Goa Hotel Courtyard
Inside Outside June 2000
It had been built during the 17th century in the double-storeyed Casa de Sobrado style, around a central courtyard, very much like houses of the Portuguese nobility.

Siolim House was situated on the border of Bardez county, near lands that were subject to frequent attacks by the armies of Adil Shah, the Sultan of Bijapur

 
 
Rags and riches in glorified Goa
Goa became a destination divided into extremes: the raggy-taggys and five-star resorts. Those that stayed at the resorts were protected by high walls and high prices. rarely straying beyond the big gates, except perhaps to go and look at the raggy-taggys, who themselves had become a bit of a tourist feature.

 
 
SIOLIM HOUSE, Goa What ever you do, don't call Siolim House a 'Hotel'. The owners insist their restored 300 year-old Portuguese mansion is your 'home' and have made it a palatial as possible, turning the 24 original rooms into just seven suites. So keen are they to welcome new comers into the fold, they have set up an online silent bidding system enabling cash-stretched Indian nationals and tourists to name their price for a room. Goa isn't where you might expect to find such a boutique hotel - so don't go telling everyone.
 
 
Restoration Drama
The setting for Siolim House, a 300-year-old Portuguese manor, now run as an exclusive heritage hotel. It's a handsome building, flat-roofed and solid, restored in a feat of architectural imagination to perhaps more than its past glory.
 
 

Lesley Gillilan - Imperial bedrooms.

The 300-year-old manor house (home to the governor of Macau during Portuguese rule) is owned by businessman [Blank], who bought it in 1996 as a roofless ruin. Three years on, his painstaking restoration won a Unesco award for conservation. The rooms: There are seven, which range from spacious to vast, with lofty ceilings
 
 
 
Siolim House was a finalist for the 2001 UNESCO Asia Pacific heritage awards for conservation, and one of a few from India

Article in Harpers&Queen (UK) - "Six Pack - Legends - Eleanor Southall on hotels that have seen a thing or two", one of 6 hotels in the world, and the only Goa hotel
High Life - British Airways - another surprise nomination (for us) in India's top 10 historic hotels - especially since we are not really a Goa hotel! See this and other reviews
 
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