Well here goes, this is just a general report not a blow by blow account but I thought others might be interested in a first timers views. We flew from Manchester with first choice, started out holiday off in good style by booking in the the exec lounge at Man airport, flight was on time and probably the best long haul flight I've ever had. On landing in Goa there only seemed to be our flight so didnt take too long to get through customs and immigration. Thanks to the info on here we were more than prepared for the scramble for the suitcases, we were polite but firm and managed to get our own bags to a taxi without too much hassle, told first choice rep that we were getting in taxi and off we went!!

We arrived at Palmarinha Hotel (hotel report submitted) and for all those booked here i am sure like us you will have a fantastic stay!

Most days we were up and out of the hotel by 9am to make the most of our two weeks. The hotel provides a shuttle to Calangue beach, from there we usually walked along the beach to the baga end, although we did have a couple of days at clangute beach (hilton shack) which we really enjoyed. At the baga end of the beach we alternated using oceanic, silver sands and bittus shacks.

We found ourselves a fantastic taxi driver for our trips out and about in goa. We visited old goa and some temples, the tropical spice plantation, panjim, cocoa beach, marjim beach, we went on the dolphin trip and we spent a night at godfreys indian retreat which was amazing.

the resturants we visited at night included; East meets West, The Mermaid, After Seven, Brittus, Bernards, Floyds, Electric Cats, all spice and seahshell. We had fantastic food in all of them and all are such good value for money!

We had a fantastic 2 weeks which is defenately not long enough, we only had one mossie bite between the four of us and none of us were ill with bad stomachs. We will be back!!!