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all cottages at the Coconut Lagoon, Kumarakom vary in configuration, and some
of the air-conditioned units are newly built replicas incorporating only fragments
of old tharawads that could not be saved in their entirely.
Coconut Lagoon offers three basic types of accommodation: Heritage Mansions,
Heritage Bungalows and Private pool villas. The former have two stories, the
upstairs bedroom gallery offering particularly magnificent views of Lake Vembanad.
¤ 28 Heritage Bungalows
¤ 14 Heritage Mansions
¤ 8 private pool villas
Dining
Cited in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning best-seller, "The God of
Small Things," the restaurant at Coconut Lagoon is renowned as much for
its superb Keralian cuisine (vegetarian and non-vegetarian alike) as for its
authentic setting, and is housed in one of the resort's most impressive tharawads.
Known as an ettukettu, the building incorporates two atrium like courtyards
under an expansive tile roof supported by dozens of slim columns, a design that
enables the space within to benefit from the slightest breeze. The restaurant
is the oldest structure at Coconut Lagoon, and it, too, formerly belonged to
a prominent Malayali family living in a nearby village.