Vivanta Vadodara

Although outdated, my room, bigger than most #204 was spacious and comfortable. I'm sure maintenance is required in certain instances but I wish the management had informed me about it, sound of drilling definitely ruins the experience. I thought breakfast was fairly average although the service was great. Overall a pleasant stay.

*) The hotel neither looks nor feels like a Taj property. The entrance of the hotel itself is at an odd place and angle. Once you get down from your vehicle it feels like you landed in some three star property with a very narrow passage to the lobby, once you are at the lobby it kind of confirms your doubts that it is a three-star property.*) The saving grace was the breakfast which was very good with lots of variety and excellent staff with Chef Tanaji being the highlight. Breakfast is from 7 AM to 10:30 AM.*) The room and bathroom were spacious and clean. The bathroom definitely needs maintenance and upliftment, it looked very shabby (pictures attached). The bedsheet had stains (pictures attached) and the towels were not at all fluffy and very thin.*) Staff is very good, it's the overall look of the hotel that does not justify it being a Taj property.*) The Swimming Pool is again at a weird place where you have to take a totally another elevator located on the other side of the building to reach.*) There was plenty of complimentary drinking water in the room. Check-in & Checkout were smooth.*) Their animal enclosure near the Swimming Pool was amazing, they have many noisy ducks, a huge turkey which was the highlight and a rabbit. That was awesome.*) There is no view, no garden, no landscaping.*) Room Service was prompt, we asked for Iron in the room and it was provided.

I am frequent visitor of your Mint restaurant and what I have noticed that services are gone down in these years . Yesterday ie 6th Jan I visited and it was such a slow service , the staff were fully confused , seems they were working for the long hours which was giving frustration .On enquiry came to know that hotel is fully sold .Having compared to past I feel that this deteriorating services will definitely put Vivanta in a not choice destination in my list.If hotel is fully occupied and we know this there would rush in restaurant why not call more staff on duty ? What only I can say Food was up to my satisfaction but poor services has put a question on my favourite place to eat .For a simple dinner we wasted 2.30 Hrs .May be this feedback will alarm you and you can think of doing some homework before a full occupancy arrived .

I booked Vivanta for a short staycation and sharing my experience based on that.Firstly our package included few complimentary things and upon reaching there was no welcome drink offered to us, it felt embarrassing to even ask for it so we skipped it. Booked a room with bathtub only to find they didn't have arrangements to offer for bath tub, bath bombs and salt to be the very least necessity for a bathtub. They denied that they don't have that and didn't even offer to arrange that. I bought on my own from market. Recliner in the room was broken and when we complained same it looked like staff was already aware of the issue and said that engineer can't fix it and we can't change it, offered us a different room that they can shift us to but it didn't have Recliner itself but a sofa and no bathtub so we denied same. No bathrobes available, called multiple times to provide same and aftwr many calls they gave us bathrobes. No room fresher available, upon multiple requests they gave us a bottleStaff is okay as they reply politely but such kind of hospitality is really not what I expected from Vivanta after spending hectic amount on stay. They are offering 3 star services in hotel for a 5 star restaurant and prices.We asked for a spa for 2 people only to get a reply that they have only 1 room and 1 person at a time. Another low from Vivanta.The only thing good about our stay was food, dinner and breakfast, no doubt they have a good chef and amazing menu, we shared a convo with their chef and their team was the only hostile and trained staff there. Hotel management staff is not properly trained and needs a lot of improvement. Don't book if you are expecting good 5 star service as hotel stay is really average

awesome food n experience

Solo Traveller • India • Nov 2025