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Published: March 17th 2009
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A long weekend from March 7th to March 10th. We (Me, wife , Kunnu and Kennu) decided to dash off to Ooty at the last moment. Did some searches over net and finalized on Zest Danish Villa for 2 nights 3 day deal. Since my car was not with me we decided to use our cousins Accent.
Drive Bangalore - Ooty
We started from home at 6 AM on Saturday Morning. We have to pickup our friend who's parents are at Ooty and working in Bangalore. She was visiting them over the weekend and was piggy backing us in car. We started 6:15 AM from Indira Nagar by 6:45 we were near Kengari in Mysore Road. Stopped For breakfast at the Kamat Hotel around 7:30. At Mysore we took the Ring Road and we felt it was mistake as the distance was more than going inside the city. Then to Najangundu and to Gundalpet. Stopped at Cafe Coffee Day for break. Then to Bandhipur, Mudumalai, Masinagudi and Ooty. Roads are very bad between Gundalpet and Bandipur. The 36 hairpins, steep and narrow road from Masinagudi was a thrilling drive.
Driving back we started around 12 Noon from
hotel. We planned to try the Godalore route this time. The road is through Picara and it not so steep and much wider. We reached Goodalore by 1:30 PM. There wasn't much traffic and we were alone most of the time. Lunch at a Mallu hotel and then to Mudamali forest, Bandipur , then inside Mysore City and to Bangalore. Mysore road drive was very bad as the traffic is very high. Stopped at the CCD at Madoor for coffee. Took NICE, joined Kanakpura Road, JP Nagar, BTM , Airport Road to reach home. Last part in Bangalore City Limits took 2 hours and was very tiring.
Hotel
Zest Danish villa is an okay hotel. The service is bad as they have very less number of staff. There is no continuous running of hot water in the room. A 10 mins of shower there won't be any hot water. You need to wait another 30 mins for same. The room design also is bad. Unless you put on the curtains you will not have any privacy. Once you do that then there is no Sunlight in the room. But the hotel is very clean and
people are very nice.
We had a barbeque and bonfire at hotel. It was nice and was cold and we couldn't spend so much time. There are some adventure activities in the hotel. I wanted to use the SPA but couldn't use it as the stuff was not ready when I wanted. The food is very costly and average too.
We also had problem while checking out. We had to search for front office staff and CC swipe machine was also not working. We didn't have enough cash to settle it. So have to go to ATM and took Money. We wasted almost an hour for the same.
Also there is no booze in the hotel. You need to buy from outside if you need.
Also on Sunday March 8th, 2009 hotel celebrated Women's Day. They Invited students from local college for various competition. I was requested to be judge and I did.
What we did
* Visited our friends house.
* Lake where we tried the boating and toy train.
* Visited Tea Factory at Coornoor.
* Sims Park and Dolphin Nose again at Coornoor.
* Shopping at Commercial Street in
The Driver
Driver for the Trip Ooty
Passenger Train no. 662 Cornoor - Ooty
We wanted to try the passenger train between Ooty and Cornoor. So we decided to take Taxi for half day trip to Cornoor and try the train on way. We reached the station by 8:30 AM for the train at 9:15 AM and stood in the queue. The queue was closed as the train was full just 2 person before us. So we decided go Cornoor on Taxi and try the trip back on train. The train was 1:30 PM from Cornoor to Ooty. We visited the Tea Factory, Sim Park and Dolphin Nose. There was Wild fire near Dolphin Nose. So we didn't spend much time there and also we want to get tickets for the train. On the way to station the taxis tire got flat. We thought we will not get tickets again. But when we reached the Cornoor station 30 mins before and there is a decent crowd. We got the tickets for First Class ( Rs 76 per Person). We got into the first seat of the train. Since it is pushing train up journey you really are at Front of
tunnel
The Natural tunnel the train. Wow It was great experience.
This train have reservation seats and you can see you reserve the seats through internet from here itself. Need to try that.
The Journey was also eventful. After 2 stations a groups foreigners an Indian friend joined us in the front coupe. The Indian Friend of the foreigners injured her finger while opening the window. The guard stopped the train and took her to engine room and given her first aid and journey continued. The design of the windows and doors are cool. But one need to be very careful while operating them. She have to undergo some stitches and taken to the hospital when we reached Ooty.
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