Goa Huts – Check list
In the last few years Goa has experience huge increase in foreign and mostly domestic Indian tourists. The result is unchecked development and destructions of the environment. Thousands of bamboo and grass huts are erected for the 'season' that last Oct-April. By May all the huts must be cleared off the beach by government law. This is just as well because rain and surf start coming up onto the beach.
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Security, easy to break into. Anyone can easily reach into a grass hut and open the door or take what ever. You should not leave any valuables in your hut what so ever. Some huts will offer a locker inside the hut so you can secure your things if you go out for a swim! Good idea but most hut owners are cheapos. Especially around Christmas and other holidays many thieves will strike. In Goa there are many outside workers who are there and no one really know them, so crimes has increase with the tourist numbers.
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Dust from palm weave. Grass is not really good for a house. The grass is always drying so it creates dust. In fact everyday more dust is created from the dry grass. Huts are very dusty and may effect your allergies.
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Hot. Huts usually have just a plastic roof. During the afternoon huts in the sun will get very hot.
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Attached Toilets. Some huts now have attached toilets! Amazing for a grass house? In fact the toilet runs right into the beach with no septic tank. These are illegal. Do not support these establishments. The pit toilet are also perfect for attracting mosquitoes that can carry Malaria (some high risk areas are in Goa such Candolin.)
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Noisy Restaurant. It is common practice for every guest house to open a restaurant beside the huts. This is simply because the restaurant makes money just like the huts do. You should aware that grass huts offer very little privacy or noise control. Especially when there is a noisy restaurant beside you. The restaurant also like to blast crappy music to attack drunk people to come and spend money.
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Lack of privacy. Greedy hut owner put many grass huts close together. This is because when many tourists arrive during the season they will make lots of money! Unfortunately you may have lots of noise in your huts at many times of the night or day.
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Over Priced. I'll warn you right now you will get a better deal in Thailand or many other places during season. Christmas and December to February prices can go high.
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Mattress. In Goa the conditions are very wet and mold so mattress must be replaced every year or use foam type. Of course the owners do not want to spend the money so you will sleep on a moldy old mattress even for 500Rs per night
- Environmental destruction. Cutting down of rain forest and coconut trees to build more huts or guest houses. The placing of concrete under the huts for a floor. The lack of septic tank. Excess of cheap restaurants burning wood, plastic and kerosene cookers. Workers add to the over population.
Waterproof? Every now and again it may rain during the dry season. You should note that the blue tarps do not repel rain sufficiently.
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The Goa Hut FAQ's 
