[Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC
Valankinni by Luxury KTC KTC will organise luxury bus to Valankinni in Tamil Nadu to attend the fama and Novena of the feast of O/L of Vailankinni in September. Bus will leave on 27th Aug and back on 1st Sept Fare per head Rs.2,400. (group booking of more than 5 pay Rs.120 less per head) Contact 9423055747 or 2730071 Partly taken from today’s .GT JoeGoaUk adds: How much it may cost travel by train? Well, it could be around Rs.1500 (sleeper) from Vasco/Margao. It involves changing train at Bangalore. Train arrives Bangalore in the morning and the connecting train to Nagapattnam or nearest station to the shrine is in the late evening say after 7pm. You get one whole free day at Bangalore. One could take up city sight seeing by bus around Rs.200 per head. Main attrations are Timpu sultan? Wooden Palace, bull temple, Vrundavan garderns etc One will have to take other form of transport to arrive to the shrine from the destination Rly station which could be 30 minutes to one hour by road which adds to the total cost/fare. Accommodation around the Shrine comes quite cheap. As low as Rs.100 per head. Other local small-small hotels rooms offered for Rs. 200 onwards. There was one big/decent hotel at that time on the main road to shrine and we paid Rs.700 per night with attached bath, tv etc. We had to abandon during the night, the one we already booked for Rs.300 as it was not up to our expectation. Dirty, stinking, No hot water, electricity fails, mosquitoes etc This was around Feb 2005 Please note. Tariff around novena/feast day could be higher. Advantages of travelling by KTC or other direct buses from Goa: No break up of journey No changing buses Take you directly to and from the Shrine. Time saving etc There is a beach just in front of the church. At the time of the killer Tsunami Nov. 26, 2004?, over 300 people were killed many of them were pilgrims who were on/near the beach at that time. Many bodies were lying in the church yard.A section of the compound wall of the church was damaged but mysteriously, no water came into the church. However, see water was reached upto 200 meters beyond the church Goa should have a weekly or fortnightly direct train to Valankinni. Cpying to Shantaram Naik MP Feedback on visit to valankinni welcome joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
Re: [Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC
Joe, time has changed and now you can get deluxe accd. in and around the shrine as many Hotels have come up. I was there in April this year, stayed at Hotel Sea Gate (www.hotelseagate.co.in) you can also drop in a mail and see if you can get a reply @ hotelseagate at gmail.com, the phone nos. are 04365 263910 Mob. 9842456109 its 10 minutes walk from the shrine. The tariff is 1500/- for double, single we did not ask. I stayed in a Villa clean tidy, without the nuisance of mosquitos, water woes Electricity problems.we were 5 adults + 2 kids, The amount was 2500/- per day.(The management doesn't care how many people share the Villa.) There were 2 Double rooms with A/c, 2 toilets (1 attach), Kitchen and Hall with TV Dining Table with 6 Chairs, have some pics from outside if anyone would like to have, do write! hAVE a nICE dAY! Seb Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:55:54 + (GMT) From: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC Valankinni by Luxury KTC ? KTC will organise? luxury bus ?to Valankinni in Tamil Nadu to attend the fama and Novena of the feast of? O/L of Vailankinni in September. Bus will leave on 27th Aug and back on 1st Sept Fare per head Rs.2,400. (group booking of more than 5 pay Rs.120 less per head) Contact 9423055747 or 2730071 ? Partly taken from today?s .GT ? Accommodation around the Shrine comes quite cheap. As low as Rs.100 per head. Other local small-small hotels rooms offered for Rs. 200 onwards. There was one big/decent ?hotel at that time on the main road to shrine and we paid Rs.700 per night? with attached bath, tv etc. We had to abandon during the night, ?the one we already booked for Rs.300 as it was not up to our expectation. Dirty, stinking, No hot water, electricity ?fails, mosquitoes etc This was around Feb 2005 Please note. Tariff around novena/feast day could be higher. ? ? Feedback on visit to valankinni welcome joego...@yahoo.co.uk
Re: [Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC
Joe, you don't look for comforts when you are on a pilgrimage trip. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna, Goa Mob: 9420979201 We had to abandon during the night, the one we already booked for Rs.300 as it was not up to our expectation. Dirty, stinking, No hot water, electricity fails, mosquitoes etc This was around Feb 2005. _ Share your memories online with anyone you want. http://www.microsoft.com/india/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1
[Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and is looking to buy land of approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas If you have land to sell, please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or phone +91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html Thanks Domnic, It was only abandoned when we found out there were other choices for us/Pilgrims. Infact, when we went out for dinner, we saw the hotel- enquired, inspected and then booked it. I guess, there is nothing wrong to go for an alternate or comfortable accommodation if available and affordable. Like us, I am sure many others too go for it or else there would have been no deluxe hotels around the Shrine Some people or pilgrims can’t afford it, that’s a different matter. Yet, there may be many who would do anything to save money, including some NRIs. Sadly, we were not one of them. Some of our Pe.Vigars. Pe. Kurs, Copelanv, Rectors etc too live in comforts such as A/c rooms, TVs/DVDs. Cars, Laptops etc Quote [Goanet] Valankinni by Luxury KTC Joe, you don't look for comforts when you are on a pilgrimage trip. Moi-mogan, Domnic FernandesAnjuna, GoaMob: 9420979201We had to abandon during the night, the one we already booked forRs.300 as it was not up to our expectation. Dirty, stinking, No hotwater, electricity fails, mosquitoes etc This was around Feb 2005. joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
