Glendale Stays

We are up here at the Glendale Estate in Coonoor. It is a beautiful place, surrounded by tea gardens and green hills as far as you can see. Glendale Stays is basically our way of sharing this part of the world with people who want to get away from the noise of the city. It is not a hotel with a fancy lobby and a concierge. It is more like staying on a working estate where things are quiet. The weather can change fast here; one minute it is sunny and the next the mist rolls in and you cannot see the trees across the yard. We spend a lot of time making sure the rooms are tidy and the gardens look okay for the guests. It is a lot of walking up and down the slopes every day. Life in Coonoor is much slower than in the plains down below. We do not have a lot of noise here, just the birds and the sound of the wind in the trees. Sometimes the tea pluckers are out early in the morning, and you can hear them talking while they work. We provide a place for people to sleep and maybe have a cup of tea grown right here on the estate. The building is old and has its own quirks, like creaky floors and windows that stick sometimes. But that is what makes it feel like a real home. We live here too, so we are always around if anyone needs a hand.