Price - too costly for the room and service they are offering. They claim this is an economy hotel but they are charging 5 star prices for these rooms. Rooms - looks like it was some studio quarter which are now converted in to hotel rooms. You can see it once you move in. Service - everything comes from Tara hotel even for breakfast/lunch/dinner you need to go there. We need to call for everything and then it comes from near by tara hotel. Only good thing is this place is inside Ramoji Film City. Compare the rates with top hotels and you can see the difference in service, quality of rooms etc. Only select if you prefer to stay inside Ramoji or if you like to have ghostly experience in your life and enjoy being frustrated.

Ramoji has 5 types of accommodation and Shantiniketan is the middle tier one. It has very basic rooms. A few buildings have some sort of a nicer looking facade, but ours was just a square block kind of building with 4 rooms. Prefer Tara or Sitara, which are the higher tier ones, if the price is agreeable for you. Shantiniketan is more like a budget hotel. They mention this in the description, but it might be missed because it is slightly pricey for such a hotel. There is a reception for Shantiniketan that is accessible by a small walk from these buildings, but they only have a vending machine. All the room service comes from Tara hotel, so it will take about 30 mins or more. The complimentary breakfast is also in Tara. If we have to go to Tara, the folks at reception will arrange free transport, which is nice. These set of rooms are apparently preferred by technicians etc., who stay there for shoots. These buildings are a bit away from Tara and Sitara hotels and might feel a bit deserted in the evening / night. The food at the Tara restaurant is quite expensive. The biggest problem we faced was with our timing. We checked around noon and was planning to spend half of that day and next day in Ramoji. However, the staff, both at Shantiniketan and Tara, were strangely very confused about such a plan and they seem to know only about people spending one whole day in Ramoji. There were no half day tickets available with the hotel staff (they have full day regular tickets available). We tried to book the half day tickets on the site for the same day, but the site's date picker only allowed booking for the following day, which seem like a bug / oversight. We asked the hotel people about going to the main ticket counter to buy half day tickets. But the main counter is at the entrace of the film city that is about 8 kms away. The staff were not in a position to arrange transport for us to go to the main gate to buy tickets and asked us to hire a cab (which I am not sure is that easy since we are 25 kms outside the city). We ended up not doing much that day other than going to Tara hotel for food, walking around in the evening to see the lighting of the area (which was amazing) and also having food at the grounds which is setup in the evening for all visitors to the film city. So if you want to stay in the film city, you have to think about how to time it - coming in the late evening and using the whole of next day in the film city and staying overnight might not be a bad idea. Else plan for a single night, use the whole day to see everything in the film city and then check in at the whole in the night and check out in the morning..

I suggest all to stay in one of the hotels available inside Ramoji film city to have a wonderful experience and have the feeling of being part of the film community. Hotel Shantiniketan is right inside the tour path and a budget stay.

The place was really good and the rooms were super comfy. The room was all clean and every single thing was available for the day. Thank you for your hospitality and the efforts.

I visited on Sunday 9am to 8pm on dusseraa holidays, with family good quality awesome taste each tiffin 150/- meals 320 per head

Two Days stay in Ramoji film city on my wife's Birthday was wonderful 😀 loved it so much Food was so Tasty Non veg Sea Foods Tour Guide was knowledgeable She explained everything to Us Each and every set is unforgettable Experience Will like to visit again and Again loved it 😀

A decent budget stay inside ramoji film City. It's located little far than other hotel options inside the vicinity. But they too provide pick up & drop service when & where ever needed. If you are coming in your own vehicle it ll be fine or else you have depend hotels vehicle to around & to drop off points.

Very comfortable stay. Staff super friendly. Great hospitality. Super neat hotel.