The Bowers Chalet

Bit outside from Ooty. Quiet place. Staff very friendly and helpful. We prefere the mountain view rooms, because the view is nicer. Food is tasty and the breakfast it‘s more then only tasty. What we missed? Small Balcony to sitting outside. Or just two chairs is also enough then we can sit outside to enjoy the nice view

Many things were wrong with this property apart from Location. I will list out a few and I'll describe our experience below. 1. Geezer wasn't working properly. 2. There were no Lights in our room!!!! 3. No wifi, No bath towels were provided, no mirrors inside room (one mirror is there in bathroom and the bathroom is very SMALL!!!) even drinking water came after we told them to bring. 4. Most deceptive thing about this property is two different rooms were separated by a door!!! Means the rooms are interconnected and you can hear the voices, talking, whispers and moans from next room. So to hell with privacy and noice cancellation. 5. Their deceptive description says many things like a balcony, garden view, mountain view etc, only mountain view is true. 6. Washroom is pretty small and not very clean or modern. And if you take a dump there, your room becomes smelly. You can hear the guests from next room is also watching sitting on toilet in their room. 7. Blankets and bedsheets were not washed for sure, they used perfume to make it fresh. 8. There was a TV, but no remotes were there. Even though if there's any remote since we don't have wifi there, it's pretty useless. To be honest I don't really care about the wifi or TV part. If everything else was good then we would have loved this stay.

Very very basic chalet. Service is average. Food is poor. Views are nice. Overall the property is not for family travellers. The location is far out and reaching here can be scary post sundown. In general accomodation in Ooty is pretty average and this is below average. As a whole Ooty has seen better days is fairly run down place. In Ooty better to take an average place near city center than go to this far out place. Plus Management of this place is also shady. They tried to back out of the booking at last moment and then later messaged me to tell booking dot com that I cancelled to avoid paying their commision!

I stayed with family for three nights at Bowers Chalet. We had two apartments in the same cottage just besides. Each apartment had two bedrooms, no common area, but we saw other cottages with common rooms there. This resort is a remote location type of resort. If you have stayed at such a type of resort before you get an idea of what this is like. If not then remote location means away from city, so do not expect star hotel facilities, do not expect cheap in-dining, and do not expect easy access to other attractions in the area. Do expect unique local features (like here the 360 hill view) and cozy fun with your travel partners. The scenery is great. The cottage is situated on top of a hill with a valley on both sides. Daily we saw clouds coming up over the hill and covering the resort. Rooms are clean and sufficiently maintained. Breakfast is served in the room and sufficient in quantity. Drinking water is also provided in the room. Front of the cottage there is a lawn where kids can play cricket. Backside there is also a lawn which is used for bonfire if you want the resort to arrange. You are assigned a cottage-assistant on arrival who you can contact for anything while staying there. Our assistant was Saravanna, who was really helpful and with good communication during our stay. Any issues we had the local management helped us resolve. Thank you Mr. Vijay. Of course things can inprove. We would have liked daily room cleaning. Perhaps it is available on request but nobody asked about it. The complimentary breakfast is only a few items so it would've been great with more variation. Finally requesting cash payment for an expensive stay smells like tax evasion from resort ownership.