The Travancore Heritage Beach Resort

I enjoyed every single moment of my four night stay at The Travancore Heritage. They are master of hospitality and you feel immediately welcomed by the female reception staff. The property is very large, plenty of space, beautifully maintained. Wonderful gardens, easy to stroll around, with fantastic beach views. They have 2 restaurants, with a wonderful selection of food choices, the chef and his team take care of your every need. I managed to squeeze in a few Ayurveda treatments, (only due to they were fully booked), the best I have received in India. The top swimming pool was very clean and lovely to chill out on the day beds after a day of sightseeing, location easy to walk to beach, local shops (good shopping), temples and church. You will need a tut tuk to visit lighthouse and town, just walk outside the resort and they will help you out. The other pool is for families and children. Their is activities to do if you like and a short walk to the beach, the lifeguards are wonderful and set up your day beds for you, great location for sunset! My room was spacious and clean, the bed comfortable and I loved the balcony that I could view the ocean from, the staff even left me towel animals. A special shout out to Annie for going above and beyond, her kindness is a gift! You could easily stay here for a week, I highly recommend booking your stay here.

Well kept heritage rooms! Great views of the sea and the wind keeps the heat down. Well maintained property with lovely gardens. Very polite staff. Food in their restaurant while tasty is expensive. Easy to reach the resort. The property is in a cliff and has many steps to move around the property. People with knee issues could find it difficult. They do provide instant buggy service, though.

A very quiet location with excellent staff, polite and helpful. Extremely clean and very well maintained. Reception and check in was very smooth and well handled. The view amazing, with short walk to the beach.

The property is excellent and well maintained. It is located approximately 15 mins away from the main kovalam area. The property clearly needs to put better pictures on their listing. It is way prettier than it looks in the pictures uploaded by them. We were offered a very refreshing welcome drink made of cinnamon, lemon at our arrival. Checkin was smooth and the entrance was beautifully decorated. We stayed in a Heritage room and we could see the sea from our balcony. It was a cottage of sorts which had 2 rooms, which means the balcony is kind of common. However there are chairs and tables in both corners for each of the room. There are two swimming pools however only the one near the restaurant was open. Since they mention beach access in their listing we set out to take a dip in the water and got to know that it is a little far from the property. Guests are required to take a lift and reach the ground floor and then walk towards the back side of the property which was completely abandoned since the sewage water had come out. 100 points to the property to be able to create a walking path above the ground level so that people can cross that area. However, measures need to be taken to avoid such incidents. When we finally reached the back gate of the property, we walked towards the right side to reach the beach, which was crowded due to the locals visiting the nearby temple and the church. It clearly was a fisherman beach and there were dozens of boats parked. This is still okay but the garbage heaps on the beach sand were just not okay. The water was clean but the waves were rough and hence a bad idea to think of swimming. The surroundings of that area are so wonderful that if kept clean it could be among the prettiest becahes of Kerala, but looks like the locals dont want that to happen. You wont find many tourists since its not a popular beach and is only popular among those visiting the church and shiva temple.

The location and the aesthetics of the property. It was a surreal stay