Good Place at a affordable cost and a very nice location. But they need to keep up with the maintainace and upkeep of the hotel. No Fire Place could be a tricky, if the night gets too cold. We have stayed in the Gate House Cottage, very nice and spacious place. The food is not all that great though.

My wife and I had planned a Ooty trip in October '09. And made the bookings at YWCA Anandagiri Ooty based on my friends' recommendation. Unfortunately we had to postpone it. Since we paid the advance to YWCVA, we requested them to postpone the booking. And they agreed! The first interaction with them was pleasant and amicable. We replanned and planned it again for January '10 to celebrate the New Year.
The YWCA is quite amazing. It is at the heart of the city, barely 1 km away from the market/bus stand and the lake. It is located by the side of the road which connects the market and the lake, next to the race course. They have ample parking space. The property is huge, old and quaint. They have different types of cottages spread across a huge property full of trees and flowering shrubs.They have a very nice garden.The staff there are warm hearted and jovial. Quite helpful too. The property in maintained well. However the buildings are pretty old and it shows. Since we had done the booking at the peak of the season they had only lower cottages available. The cottage was dimly lit, small and claustrophobic. There was hot water running, but no TV. We requested for a change of room and got a delux room in the main building. This room was really good with all good facilites and pretty much airy when compared to the cottages.
Another big minus is the quality of food. It is really bad and slightly expensive. Moreover there is less choice as well. But then there are quite a few reasonably restaurants/eateries nearby where you get good paranthas and curry.

Overall it is a good place for lodging at extremely low rates. Where can you get a cottage, albeit an old one, in Ooty for 350 Rs per day? Or a Bunglow suite for less than 1K?

I stayed there with my extended family. We booked a bungalow suite and a standard room. They were not at all clean, they were smelly and stinking. The lights in the hall and toilet were not functioning despite many requests made to rectify. When we ordered for Tea the room service guy who came was drunk. The reception staff were courteous. There is an upright piano in the chapel which needs tuning very badly. On the whole it was not a good experience and i will definitely never go back.

I had gone to YWCA with lot of hopes. It sounded like a quaint little place which will be charming.

While it still has the potential to be a well maintained charming place, It needs lot of effort to maintain it. One of the window glass panes were broken and staff knowlingly hid this fact from us and made us stay there.

THe fact is, I would one like to stay in this place when it is in better shape.