Hindustan Beach Retreat Varkala

Hindustan Beach Retreat is a well-regarded and popular boutique hotel on the Varkala North Cliff, offering 26 rooms in standard and family configurations with comfortable amenities at practical rates in one of the most visually dramatic beach settings in South India. The hotel offers rooms with free high-speed Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and private bathrooms, some categories with sea-view balconies over the Arabian Sea and the Varkala beach headland. A swimming pool, a restaurant serving Kerala seafood and international cuisine, a yoga deck offering daily yoga sessions, and a 24-hour front desk complete the amenities. Varkala North Cliff’s vibrant and relaxed promenade of cliff-edge restaurants, juice bars, souvenir shops, Ayurvedic massage parlors, and surf equipment hire is the hotel’s immediate neighborhood. The beach below the cliff provides excellent swimming conditions — Varkala’s beach is noted for its relatively clean water and reasonable body-boarding waves compared to the busier Kovalam beach further south. The Janardhanaswamy Temple is a twenty-minute walk. Kappil Lake, a beautiful backwater estuary fifteen kilometres north, provides boat rides through the palm-fringed Kerala backwater landscape. Thiruvananthapuram’s Padmanabhaswamy Temple — one of the world’s wealthiest temples and one of the most magnificent Dravidian temple complexes in South India — is an hour by road. Hindustan Beach Retreat is consistently popular with European budget travelers and yoga practitioners.