Saguna Baug Neral Pond House Rooms

Our stay in the Pond House rooms was truly fantastic. It was just heavenly to stay right in the midst of our very own pond and in rooms which were airy, bright and very clean. There are 2 rooms in the Pond House, Nos. 8 and 9. Room 8 has great side and front views, whereas Room 9's side view is the stony path. 

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Details of Rooms

Each room has its own attached bathroom. Inside each room is: large double bed and sofa, a table on the side of one bed, an exhaust fan (very sensible, as we had to keep the windows closed due to the extremely cold weather), wall phone to contact the main office, curtained windows with mosquito mesh on one part of the window.

There is a wash basin with mirror outside the bathroom (the loo is inside the bathroom). Outside each room is a wooden dining table and 4 wooden chairs.

Best of all: a swing on the porch! So basically it is a sit-out porch and if you are a group of 4 you can really have a grand time. It is like having your very own house in the middle of a lake! There are also lovely Warli painting on the beams over the porch area, as elsewhere in the premises, such as on the cottage walls.

In-between the two rooms is a table with a wall phone to connect to the main office (Dial 100). Clean drinking water is also available via a water filter.

Another excellent benefit of booking the Pond House rooms is that you have your very own “butler” service. You don’t need to go to the common dining area at all for your breakfast or meals. It is brought to you in large steel tiffins. Tea/coffee is brought in thermoses and served in pretty La Opala mugs.

Room Facilities

Hot water is available at the Pond House via a solar panel. You have to inform your room attendant when you wish to have a bath & accordingly he will turn on the lever of the solar panel system. Remember to inform him when you finish, so that he can then turn it off.

You have to bring your own toothpaste, toothbrush, bathing soap and hand towel (for wash basin) and bath towels. There is also no laundry service. On enquiry, it seems that they did at one time provide towels to guests. However, the large groups staying in the independent cottage meant giving each member an individual towel & apparently some of them would take away the towels. Quite appalling and basically stealing, hence not surprising that it was stopped.

There is an electric mosquito-repellent in the room, which is advisable to switch on before 6p.m. itself so that you are not troubled by mosquitoes while sleeping.

The bed has a pull-out drawer containing extra pillows, rugs and woollen blankets, as also hangers (see photo above). On our first night we had used the rugs as covers and only when we came to know that there were woollen blankets in the other room that we realized that we could get warmer covers at night. So we asked for, and promptly received, woollen blankets for our room too.

There is a stack of 4 extra beds in a corner, next to the sofa. So more people can stay in the room or even sleep out on the porch (not really a good idea though, due to mosquitoes outside).

To sum up: overall a very comfortable, homely stay in charming rooms!

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