We found this treasure just by luck, hotels.com had a mix up with our reservation at another hotel and found this for us last moment. We had been traveling in India for 6 weeks on a holiday and this was our last stop before returning home.

We were very impressed by the hotel, the rooms and the staff. Sur la Mer is a family run hotel. The staff also feel part of the family as the owners Aneel Verman and wife wonderful wife Nayann treat the staff as family.

The staff take pride in taking care of the guest and go above and beyond to meet every need of the guest.

The hotel rooms are huge and excellent bathrooms. They are beautiful decorated in antiques and very comfortable.

Food..yum... Some of the best food we ate in India specially when Aneel cooks for his guest. He is a master chef. And he cooked twice for us and it was finger licking delicious food.

In fact I have to say that our hosts Aneel and Nayann were absolutely excellent people. In fact they became life long friends, family members. Aneel is the life of Sur la Mer. Every evening he mingles with his guests making sure that all their needs are being met. He even makes and serves drinks. My favorite "whiskey sours". His signature drink!

Aneel never measures his drinks and one of our favorite things was that one doesn't have to rush to get up in the morning for the breakfast that is included in your room price. One can have breakfast at anytime of the day that one chooses. And the breakfast is awesome always fresh and delicious.

We though we stayed in some of the very fancy hotels in India I have to say our stay in Sur la Mer was the best one of all.

The hotel is barely a 5 min walk from the beach but has its own wonderful pool. Since we had already spent about 15 days on the beach earlier we took full advantage of the pool.

When our daughter came by for a couple of days from Mumbai Aneel made sure they put an extra bed in our room for us without any extra cost.

We even noticed that the hotel food is so famous that people that were not staying at the hotel made reservations to come and eat at Sur la Mer

We highly recommend Sur la Mer. And we would ourselves be returning there in the near future.

I spent a couple days in Goa at Sur La Mer over New Years 2011. Here are my thoughts:

-beach access: the hotel is located about 8 min walk from the beach. You have to walk down the main access road, cross the "highway" and walk down another dirt path to get to the beach. The walk itself may seem sketchy, but that seems to be the character of Goa, it is indeed quite normal and I always felt safe, even at night. The hotel provides you with beach towels upon request, and will even give you a flashlight to navigate the streets after sunset. There are few street lights, and the beach path is not illuminated, so this is a necessity.

-rooms: the rooms are quaint and very spartan. Given the beach/relaxing focus of Goa, the rooms do not need much more. They could use curtains however. All of the rooms have these paper thin sheer curtains, with heavier white cotton curtains underneath. They hardly cover the windows (the rooms have many windows), and so you feel exposed.

-food: as other reviewers have mentioned, they do a terrific job here. The menu has Indian (of course), but veers off into French, Italian, American, etc...I describe the Nepalese chef there as a short order cook on steroids. Everything is made to order, from scratch. That said, plan at least 3X the normal time for any meal (apparently this is the norm in Goa as we found out at other restaurants on the beach). As the servers do not speak English 100% fluently, the orders were sometimes lost in translation...the worst thing that happens is you end up with 2 orders of the same dish. Breakfast is included in the rate BTW, and you can have them make anything you wish.

-service: this is very attentive. The owner, Aneel, is seen socializing with the guests at all hours of the day and will ensure you have a nice time in his "home".

-facilities: Other than the terrific DVD library and swimming pool, this is a barebones hotel as it is tiny. It does feel like you are staying at someone's home (Aneel's home to be exact).

While I dont think the hotel warrants the USD 300/night rate it lists on the website, it certainly delivers on a relaxing vacation. This is probably one of the best options in Morjim as the alternative is to stay in huts near the beach which border on camping...

If you have been traveling in India and need a nice place to relax that is unpretentious, you should stay here.

We had heard and read a lot about Sur La Mer and im usually skeptical about beleiving everything. But Sur La Mer is everything and more! One of the best hotel experiences in India. First of all Morjim is the idle location. One of the best beaches in goa and close proximity to Anjuna & Vagator as well as Ashwem and Arombol to the north.

2ndly the hotel itself is a beautiful charming gem of a place with 12 airy spacious roomsh (plus one penthouse fit for a hollywood star) opening out onto an idlyic swimming pool.

3rdly the food is absolutely fantastic. We had heard legends about the Chocolat Fondant and the Filo pastry before we even got there... and they lived up to it. But besides that everything in the menu (and we tried a lot of it over the 5 days that we spent there) was done to perfection. the indian food was propa authentic, the pasta sauce was done with delicate care just like any of the tratorrias in roma, breakfast is served all day, and drinks are never measured!! The extensive wine list is topped by an unusually impressive collection of single malts.

However what makes Sur La Mer truly exceptional is the hospitality and open heartedness of the owner/host Aneel Verman whose fruits of labor and love show in the what Sur La Mer has deservedly come to.

A day, then the next and soon it was a week and time to go home!!! Where does the time fly when at Sur le Mer??? A cozy, intimate, yet luxurious boutique hotel located perfectly in Morjim, Goa. few minutes from the famous venues in morjim, such as the La Plage restaurante etc.. . Sur Le Mer, has a homely feel to it, and is enhanced by the intimate layout of the resort with all pool facing rooms. Rooms are well laid out and spacious. The staff was friendly and very helpful !!The days were quiet and relaxed by the pool while we ordered all the mouth watering food on the menu - not to mention the famous a la mode with molten chocolate cake yuummmmmmmm....which I ate wayy too many off :) or then a 3 minute stroll to the beach which is o so pretty and quiet. By late evenings, the sensuous lighting and some good music at the resort calls for some good food and delicious drinks at the garden bar where Raju (the owner) chats away - telling us hilarious and fun stories making it almost like the resort's own party where we met alot of other fun local morjim dwellers as well as people from the resort and what always turned out to be a super fun evening preparing us for the next day ahead to laze back again by the pool.... a dream, now, that I know I can make real anytime that I make my way back to Sur Le Mer!!!! :)