In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The resort is nestled on the Vembanad Lake and reachable only by water. Chose from the smaller Heritage Bungalows, set in lush lawns alongside the canals, and the Heritage Mansions, which are larger, with an upper storey, most boasting views over the water. For peace and privacy the pool villas are set on their own section of the lake, where you even have your own little hammock out front.
- Packing tips
- Warm clothing as temperatures can drop in the evenings, a serious mosquito repellant, swimwear.
- Also
- Coconut Lagoon is centred around its Ayurvedic spa with expert Vaidyars who aim to restore you back to full health with their ancient healing techniques for the mind and body.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- Two-for-one dinner in the main restaurant
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Coconut Lagoon
Kerala, India[view map]
- Style
- Timber and tiled cottages
- Setting
- Keralan backwaters
Coconut Lagoon is CGH Earth’s palm-framed backwater paradise in Kumarakom. Accessed only by boat, this traditional-style, eco-friendly Keralan village promises complete and utter escapism, be it in your wooden heritage villa, by the postcard-perfect pool or in the soothing Ayurvedic spa.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 50; 28 bungalows, 14 mansions and eight pool villas.
- Rates
- Low season, €200–€380; high season, €225–€440, including breakfast. Excludes 15 per cent tax. Extra beds can be put in the rooms for €40.
- Check-out
- 11am, but if your room isn’t booked afterwards, this is flexible (check-in 3pm).
- Facilities
- Outdoor swimming pool, library, Ayurvedic spa. In-room amenities: air-conditioning, telephone, minibar. No TVs, except in the recreation centre if you’re desperate for news. Most of the bathrooms are open-roofed allowing you to shower alfresco.
- Poolside
- Fantastic family-friendly swimming pool
- Eco-friendly
- Wonderfully eco-friendly, they even do excellent environmental tours to show how every scrap of food is converted into bio-gas, and their tap water is drinkable thanks to their reverse osmosis system which leaves it ultra-filtered.
- Also
- Make sure you take a trip on the sunset cruise on the hotel’s own restored houseboat or do as the locals do and take a canoe out onto the backwaters to watch the sun go down. You can also catch your own fish in the canals around the hotel.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Keralan cuisine at Tharavadu, where the chef cooks up freshly caught fish in local and international styles, with red rice, grown organically in their own paddy fields. There is also an Ayurvedic menu with restorative, digestive and cooling effects.
- Dress code
- Laidback and casual works well here: floaty kaftan and flip-flops.
- Last orders
- Tharavadu restaurant is open daily from 07h–22h.
- Hotel bar
- Relax in the Theyyam bar until 23h, with classical music and the lake as a backdrop.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- Children are welcome and there’s a children’s pool with a lifeguard from 08h–20h. Baby-sitting can be arranged at RS300 an hour.
Smith Members offer
Two-for-one dinner in the main restaurant
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Coconut Lagoon
Kumarakom
