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Surya Samudra, near Kovalum |
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Surya Samudra
is a delightful boutique-style small hotel with 22 heritage
cottages, all reconstructed from 300-year-old Kerala and
Tamil Nadu village homes, spread over a 21-acre site.
The large area means that all the villas have private
gardens, verandas and amazing views from the sea. |
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The Travencore Heritage, near Trivandrum |
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The Travancore
Heritage is one of Red Dot's favourite beach properties
in Kerala, offering high-end clifftop accommodation in
beautiful reconstructed village houses. There is also
a highly reputed Ayurvedic Centre offering various rejuvenation
and herbal beauty care packages. |
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Estuary Island, Poovar |
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Estuary Island
is a unique new hotel property offering guests a taste
of the backwaters and Kerala's palm-fringed beaches. Only
opened in 2005, the main building, tastefully designed,
overlooks a long garden, across a lake, towards a long
wide sand bar and the ocean about 500m in the distance. |
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Le Meridien, Kovalam |
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Le Meridien's
Kovalam Beach Resort is large swanky, stylish five-star
with a fantastic headland location that ensures that 95%
of its 192 rooms have direct sea views. It has all the
mod-cons and luxuries one would expect and offers an ideal
escape for those who cherish the finer things in life. |
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Taj Green Cove, Kovalam |
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Taj Green
Cove Resort will undoubtedly be a highly sought-after
escape. This is one of the plush new generation of Taj
properties that offer guests chic modern Indian-influenced
interior design, wonderful food and slick service. Green
Cove also has a fantastic spa, called Jiva Spa. |
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Marari Beach Resort, Mararikulam |
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CGH Earth
have once again excelled themselves with a beach resort
that offers more than just sun, sea and sand. As they
say in the brochure: "A beach is just a beach, until
you find its living heart. For us, the search ended in
the little village of Mararikulam". |
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Hotel Samudra, Kovalam |
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Hotel Samudra
offers good-value in an overpriced market. The rooms are
not chic or stylish but they are clean and functional.
There is a large pool and expansive gardens with lovely
neatly clipped lawns. Guests seek out the shade of coconut
palms and lounge through the days. |
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Coconut Bay, Kovalam |
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Coconut Bay
is an excellent elevated 3-acre wooded garden that has
only 21 independent villas, all of which therefore have
sea views and their own verandas on which to sit back
and relax. The property offers excellent three-star standard
accommodation in a very beautiful location. |
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