Holiday Inn Resort Goa Wedding Venue

WedMeGood's clearest figure is ₹28 lakh a day for a 100-room block, three meals and the venue (checked 26 September 2026), so a two-day wedding starts near ₹56 lakh before decor, production, the bar and GST. The listing's per-plate figures disagree with each other, so get a written menu before you budget catering.

No single plate figure can be relied on yet: WedMeGood's headline rate and the menu card on the same listing disagree (checked 26 September 2026). Ask the resort for the menu and plate figure for your date and space in writing, and set it against the ₹28 lakh-a-day destination package.

Yes: WedMeGood lists a destination package at ₹28 lakh a day for a 100-room block, covering the rooms, three meals and the venue (checked 26 September 2026), with ₹15,900 as its room-price figure. Decor, the bar, entertainment and GST sit outside it; get the room categories named in writing.

No hall-only rental is published (WedMeGood, checked 26 September 2026): catering is in-house only, so the 5,065 sq ft Ballroom and the lawns are sold with food against a minimum guest count. Ask for the minimum for each function rather than a hall rent.

About 1,26,000 sq ft of lawns take 1,500 seated or 3,000 standing (Spalba, checked 22 September 2026), and they section off for smaller functions such as a 250-guest sangeet. Indoors, Cvent puts the pillarless Ballroom at 5,065 sq ft for 250 at banquet rounds or 750 theatre.

Yes: the Ballroom is 5,065 sq ft (99 x 51 ft) with a 10.5 ft ceiling, for 250 at banquet rounds or 750 theatre (Cvent, checked 27 October 2026). It is the rain plan for the lawns and the late room after the 10 pm outdoor cut-off.

Yes: the resort sits on 25 acres at Mobor beach in Cavelossim, at the southern end of the Colva coast by the Sal estuary (listings, checked 27 October 2026). A ceremony structure on the public sand needs the resort's sign-off and local permissions, and outdoor sound stops at 10 pm.

203 rooms including 4 suites, on Cvent (checked 27 October 2026); booking sites list the same 203. WedMeGood shows ₹15,900 as its room-price figure. The Cavelossim strip holds overflow for a big guest list.

Yes: WedMeGood lists outside decorators and outside DJs as permitted (checked 26 September 2026), and Panigrahana's booking records show no outside-vendor fee at five-star hotels other than Royal Orchid (October 2026). Catering and alcohol are in-house only; get the lawn-structure and load-in rules in writing.

Outdoors, amplified sound stops at 10 pm: the Noise Pollution Rules bar loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am except inside closed premises such as banquet halls (CPCB, checked 26 September 2026). The lawn party moves into the Ballroom; agree its closing time with the resort in writing.

November to February suits the lawns on Mobor beach for a 2026 or 2027 date; October and March work with shade. The June to September monsoon moves the wedding into the Ballroom, 250 at banquet rounds on Cvent. Christmas to New Year in Cavelossim goes a year ahead.

At Mobor beach, Cavelossim, about 42 km and 45 minutes from Dabolim airport (Cvent, checked 27 October 2026) and 17 km from Margao railway station (listings). The postcode is 403731. Mopa (GOX) is at the far northern end of the state, so route guests into Dabolim.

Holiday Inn Resort Goa, the 203-room IHG resort at Mobor beach in Cavelossim, South Goa (Cvent, checked 27 October 2026). Holiday Inn Kochi and Holiday Inn Bengaluru Racecourse are separate city hotels with their own banquet halls and prices.

Panigrahana has planned weddings across Goa since 2018 as an independent planning and design studio, not the resort's sales office. We design the lawn ceremony and the ballroom functions, build the decor in-house from ₹5 lakh plus GST (October 2026) and run the programme with the resort's events team, which keeps the contract for rooms and food.

Holiday Inn Resort Goa has 203 rooms and a 5,065 sq ft ballroom (Cvent, checked 27 October 2026). Novotel Dona Sylvia, also on the Cavelossim strip, has 181 rooms, a ₹2,500 veg plate and a 7,535 sq ft ballroom for 400 at rounds (Accor; WedMeGood; Cvent). Novotel is stronger indoors; both have lawns for 3,000 standing.

Yes: about 300 of our 500+ weddings since 2018 were for couples living abroad (Panigrahana, owner-confirmed September 2026), and the resort is about 45 minutes from Dabolim airport (Cvent). We walk the lawns, the Ballroom and the room categories with you on video, send written allocations and a costed room block, and run the week on site.

WeddingSutra has featured at least 2 real weddings at the resort (checked 27 October 2026), and IHG's pages show the lawns and the beach. Panigrahana publishes its own work only, never stock photographs of a venue; on a video walkthrough we show each lawn section at the hour of your function.