Clafouti Beach Resort Varkala

Clafouti Beach Resort is a charming and independently operated boutique resort on the North Cliff of Varkala, one of Kerala’s most dramatic and scenically extraordinary beach destinations where an ochre laterite cliff drops directly to a spectacular blue-water beach below, offering a genuinely relaxed and characterful cliff-top resort experience with one of the finest sea views available from any Varkala hotel. The resort offers 18 rooms and cottages in standard and family configurations, some with private sea-view balconies, all with free high-speed Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and private bathrooms. An infinity pool perched on the cliff edge with extraordinary Arabian Sea views, a restaurant offering French-inspired and Kerala fusion cuisine including locally caught seafood, daily yoga classes on the cliff-top yoga deck, and a 24-hour front desk complete the exceptional amenities. Varkala North Cliff’s extraordinary concentration of cliff-edge restaurants, Ayurvedic massage centers, surf hire shops, and heritage cafés is immediately around the resort. The beach below — accessible by steps down the cliff face — provides safe swimming, surfing, and snorkeling. The Janardhanaswamy Temple on the southern headland, one of the most important and architecturally distinguished Vishnu temples in Kerala, is a twenty-minute walk along the cliff. Varkala Railway Station for Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam connections is thirty minutes by auto-rickshaw. Clafouti is consistently popular with European families and yoga-seeking travelers.