Les Meilleurs Hôtels les Plus Instagrammables à Kerala

A converted 19th-century boatyard on the Kochi harbour front, Brunton Boatyard is Fort Kochi's finest hotel — its rooms referencing the city's Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonial layers through careful period furnishing, while the History restaurant serves a menu that traces Kerala's extraordinary spice trade through inventive contemporary cooking. The harbour-view rooms are among the most atmospheric in South India.

• Heritage
• Fort Kochi
• Harbour Views
• Design

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Another CGH Earth masterwork, Spice Village is built as a tribal settlement using the architectural vocabulary of the Mannan tribes of the Cardamom Hills — thatched cottages of bamboo and grass set in a spice garden where cardamom, nutmeg, and black pepper grow wild. The Periyar Tiger Reserve borders the property; elephants occasionally visit the garden at night.

• Eco-Luxury
• Wildlife
• Thekkady
• Nature

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A CGH Earth property accessible only by boat, Coconut Lagoon is the definitive Kerala heritage experience — 40 traditional tharavad mansions relocated from elsewhere in Kerala and rebuilt on this backwater estate, their original carved timber frames and antique furnishings creating a museum of vernacular architecture that you can actually sleep in. The bird-watching from the treetop platforms is exceptional.

• Heritage
• Backwaters
• Eco
• Nature

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A white-walled colonial villa behind the Princess Street, Malabar House is one of India's original design boutique hotels — its 17 rooms filled with contemporary Indian art, Indonesian antiques, and the considered eclecticism of a well-travelled owner. The courtyard restaurant is Fort Kochi's best for watching the world drift by over a glass of Kerala's best toddy.

• Boutique
• Design
• Fort Kochi
• Art

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Set within a private forest above the Chinnar River, The Tall Trees is Munnar's most architecturally distinctive property — individual wooden chalets on stilts among the trees, accessed by suspension bridges and walkways. The evening bonfire, forest-sourced dinner, and the sound of the river below provide an immersive hill-station experience in spectacularly private surroundings.

• Forest Retreat
• Architecture
• Munnar
• Couples

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Kochi's most design-forward boutique hotel occupies a converted 1950s bank vault in the Princess Street heritage zone — six unique rooms within the original steel-doored safety deposit rooms, now fitted with contemporary art and precision-chosen antiques. The building's original cashier counters serve as the breakfast bar; the sense of inhabiting architectural history is complete and rather wonderful.

• Design
• Boutique
• Fort Kochi
• Art

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