Namaste Cafe FAQs
Answers to Namaste Cafe specific queries
Namaste Cafe is located on Om Beach. It is at a distance of
- Gokarna Entry Point: 6 kilometres
- Mahabaleshwar Temple / Centre of town: 6.5 kilometres by car, and 4.5 kilometres by a two/three wheeler
- Kudle Beach (Near End): 1.3 kilometres. This end has public as well as paid parking
- Railway Station (Gokarna Road): 14 kilometres
- Dabolim Airport (Goa): 150 kilometres
- Manohar International Airport (MOPA Goa): 190 kilometres
- Hubballi Railway Station: 156 kilometres
- Hubballi Airport: 154 kilometres
At Namaste Cafe, the restaurant is on the beach front, while all the rooms are behind it, on different levels, and distances. The rooms farthest from the beach are about 175 metres to the beach, and the closest ones are about 50 metres.
The road passes right by the gate of Namaste Cafe, and the guest vehicles come into the property and can park there as well.
Public access to Om Beach, as well as the terrain of Namaste Cafe is located on an incline, and has gradients that can be challenging for people who have difficulties with walking.
We have rooms that are located on the parking level, but the access to the beach still involves walking down a gradient to go to the beach, and walking up a gradient to come back to the room from either inside or outside of the property.
This might be challenging for people with difficulties in walking. Please consider this before making any booking.
- All of our AC rooms have 24-hour hot water supply in the toilets.
- All of our basic rooms and cottages, as well as the three and five bed facilities get hot water supply during fixed hours of XXam to XXam ain the morning, and XXpm to XXpm in the evening
All of our rooms have ensuite/attached toilets.
We have WiFi with in-room access. However, Gokarna being a remote location does have its share of internet outages that are out of our cont
We have WiFi with in-room access. However, Gokarna being 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.
rol, 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 some rooms (Upper floors of Eeshwara block) that offer partial views of the sea/beach. But we do not like to mis-sell them as beach/sea view. Sine allocation is an issue, we leave it to the draw of the software lots and we are unable to make any changes to the allocations.
So, for all practical purposes, it is safe to assume that we do not have any rooms that have sea/beach view.
We have a shared sleeping place for 2-3 drivers based on their ability to share the space, and a shared common toilet with the staff.
If there is a set expectation of a certain standard of sleeping area for the guest staff, the guests are requested to make alternate arrangements accordingly.
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.
