Deepthi, Vasavi, Anil and Kalyan joined us on the October 23rd and 24th, they took the Bamboo cottage.
They had a long long long travel to reach us but they managed to enjoy the stay, Deepthi even gave us a review at HolidayIQ, check it out here
I’ll put out a write up on their trip soon..
This weekend was family time…we had Namrata who was with us, the entire team numbered 17 and had 7 children in the group ..
The arrived at 3.30 AM at Gonikoppal by Bus where they were received by Rakesh, the were with us till the afternoon of the 19th..
As usual photographs as I receive them..
Sathya who was with us on the October 2nd weekend has given us a review in HolidayIQ.
Check it out here
Sathya and his team was with us on the October 2nd weekend, here are some of the photographs from his visit
Here they are from left to right,
Shaju Thomas, Akula, Ramana, Hema, Radhika, Sowmya, Sharon, Shamira, Sujitha, Suresh, Sathya, Uday, Anand, Karunkaran, Charan and Roshan
The full team
We got feedback from Vani who was with us on the 30th of September and Sonia who was with us from the 7th of October, here is what they had to say,
“1. Coffee needs to be stronger – we found coffee all over Coorg much better than the one at Bethel.
2. The food is delicious and has lots of options for curries. For dinner we had 5-6 curries! But maybe you could chop off two of the curries and add a sweet dish instead – sort of makes the meal complete and people with a sweet tooth would be very happy! A simple Fruit salad would also suffice.
3. You could make “Star Gazing” an activity (like your treks). If you had a “Star Gazing Point” and a more powerful telescope, the guests would be thrilled to see the craters on the moon/ Jupiter’s moons/etc. Open up the world from them, since most of us from the cities can hardly see more than 4-5 stars in the sky!
Everything else is perfect. Special Thanks to Rakesh and Arun for their hospitality” — Vani
Vani thanks for your suggestions and thanks for coming.
Sonia mentioned she had great time in Bethel but that she would have like that the Tents were more dryer, she was not comfortable with tents having moulds… — to us, this is not acceptable, Coorg has intensive rainfall, fungi formation is very common, but we had taken precautions against it, all the tents had been sprayed with an anti-fungal film — it just means that we have been neglecting our maintainance activities.
Sonia thanks for your feedback, out in the open we expect our guests to commune with nature, but inside our cottages, the entire living space has to be spotless and hygenic, this is something we do not compromise on.
We have decided to shutdown Bethel for this week and will not be taking any guests till we complete our maintainance activities
My last post was in September… that is one long gap… While we were inactive online..we were extremely busy on the ground ..so lets see who all had made it to Bethel and in this period….
We had a team of doctors numbering 8 booked by Mamata who came in on the 26th of September,
We had Sharat and his team numbering 5 on the same weekend
We had Pavan and his team numbering 4 who stayed at Nelgi, he was there from the 27th of September to the 29th
We had Vani who had dropped in with her husband and two kids on the 30th of September
We had Subash who had joined us for a day on the 1st of October, he had come specifically to raft
We had Satya and his team numbering 18 who were with us from 2nd of October to the 4th
We had Meera and her team numbering 8 who we accommodated in Manu estate (this is a new place near Kutta that we have started to front for, like we do for Nelgi)
We had Mr Lava’s guests (Mr Lava is our neighbour) numbering 11 who had dropped in on the 4th of October
We had Santosh and his team numbering 5 who stayed in Nelgi and with us in Bethel for a day from 4th of October to the 7th
We had Mr Srinivas and his team of 15 going to Nelgi.
We then had Praveen and his family numbering 6 who were with us from 6th of October to the 8th
We had Sonia who joined us on the 7th of October and right now with us..
Phew ..that is one loooooong list..and we are like this till the 12th of this month..after which we will take a break…
As usual I’ll put writeup and photographs as I get my hands on them
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