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New Year: Goa is all booked >From Devika Sequeira DH News Service Panaji: Sold out signs are already out in most hotels along the tourist coast, and domestic travellers who fancy partying the night away this New Year in Goa could find themselves stranded without advance bookings. >From the modest guest-houses to high-end resorts, holiday stakeholders are reporting an overbooked New Year. It will be impossible to get a room for the New Year. Come back on January 2 or try the city hotels, a lady who runs a two-room cottage off Candolim beach said. We were sold out months ago and have been booked outright till April by charter operators, said hotelier and Congress MLA Alex Sequeira. Like other boutique hotels here, his three-star property on the South Goa coast has decided to play it safe and go in for long-term bookings by charter handlers, though this meant paring off tariffs by almost 35 per cent. Five star resorts on the other hand have pushed tariffs up by 300 per cent for the Christmas-New Year week, and charges in the luxury category range between $600 to $850 a night. Bright period At the Goa Marriott, a five-night package is up for $3,000. We still have a few rooms left, but all-in-all, Christmas and New Year are looking bright for Goa, said the resorts general manager Neeraj Chadha. The outlook should be bright considering the explosion of charter flights to this destination this year. Forty-eight landing slots have been allotted to long-haul international flights into Goa at Dabolim airport. Operators from UK alone will be flying in 21 charters this week, with another eight scheduled from Russia and an equal number from the rest of Europe. Goa has been rated fourth in the top 10 Christmas getaway destinations for Britons this year after Tenerife, Barbados and Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
