Review : Ranga Bhavan Marriage Hall, Srirangam, Tiruchirappalli

I am writing this review about this marriage hall as I did not find any appropriate web site to do so. 
I hope this review would be useful before taking a decision.

I did Upanayanam for my son on March 4th, 2018 so information here is as fresh as it could be without any prejudice.

Advantages

• The hall is on the Ammamandapam Road and is easily reachable.
• All buses from Srirangam to Trichy stop here (The name of the stop itself is Ranga Bavan)
• Both the main hall (can seat about 600) and the dining hall (can seat about 1000) are very spacious.
• The best part is that the dining hall is at the ground level as the main hall which means it is easily accessible by senior citizens
• The watchman and the manager (Mrs. Dhanalakshmi) are extremely helpful and would do anything out of their way to serve the guest.
• They have a guest house about 200 meters away which is a 2-floor building with a 4 rooms and 2 big halls and enough toilets (but this is separately charged, about Rs 7000/- per day) 
• The venue has around 11 rooms (4 of them are a/c rooms,  another 4 are near the dining area to be used only by the caterers)
• Cost is pretty reasonable - I paid 45,000 Rupees for 1 day.
• There are many hotels nearby for a comfortable stay.   
• Ranganathaswamy Temple is about 1.5 kms.
• They have gas burners and enough utensils

Disadvantages

• The building is very old (conducted in 1953) and wears a old deserted look.   Do not expect anything posh here.
• The toilets are very unclean which means you have to follow up multiple times to get it cleaned.  Make sure that you let them do acid cleaning.  
• The bridge and bridge groom rooms have a/c attached but is too small to be used.  
• Too many mosquitoes near the bridge and groom's rooms.  Make sure that you have stock of enough mosquitoes repellents to sleep peacefully.
• The owner of the marriage hall talks to you gently as if he would take care of everything on the earth but doesn't even care to inspect the place during the function.  He leaves the whole thing to the supervisor.   But he is available all the time over phone to take instructions and act on it.
•  The dining hall was not clean when we checked-in especially the floor was not washed.  We had to follow up multiple times to get it done, but it was just half done and we gave up.
• The stairs to the first floor is extremely steep that even youngsters will find it difficult to use.   So, we ended up not using the rooms on the first floor.
• The common toilets in the first floor are very unclean.
• The common toilets in the ground floor are unclean too.
• The venue is used as a tourist home for tourists mostly from North India.   The tourists stay there for a day on their pilgrimage visit to Srirangam and make the place very very unclean, especially the toilets.   So, it becomes difficult for them to maintain the place.  If your function is on the very next day after the tourist visit,  you life could be miserable before the venue gets cleaned (expect it to be half-cleaned)
•  The dining hall's room has asbestos sheet which radiates heat extremely.   Trichy being extremely hot almost 200 out of 365 days the dining hall is literally unusable.  Your guests will have to bear the scorching heat while having food!
• There is no parking facility. 
• The place may not be very safe.  They do not have any security guard.  They have a old watchman who stays in the venue who could barely walk.   They lock the front gate but do not lock the back gates.
• The place is actually very vulnerable to theft.   

Rating : 

Location :           **** 
Cost :                  ****
Amenities :         ***

Friendly Staff :   ***

Safety :               **
Cleanliness :       **

If you are too crunched on budget and have to do a 1-day show, then go for it.   For serious functions like marriages which spans close to two days,  I would not recommend this Mandapam.