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Reviews of Hindustan Beach Retreat

3.5 out of 5
Hindustan Beach Retreat
Papnasam Beach, Janardhanapuram, Varkala, Kerala

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 19 out of 47 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 20 out of 47 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 47 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 3 out of 47 reviews" "
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8.2/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Mohammad Faruq

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Mohammad Faruq

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
On the beach kilometres of sand n surf, great view from the rooms, spacious rooms, good breakfast, near the multiple restaurants and shopping area. Please Upgrade to lumber supporting mattresses, new upholstery of furniture and TV. This is the best located property on Papnasam Beach.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Adrian

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great garden surrounds. Staff 👍 and helpful. clean. VG a/c.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Adrian

Travelled with partner
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sesh

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent rooms with superb view
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021
Response from s on Oct 12, 2021
Thank you.

10/10 Excellent

Roger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019
Response from Shameer S on Nov 12, 2019
Thank you so much for your valuable time to rate us in Expedia. We count ourselves lucky for guest like you. We look forward to provide you best services again in the future!

8/10 Good

Priscilla

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great views
Hindustan Retreat is in an interesting location with much activity all around. The view of the beach from our room was great and we really enjoyed the sunsets from our porch. The breakfast offerings were meager but good. We requested info on yoga classes but no one ever got back to us?
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Jothi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

ronald

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Helen , Melbourne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Super location!
Location is great. All rooms have sea view. Interesting to watch the rituals on the beach. Pool was amazing and pool attendant very helpful. Good hotel for children. Breakfast was a welcome addition. The hotel is tired and there are pigeons on the building (owing to its design) but the hotel is certainly clean inside. The staff generally were very helpful and with three kids we found this useful. This hotel is not luxury but it is clean, comfortable and child friendly - in my opinion. In line with what you pay. Would recommend given the explaination above.
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

george

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
On the beach
Close to beach friendly staff good half board package which you could swap with main menu and pay any difference if any
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2017

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly
Really friendly hotel right on the beach. Great breakfast. Recommended.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not worth the price.
The place is 2 star and we were cheated the first night. Had we not asked for a better room, we would not have been given what we paid for. We were upgraded for one night.

8/10 Good

Kristina, Norway

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Good value for money, but not completely new
Good value for money and very close to the waterside. Large rooms and a very nice view from our room (and the top floor where they serve breakfast and dinner). Pleasant pool both for adults and children. The first day the cleanliness was medium, but the second night it was very good. You will notice that the facilities are not brand new but on the other side the staff is friendly and very helpful.

8/10 Good

Amrit, London

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Only ok
Great location near the beach, nice hotel but pricey for what you get. We had a great room view beautiful view. The staff take ages to do anything but are kind enough!

10/10 Excellent

brent, sydney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
what a great hotel
had a lovely big room with balcony with a great view of the beach and pool.Great shower and comfy bed.Breakfast was tasty and plenty of it. Staff were friendly and extremely helpful. Everything about the Hindustan was just what you want in a hotel. Would not hesitate to stay here again.Top hotel

6/10 Okay

Pushpavaly bhaskaran, Singapore

Disliked: Staff & service
My unhappiness was with the hotels t room service. The staff has a hard time understanding simple orders. My food was served cold. This hotel needs alot of improvement. Even their wifi needs to improve. The hotel location is good. Staffs are friendly.

10/10 Excellent

Teele, Pune

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great beachside retreat
Stayed with family at this hotel by Papanasam Beach. Room was great, spacious enough for 3, beautiful view of the beach and Arabian Sea. Location can't be beat, 100 meters from the beach; its a 5 min auto ride from hotel to the North Cliff, where there are numerous restaurants and shops. The restaurant in the hotel is modest, but we had very good breakfast -- included -- every morning. To sum up: A perfect base for a lovely Varkala Beach vacation.

10/10 Excellent

Canadian_1982, Montreal

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent stay, great service
Don't overlook Turtle Bay Spa which provides great massage therapy packages. Staff was friendly, cleanliness of rooms was impeccable, hotel restaurant served great food with incredible variety, plus the view overlooking the beach and the barely 100 metres separating the hotel from the beach add to the dreamlike experience.

