Hi, My mother has been running this establishment for over 30 years now and has been very successful at making her guests comfortable and making their holiday experience more memorable. This is a family run hotel which gives you a feel of coming to a home away from home. Most of our guests keep coming back to us as they... More

Fortunately we stayed one night only. We could choose the room but we wished to be elsewhere. The rooms were rather big but... almost empty. The entire structure needed to be cleaned. No lights to read in bed but enough to attract mosquitos. The food was so-so but they had to send a woman elsewhere to buy a (hot) bottle... More

I had stayed at Motel Mermaid about twenty years ago. I carry extremely fond memories of that place. But unfortunately, I am not able to get the contact details, the ones available on the net are not valid - neither the Kolkata nor the Gopalpur numbers. Could somebody please help me with the contact numbers? I want to go there... More

I find it so heartening to meet enterprising women and more so when they outperform men in entrepreneurship. In a recent trip to Gopalpur - on – Sea, in Orissa, I met one such woman, Mrs. Rosalind wh...o is running a motel there since 1983. Rosalind is Armenian in origin, born in India to parents who came from Iran. Brought... More

From Puri we landed in Gopalpur on Sea on our way to Visakhapatnam. The first day it appeared as if I have reached a desolate ghost town with hardly anybody to be seen during the evening time. Though I had never visited Gopalpur before, I chanced on this hotel and found that it is one of the better properties to... More

Gopalpur on Sea is still (fortunately) laid back. The flip side of the coin of course is that accomodation options are rather limited as a result. We were prepared to trade off a sea view for clean beds, air conditioning and toilets. Our quest led us to the Mermaid, which is run by an Armenian lady from Calcutta. The Mermaid... More