Hindustan Beach Retreat

Good resort with all required amenities( though expensive considering it’s not on the main beach)! Little away from the main north cliff and Varkala beach, this is on the papanasam beach! Breakfast buffet is good, staff is very cordial and service is on time! Though the rooms are beach facing, no rooms have a balcony!

Oh dear, this hotel has seen better days. Tired, I think is the word. During a two-week trip to Southern India we stayed in five different accommodations including a houseboat, beach huts and hotels, but sadly finished off our trip with a five-night stay at the Hindustan, which was the worst accommodation we stayed in. The staff were all pleasant - especially the chef in the restaurant who greeted us every morning with a smile and soon got to know what we liked, and the gentleman who attends to the pool - the room was cleaned daily, and had terrific views, but the whole hotel needs some money spent on it. Quite a bit of money! For instance, instead of a double bed we had two single beds pushed together. Bad enough as that is, but the sheets didn't even fit! They were too short due to the odd shape of the bed. This proved to be really, really frustrating. The most ridiculous thing, however, is that upon check-out you're handed a leaflet detailing all the tourist places we 'could' have visited had we known about them earlier! These included the Janardanaswami Temple, Golden Island, Kappil Beach, the Sivagiri Mutt ashram, Sri Mahaprahuji Btak (a devotee to Sreenathji), and even elephant rides around the village of Puthenkulam. Our son checked-out a day before us, and this happened both times. Surely, anyone could see this leaflet would be more beneficial at the start of our stay! It actually fills me with sadness to think that we missed out on visiting one of two of these places

Excellent location and nice beach view from the hotel. Would recommend for family and couples. Stay

Our stay at Hindustan Beach Retreat in Varkala was a complete letdown. From start to finish, it was a mess. The people working there weren't helpful at all. The pool was so dirty we couldn't use it, and the beach view they promised was nowhere near as nice as they showed in the pictures. The food was terrible - some of it was even uncooked! They kept running out of stuff, and when they did have it, it took forever to get served. Housekeeping didn't care about our requests. We asked for bandages, and they said they'd bring them, but they never did. We had to go looking for them ourselves. The reception was a joke. There was hardly ever anyone there, so if you needed something, tough luck. And to top it off, they charged us way too much for simple things like a can of soft drink but they did not even compensate for the unavailable amenities we were promised and were included in the room charges. Overall, it was a disaster. We paid good money for 4 rooms with good view, which was supposed to be a great stay, but it turned out to be a total waste. Don't make the same mistake we did - steer clear of Hindustan Beach Retreat.

Located on the beach, this a small but good property with all the amenities like pool, restaurant, bar etc. Every room is pool and beach facing. The restaurant food was very good. There was some construction going on so the hotel lobby was a bit dirty. Also there’s not enough parki space. But if you rent a scooty you can park beside the hotel entrance easily.

Comfortable stay at varkala beach side, at walkable distance from sri janardana swami temple and the food street. Polite staff and a nice restaurant.

I stayed in this beautiful resort which is right by the beach. One can get the best of the beach view sitting in their rooms. Mr. Anoop was so kind enough a person who did all arrangements for us there. I met the GM there who was so nice in guiding us about places to see around. The most interesting part of this place is their southindian thali meal that they serve during lunch. It was much more than awesome. A great place for someone to be there to relax and go stress free. I will defenitely recommend this place to all my friends and relatives.

The beach in front of the resort is a very busy one, not a good view. We booked this place for my birthday and my friend asked the hotel staff to arrange a cake for me, the cake caught ants in the room. After 30 min of conversation with the staff we got the cake replaced and kept the left over cake in the room’s fridge next morning that cake was full of ants. We called hotel staff thrice for drinking water but no one picked the call. Next morning the phone was dead. There was a lizard in the ac vent.

Horrible experience, insects in room, very poor service, poor quality of room, poor houseboat, very poor experience