(3.5/5)
The best part of this place is hospitality (considerate, polite and helpful staff) and the lush green tea estate. We visited this place, particularly, for the guided tea factory tour. It included a short visit to factory (where they make green and black tea), tea estate and a tea tasting session. The factory visit was short and cursory (couldn’t show us the tea leaves output at various stages of tea making process). Both tea estate visit and the tasting session (can choose any 5 of 15+ varieties) were wonderful. I was surprised to know that final packaged tea gets converted from tea leaves within 12 hours!
Later on, we had a meal at their cafe. And they were highly accommodative (divide shake into 1/2, different topping slices in a 4 slice pizza). Never did I feel that they were trying to sell something unnecessarily. They also offered other services (atv ride, paintball, archery) but they were pricey. Also, the tea was priced at mrp and not at a factory subsidised pricing, which was a disappointment. Overall, we were there for 3 hours and Tanay made sure that we had a good time. Location wise, not sure if we can comfortably reach here without a vehicle. Provided they don’t offer shuttle services to the city, we had to hold back a taxi.