Marari Beach Resort Alleppey - A CGH Earth Experience

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The openness, independent cottages and plenty pf greenery

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The stuff is great and friendly.

Superb staff and room quality. Only one "proper" restaurant on site but the food was always excellent both a la carte and buffet. Some beach-type cafes also served food and drink during the day. The pool was absolutely amazing, non-chlorine (salt) purified and a wonderful natural temperature. Very peaceful resort that allowed relaxation and rest.

There was no specific bar areas with entertainment, so if it rained there was not a lot to see or do - and no TV's in the rooms. There was a great beach although the sea was quite harsh in terms of waves breaking; there were sunbeams on the beach but no food/drink services that we found. It was 20-40 minutes to the nearest town/cities.

large resort with all eco friendly cottages in front of internal pond, huge deep (upto 8 ft) pool, excellent food, long clean beach.

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Staff behaviour, beach and all the facilities available

Bit expensive when compared to similar properties

Excellent property, super clean, perfectly neat, amazing staff and very tasty food especially south Indian delicacies. Hospitality is at its best! Keep it up

Nothing. Everything was perfect.

Ambience, cleanliness, pleasant staff.

Loved everything about the resort...the way it blended with nature withouting losing its localities beauty by providing various activities including beach activities and their breakfast with various thani naadan foods...my kids loved everything about this resort...especially staffs shahin arun from earth lab, anu from nature club, and recently joined guy from calicut who did fish feeding...all the staffs wer very supportive and welcoming...love you cgh..

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Excellent property with fantastic hospitality and nice food The service is efficient and polite. Special thanks to Mr Rohith. Given weather conditions, we are at the resort the entire 2 days and it was a wonderful experience

Cottage tout confort au milieu d’un parc magnifique bien entretenu . Piscine gigantesque , plage privée surveillée, buffet dîner généreux pour 20 euros. Salle de bain extérieure extra

Prestation spa de qualité mais prix très élevé pour la région.

Tout .....surtout que notre fils a eu de la fièvre en peine nuit personnel très réactive nous a accompagné aux urgences vraiment un grand MERCI.....personnel du restaurant très accueillant d'une gentillesse...bravo

This was my first visit to Kerala, and I had a wonderful time at this resort. From the moment I arrived until the day I checked out, I felt welcomed and comfortable throughout my stay. The atmosphere here is incredibly peaceful. Every morning, I woke up to beautiful scenery and had the chance to listen to different birds spunds and many little birds. Being surrounded by nature made the experience even more relaxing and special. If you're looking for a peaceful place to relax and refresh your mind, I highly recommend CGH Earth Resort at Marari Beach. It's a perfect destination for anyone who wants to enjoy nature and tranquility. The staff here are extremely kind, friendly, and helpful. I truly appreciated their hospitality. This time, I could stay for only three days, but I really wished I could have stayed longer. I absolutely loved my stay, and I will definitely come back again for a longer visit. I highly recommend this resort to everyone. Thank you for making my trip so memorable!

Not as the classic cgh properties like spice village and bruntyon Not cleanly

Not clean Not the standard cgh style one

Walk towards the beach, private beach

Food Experience

Huge open area down to the beach with wonderfull surroundings. The breakfast and dinner was way over my expectations, since I was afraid of a bad stomach as an european, but this is the best I ever had in India. Friendly and smiling staff thats provide brilliant service and made the stay perfect.

The natural surroundings are beautiful, the cottage-style accommodations are wonderful, and the décor and room size are excellent. The restaurant serves delicious food, and the massage is excellent.

There are occasional short power outages. The air conditioning is not always cold enough. The restaurant staff sometimes have difficulty understanding our requests, and service can be slow. Insects occasionally get into the room. The check-out time is too early (11:00 AM), which is not very convenient. The massage is very expensive.

Everything the food the staff and the location and room.

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Rooms beech staff

Rooms

Die Hütten/Zimmer waren außergewöhnlich und sehr gut ausgestattet. Der Pool war toll und der Strand, zu dem man direkten Zugang hatte. Alles war sehr sauber und die Mitarbeitenden waren sehr freundlich. Das Frühstücksbüffet war eins der besten, das wir je hatten. Wir haben ja sehr wohl gefühlt und kommen gerne wieder.

Es hätte etwas mehr vegetarische/ayurvedische Gerichte zum Abendessen geben können, da hatten wir uns als Vegetarier etwas mehr Auswahl gewünscht.

Almost everything i liked. Hospitality, location, Beach.. Evening programmes.. Food is very delicious..

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Very peaceful setup with great food and friendly staff

Little far from Allepey.

The staff were exceptional, so friendly and welcoming whilst being helpful and professional. Amazing service. Food was very nice

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Good food and more varieties. Huge outdoor pool. More activities in the property. Rooms well maintained. Excellent service by staffs.

