The hotel, staff, setting is wonderful. Quiet and tranquil, right on the beautifull sandy beach, no
hassle. Food excellant, mainly local food, curries, but a very good fish restaurant in the resort.
Buffet food offering large choice of local food and a few international alternatives. Wonderful chalet style rooms, spacious, clean with lots of luxuries included.. Staff charming and helpful, nothing too much trouble. Trip on river house boat a must, stay overnight for the comfort and sunset alone. Food on board fantastic. Hotel is isolated, no bars or restaurants in the area but this does not spoil the enjoyment as lots of trips to do and places to see.

Firstly watch some of the reviews here - the good ones clearly relate to the Marari Beach Resort(which does have a pool) a couple of miles down the Beach which is excellent.

Have to support the negative reviews - we arrived for four days on 15th January 2012 - the room was not ready and when we finally got in we decided not to bother to unpack. The room was just dirty - the shower was filthy - being open isn't too bad - but it just hadn't been cleaned properly and the loo leaked. There were stains on the fabric headboard, stains on the floor, the hammocks were in shreds and Took a taxi with our luggage to the nearby Marami Beach Resort and stayed there instead. Didn't get to sample the food so can't judge.

If you want to be far away from everything and enjoy absolute tranquility, then this THE place to go. The last kms to the resort are gravel roads and once you've arrived there, don't count on leaving the resort for meals or shopping. The best is to enjoy the wonderful unspoilt beaches - the sea was warm and calm and not dangerous when we were there - and the peacefulness of the compound and take all meals there. Contrary to what I had read on TripAdvisor, we found the staff very friendly and helpful, particularly the Manager, Mr Aravind - introducing yourself to staff and being friendly towards them helps a lot! The restaurant offers a great variety of meals - all the ones we tried were excellent. Moreover, they prepared prawns for us each night from the catch of the day. The only drawback for us was that we had probably overpaid our cottage by booking through booking.com. Going there and negotiating the price directly with Mr Aravind might come cheaper ...

I have been to this resort on Dec 2011 with my family and booked a non a/c bamboo cottage, first of all this resort is 15 kms away from aleppey city and only way of travelling is by auto, each time i had spent 300 to reach aleppey, i found the following major drawbacks of this resort

-Far from city
-Worst rooms (dirty..no maintenance & room service)
-Worst food (even to get this they'll take hours in the restaurant)
-Staff is not polite
-Low voltage during day time, fan will also not run properly
-Resort is still under development, no proper way to walk
-Items are very costly in restaurant, looks like the're targetting fe foreigners
-Lot of attention towards foreigners
-Lot of insects in and around cottage

after I reach there, the reception guys informed that 90% of the tourists are foreigners
Great thing about this resort is it's just 1 min walk from cottages
So, if you want to have some drink & enjoy in beach..then it's suitable for you..othewise, you can avoid this place.