The property is nice, neat and well maintained. My family visited in a lean season, end of march 23, the property was almost empty, there were only 6 guests including us, so they didn't have much activities including buffet breakfast. 100years old british building, well renovated spacious rooms at the hilltop with a view of entire valley and sholayur dam and a very calm atmosphere. The property has 37 hectares of forest included with it so one can go trekking and see animals. We saw deer, black monkeys, bison, peacock We had early morning walk to sholayur dam which is 1km down the hill through forest. Valparai is very neat and clean, nice roads not much of vehicles, clean air no noise unlike ooty kodaikanal. We visited nallamudi view point balaji temple kulankkal river nallamalai tunnel, all mountain roads along tea and coffee estates with nice views, since we had suv we didn't had any problems in mountaining. Only vodafone works in the property. Nice property, welcoming staff including manager raj, who is very helpful. I recommend this property who likes calm forest environment with nice mountain views