We stayed at Nizmar resort for 3 days and found this to be an average hotel. Though the rooms are quite spacious if you book a deluxe suit but the property is an old one. We had our rooms pre-booked through internet but still the hotel reception took around 30-45 mins to validate the booking. One should specifically ask for rooms facing the pool as the other locations aren't good. Room service is not good here and even the food is average. Note that there is no lift to take you to 3rd floor in case your room is there.

Nearest beach from this place is Calungate which is little under 1 km. You can easily find restaurants, shops, bike rentals, etc. in this area. The day tours to North / South Goa are costlier if you book through the hotel. You can find travel and tours shops enarby which can do the same tour booking at a lower cost.

My husband and I just got back from a 4 days long stay at the Nizmar Resort ifrom 26th to 29th January. We choose the Nizmar Resort because we wanted to stay at a star hotel (at least good if not best). But our review about this hotel goes like this:

Pathetic Hotel.. including their rooms, room service, check in (waited for one and half hours), rude employees (including their manager).. overall worst hotel to stay

I am never critical and always make the most of my holidays, but after ignoring previous reviews as they are often too picky, I stayed for a month at the Nizmar Resort and immediately regretted it! On arrival, we were told to sit and wait as the 6 people behind reception were dealing with 8 angry customers. We waited an hour, and took another hour 3/4 hour to book in. We were given room 206. The fridge was unstocked and filthy, the tv was 'plugged' in with just the wires, the lamp was hanging off the base with no bulb and no plug, the toilet was leaking badly but we, being us, thought "oh well, lets make the most of it". Unfortunately, it got from bad to worse. The hotel is now used as a conference facility where groups of people came from India. They were usually rowdy (until 2 in the morning sometimes) banging and slamming doors, screaming in the corridor and would not listen when you asked them (politely) to be quiet. The staff didnt want to know, they seemed scared! The pool was clean but the complete row of top tiles were broken and most of the time the filters were not working.

Ignore the pics of this hotel, they must have been taken when the hotel was first built. The outisde is worse than shabby. Our balcony was disgusting with hardly any paintwork left and rusty but worst of all, it looked out onto common ground behind a building that obviously had no toilet and men, women and children alike used the ground as an open public toilet and were rude if you happened to be sitting on the balcony when they wanted to do their business (this didnt stop them). The reception staff and management were ignorant, sometimes rude and useless. Most didnt speak English (or pretended not too, I cant make my mind up). There are so many things that fail this hotel.

Hours after the first breakfast (which I didnt eat), my husband got food poisoning and it was extremely serious. Hours after my first meal there (a week into the holiday), I got food poisoning, both cases lasting a week. Every other British couple there also got food poisoning lasting a week. The breakfast was chronic anyway!

The only things I will say is that the bed was clean and comfortable and the room was large. There were no cockroaches as even they had vacated the premises!

I implore anyone reading this to not just dismiss the review, I honestly am really laid back and have been to Goa many times and loved the charm of basic hotels. a lot of people who were there during our month had also been to the Nizmar before and had loved it and cannot BELIEVE how bad it has gotten.

Base level Hotel (I cannot rate any STARS for Nizmar).
Pool was good & clean.
Rooms are average. Corridors & Balcony are old & rusty.
Breakfast was Good.
Service is bit SLOW.
HOSPITALITY Level is very basic to poor.
No lifts (each block is 4 floor)