welcome to our Goa forum! We have some good reviews of your hotel here
Loads of restaurant recommendations!
trip ideas
The regulars may not be able to help you with the alcohol bit as most are tee total!

Hi

1) If you are buying gold or diamonds as it will just mean you get inferior products.

2) Dunno

3) The chinese between candolim and calangute cant remember the name but its opposite babutes bar. Excellent. The one at the end of beach road is not so hot.

4) Cocktails we have had have been horrible, however my wife swears by the banana lassi, not alcaholic but very nice.

5) Depends on what you want but the trip to the waterfalls will allow you to see loads of monkeys, the elephant trip will show the elephants, dolphin trip etc etc However we went on the crocodile trip down the river (johns boat tours in candolim) saw loads of different birds,bats etc and a crocodile

Regards

Peter

Thanks for the reply.
Really looking forward to going.
I will certainly look out for the Chinese!
Any type of wildlife photography interests me so I suppose there
will be lots of options open to me.
Thanks again!

Animal girl,
Not sure whether you like bird life too? There an amazing amount of different and colourful birds compared to back home. Parakeets,bee-eaters,kingfishers, kites and harriers.If you are interested it's well worth getting yourself a bird book when you get here. The one I bought last year was RS495 about £6.
Kay

I have heard about a great cocktail you can make yourself [Teetotal personally] Try the new coffee honeybee [like Tia Maria with the kick of a mule, I heard!!] with milk add some 'ZONE' english toffee non alchoholic bar syrup, all bought locally, was told it is delicious.
Cheers

There are two Chinese restaurants virtually opposite one another. One's called Just Chinese, can't remember what the other is called nor can I remember whether this is the name of the one we liked best but we preferred the one on the opposite side of the road to the beach, didn't look as posh as the other (no twinkling lights outside) but much better food.

Hi Lin, get chilly to tells us all about that honey bee cocktail she has down at fishermans, i think she said it was call Shiva or something like that, i forgot how she said it was made and i'm dying to try it.

jayne

Ooooh cannot wait to try the different drinks.
I just adore chinese food and so I will keep a lookout
for those restaurants.
Thanks!

A taste of china in Candolim is excellent. Walk past the jazz house and its on the corner leading down to the sports bar.

Enjoy

..hi katie p....think the name of the chinese opposite the one you named is the rice bowl ....the food it very good and the staff cant do enough for you ......hope this jogged your memory...