Food not served in room. No TV in room. Comparatively bit costlier than similar properties.

Ambience, Cleanliness

This is beautiful facility located in a very green and serene space. The cottages are spacious and comfortable. The staff, in all departments, are warm, hospitable and knowledgeable. This is especially true of those who lead the nature visits. The resort also offers Ayurvedic therapies. We availed ourselves of a session and found the workers there to be incredible skilled and friendly. The restaurant offers an amazing breakfast buffet and excellent dinner choices. The restaurant staff are courteous and helpful. We very highly recommend the Marari Beach Resort for anyone seeking a peaceful environment.

Excellent séjour

Le service au petit déjeuner est à améliorer

Exceeded expectations. Staff were great - best I’ve experienced in many travels around India. The food offering was extremely good and the property was comfortable and beautiful.

Everything. Peaceful Relaxing

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Loved everything about the property!

Pool closing times of 7pm!

Perfect pool, fantastic breakfast, kind and friendly staff. Great rooms - particularly the showers.

Staff were amazing. Food was good at the main restaurant, the beach grill was wonderful but I feel for the prices charged then you should have more options as side dishes.

All lovely, I think the only grumble would be the awful music ( pop music more suited to Mikanos!) Would be better with something a little more subtle that is in keeping

Le lieu agréable et calme. La belle et grande piscine. Le personnel sympathique. Les restaurants de bon niveau.

Le manque de personnel à la piscine, uniquement un sauveteur. Un bar serait appréciable.

Great stay here, very quiet and spacious. There is a large pool and sunbeds, very relaxing atmosphere. We used the spa which offered lots of different options. The rooms were immaculately clean, good air conditioning ands very comfortable. Excellent location on the beach but sea was too rough for swimming. Friendly and helpful staff.

The choice of drinks at the pool was limited and service a little slow.

It’s home away from home the serene set up with warmth of staff and excellent food is just magical.. Very peaceful and if one needs to a getaway from hustle bustle of daily life this is the place to be…

We stayed for three nights in August 2025 and had a great experience overall. The service from the staff was excellent, and the food at the local kitchen was truly amazing. I would also like to give a special thanks to the beach guards for their great work. The reason for my four-star rating is due to a single incident. While traveling with a senior citizen and a two-year-old in the rain, I requested a cart to the restaurant. The staff member initially refused. Upon insisting she eventually agreed, however the cart never arrived. We ended up having to walk to the distant restaurant in the rain while carrying the child. I believe the team needs better training on this, or the policy regarding cart availability should be clearly communicated at check-in.

What started as an Ayurvedic revitalization retreat turned into so much more ... by virtue of the fantastic property , the above par amenities and the service standards of the staff. Marari stays with you as an idyllic yet eventful resort that lingers in memories days after you've left it. The food at the restaurant was truly delicious with a spread that suited everyone's palate. The property with its beautiful beach, remarkable sunsets, captivating pool, homely villas, Ayurvedic treatments and oneness with Nature were just superb. A beautiful property which deserves all the stars it gets..

Wonderful location, spacious resort. Each room is separate which gives the resort a very quiet atmosphere. Several restaurants to different tastes. Big pool, beach access. Most of all very friendly staff ( Rahul & team @beach grill for example ). Housekeeping. Front of house etc are all equally friendly and helpful

Serene space, courteous staff, sumptuous cuisine

Great holiday , if you want to have a relaxed holiday with beach with and excellent food I recommend this property .Beach is neat and away from the regular crowd, pool is amazing .

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The CGH group are remarkable for their standards of comfort and service. We have stayed at 3 of their properties and have enjoyed everyone. Staff are well trained and any minor problems are dealt with immediately with no fuss. The food is an excellent summary of local food and we have enjoyed that journey also.

Just a lovely place

Very comfortable villas and staff that really look after you. The best food we ate at the hotel was the lunchtime "beach cafe", run by the local ladies. We'd really recommend booking this for lunch during your stay, lovely homestyle food that really had the edge over the more generic restaurant dishes on offer.

Loved our stay here. It’s an amazing location and well thought out complex. At the end of a busy holiday was just what was needed. Highlights included seeing dolphins on three separate occasions. The owl spotting tour way more interesting than it sounds, guides very knowledgeable and friendly. Did it twice we enjoyed that much. The staff were all so friendly and helpful. The food was so varied, from the local ladies delicious cooked lunches, Fish shack for more intimate dinners to the amazing buffet food in the main restaurant. All recommended a try. Very happy about the no plastic, zero waste ethos. I wish there were more places so forward thinking.