10/10 Excellent

AnnaJ, Sydney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
loved the location
We stayed for seven nights, breakfasts were excellent and also had dinner in the hotel on two occasions. We loved the views from the room and enjoyed feeling part of the action whilst not being bothered by the local beach noise due to the double-glazed windows. Staff were responsive and friendly and we really appreciated the pool facilities.

8/10 Good

Suli, Sydney

Nice view of the beach
The location is great, we can watch daily activities of the beach from our room. The lift has a damp smell though. The breakfast was good. Nice selection of Indian dishes and fresh fruits. We had lunch here once, the food is quite good.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Gods own country and a nice hotel.. what else i can think :) had a good time but the beach was not that live as we went during off season... still it was exciting and comfortable.. will plan during next season to experiance the real Varkala....

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Tom 05, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fully functional
A fairly rated 3.5 star hotel. We stayed on a B & B basis only and were out and about most of the time so did not make use of any of the facilities on offer. Perfect for couples who just want a place to sleep and keep their luggage

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very clean Hotel, will go back
Stayed in this Hotel two nights 17th Nov 2011. The hotel is only 6 years old. The staff is very freindly, The room was more a kind of a suite, very spacious and at night it was bsolutely quiet. Some construction was going on next door which I did not notice not beeing in the hotel during the day. The pool area was extremely clean. The Jaccuzzi like little round pool turned out to be the pool for the toddlers which was the only tiny deception for me. Very nice Restaurant on top with excellent food. Although the price is in the upper segment of the hotels I usually stay, I think the value we get is very fair. Just a few steps away from the beach, excellent location.

10/10 Excellent

Grahame & Cath, Manchester UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Repeat booking
Excellent hotel with great location

8/10 Good

Pierre

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Very good but suffers a severe lack of maintenance
Hotel is very well located just in front of a very nice beach and at a walking distance of North Cliff where you will find a lot of shops and restaurants. Executive rooms are clean, spacious and well fitted with a superb view to the beach and incredible sunsets. Swimming pool is definitively a plus with a fantastic. Breakfast is average. However the Hotel suffers from a severe lack of maintenance everywhere (most chairs are broken at the swimming pool, paint is falling apart, ...). I would certainly come back but if the lack of maintenance continues for a while I am afraid that I would have to consider other options.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Precis det man önskar om man vill uppleva lite folkliv och indisk hindu-kultur. Bra promenader upp till stan eller norr och syd på stranden.

10/10 Excellent

Martin, Stockholm

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best hotel experience of our India tour.
Best experience in our india tour. Clean rooms, friendly staff. Nice view over the "indian" part of the beach.

8/10 Good

Irina, Санкт-Петербург

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Прекрасное место для отдыха и расслабления
Отель расположен в удобно расположенном месте, с окнами с прекрасным видом на Индийский океан. Обслуживание прекрасное. Персонал вежливый и предупредительный. Хороший спа-центр.

8/10 Good

Carina, Göteborg

Liked: Staff & service
Hindustan Beach retreat.
+ Läget fantastiskt! Kunde inte varit bättre!Vacker utsikt! Fin pool! Frukost ok men maten var inte riktigt varm och juicen inte så kall. Fin utsikt från restaurangens takterass.Trevlig personal. - Väldigt hårda sängar, Svårt att spola på toaletten!Se frukosten. Det var lågsäsong då vi var där så vi kunde inte få annat än massage I SPA avdelningen, ingen yoga som utlovats. Men i det stora hela var vi väldigt nöjda med hotellet! Vi kan tänka oss att komma tillbaka!

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
口コミはあまりあてになりません。
4階の見晴しの良い部屋でしたが、桟には沢山の鳩の糞、もちろん鳩が常に休憩している状態で落ち着きにくい状態でした。窓がフィックスの窓なので掃除しにくい事は解りますが、せっかくの景観が台無しでした。 シーツは穴が開いており、湯沸かしポットには小さな虫が・・・。あまりにも沢山いたので、あきらめてポットは使わないようにしました。 最上階のレストラン、スタッフの対応は大変良かったです。ただ、朝食にはインスタントのコーヒーなので、コーヒー好きの人はガッカリするでしょう。安宿と違いますから、せめてドリップコーヒーぐらい用意して欲しかったです。 総合的な感想ですが、いたって普通のインドの宿でした。これならもっと安い宿にすれば良かったかな。

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Bra!
Bra läge på stranden, dock en promenad på ca 10 min för att koma till strandpromenaden där affärer och restauranger ligger. Relativt liten pool, men helt ok!

