Nirvana FAQs
Answers to Namaste Nirvana specific queries
Namaste Nirvana is sits pretty right on the beach front of Gokarna Main Beach. It is at a distance of
- Kumta Railway Station: 13.8 kilometres
- Mahabaleshwar Temple, Gokarna: 44 kilometres by highway
- Om Beach: 49 kilometers by car
The road passes in front of the property, and the vehicles can park right outside
Namaste Nirvana is a beach front property, with rooms that are at set at a distance of 50-75 metres to the open beach.
All of our rooms have geysers fitted in the toilets that you can use for hot water.
With the property being on level ground and having vehicular access, there is no particular impediment that we can think of.
Please make a self-assessment about the suitability of a beach location for anyone who can have challenges with natural environments and terrains.
All of our rooms have ensuite/attached toilets.
We have WiFi with in-room access. However, Nirvana being located in a remote location does have its share of internet outages that are out of our control, and sometimes at the most inopportune times!!!
So we suggest that you have a backup plan for such an eventuality.
Airtel, Jio, Vodafone and BSNL have fairly operating voice services. However, when it comes to mobile internet, Airtel and Jio networks usually give between 3-15 Mbps speeds, Vodafone is a bit of a hit and miss, and BSNL is not functionally usable for internet.
We do not have a definitive policy, and we are not a pet friendly location.
However, whether a pet is allowed is entirely on a case to case basis, and entirely at the discretion of the management, coupled with the amount of responsibility and potential additional cleaning cost the guest is willing to shoulder.
We have a restaurant on site, that caters to local and Indian tastes.
All of our standard rooms are designed with a cut out of the room area to have a seating location that offers a vista of the sea. However, our Deluxe rooms do not have a view of the sea, as they are set away from the road.
We do not have any driver accommodation. There is a common toilet for the restaurant that they can use. However, arrangements for them to sleep will have to be made for, by the guests themselves.
General FAQs
Answers to the most common queries
The short answer is no. You cannot make bookings on a phone call. All bookings for our hotels are online. Our support lines are to help you with any technical difficulty that you are having with the process, and not to take bookings.
We strongly advice that you go through our website, and read these FAQs that are very likely to answer most of the queries that come to us. Once you have completely gone through the website and still have queries, we request you to send us a single WhatsApp message detailing your specific query which is not about price/tariff and/or availability and/or room type detail (which can be seen on the website) . If you must call, then please restrict your calls to between 10:00am – 11:00am, and 4:00pm – 5:00pm. We receive hndreds of calls every day and it might be impossible to respond to all of them about the exact same things. However, we are at your service, and will respond to your WhatsApp queries at the earliest, or we will call you back at the first possible chance
Our entire room inventory is online, and whatever is available will be visible to you on our website www.namastegokarna.com. Availability information is only good at the time of checking. We might say that there is availability when we check, but it might show a “Full” status when you try to book or vice versa.
We have multiple beach side properties, which have multiple room types, which in turn have a dynamic pricing based on the season, on the long weekends, as well as based on the booking traffic for a certain date. It would be impossible for us to predict and list out the prices, and even if we did, they might change by the time you visit our website to make a booking.
So please explore our website www.namastegokarna.com for the most current status of availability, price & booking.
You can book all of our hotels on this website www.namastegokarna.com Payment options include credit cards, debit cards, UPI, net banking, and wallets.
All our tariffs at all our properties are always on a room only basis, and do not include any meal plan. There are no inclusions of any breakfast / lunch / dinner.
Checkin – 01:00 PM in the afternoon
Checkout: 10:00 AM in the morning
Any alteration requests can be considered on payment of additional charge, and in the event of availability. This time extension even in the event of availability is at the sole discretion of the management and staff.
If the room that you have booked is empty on the previous night, then we will give you the room as soon as the staff is ready, which would typically be between 8:00 and 8:30 am. In the event that there is a guest in the room, there will be a cleaning time after the guest checks out at 10:00 am, or latest by 10:30 am and the earliest you can get the room will probably be around 12 noon, but to set the right expectation, your check-in will probably be 1:00pm.
However, you can leave your luggage in a common area of the property that is monitored by a CCTV until the check-in time, and can go on a stroll to the beach, or for breakfast, and come back for the check-in time.
A late check-out request can only be considered upon payment of an additional charge, and ONLY in the event of there being availability. As our systems are online, we can hope to sell the rooms online for the 1:00 pm check-in, or anytime after, which we cannot predict. There is however a possibility during the non-peak times to book the room for half a day, at half the charge of a day, to hold the room until 7:00 pm.
There is no property in Gokarna which has a private beach (at the time of writing this) There might be reviews that mention that it felt like a private beach (maybe because there were very few people at the time, but the beaches are all public, and we do not have a private beach at any of our properties.
We do not have any activities that are run or managed by us.
There might be activities that third parties might be operating based on their assessment of business viability. Depending on the season and the weather, there can be a host of activities like jet skies, zorbing, banana boat rides, boat rides, kayaking, surfing etc. or none at all.
We are not responsible for the availability of such third party services during your visit.
It is very difficult specify whether one needs AC or not, as it is a very personal liking. If one is used to 18/19/20 C then it is advisable to take AC.
But the temperatures vary based on the time of the year, and with the changes over the last few years it has been very hard to predict. But the thing to consider is, the temperature and humidity outside is what it is, given that Gokarna is a beach side village. Therefore being in an AC room gives you less incentive to step out, as being out feels more uncomfortable after being in an air-conditioned room.
Apart from being able to reasonably state that 1) Mid April till June are likely to be hot, November to March being pleasant, and July and August being wet, we are not in a position to confidently state anything other than the weather as it is now (and neither can the meteorological it appears before 24 hours :-). The rains have been highly unpredictable and lasting longer while pouring down at unexpected times.
So as a variant of what they say for disappointment, ” expect rains or excessive heat & humidity, so you wont be disappointed if it does” seems to be what would be the ideal temperment.
