I haven't visited , but have been looking at the web site, looks good 500Rs entrance fee.

http://www.calizz.com/default.htm

xlassi

Thats on our list for next time, looks very interesting. Where exactly is it please?

It's on the main Candolim Rd - not far from Acron Arcade. It's a bit like Willy Wonkers factory...in that nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out!! Thats why I started this thread - i was interested to see if ANYONE had tried it.
GFF xx

Thanks, that sounds even more interesting, can I persuade you to go and investigate and report back or do you really think if you go in you will not come back out

I`ll send the wife in a couple of weeks time

Jetti....I'm not volunteering...too scared!! I might never see the light of day again. FTV you are soooooo cruel to your lovely wife....first you threaten to conviscate her hair straighteners and now you're threatening to send her into the unknown!!!
Joking apart...it looks impressive from out front, I'd be interested to hear what its like if anyone does actually venture inside.
GFF xx

FTV I think you should investigage and get your better half to report back to us

Visited on 1st of March 2009. 300 Rs to enter per person at this time and they badly need visitors,as on they day we visited there was only 3 other entries in the visitors book, 2 UK and a Russian. Small children free, good access for partners wheelchair and assistance is available, the young lady guide is English speaking and brilliant, tour lasts about I hour at set times and escorted, no photo's inside buildings allowed. the colonial Portugese building are fantastic, full of wonderfull items, quite a contrast to the 'Goan' buildings all chockfull of artifacts. As we did not try the food I cannot say any thing about it, seems to be optional, as we only paid 300Rs. Well worth a visit, so give it a try, they do need the visitors.

ews.

welcome to the forum ews Just back from Goa then?

I think I might have the answer to why the place is deserted?

The prices being quoted here didn't agree with what I thought they were so I checked "The Rough Guide to Goa" published October 2007 - i.e. for the 2008/early 2009 season.

Whilst praising Calizz as a destination of interest they quote the entrance fee as RS1200 PER HEAD!

This it certainly was, and until I read this thread, I thought it still was! I am sure many holiday-makers are still under the impression that it still is. Rs1200 at present is £16.50, and even when we had a very good rate of exchange was £14.25. These would be considered high entrance fees in the UK, especially for a family, and for here they were simply astronomical - a total joke, no matter how good the place was! Sadly yet another case of unbridled Goan greed.

So its nice to hear that they have realised their mistake and radically dropped their prices. They are still on the high side for here but clearly aimed at FOREIGN tourists. Sadly this means that it is completely out of reach for Indians, and especially local children brought up in concrete apartment blocks. Really, they are the ones who need to be reminded of their heritage, and shown what Goa has lost, and is still losing, with the over-development everywhere.

Unfortunately, until they manage to publicise the lower entry fees (I live here and have seen and heard nothing about it), everyone who checked it out in the past will assume it is still ridiculously expensive. I for one will be visiting it as soon as the "low-season" price kicks in, and will post my impressions on this and other forums to give the place a bit of a boost, assuming it deserves it?

We visited the museum after being given a flyer on Calangute steps in November. There was loads of info on the flyer including the price 300 rupees entrance. We found it very interesting but you could actually stand outside it without realising it was there. It needs much better marketing and free entry to the local schools to get itself more established. Our regular taxi driver who is born and raised in Calangute had never heard of it and didnt know where it was. Typical Goan mishandling for something that should be more widely known about and should be earning them much needed income

I too am intrigued now and will pay a visit in a few weeks... might check the food out too (is it a restaurant aswell then!!?) anyway certainly sounds very interesting
chilly

We went whilst in Goa last week.

To be honest we stumbled on it by chance, hadn't even noticed it the previous time we were in Goa, so I just presumed it was a new museum. But they've got a certificate up for a tourism award they won in 2006.

We got there at 10:00 to go on the first tour of the day, and were the only 2 people who had turned up. As mentioned above, it's 300 Rs each, and your given a bottle of ice cold water before and after the tour, which is included within the price.

A guide then takes you into 2 different buildings which were built after the Portugese took over Goa, and then you move onto some houses which were built prior to the Portugese going to Goa.

You can't take photographs, but it is a really good and worthwhile tour to go on. Tour lasted just over an hour, and the guide was more than happy to answer any questions, and was not in rush to get us around the site.

I'd recommend it to people who are staying in Candolim, Calangute and Baga.

thanks salford ... interesting
chilly