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Reviews of Deshadan Cliff and Beach Resort

3.5 out of 5
Deshadan Cliff and Beach Resort
Kurakkanni Cliff, Varkala, Kerala

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 14 out of 34 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 16 out of 34 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 34 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 34 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 34 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

6.0/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Sheeba

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel, but not close to beach
Good service, and amneties like pool. Friendly staff. About 10 min walk from cliffside and beach
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

JennieB, Beijing

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Basic amenities and facilities, but staff were friendly and helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Thea

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We enjoyed our time at this hotel. Nice, big rooms - quiet beautiful place with a nice pool and a good breakfast. Not far to walk to the beach.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good service, good a/c, comfortable beds, nice pool, but bathrooms could have been nicer and wifi didn't work in our room. Somewhat noisy in the mornings due to on-site restaurant/neighboring rooms.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

S

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful location, good amenities
The Deshadan Cliff & Beach Resort was as promised with all amenities including free wifi, parking and swimming pool. The rates were slightly on the higher side owing to the holidayyum season but still not exorbitant for the amenities offered. Location was perfect and at walking distance from the beach and cliff. The rooms were clean and spacious enough with private washroom and all essential toiletries provided. Air conditioning too was fine as was the television with required channels available. The wifi was a tad slow to be honest especially inside the rooms but manageable. The free buffet breakfast was quite a decent spread and had a mix of South Indian and continental. The food otherwise too was tasty albeit a bit on the higher side as far as prices were concerned. The staff were all extremely friendly and more than willing to help out with a smile, whenever required. Dealing with each and every one of them was pleasant. Overall, an excellent and relaxing stay.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice compact hotel.. near rooms good food.. only suggestions pl provide a proper route map to reach the hotel from say Kollam or Kochi. Google maps takes you to very bad roads along beach if you are self driving
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

BJ

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great otpion for Varkala Beach.
This is a great option for Varkala beach. Super friendly staff and decent, spacious bedrooms. Great breakfast, not the same every day. Fresh fruit juice, healthy stuff. Smooth check-in and check out. Pool hours should really be reviewed, it is too restrictive to tell guests in a destination like Varkala Beach that pool access is not possible after 6pm. Really hoping to go back soon.

8/10 Good

Jillian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A great location at a relatively low cost
We loved staying in Varkala, the Deshadan is a great location, just 5 mins off the main beach and restaurant area. A fabulous beach!! Highly recommend My Place restaurant, Tika Masala and fish in banana leave we’re particularly good! Accommodation great for a relatively low cost hotel with A/C & fan, breakfast included. The only enhancement would have been a in-room safe.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

Clare

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good hotel with great pool
A nice hotel with friendly staff. The breakfast staff were very helpful in particular. The room was good but make sure you get one close to the pool as the ones at the front of the hotel near the road are grotty. A five minute walk to the beach.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

ron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely quiet location, only short walk to beach.
Very polite staff, good location. Quiet and has a nice pool.

8/10 Good

Marcus, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A lot of bang for the buck
Great value for money, best we've stayed in so far in India. Nice pool, fantastic staff, good food in the restaurant. A little jaded but aren't we all? Wifi good when it worked but was a little temperamental. All in all a great stay, would highly recommend

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely resort - food could be improved a little
Overall our stay was very enjoyable. The room was large and clean with a seating area, TV and very comfortable bed. The pool and surrounding area were kept very clean as well. Staff were polite although service a little slow. Only complaint is the food. We ordered pasta one night which was full of garlic skin. Another morning I ordered cereal and was presented with a bowl but told they thought it was bad - I tried one piece in front of them as that's what it seemed like they were waiting for me to do, it was indeed bad. I asked for toast instead and the first lot we were given was mouldy. And the fruit in the morning tasted strongly of onion. The food is what lets what would be a very nice hotel down.

10/10 Excellent

Sudhakar, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very helpful staff. Good food at their restaurant.

2/10 Terrible

Nils, Berlin

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
There are a lot of better Hotels near
We booked this one in advanced.. bad desiscion. We paid the roon and didnt sleep here, because of the room and the atmosphere of the hole resort where terrible. You can find much better Hotels near the cliff for way better price.

10/10 Excellent

Marcia, Melbourne Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxing stay
Excellent staff and facilities, great location . The food was far superior to what is available at beach.

6/10 Okay

richrich, muscat

Liked: Staff & service
OK for India
Reasonable overall. Dated rooms, outdoor breakfast seemed quite unhygienic with ants everywhere, usual egg and rubbishy toast with nescafe or lukewarm tea. Very helpful staff lent us power adaptors and basically let us check out much later than the published time which was useful. Bags left there all day with no problems.

8/10 Good

rohit, jaipur

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
“Comfy beds”
nice service!!

6/10 Okay

Pawan Dhir, London

Convenient stopover
We stayed at the Deshshdan Cliff and Beach Resort for one night as a stop over for a night before heading to Kovalam for the final stay. The hotel is rather dated and rooms a bit crammed around a small swimming pool. It is OK for a one night stay as the location is ideal to walk to Varkala beach (a couple of hundred meters) to see the sunset in the evening and have a drink while taking in the view.

