It all happen on late October, 2006, that Rupa and I have to agree on a place where we will be spending a few very special days of our life. After way too many discussions and net crawling, it was quite clear that we will not be able to visit any of the so called exciting places, keeping in mind of time constraints. Rupa, since beginning, wanted to visit Vizag, but I wanted to go Bharatpur near Delhi. Scarce accommodation made it a no-no for a honeymoon trip. Henceforth, we settled on Vizag. I was lucky that Rupa made all the reservations, all I did was just to be there with her in right time. We booked a room at Punnami Hotel which is owned by APTDC (Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation Ltd.). Through out AP, APTDC maintains quite few hotels in nice locations and if price and quality needs to be balanced, APTDC hotels are by far the best. Rooms are nice, so are the locations. The hotel we stayed at was along the coast of Bay of Bengal and the beach was hardly 5 minutes walk.
The real bummer is, APTDC for some reason chose to be obscure over the web, the only way to get in touch with them is an old fashioned telephone or just be there in person at any of their branch offices. I am posting the details of the phone numbers and rates of Punnami Hotels and package tours from a brochure I got from my hotel. Hope this will help.
