad: 1. What you get, is not worth what you pay 2. I wouldn't spend extra for the breakfast or for the "beach front rooms" If you're looking for a room which opens up to the beach, you'd find much better options at a much better price. Be extremely careful while booking your rooms, though we booked a room by the beach, we were given a room at the far end of the hotel. This happened with at least 3other guests checking in at the same time as us. There clearly is wrong information given by the hotel on most websites. Be doubly sure about the room you're getting while booking. Would I come back here? Not a chance.

This hotel is well located good service but the bathrooms need to be updated, I think the property is at a stage in which it requires updating restaurant and breakfast average I would say it’s a 3 star hotel.

The stay was great. It is very beautiful property. They have a Tour guide Salim, who helped us plan the trip as well. They have a nice private beach. Only if they could have the bar on the beach.

We were not very satisfied with the food and the accommodation. Considering the rate you can get better.

The staff are very unfriendly and not helpful at all

Overall, our stay at Symphony was a large disappointment in terms of value for money. There are locations nearby at a much lower cost but with less marketing capacity, but more dedicated to service. Also it keeps the flexibility to eat outside, whereas here with half-board you are "confined" to a mediocre cuisine. We went for a diving holiday but the fact that for about a month now off-shore diving has been banned by an Indian government regulation, has conveniently been not mentioned to us. Therefore, we wanted to shorten our stay as the plan of pertaining an advanced open water diver license could not be realized. The hotel offered little to no help at all for that, so we forced to stay.

Overall a great stay -- yes it was a bit pricey but during the holidays your options are a bit limited on Havelock. Beautiful beach, enjoyed the feeling of being in nature just steps from the room, and since they're all little bungalows it was nice to have a bit of privacy and feel like we were in our own cabin near the beach.

On the Hotels.com pages there was stated that there is wired internet in the room. However, the only place with internet was the hotel bar (of course you need to buy something in the bar in order to get access to the internet).

As it was out of season the resort was quiet and relaxed. The room was clean and comfortable. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff. A brilliant location and the food was great!

Best location.near to dive area.lots of greenry.value for money.cooperative staff

This hotel is not worth the money. It's way over priced with no value. We stayed 5 long days here and each day by 5pm the cleaning staff didn't make up the room. We had to ask, and got dirty looks from the front desk. Our room wasn't sealed properly has a lot of bugs in the room. No hot water and A/C turns off at about 6pm.

Description of rooms is misleading, ie rooms sold by the tag "beach facing" are not really facing the beach or giving a view of th beach from windows. In all areas Service was very slow and unremarkable. No running hot water. Restaurant staff not very forthcoming and again very slow service. Had to change rooms as main door when closed had a big gap between frame and door and wash pipe in the toilet was leaking. Rooms are not well cleaned by staff. For the price i paid could get a five star excellent service in Mumbai instead. Cost was not justified.

Staff were not helpful, we had paid for an extra mattress for an extra person which they had not prepared and gave us a thin old mattress on the floor. The beds were uncomfortable and the breakfast was terrible. Overpriced for the quality of service. They also ring every morning at 6am with Chai.