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Bijus Tourist Home
( 2361661;
www.bijustouristhome.com
; Market Rd; s/d from ?700/850, with AC ?1575/1750; )
This
friendly, popular choice is handy for the main jetty and has reasonable, drab but clean
rooms and a friendly welcome.
HOTEL
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Saas Tower
( 2365319;
www.saastower.com
; Cannon Shed Rd; s/d ?880/1460, with AC from ?1755/2100; )
The
flashy lobby is more promising than the rooms in this low-end business hotel but if you're
after a step up from the budget hotels near the jetty, this isn't a bad option. Clean rooms
filled with wooden furniture. There's a restaurant, business centre and day spa with ay-
urvedic treatments.
HOTEL
$$
Grand Hotel
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HOTEL
$$$
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( 2382061;
www.grandhotelkerala.com
; MG Rd; s/d from ?3000/3600, ste ?5400; )
This 1960s
hotel, with its polished original art deco fittings, oozes the sort of retro cool that modern
hotels would kill to recreate. The spacious rooms have gleaming parquet floors and large
modern bathrooms, and there's a good restaurant and Ernakulam's most sophisticated bar.
4
Around Kochi
Olavipe
( 04782522255;
www.olavipe.com
; Olavipe; s/d incl meals ?5100/8500)
This gorgeous 1890s traditional
Syrian-Christian home is on a 16-hectare farm surrounded by backwaters, 28km south of
Kochi. A restored mansion of rosewood and glistening teak, it has several large and
breezy rooms beautifully decorated in original period decor. There are lots of shady awn-
ings and sitting areas, a fascinating archive with six generations of family history, and the
gracious owners will make you feel like a welcome friend rather than a guest.
HOMESTAY
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