Luxury Hotel - Goa

The Pousada Tauma, a luxury boutique hotel, in Goa, India, is more private villa than resort, opening in 1998, the rooms, all with patios, are air-conditioned and simply decorated with colonial-style furniture, and the bathrooms are decorated with beautiful shattered tiles. Here you will find a "private" quaint and charming world, a distant paradise for your best holiday vacation this luxury boutique hotel in Calangute, Goa, India.

The luxurious pool is one focal point - soothing and refreshing and the sound of running water is an elixir which gives the 13 all suite Luxury Goan Boutique Hotel a tranquility that is beguilingly addictive.

Conceived as an adult-experience and scattered around the pool are suites with different themes: the Sea Suites, the Field Suites, the Mountain Suites, the Castle Suite, and the Garden Suite that give one the very feel and aroma of Goa. At the Pousada Tauma, luxury boutique hotel, each suite has its also has its own private dining area, bedroom with a dressing table, wardrobe and a patio with a private, detached garden or terrace, telephones for local and long-distance, television with satellite channels, and a minibar.

The Ayurvedic Centre is an idyllic Ayurveda spa, with outstanding service, featuring Ayurveda massage to increase immunity, and flexibility, plus tone up your body, mind and soul. Run by a therapist, the spa has an India government certified Ayurvedic doctor available for detailed consultations and other treatments.

Although Ayurvedic cuisine is available on request, it would be a pity to eat boiled vegetables when you could be feasting in the Copper Bowl Restaurant featuring Goan cuisine on the best lobster masala, perfect prawn balchao, incomparable chicken xacuti; choicest tiger prawns and finest squid in chili, or outstanding bebinca cake, made with layers of coconut milk and egg yolk, flambéed in fenni.

Plus it is the only Goan luxury boutique hotel which is built on the lines of a natural, traditional architecture concept using exposed masonry. Eco-friendly and with the minimum use of resources, it uses Goa's laterite stones liberally, hence the luxuriant glow it emits is distinctly Goan. The twittering of birds and a variety of flora and fauna enhance this other-world charm that makes your stay a tryst with nature and a solace for the soul.

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