April 2, 2018

My TripAdvisor Review No.296: MTDC Holiday Resort, Mahabaleshwar.

Economic Rooms.

We liked MTDC Mahabaleshwar so much, that we decided to stay here again once again. This time we chose the Economic Rooms so that we could stay for longer. The normal rate for the Economic rooms is Rs.1200, and being senior citizens we got an additional 10% discount. We spent a whole week at the resort and had a very relaxed vacation.

The only disadvantage of an Economic room compared to the Standard one is that it is located behind in the main compound of the resort, and we have to walk a bit to get to the restaurant and the reception. The size of the two rooms is the same. Both have a CRT TV set, a good size bathroom with a boiler, a dressing table, a coffee table, and a small sit-out. Towel and bath soap is provided, but no shampoo. The room was cleaned daily on request, and the service boy was quite helpful and friendly.

There was less noise from the cars coming in and out of the resort, since the room was behind. Every morning we would hear the birds twittering in the huge trees just outside our rooms. There was a small playground for children nearby, but we could only see monkeys occasionally. In fact, the monkeys were the only ones creating a racket when they jumped up and down on the roof sometimes, but sometimes we had some noisy guests in the next room, during the weekend.

There are two restaurants nearby, run by different caterers. The first one is ‘Atithi’ which is attached to MTDC, where the service was not so good, and many of the items on the menu were not available. We generally went to ‘Sonali’ near the Rajbavan complex towards the remote end of the resort, where the service and availability of food was much better, including non vegetarian. We would have their poha, idli, dosa and omelette toast for breakfast. For lunch and dinner we usually drove down to the market about 2 km away and tried different restaurants.

It is definitely better to stay at MTDC if you have your own vehicle, but taxis are also easily available or you can request the reception to arrange one for you for short trips or sight-seeing. Wi-Fi is only available at the reception, and mobile connectivity is very weak in and around the resort.

All in all, we had a very relaxed and peaceful stay at MTDC Mahabaleshwar, and the Economic rooms allowed us to stay for a full week on a limited budget.
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Room Tip: Larger families can stay in the cottages. Aircon suites and cottages are also available.
  • Stayed: March 2018, travelled as a couple
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