Hey All,
I just got back from Alleppey and have to post this about ’The Alleppey Beach Resort’ This was the worst hotel my wife and I stayed at during our whole honeymoon in Kerala. I had asked the resort manager (Mr. Akshay Okumar) by email many, many times before I arrived, if the resort beach was private and clean, he responded by saying that it absolutely was. When my wife and I arrived they tried to give us a room where our neighbors were the local fishermen.
The beach by the way is in no sense of the word PRIVATE and is in fact a very much Public place. Every time my wife and I would swim in the water, the local men would come by to stare and hang around in a very threatening manner. In fact the hotel manager would come from the hotel and try to get them to leave. Unfortunately he could not because the beach is PUBLIC!!
My wife and I called it an early evening and then the next morning we got up early to go for a swim. Much to our surprise, we were greeted by a long line of men squatting in front of the resort and along the beach defecating, then going into the ocean to wash clean their behinds. We had decided to leave that instant. When I informed the hotel manager of the problems I was having he informed me of their ’’NO REFUND’’ policy.
When I told the manager that I had been in contact with a gentleman named Akshay Okumar via email and had been misled as to the beach being ’’private and clean’’ he got on the phone and offered to refund us 2000 Rupees. So my loss at the hotel ended up being 6000 Rupees . We ended up having to pay for all 3 nights minus the 2000 rupees they gave us back. When I asked to speak to some of the managers supervisors, I was informed that ’’management does not want to speak to you.’’
All in all trust me you really want to avoid this place at any cost.