Symphony Samudra , Port Blair

Ideally for stays I would have liked to have rated “good” if the option was there.

Stayed in the following resorts:

Sea shell , port blair : This was an ok hotel, nothing fancy. Very small hotel with no great views etc. Food was good and rooms were clean. Price of food was very high for the kind of place it seemed to be.
Tilar Siro, Havelock: The best resort we stayed during our andaman visit. Everything about the resort was absolutely brilliant. Food, hospitality and the private beach section were all top notch.
Symphony summer sands, Neil island: This was the biggest let down in our entire trip. The upgraded casa aqua room with breakfast and dinner was just pathetic. This is a motel pretending to be a star resort. There is a section of this resort on the beach side which looked a bit better, but our rooms were on the bad side. I wish i had stuck to my original choice of sea shell samssara instead of listening to your recommendation.
Symphony samudra, port blair: beautiful resort, but far away from the city which was fine for us. But the resort appears to still have some construction ongoing. We did not get great views from our room which was overseeing a pond under construction. The resort also has significant maintenance issues even though it is fairly new- our room has cockroaches and spiders and ac did not work in our room after 10. They offered to change rooms, but my kids had already slept by then. Other room was good and resort itself is overall pretty.

Drivers:
All drivers were excellent and on time and reasonable. Never had any issues. Especially the havelock and neil island drivers and port Blair driver during return trip were very helpful. Only docking a point for dropping us far away and making us walk a lot and for sometimes bringing cars that were not very clean/ not having ac working.

Travel agent experience:
Right from booking till follow ups during travel, very quick response and always ready to help. I was also happy to note that in most places we did have 2 cars booked when we had luggages, so we could sit comfortably. Only thing was the recommendations of symphony summer sands and sea shell, port blair. Not sure if the agent got first hand knowledge or only details from the photos, the experience there is a lot different than the images. Perhaps need to figure out customers preferences by engaging a little more to understand their taste as well. That’s my only corrective comment, otherwise I wanted to thank lazy yatra/ travel triangle for an extremely well planned trip.

Hi All,

Just a note to share my experience for the amazing Andaman trip tailored by LazyYatra.

Starting with the planning, Vishal and his team were very supportive and knowledgeable about the hotels/resorts and places to be explored in Andaman.
The places and resorts suggested by them were amazing and beautiful. They also helped customise the package as per my needs, keeping my budget into consideration.

Also, when the Andaman airport work was to be started, they helped to reschedule my entire plan with multiple discussions with respective hotels and resorts. Totally going beyond limits to help me enjoy my trip.

During the trip, Sweety ma’am was always available over a ping/call. Response was immediate and I always had my queries resolved immediately.

The helping staff (drivers, etc) too helped me locally to explore restaurants and places . Sudeep at Havelock was super helpful to help me find the best Scuba diving team.

All in all, a great trip through LazyYatra.
They know their stuff and will definitely plan another trip with them to some new location.

LazYatra is definitely recommended for people who are looking to plan their trip to Andaman.

Kudos Vishal and LazYatra Team.
Thanks & Regards,
Vivek

The first day, in Port Blair, the hotel Bay Walk provided us with a bad room and it took some back and forth with the hotel manager and Lazy Yatra to get us a decent room. After this we were supposed to visit the cellular jail, then spend time a relaxed and quiet evening at Corbyn's Cove beach and then see the Lights and sounds show at cellular jail at 7:30PM. Lazy Yatra booked us tickets for the 5:30PM show and then kept pushing us to accept this until we assertively told them to back off and stick with the original itinerary and provide me tickets for the originally planned show timings itself. The rest of the days at Havelock and Neil islands were good. When we came back to Port Blair for the last leg of our holiday we had to stay at the same hotel Bay Walk. While checking out the first time we had specifically asked the hotel to make sure that they provide us good rooms for our next stay at the hotel on the 7th and 8th day. When we checked in they kept saying that they had reserved a better room for us this time. The room decent but, as we realised in the next half and hour, the AC of this room was faulty and did not cool. The next 3-4 hours were spent again doing back and forth with the hotel manager and the Lazy Yatra team who did not provide any solution this time but just kept saying that they can't do anything as it will take time for the hotel to repair the AC and that we have to manage till then. After some time they even stopped picking our calls, Overall I would say that the hotel management is not good and at the same time Lazy Yatra is good till everything is going well. As soon as things start going south they will not be able to help you.