We just completed a family trip to this resort and stayed for 3 nights. You will find 5 star to 1 star reviews of this resort in Google. We had a mixed experience. POSITIVEs 1. Location: it is beautifully located at the foothills at Panchalingeswar. The resort has a nice garden with lots of flowers and a good view from resort. You can enjoy nature and solitude here. 2. Package: they arrange trips to nearby areas and everything was hassle free. They are really good in transportation part. Even they took us to a far off beautiful place called Bhimkund which was not in our itinerary. 3. The owner Manoranjan Das is a nice gentlemen, an enviornmentalist and social worker and kept all his commitments of the package. 4. Service persons like Somnath babu are very caring and try their best within their limitations. NEGATIVES 1. Food: lacks variety and they would give you the same food everyday. You may get bored if on 4 days 3 nights trip. But the food quality is good/average (but bit oily). 2. Rooms: very small. No proper view. Poor lighting. The room provided to us accumulated water after rains and had to be cleaned everytime by service staff. 3. Everything here is very basic. Anyone looking for luxury or comfort will be grossly disappointed. No scope of proper room service. 4. TV was not working. ACs work only when electric current is there. Other time a single blub and fan work on solar power. Mobile network is poor. No wifi. Those going there, go with a mindset that you are going to a homestay with basic facilities amidst nature. Go with low expectations and you will not be disappointed.

  The manager is rather eccentric, not a place for dog lovers. Just getting out of the car, first day, their worker kicked a pup in the belly. The baby just was wagging it’s tail at me AFTER I CALLED IT. We later found out, it was the manager’s view point of dog loving being “western” Culture. Food was rather shabby, nothing special. 2 stars is more than enough for them.

  There were quite a few pros and cons : Pros : Airy air-conditioned room Excellent room service Clean bathroom Good arrangment of vehicles Cons : Too many insects Defective windows Oily food Water coming into the room after rain Unavailability of bedsheets Broken television AC remote had no batteries Also I thought I should mention something. Try not to take cottage five, get bug repellent, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BELONGINGS IN THE CAR : the driver’s are not trustable, we learnt it the hard way.

  Manaranjan das is an excellent man. He is very humble. As a guide he had excellent knowledge regarding birds and it’s activities . He also has good field knowledge regarding camera settings for bitding photography. At the end his homestay is excellent and well maintained. Service of staffs are excellent. Food is also equally well. Overall I shall rate it excellent.

  I have been there in two consecutive weekends.. 9th, 10th Apr and 17th April. It is not more than 6 hours drive from Kolkata. The resort is in a big stretch of land and has plenty of rooms in it, including cottages – most of t hem are Air-Conditioned. It is remarkably clean and very well decorated with trees and flowering plants. Rooms are spacious with all essential amenities – including water heater. Washrooms are clean and rooms well maintained. Food is absolutely great !! It is a great place for family as well, you get enough space within the campus to roam around. Location is great.. just situated besides the Panchalingeswar hill. It is also very near to Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary. Owner, Mr. Manaranjan Das, is himself a wildlife enthusiast and quite knowledgeable. He is also a bird photographer and a guide. The sole purpose of our trip was birding. We were a group of 5 people and had Manoranjan Das as our guide in both the weekends. Could manage to spot quite a few variety of birds – some of which are very rare to see. Overall experience was very good and that was evident from the fact that we visited there in consecutive weekends. I would like to go there again. 🙂

  the best place to stay at panchalingeshwar. economical stay, decent rooms/cottages and good food. owner manaranjan is a fantastic host cum knowledgeable naturalist. he will arrange everything if you are there for nature and wildlife. the resort is at the foothill of a hillock and has great views. perfect for a 3 day trip including kuldiha and chandipur as well.

  The stay was excellent. Both rooms and food were nice. The behaviour of all the staffs including the driver was extremely polite. The only suggestive change would be to improvise the tour packages for short duration so as to include only the best spots instead of a including a lot of nominal ones.

  Wonderful place for visit and to be stay weekend. The place is very natural and keep yourself cool & rest. We can take test getting pleasure in this resort, specially Monaranjan babu is nice person, there hospitality is too good that we think family here. I like to visit again and again …. like place of beautiful.