Como Uma Paro

Uma Paro is lovely. We did the 7 night COMO highlights of Bhutan package and found it very good. The absolute stand out was our guide Tshering Dorji who was the best guide we’ve ever had on our travels - the perfect balance of deep knowledge, humour, patience and meeting all of our needs. He was amazing and along with our excellent driver Namgey looked after us brilliantly. While we broadly had an itinerary we shaped in as we went and added and subtracted according to what we wanted to do - all without any issue. COMO does really great food. Healthy; much sourced from their own gardens, options that are Bhutanese, western and Indian. And delicious. Head Chef Tshering was amazing and was wonderful to meet too. If you’re into food, it’s worth coming to COMO just for this. Beyond that staff were great - all of them. From managers to wait staff in the restaurants. We were looked after and accommodated in many ways. We enjoyed the spa treatments at both COMO sites though Nema at COMO Punakha was one of the best masseuses we’ve ever had (she is amazing!). Everything ran smoothly, from booking with the reservations team in advance, sorting visas and our actual trip. The trip is pricey and while COMO may be less than other hotel chains it still charges premium prices - on a global level. And we felt that the hotel just wasn’t up to the standard we’d have expected. A bit dated, needing a touch of TLC. But when you’re paying well over $1000 a night for a room it should blow you away. And it didn’t. Still; we had a brilliant time. If you pick COMO enjoy the food. And ask for Tshering as your guide. He’s amazing!

Had a very comfortable stay in the Villa., which are very well planned and comfortable .The bathrooms are large and enough space for dressing etc. The staff was very attentive ,courteous and helpful. The breakfast and also the menu in the cafe was very well served. Would recommend it to anyone visiting Paro.

Spectacular property, beautiful pool, wonderful staff. The pictures don't do justice - our room was bright, modern, and the size of a large apartment complete with kitchen, living room, bedroom, and massive bedroom. The restaurant was wonderful and we returned to eat there again on our last night even though we weren't staying at the resort. Everyone went out of our way to make our stay perfect and we felt like royalty.

Como Uma Paro was a good choice. The hotel itself is set high above the Paro valley - with views of the very difficult approach into Paro International Airport ( don’t worry, there’s no noise pollution from the few daily incoming flights). The rooms are on the smaller side but very stylish and well appointed. The restaurant is the show stopper with wood stoves and an overall stunning design. Service was excellent. The menu in the restaurant changes every 2 days - we were unlucky that the menu was static for the 2 nights we were there. The food is good - but not excellent. The bar at the hotel looks like an afterthought and really needs “something” to make it more cosy and appealing but the pomegranate cosmo’s were very tasty! Do make time for an archery lesson - they’re included and we had so much fun learning the Bhutanese National sport with a longbow. This was a definite highlight! Would we stay again- pretty sure we would.