Casino Hotel Kochi

Casino Hotel is a well-established and independently operated 4-star hotel on Willingdon Island, the man-made island in the heart of Kochi Harbour created during the construction of the Kochi port in the 1930s, offering comprehensive hotel amenities with extraordinary harbour and backwater views in one of Kerala’s most unusual and scenically memorable hotel settings. The hotel offers 67 rooms in standard and family configurations with free high-speed Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs, air conditioning, and private bathrooms. A swimming pool, a full-service spa, the iconic Rice Boat restaurant — one of Kerala’s most celebrated and atmospheric restaurants, a converted traditional wooden rice boat serving outstanding Kerala seafood preparations including meen moilee, alleppey prawn curry, and Keralan crab masala with panoramic harbour views — and a 24-hour front desk complete the amenities. The Willingdon Island setting provides ferry access to Fort Kochi’s heritage precinct across the harbour, to Ernakulam’s shopping and commercial district, and to the Vypeen Island. The hotel’s own jetty operates guest boat transfers across the harbour. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale festival venues in Fort Kochi are accessible by a short boat ride. Casino Hotel is consistently praised for the Rice Boat restaurant, its harbour setting, and the extraordinary backwater views from the pool.