"A 1668 Dutch East India Company bungalow, privately owned since 1874, now a courtyard-pool hotel on Napier Street, Fort Kochi"
The bungalow was built in 1668 by the Dutch East India Company and passed into private ownership in 1874. Abad Hotels now runs it as a heritage hotel on Napier Street, in the historic heart of Fort Kochi, about 150 metres from Fort Kochi beach and within walking distance of St Francis Church, Santa Cruz Basilica and the Chinese fishing nets. Cochin International Airport is around 43 kilometres away.
Rooms come in two grades. Heritage Boutique runs to 27.87 square metres and takes two adults; Heritage Classic runs to 51.09 square metres, adds a separate living area and takes up to three adults and two children. Both sit under the old timber roofs, with teak panelling, red oxide floors and colonial furniture.
The pool sits in the paved courtyard the building wraps around, and Food Mill, the restaurant, runs along one side of it. Its kitchen is known for fish bought daily from nearby coastal waters, served alongside multi-cuisine cooking.
In Kochi, Kerala. The nearest airport is Kochi (COK).
A CGH Earth property in Fort Kochi that wears its Dutch East India Company history lightly: think spice-trail dinners, a shipwreck story at reception, and a genuine effort to tread softly on the town around it.
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The Malabar House stands on Parade Road in the heart of Fort Cochin, opposite St Francis Church and a three-minute walk from the Chinese fishing nets. The building's record goes back to 1755, when a Dutchman named Jan Herman Clausing bought it; spice traders, tea traders and bankers followed, and in 1997 it opened as Fort Cochin's first boutique heritage hotel. There are 17 rooms and suites around a courtyard with a 4m by 8m pool, the Malabar Junction restaurant, Divine wine lounge, a Purespa Ayurveda room and nightly Carnatic music on the patio stage. The hotel is a member of Relais & Chateaux.
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Old Harbour Hotel is a 300-year-old building in the middle of Fort Cochin, built in the Dutch style with Portuguese touches. It was the first hotel of old Cochin, later housed employees of English tea-broking firms, then stood unused before reopening as a boutique hotel. There are thirteen rooms named after old Fort Cochin streets, with high ceilings and a view of either a courtyard fountain or the Chinese fishing nets, plus garden cottages with open-to-the-sky showers, a veranda and a private pond. A large garden holds the swimming pool and a stage for cultural performances; there is an Ayurvedic spa, a library and an open-air terrace.
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