8/10 Good

Patrick et Brenda, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Convinient and quiet
It was quiet and pleasant stay, had a good room, regarding the kitchen and staff, there is need for improvement. Also the bed too soft, not really good for the back. Good thing its was far from noise.

10/10 Excellent

TheCrip, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Brilliant
I had a lovely time at Deshadan. The staff were kind and welcoming, the rooms tasteful and spotlessly clean. I enjoyed the room service food and it was excellent value. Very importantly, the air conditioning was good. (I learnt in India that not all air conditioning is created equal!) Deshadan is a few minutes walk from the beach and it was lovely to stroll back to a genuinely cool room. The bed was comfortable. What else can I say? I loved it.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Pleasant accommodations with good service

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Nice hotel, short walk from the cliff with all restaurants and shops. The location is great, and the service friendly. Breakfast quality was not great. The hotel arranged a reliable car and driver for us when we left.

8/10 Good

george, sheffield,uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good value for varkala beach
small hotel, attentive staff, clean rooms and pool, good food, 500 metres from varkala cliff, hassle free

8/10 Good

Garima, Bangalore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great place, specially for the value!
The location was fantastic. Just a walk away from the cliff side, and yet quiet and peaceful itself. The room was clean, and the pool was a treat! Only two complains - hot water in the shower kept running out, and the mattress was way too soft (had a backache after two nights). The staff was great, and very helpful (with directions, guides, etc.)

10/10 Excellent

Arun

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

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A Good family gateaway
Excellent location near to the beach. Well kept cottages. Helpful staff. Overall a Pleasing experince.

10/10 Excellent

Laurence

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxing hotel
We arrived at this hotel having just spent 2 hectic weeks traveling around Rajasthan. We were looking for a place to relax for a few days before heading off to explore Kerala and this hotel turned out to be exactly what we were looking for. The rooms and en suite bathrooms were beautiful and incredibly clean. All of the rooms are arranged around a pristine swimming pool which was perfect for cooling off in. It was also possible to order drinks next to the pool day and night. We ate in the restaurant one night and had possibly the best meal of our entore trip in india. The staff were also incredibly helpful, providing us with local information about restaurants, places to visit and transport.

10/10 Excellent

Rob, Sheffield, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Superb small clean friendly hotel.
We stayed here for 7 days at the end of an Exodus cycle tour, extending our holiday by 5 days to rest and relax. The hotel was small (about 15 rooms) but was very clean, including the pool which is essential in Varkalla as the sea can be out of bounds in July/August due to undercurrents. The staff were really friendly and couldn't do enough for you. Rooms were serviced daily and drinks by the pool were reasonabley priced. The food (breakfast was included) was excellent in their restaurant. However, we enjoyed walking 10 minutes to the cliffs where there were many restaurants to choose from just to give variety and we were rarely dissapointed. We wouldn't hesitate in recommending this hotel for singles (there's not much going on in the area after dark apart from eating/drinking though), couples or families. Plenty of small 'touristy' shops to bargain at and all the sellars were friendly although haggle well.

10/10 Excellent

Kim

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Kim Sjöholm
Äger var mycket trevlig och hjälpsam. Personalen är väldigt service inriktade. Mysigt och familjärt ställe som vi verkligen trivdes på. Kan varmt rekommendera detta boende!

4/10 Poor

2 français en vacances, France

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Prix largement surévalué
Hôtel agréable, bon petit déjeuner, mais pour bien moins cher à Varkala (15€ de moins) on trouve mieux, plus belle piscine, chambre au moins aussi confortable et emplacement similaire... Nous avons donc déménagé.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Fredrika

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Jättefint, lugnt hotell med underbart vänlig personal!
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Indyjska Kerala w pełnej krasie.
Biorąc pod uwagę zalety hotelu i jego okolicy warto było tam pojechać. Hotel położony blisko słynnego klifu z jego atrakcjami w postaci bardzo wielu sklepów i niemal podobnej liczby najprzeróżniejszych restauracyjek z doskonałymi potrawami oraz piaszczystej i generalnie czystej płazy, a jednocześnie cichy i spokojny, bo nieco oddalony od zgiełku handlowo - kulinarnego. Warto będzie tam wkrótce wrócić. Swoista atrakcja jest pobliska świątynia, do której można dojść pieszo lu dojechać tut-Tuskiem dosłownie za grosze.

10/10 Excellent

Andreas, Stockholm

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Deshadan, oas i paradiset
Fantastiskt lugnt och skönt ställe, som styrs av den fantastiske Delish. Bra mat i restaurangen och ett schysst massageställe alldeles bredvid. Vi ville aldrig åka därifrån. Fyra minuters promenad till stranden och de flesta affärer och restauranger. Varkala Beach är ett perfekt ställe slappna av på och Deshadan är ett fantastiskt hotell som erbjuder allt man kan önska.