Vembanad House

The Vembanad House is promoted by Mr. Balakrishnan and Ms Sandhya Balakrishnan, the husband-wife duo belonging to the ancient Mayithara family of Alappuzha.

Predominantly an exporter of seafood Mr. Balakrishnan is gradually shifting his focus into the smokeless industry and the Vembanad House is his maiden venture.

In the affairs of the Vembanad House, Mr. Balakrishnan is ably assisted by his wife Ms Sandhya. She holds a Masters in Kerala Art and Literature and Business Administration, loves to cook and when in the throes of creativity, writes poetry. Having brought up in a spiritual ambience, Indian philosophy has deeply influenced her ideals of life.

The Vembanad House which is well past its platinum jubilee is an ancient house and is clearly one of the finest specimens of Kerala's traditional architecture.

Built in an expansive area of 10.5 acres, the Vembanad House has an amazing waterfront of over 800 meters and the view from each of the four bed rooms is simply breathtaking.

Apart from a very spacious courtyard and lobby, all the bedrooms boasts of a private balcony from where one can view stillness of the Vembanad Lake.

The Vembanad House offers three double rooms and one family room that can accomadate four people. Doube rooms are AC and family is Non-AC. The rooms are provided with all sensible amenities.

As you start spending your days here, you can while away your time fishing and thus, ignite the memories of your childhood. Simply walk along the banks of the Vembanad Lake and, conjure up the memories of your teens. Go boating using the traditional snake boat and, discover the skipper in you. For the fitness freaks, swimming in the Vembanad Lake can be quite an invigorating experience. And still, you can loiter around the spread-out yet placid place and rewind the good old thoughts of your botany classes. Or else one can meditate sitting in the podium located at the far end of the place overlooking the backwaters. And when tired, feel free to take a cool siesta in the lap of nature.

The Vembanad House, is located in puthankayal, Muhamma.p.o, Alappuzha, 60 kms drice from Kochi airport and 175 kms drive from Trivandrum airport.

Thick foliage is one of the major highlights of this home stay destination. Plenty of tall, leafy trees and an assortment of fruit bearing trees like jackfruit, mango, coconut, guava, papaya, nut meg etc add that much needed freshness to the place. At the Vembanad House nature is at total harmony with the whole place and one can experience and feel even the sounds of silence. In other words one can truly celebrate solitude here.You can spend your time away with fishing, swimming, go for backwater cruise

Price Includes :
Bed and Breakfast, lunch and dinner
All applicable tax