At a Glance

Moored on a historic stretch of Cochin’s famed harbour, the Brunton Boatyard Hotel is our tribute to another age. Resurrected from the remains of a Victorian shipbuilding yard, it gives the modern traveller a unique opportunity to dwell amidst the shadow-plays of 19th-century history.

The recreated period building blends in perfectly with its colonial era surroundings: once-great trading houses from the high era of commerce, when the pepper of Kerala was as precious as gold. Like the cultures they celebrate, this five-star hotel’s interiors too, are an eclectic blend of English, Portuguese and Dutch influences.Soaring ceilings, hanging fans, and everywhere, artefacts and curios from the great age of steam and sail.

All of the Brunton Boatyard Hotel’s twenty-two rooms overlook the sea, and so, by happy circumstance, do the en-suite bathrooms. Few pleasures rival a long hot soak in your tub of an evening, watching the dolphins play tag with the trading ships of the globe.

Brunton’s Boatyard Website