Best Hotels in Munnar, Kerala (Kochi)

Perched above a working tea estate with views across rolling green hills to distant waterfalls, Fragrant Nature is the finest contemporary hotel in Munnar — cool rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a terrace restaurant serving Kerala hill cuisine, and an infinity pool that appears to pour directly into the valley below. Morning yoga with mist rising over the tea bushes is the hotel's most celebrated offering.

• Tea Estate
• Views
• Munnar
• Couples

A working cardamom estate converted into Munnar's most charming planter's bungalow retreat — wooden colonial architecture, open fireplaces for cool hill evenings, and a cook who sources every ingredient from the estate or the valley below. The silence at night, broken only by the calls of Malabar whistling thrushes, is in itself a compelling reason to stay.

• Boutique
• Plantation
• Munnar
• Quiet

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