8/10 Good

Mats och Laila, Sweden

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bästa läge
Med fönster mot havet, poolområde alldeles utanför och 50 meter till beachen har hotellet bästa läge! En svit m två rum till en kostnad på drygt 600 kronor natten, det går inte att klaga, den låga kursen på rupien hjälper förstås till! Ett rent och fint hotell med vänlig personal som gör sitt bästa men missar lite i servicen ibland. Tillbringade en semestervecka i Varkala. Vi är mycket nöjda.

4/10 Poor

Jürgen, Delmenhorst

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Enttäuschung über Preis-Leistung !!
Die Terrasse war vor lauter Vogelkot kaum betretbar ! Morgens um 7:00 Uhr nahm das Personal im Garten ihre Arbeit auf! Wir mussten die Vorhänge zuziehen , um nicht beobachtet zu werden ! Es wurde dann zwar einmal am Tag versucht die Terrasse von Vogelkot zu befreien ! Aber die Sauberkeit hielt nicht lange an ! Alternativ wäre ein Zimmer direkt an der Straße frei gewesen. Jedoch wesentlich kleiner und noch schmutztiger!! Das große angepriesene Frühstücksbüfett , war der größte Reinfall !! Bis auf das Toast mit Omelett , war alles andere eine Zumutung ! Diese Unterkunft , sollte für den Preis möglichst gemieden werden !!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastisk børnevenlig strand!
Fantastisk børnevenlig strand og super-hyggeligt oppe på toppen med de små restauranter og butikker

8/10 Good

Lotta, Växjö

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Feb 2014
Superbra service, rent, fräscht och väldigt trevligt hotell. Precis vid stranden med fin utsikt!

8/10 Good

Dag

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Ingalill, Örebro

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ett bra hotell
Rent o fint. Härlig utsikt över havet. Bra frukost. Trivsam pool. Vi saknade café vid poolen.

6/10 Okay

Peter, Sjaelland

Disliked: Cleanliness
Fantastisk beliggebhed
Dette hotel har et helt ok pris/kvalitetsniveau. Beliggenheden lige ud til stranden er fantastisk - man kan sidde på sit vaerelse eller ved swimmingpoolen og foelge med i det lokale liv lige uden for på stranden - og det er lokalt - ikke mange turister - det er tillige for inderne en hellig strand med mange ritualer. Hotellet kan anbefales.

10/10 Excellent

Pagh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Afslapning
Herligt afslappende, god service og venlighed

10/10 Excellent

Agneta

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfekt läge vid stranden
En härlig helhetsupplevelse, med fin havsutsikt från både rummet och restaurangen. Litet, mysigt poolområde och den härliga stranden precis utanför.

10/10 Excellent

Elisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great service and exciting environment
It was nice with some affordable luxury . The staff were always friendly and attentive. Great with an ayurvedic spa on sight. Our executive room was big and had a balcony, even though it for us was nice with AC for once. But to sit in our room or by the pool watching the pilgrims and the people praying from early morning was interesting. The beach is nice, and it is good that the hotel is a copule of minutes away from the more shopping/restaurant area of North Cliff. You can go there for dinner with a torch but you don't have to.

6/10 Okay

K. Fiedler

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
zu teuer
Das Hotel war sicher, als es neu war, sehr toll.Leider wird es sehr schlecht gewartet. Am Eingang fehlt der Türgriff, die Fenster schließen nicht mehr etc. Trotzdem ist es im Vergleich zu den anderen Häusern am Strand sehr teuer.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Eva, Limhamn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hindustan Beach Resort
Strandnära hotell med hög standard som överträffade förväntningarna. Mycket hög servicekänsla hos personalen. Restaurang med varierad matsedel och med en utsikt över havet som var en fantastisk upplevelse. Hit åker vi gärna igen.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort