Kshetra Boutique Retreat, Varkala

Location: Kshetra Street, Varkala, IN

Star Rating: 3 Stars

Property Type: Hotels

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 12:00 PM - 11:00 AM

Check-out: 11:00 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Full-service spa
• Free WiFi
• 24-hour front desk
• Garden
• Luggage storage
• Express check-in/check-out
• Concierge service
• Picnic area
• Scuba diving nearby
• Breakfast available (surcharge)
• Library
• Multilingual staff
• Free newspapers in lobby
• Porter/bellhop
• Full-service spa
• Smoke-free property
• Express check-in
• Tours/ticket assistance
• Wheelchair accessible parking
• Assistive listening devices available
• Playground on site
• Free self parking
• Free valet parking
• Wheelchair-accessible van parking

Rooms Available

• Deluxe Twin Room, 2 Twin Beds (Non Ac)

  2 Twin Beds

  200-sq-foot room with courtyard views

  
  

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Food & Drink - Shared/communal kitchen access, room service (limited hours), and free bottled water

  Sleep - Memory foam bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and a pillow menu

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower, and rainfall showerhead

  Practical - Day bed

  Comfort - Ceiling fan

  Need to Know - No housekeeping

  Smoking And Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Private bathroom
  • Bottle of water
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Ceiling fan
  • Premium bedding
  • Free WiFi
  • Memory foam mattress
  • Pillow menu
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shared/communal kitchen access
  • Day bed
  • Smoking and Non-Smoking
  • No housekeeping

• Deluxe Room, 1 Queen Bed, Private Bathroom, Ground Floor (Ac)

  1 Queen Bed

  250-sq-foot room, located on the ground floor, courtyard views

  
  

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Food & Drink - Shared/communal kitchen access, room service (limited hours), and free bottled water

  Sleep - Memory foam bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and a pillow menu

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower, and rainfall showerhead

  Practical - Rollaway/extra beds available on request

  Comfort - Ceiling fan

  Accessibility - Wheelchair accessible

  Need to Know - No housekeeping

  Smoking And Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Private bathroom
  • Bottle of water
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Ceiling fan
  • Premium bedding
  • Free WiFi
  • Memory foam mattress
  • Pillow menu
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shared/communal kitchen access
  • Smoking and Non-Smoking
  • No housekeeping
  • Location - ground floor

• Premium Room (Ac)

  1 King Bed

  200-sq-foot room with courtyard views

  
  

  Layout - Separate sitting area

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Entertainment - Satellite channels and pay movies

  Food & Drink - Shared/communal kitchen access, room service (limited hours), and free bottled water

  Sleep - Memory foam bed, Egyptian cotton linens, and a pillow menu

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower, and rainfall showerhead

  Practical - Sofa bed and desk; rollaway/extra beds available on request

  Comfort - Air conditioning

  Need to Know - No housekeeping

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Air conditioning
  • Desk
  • Private bathroom
  • Satellite channels
  • Sofa bed
  • Bottle of water
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Ceiling fan
  • Premium bedding
  • Separate sitting area
  • Free WiFi
  • Memory foam mattress
  • Pillow menu
  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shared/communal kitchen access
  • No housekeeping

Guest Reviews

• Odile (6/5): - Hotel confortableu Personnel disponible
• Verified traveler (10/5): - Stay - Extra comfy bed in King room with huge bathroom and central courtyard. Loved the theme and cleanliness. Breakfast was huge and enough!! Beach is just 2 minutes but you can't hear much of the waves. Dinner was delecious and plentiful. Thank you Manjulal for the care. Ayurveda Treatment- I was there several years ago by recommendations of my friends who had treatment there several times. It was absolutely great! Great value, super pancha karma and of course service of the doctor Sunil and everyone who worked with me, i loved it, thank you again and again. Would highly recommend...
• Maneesh (2/5): Dysfunctional Budget hotel - Worst stay at a hotel possibly ever. Most of my complaints have been mentioned in other reviews going back years. Management prefers to respond with ‘new management sir no worry’ or ‘maybe you stayed somewhere else’ This isn’t a retreat of any kind. The entrance and courtyard is quite nice but that’s just a facade literally and figuratively. Room wasn’t cleaned both days, breakfast was inedible, trash was deposited right outside my room. Know this property is 15 MINUTES from the beach, an indirect route the first few hundred metres of which is not lit at night. The property misleads people by stating 0.1 km away give me a break. Compare my pictures of the yoga floor with their own. Sadly the property has potential, but management is a mess. I would bet against them making changes. I should also mention the open window in the bathroom has NO mosquito net, needless to say i was eaten alive. In a nutshell...the poor service at this property does not make up its less than ideal location.
• Anna (8/5): - Siamo arrivati sul retro di questo hotel, stanca del viaggio volevo farmi un tuffo in piscina!!ma non la vedevo come presentata dalle foto?era sul davanti 😅 chiarita la situazione il manager e' stato oltre modo gentilissimo e ci ha offerto uno squisito te time al ristorantino😋 ci siamo poi goduti la splendida spiaggia, un po distantina ma comunque simpatica da raggiungere anche per le numerose vetrine di Kascmiri che fiancheggiano il percorso!!!! Per noi e' stato uno spasso !!! Mezza giornata di distensione dopo un lungo viaggio le camere semplici ma pulite durante la notte silenziosa ci hanno ristorato😉
• Verified traveler (6/5): Massive let down - We arrived with high expectations and left disappointed. Paying a little extra to stay in a place that gave the impression of a spa and yoga facilities clearly didn’t have any. The reception and eating area were lovely, a big open space with trees going through the centre off the building. We ate breakfast on the first morning and it felt lovely and relaxed. The downsides, we were woken every morning by banging and crashing above our room. Thinking it may be from the yoga studio, we ventured upstairs to find a completely empty space with old furniture in it. This happened every morning around 6:00am. The hot water and air con didn’t now work in our room and to be fair to the staff, they offered to move us on the last night. The view from the window overlooked a part of the hotel that was full of rubbish. To cap it off, a member of staff walked into our room on day two without knocking. We were changing at the time and there was no apology. It was a complete accident but all the same, not good. Shame because it promised so much and didn’t live up to it’s expectations.
• Gennaro (6/5): Boutique en fase de mejoras! - Hotel de reciente gestión. Está en marcha pero aún le falta mejorar en servicio y detalle de las habitaciones! Staff disponible pero hay que mejorar acondicionamento de las habitaciones y sobretodo eliminar la humididad
• Dominique (8/5): - Bon hôtel, devrait par contre être rafraîchi... Bon déjeuner avec des fruits. A environ 10 minutes de marche de la plage.
• Alen (10/5): Beautiful peaceful stay- Absolutely Loved it!! - Cosy bright room, nicely decorated with traditional and yoga postures! Exceptional breakfast with a combination of continental and local delicacies. Very cordial staffs. We will definitely return for next year! if anyone wants to relax and enjoy the property this is the right place to be. I would definitely return again and recommend to my friends.
• maria (8/5): Fel hotell - Fick ett annat hotell än det bokade "uppgraderingen" bestod i att vi kom närmare havet vilket var fint men innebar också långt ifrån restauranger och affärer Frukost fick vi en i taget utanför vårt rum, inget fel på frukosten men hade varit trevligt att äta tillsammans med familjen Skräpigt på hotellets innergård Rummen var ok med minimalt badrum och Hård säng Det bästa var utsikten och en fantastisk strand
• Robert (4/5): Poor stay but could have been so much better. - Our room was basic: bed; ceiling fan; bathroom. The cleanliness of the room was poor: mould on the bathroom tiles and some on bedroom walls. The 'included' breakfast was meagre by the standards we have so far experienced in our 8 week trip to India: 3 pieces of toast; 1 egg omelette; tea/coffee. It was served with varying degrees of efficiency: sometimes the omelette was cold; or the toast was cold. The staff were pleasant. The pity is that all the factors which were poor could easily be rectified i.e clean the room properly and repainted it; have some organisation at breakfast. I think if these things were to happen our scoring for the property would have been significantly higher, and it might have justified the price of the room!
• puspak (10/5): clean hotel - it was an nice experience staying at kshetra beach resort at Verkala. room was specious , clean and staff are really co-operative.food was delicious.
• Linda o Håkan (6/5): Lite fuktigt med myggor. Inte helt strandnära. - Vi bytte hotell efter 2 nätter. Ville bo mer strandnära. Inget fel egentligen förutom läget och lite fuktigt.
• Lara (2/5): Nothing nice to say about this place! - Thankfully we only booked one night here. We checked in, and whilst completing the paper work the guy on the desk sprayed our room with goodness knows what. I think it was some sort of deodoriser to mask the dank, musty smell of our room. We went to our room and dumped our bags and went for dinner, a feeling of dread consumed me over dinner knowing we had to spend the night there. It was a sleepless night due to the wet, yes wet not just damp mattress. The smell of mould and mildew was appalling. As there is no screens on the windows there is no way to ventilate the room without being massacred by mosquitoes. As soon as the sun came up we almost ran from this awful, awful place. I really have nothing good to say about this ' resort' not even the staff can save them as they all seemed abit sleazy. There are many other nice places in Varkala for a fraction of the cost. Avoid Kshetra!
• Verified traveler (6/5): - Sparsamt inrett rum och obefintligt med inredning på toaletten inte ens en lampskärm eller en hylla att ställa sina saker på. Men väldigt rent.
• Britt (6/5): Prisvärt budgethotell - Bra budget hotell, med trevlig personal. Dålig rumstädning, nedslitet toalett utrymme. Prisvärt som budgethotell Bra läge på north cliff och till stranden.
• Andrey (8/5): Вот так! - Номер чистый. Удобный. Проблемки с горячей водой? Так она там и НЕ НУЖНА!!!! Обслуживание хорошее. Местоположение идеальное! Из минусов. Постоянно жгут мусор под окнами. Иногда была полная комната дыма. Персонал приветливый. Иногда выключали подачу электроэнергии для кондиционера. Вместо заказанного большого автомобиля для трансфера в аэропорт, подали "божью коровку".
• Verified traveler (4/5): - Try and avoid suggesting this hotel to any one. The very basic amenities like TV, normal drinking water, mosquito repellent were not available. There are much better hotels available within the same price range giving much better services. This hotel is definitely not worth the grading that you have given it.
• RJ (6/5): - There is no ventillation provided in the rooms. In non a/c rooms if u close all the windows there is just no visible air entry provisions provided in the rooms ie no ventilators nor air holes. There is only 1 tubelight in standard rooms, no night lamps ie no other bulbs. The water is hard. There are neighbouring houses very close to one side of the resort that sort off infringes on ones privacy though the residents there dont peep or bother to look into the resort. The way to the resort is full of potholes and muddy bumpy ride, they would do well if it is repaired. The quality of service is good and the staff are courteous and polite, but if the deficiencies are attended to the stay there would be much better.
• MB (6/5): - The staff were very friendly and helpful and rooms clean but the price does not reflect well. As is the way in India, the bed was rock hard. We had pre-paid for a room with no air-con or hot water, no breakfast. Compared to what is available in the same area for the same price, I would suggest staying elsewhere with better amenities. It's a new hotel with potential but needs to look at the local competition to set their standards and prices.

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