We have stayed here more times than I can count – certainly more than 20 – and the welcome for repeat guests is second to none. It’s a bit of a cliché for Indian hotels to tell their regular guests that they are “part of the family”, but here, on numerous occasions, we felt that we genuinely were. The tiniest details of our well-remembered likes and dislikes were remembered and time and again employees went the extra mile in ways that showed real warmth, way beyond simple commercial motives. When a hospital visit was needed for an X Ray, a senior member of staff came with us to take care of the bureaucracy. Nowhere was the care more evident than in the efforts to which they went to facilitate my gluten-free diet. It was only a couple of years ago that I was diagnosed as coeliac, but I have already come to accept that eating out can involve a lot of compromise and often disappointment and anxiety. Not here, however! Kerala isn’t the hardest place to eat gluten-free, as so much of the local cuisine is rice-focused, rather than wheat-based. But it’s usually at breakfast that it gets more difficult. Here, however, the regular buffet always had two kinds of very good “toastable” bread and some muffins, as well as the local dosas etc, of course. Yet on top of this, the 24 year old head pastry chef Judesan decided to make it his personal mission to make GF breakfast pastries to a standard that I had always assumed to be technically impossible, because no one else seems ever to have managed it, whether in shops or hotels. The lightest imaginable Danish pastries, pains au chocolat, caramel-centred muffins, pancakes… things I thought I would never taste again. And not content with this, the same genius started conjuring up the most incredible GF desserts, all of which my gluten-eating partner was entirely happy to enjoy, as none of them seemed to have been compromised by the lack of wheat. One or two were in fact so good that they could have sat on any Michelin-starred table! From day to day, under the watchful eye of senior chefs Jerry and Sabib, other in the team also produced a wonderful selection of GF chapati-type breads for lunch and dinner, while a very junior chef Ajmal made an ever-changing range of chilled soups and salads for lunch, all safely within the diet restriction. This doesn’t happen by accident. The entire culture of enthusiastic, warm and empathetic service stems form the general manager, Johny Tom, whose defining characteristics those are. Well, those and a determination to make this huge machine operate at a very high level.

3 nights here after touring Southern India. I was concerned about the outside bathrooms as they were terrible at a different CGH hotel. However these were fine, clean and with a fan to keep the insects away, along with incense sticks and plug in mossie killers. All the staff, without exception were smiling and friendly, super helpful and just looked happy to be there - well it is lovely! Very professional nature guide doing the owl walks. Bikes available. Super sized pool which was never very busy. Just as well as unfortunately the sea was far too rough to swim in. Big rooms, comfy beds and efficient aircon. Good breakfasts. Found the food pricy so in the evenings we ate at the beach places with our feet in the sand - bliss, and much more romantic than the hotel dining room!

Mamari Beach CGH Earth is a perfectly pleasant place to unwind for a few days after a busy itinerary exploring Southern India. The location is excellent, being a short walk from an extremely long, clean, peaceful beach where you can walk, swim or just watch the egrets, ospreys, kites and local fishermen. The resort seems a little tired and the restaurants and staff variable. The main pool is huge and clean, with plentiful beach towels and comfortable sun-loungers but the poolside menu offered is very ordinary (design your own sandwich). The main restaurant is divided into three areas and is designed to accommodate large group tours. The standard of food offered is fine but there is not much ambiance. The Beach Grill is much smaller, more intimate and has great menu but do book ahead. There is also a Beach Shack, which takes a while to serve fairly ordinary fare (pizza etc) The rooms are quite dark as a function their structure and low lighting. There is an emphasis on sustainability and conservative use of water, which didn't quite square with the groundsmen, who watered the grass all day long in full sun!

Well organised, peaceful, friendly staff who respected your privacy and personal wishes, going quietly about their work. Wonderful grounds and a great bungalow and pool.

Need to be aware that the sea is not particularly safe for swimming in this area. Lovely beach for walking though.

We stayed here for an extra five days at the end of a fairly hectic tour across sourthern India. What a wonderful place to unwind. All the staff were very attentive, friendly and obliging, nothing was ever too much trouble. The restaurants were all very good. They did serve Western dishes, but I can't vouch for the quality or authenticity as i didn’t try them. There are three restaurants on site, the star of which was the Beach Grill, (evenings), and at lunchtime became the Beach Cafe. The latter staffed by local ladies cooking local specialities. This was a real treat. Our bungalow was spacious, well-appointed, and very clean. Very good air con. As the name suggests, the hotel is on a lovely sandy beach, and they provide sun loungers, towels, and a lifeguard.

Spent 4 days at this resort after a hectic 3 weeks travelling around India. This place was delightful and just wat we need to finish the trip off. 3 great restaurants, one serving both Indian and European dishes, one predominantly fresh fish and one a beach cafe serving pizzas, burgers etc. The grounds were very well kept, leading down to the beach, which has lifeguards, as the warm water can be a little choppy. The pool was large and had its own small bar serving drinks & snacks. The rooms were fantastic, we stayed in a bungalow with its own small pool, and it was clean, and well maintained, with and partially open air bathroom. Great AC, and a very comfortable bed. Thoroughly recommend this place.

