B'Canti Boutique Beach Resort

Great tranquil location outside of the noise of Varkala but still in a short walking distance to the cliff. Relatively new, well equipped, modern and very clean rooms, providing all necessary things like toiletries, bath robes, a minibar, team and coffee cooking facilities, fruits and snacks. The bed is very comfortable. There's a free WiFi. An absolutely amazing newly built ashram, just outside of the main facility offers great Ayurveda treatments (don't miss them!) and good yoga classes. Stunning sunsets and the sea views. A small and a relatively clean beach is right outside of the hotel. The main part of it can be fludded with tides, but there's still a very small space with black sand available to swim at any time of the day. The beach is almost empty - sometimes I was swimming alone! The waves could be quite high, especially close to the shore, so you should be good swimmer as there are no sea guards. There's no possibility to lay at the beach. The hotel pool is clean and nice, but quite small - so something better for kids The stuff is very polite and helpful leaving no wishes open. They can organize an airport transfer and even some sightseen tours in the area. The hotel's restaurant is very good - the food is delicious offering a great choice of Indian, Chinese and European dishes. Breakfast is ok, offering mainly Indian food.

There's no bar or any entertainment in the evening. Although the restaurant serves beer and wine, they do it in a kind of "undercover" way.. There are no cocktails or any other drinks offered apart from one type of beer and one type of wine. No champaign was offered even for the new year eve. The service, especially at the pool area during the day is extremely slow and often not present at all. The products at the minibar were not replenished upon consumption. The hotel is massively overpriced, even compared with some real 5 star hotels in Mumbai, London, Zurich or Rome.