House boats or resorts? Q&A

Re: House boats or resorts?

Posted by Sameer | Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:00 pm

Houseboat stay has unique experience. I had been to alleppey and had houseboat stay on june 27th in the backwater. really fantastic experience.
Houseboat are not ordinary(for making a 3bhk houseboat it costs around 40-50 lac,as said by the houseboat driver) as for me due to offseason i got a 3bedroom big houseboat(though door of 2 rooms were closed) in Rs.6000/- along with all meals,flower bed,candle light and cake.
ofcourse there is heavy price difference in hotel stay and houseboat cruise and stay.

hotels can be in Rs 2000 range but u can't see any thing in hotel.

If u r in alleppey Houseboat is must. Otherwise no point of being at alleppey.

Re: House boats or resorts?

Posted by Rohitash | Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:43 pm

Nitin,
Most resorts have a tie up with house boat owners. Consider staying at a resort, see the house boats and then choose, this way you are likely to get a better deal. Try and avoid agents, they take 30 to 50%.
Have a great trip.
Rohitash

Re: House boats or resorts?

Posted by parvez | Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:54 pm

try ATDC.com allepey tourism development...they have packges which r quite reasonable n include stay in both resort n houseboat

Re: House boats or resorts?

Posted by Vikrant | Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:26 pm

Resort stay cost is lesser as against house boat stay. House boat stay can cost upwards of six thousand rupees per day. Whereas stay at a resort room can start from 2000/- Rs onwards. We stayed at Pagoda resort which had clean good rooms with a good restaurant downstairs serving good food. The backwaters were close by, where we had a nice evening boat ride for an hour for which he charged us Rs 350/-.

Re: House boats or resorts?

Posted by Joe | Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:07 pm

Nitin wrote:Will be travelling to Alleppey next month. Is it a good time? And when we go there what do you think will be better staying in a resort or a house boat? What is the prices of both of these? And are there class house boats too? Or all the same?