DO NOT opt for the 'inclusive of food' package. The cook can leave for an emergency and you'll be stuck with very indifferent 'home cooked' food. When you give feedback, the food gets worse. The breakfast is complimentary but they can serve it only post 7.30 am so it is of no use. As one needs to leave early for any sightseeing coz the sun sets by 4.30-5 pm and daylight is over by 5.30 pm. Also this place is quite far from the market (a great positive form a stay perspective) so dinner can be a major problem unless you eat early and come back. Local transport to this place is also not very easy to get as it is off the beaten taxi routes. The lovely, quaint rooms make for a wonderful stay though.

Rosaville is a page from history. A old heritage house with lovely old photographs and many prints of Kolkata it reminds one of the early 20th century. It has some big rooms and a lovely sitting and dining space. In crowded and traffic-bursting Shillong Rosaville with its big well-maintained garden , which has some very old trees is like an oasis. The service and food is homely , not much to scream about, but it goes with the character of the space.

the building is beautiful, a really classic example of colonial Assamese architecture. the grounds are impressive, an oasis of greenery and flower-beds in a Shillong that's increasingly concretized. the let-down is the service and the management, which is lackadaisical in the extreme. and whatever you do, don't take the package including food. you'll regret it, the worst food we ate in Shillong by far.

Its been a month now since we came back from our trip to Shillong. and I must say that ,I'm glad We chose to stay at Rosaville Cottage in Shillong ! Now I had hardly found any reviews on this Cottage Hotel, just went by my gut feeling that it should be a nice place to stay and Voila ! my instincts did prove me right !
Ok, coming down to the necessary things one needs to know.
There was a 2 nights n 3 days offer available at Rosaville, we extended it to a 3 nights 4 days one.
The Standard Room we stayed in was very clean, the bathroom was especially extremely clean! ,
We paid Rs.6950/- for a standard room for double occupancy which included breakfast and 1 meal.
The service was very good, the staff was courteous, the food was nice, custom made , good for non-vegetarians ! loved the fish there !
The garden around is really nice, surrounded by tall pine trees,a nice lawn with lovely flowers all around..
The only bad experience was that on the last night, the room heater went wry , n it gets really really cold in the night , also the caretaker cum admin drove me nuts when he put a 10% service charge extra (when i had paid the entire stay charges before hand n was told wont have to pay anything extra !) n to top it , he goofed up the math calculation in the bill !
But if you love staying at Heritage hotels, at a convenient distance from the crowded city , this is the place to pick !