Coimbatore - A stop near the train station!
Trip Start
Oct 05, 2010
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Trip End
Jul 01, 2011
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Saturday, January 22, 2011
We were eventually thrown out somewhere near the Coimbatore bus station and managed to find our way to some nearby guest houses/hotels. Another Lonely Planet bull-shitter was the Blue Star hotel. Described as the friendliest in the city with peace and quiet and tidy clean rooms with satellite TV! Ha ha – that rooms were filthy. The sheets weren’t clean, there was building work with drills going on all over the building, the TV didn’t work and quite frankly the staff were some of the rudest and smuggest we seen! And to top it off the room price was more than double what it said in the guide book! WE complained about the fact we at least wanted clean sheets and asked to see the next room up – the ‘superior deluxe’. It was 400RS more, was smaller, nearer then noise and hadn’t been tidied from the people who’d checked out earlier! We got our bags and left pretty hastily!
The hotel next door was only about 200RS more and was luxury in comparison, brand new bathroom marble floors, flat screen TV, free internet use, proper bouncey mattress, Air Con AND it included breakfast! We stayed put in there for 2 days solid, only venturing out to the bar next door (which was the seediest bar in the world with no lights, no women’s toilet and UV light everywhere) for beer and bar snacks and to get fruit and water.
Coimbatore was not that pleasant. There was a lot there and it was busy and bustling with big shops and high streets, but it was another dirty, honking mess of a place which was nothing to write home about.