We stayed 4 nights at Marari Beach and thought it sublime. The staff, food and pool was amazing. The beach is absolutely awesome and the rooms were very characterful, clean and spacious. We would certainly like to return a fantastic winter sun retreat from the UK.

Our rooms were beautiful with all home comforts and super comfy beds .Resort has large grounds , however they lack beauty and color Food was always cold . Nice pool area but not enough loungers for no of guests.Stunning beach but can’t be used as no umbrellas provided for shade .Amazing sunsets Various activities available. Sister resort Coconut Lagoon has a nicer atmosphere with hustle and bustle of the back waters and grounds bursting with colorful plants

This is a great hotel with extremely friendly and helpful staff. Rooms are spacious with a fantastic outside bathroom . Options to sit by a large swimming pool or on the beach , which is pretty deserted with golden sands. Some interesting activities like looking for owls where we had the most enthusiastic naturalist. Breakfast ok - mainly Indian with an egg station. Service good but a bit erratic. Special call out to the Beach Shack team where we had the friendliest service from Henock and the best jerk chicken I have ever tasted from Chef Ajmal👍👏 Just a short warning to check your dates if you like drinks at bars and dinner … On a 4 night stay , we had the ultimate nightmare (for me) of 2 Kerala dry days where there is only alcohol in your room 😔 One a Memorial Day and the other the first of the month .. Try the seagull and ecstasy cafes on the beach .

Starting point…We loved this place and probably would go back. Then….We had one of the bungalows with a private pool and it did seem we were nearest to the rather intrusive noise from the local temple! I know we were in India and I totally respect their customs - it was just that being woken by loud firecrackers and chanting very early in the morning plus services going on all day and evening it did start to get a bit much! The friendliness, the beach, the cleanliness and the food were all brilliant. Afternoon tea in the garden needed a bit more infrastructure with their being too few tables and chairs plus some guests getting a bit bad tempered at having to queue so long to get their tea/snacks. It was nice to wander down to see the sunset from the beach and I felt there was a missed opportunity to better drum up customers at the beach shack by not doing a happy hour! The guy there playing the guitar beautifully was pretty much without any audience when we were passing. Still, I would recommend this place!

Wonderful hotel. Staff were very attentive. Breakfast and dinner, excellent. The grounds were beautifully kept, with lots going on, including tiffin! The rooms were extremely comfortable with an outside bathroom!

This hotel is fantastic , it combines pleasant local architecture in exceptionally huge grounds , a relaxed ambiance, excellent service and delicious food. The large bungalow was immaculate, had plenty of storage space. I love the large outdoor bathroom. The variety offered at the buffet is endless giving the opportunity to taste a wide range of dishes. I can understand why so many people come back year after year.

Second time at Marari and still as good after 6 years. Lovely room, magnificent pool, great yoga, delicious food, wonderful staff. We can't wait to return! Make sure you make use of the Ladies Lunch in the Beach Restaurant and have an Ayurvedic massage in the spa.

Second time here. Perfect as before.

Facilities are wonderful Service is wonderful

The sea food in the property was horrible Beung CGH we thought it will keep ceratn standard. they seems lacking a preliminary knowledge on seafood . Being most visitors are foreign they arewar bothered about the preparations It will be all stless tasyeless boiiled ones

Excellent staff, plenty of interesting activities - butterfly garden, owls etc, lovely beach. I pre booked a 1.5 hour guided cycle ride around the area which was scenic and fascinating.

Very quiet in the evening, but that was fine for us.

Exceptional facilities, excellent food and activities, especially led by the team of naturalists. A hotel which demonstrates its commitment to sustainability with huge integrity. And the best hotel bed we have ever slept in. But, as with all the best hotels, it is the people who make it great, and you won’t find better.

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A lovely hotel with an excellent pool and lovely restaurants. A highlight for us was the Beach Grill where we had excellent fresh fish (tiger prawns and sea bream). We also had a great pizza at the Beach Shack (first European food in our trip). There isn’t much to do nearby so 3 nights was plenty for us as we are quite active and the sea was quite rough so we stayed by the pool. The villas are very relaxing and well equipped.

Great food that catered for all tastes, luxurious resort experience & service

Yoga was too early at 7am- later class would be great (but this was not a major issue)

Its setting was beautiful and well cared for. So nice to have the beach and pool facilities. It was well organised and thought out. The food was excellent. We loved our private pool and the facilities it offered us.

Nothing. The sea has a strong pull and is quite steep. Not suitable for weak swimmers, young children or elderly