It was amzaging trip to Kayaloram.
I have started from Bnagalore by KSRTC - Volvo bus from Majestic bus stop @ 5:30 PM, the journey. The bus is very clean and the hopitality of the bus staff is very good. They have stopped near a good hotel for dinner. The journey was very comfortable, they didn’t played any movies in the bus due to request from passengers as there are people from different parts of india.
We exactly reached alleppy at 5:30 AM (its 12 hours journey), then we waited there for an auto, finally we got one after 10 minutes wait, the place is ’’Punnamada’’, he asked us to pay 25 rupees, we reached resort in 15 minutes. The view inside resort is too good, we are lucky to see the sunrise from back waters. The resort is faced to back waters.
There is a well maintaied swimming pool, old fashoined rooms, with out any disturbance like phones, TV etc., topless bathrooms, but we do have a common area where we have television and news paper available. The hospitality is very good.
Rooms are good, u cannot expect more luxourious rooms like in star hotels.
If you want to go to alleppy city you can ask the reception they will arrange auto / taxi for you, which is very expensive, one thing I have observed there is, wherever you go they charge more from tourits.
I carried some ready to eat MTR food and some pasturised nandini milk.
If you want u can sleep on the nets tied with coconut trees, or u can ask for stick for fishing.
We have some books to read. The weather was very good, our travel date was from 22 - 25th of april.
We spent one day in the resort only. The other day our house boat journey starts @ 12 noon, it was amzing, they provide three servants to take care of you, the boat house is having single bhk (U CAN FIND BOATS WITH 10 BHk ALSO) before checking in to boat he will ask ur mean preference accordingly he will bring the fresh stuff from market. The food is buffet per head per meal 300 rupees, they will give some complimentary fruits.
They will take you to the evening sunset, after 7 pm they will stop the boat, where you will feel very bored, I prefer to come back directly to the resort after 7pm otherwise you will feel very bored.
I have booked this holiday through RCI for three nights and two days it costs me 8500 inclusive all taxes. They say checkin time as 10 am and check out time as 11 am , so u negotitate with them for your convenient timings, becuase if u travel by bus u will be reaching early morning.
While coming back I asked for taxi till cochin airport, they are asking 1100 for non AC car and 1500 for AC car, which is very expensive for a 90 KM distance.
The good thing you have to do is (if you have low budget ) take bus to Aluva ( you have very frequest Kerala state buses ) this place is located after cochin, then the bus will take diversion to aluva town from the high way, u get down there, if u need any help ask conductor and tell them that we want to go to airport, so that he will tell you where to get down in aluva, otherwise u have to come all the way from inside aluva town to back to the same junction, from here u take auto, the cochin airport is 10 KM away from here, auto wala will charge you some where around 100 (actually it should be 50 rupess, what to do we are tourists :-) ) then u will reach airport. The cochin airport is very well organized and clean, u can fell very happy once u get inside.
I traveled back to bangalore by jet airways night 8PM, it’s one hour fly, reached bangalore by 9PM.
I hope this is very much useful
Links :
https://kayaloram.com/
https://rciindia.com/new/index.asp
Pros :
The food inside the resort is very good, don’t miss kerala paratha
No coconut oil is used for cooking
You will get fresh fish
You will get all varities of veg and non veg
Cons :
Food is very expensive
No AC during day time, they say that it has to run on generator that is why they provide AC after 8 PM, but on request they switch on AC