KING-BEDDED · A/C · WATER AT THE WINDOW
The staterooms.
Air-conditioned, king-bedded, dressed in cotton and teak. Every stateroom opens to the water, and the big boats sleep thirty-two without anyone sharing a wall.
The backwaters, unhurried.
A houseboat that is wholly yours.
Hand-crafted kettuvallams gliding through Kerala’s Vembanad backwaters — a personal chef, a private sundeck, and nothing on the itinerary but the water. Premium, Luxury & Ultra Luxury cruises for one to sixteen guests.
Plan your cruiseALLEPPEY · KERALA BACKWATERS
OVERVIEW
A private boat, a private chef, and the slowest waters in India — Alleppey.
Private chef aboardOne party per boatJacuzzis from 1BR up
Kerala’s backwaters are a nine-hundred-kilometre maze of lakes, canals and rice paddies that sit below sea level. People have lived on this water for centuries — our kettuvallams let you join them for a night without giving up a single comfort. This is the trip that stays with you.
Find your vessel
WHEREAlleppey, Kerala
WHENYear-round · Oct–Mar peak
FOR WHOMCouples to 32-guest charters
AHB
It started as one boat. It became a fleet of twelve — built, crewed and cooked for by people born on these waters.
Read our storyTHE FLEET
Choose your vessel.
05 / 05
HB1/U01
1 Bedroom · Ultra Luxury · Jacuzzi suite
04 / 05
HB2/U02
2 Bedrooms · Ultra Luxury · Jacuzzi sundeck
03 / 05
HB5/U01
5 Bedrooms · Ultra Luxury · Conference deck
02 / 05
HB6/U04
6 Bedrooms · Ultra Luxury · Six staterooms
01 / 05
HB10/U01
10 Bedrooms · Ultra Luxury · Flagship
SCROLL TO EXPLORE · TAP A VESSEL TO OPEN IT
Browse the fleet
Every size, every tier.
The right boat for every occasion — from an intimate honeymoon escape to a sixteen-bedroom celebration afloat.
The photographed fleet — jacuzzis, sundecks and crews, one to sixteen bedrooms. Showing 6 of 16.
Explore all fleetVOYAGES
An evening, a day, or a wedding that floats — every voyage here is private, chef-crewed, and wholly yours.
“They handed us the whole boat and the whole evening. Nobody else aboard, nothing on the clock.”
GUESTS OF HB3/U02 · TWO-NIGHT CHARTER
21hrs
12:00 NOON → 09:00
The overnight cruise.
Board at noon, cruise the wide of Vembanad, anchor for a lantern-lit dinner and wake to mist on the water. Ashore by nine, changed.
6hrs
11:00 → 17:00
The day cruise.
Six golden hours through the paddies and village canals, with lunch cooked aboard and the sundeck to yourselves.
16br
WHOLE BOAT · WHOLE FLEET
Weddings & charters.
Sangeet on the event deck, breakfast for sixty, a fleet that moves your whole story onto the water. The sixteen-bedroom flagship takes it all.
4.9/5
GUEST RATING, THIS SEASON
16BR
BEDROOMS ON THE FLAGSHIP
1party
PER BOAT. ALWAYS PRIVATE.
17:30
AT ANCHOR FOR SUNSET
OUR FLEET
Which boat is yours?
One bedroom to sixteen, across three tiers. Set the size of your party and the tier of your taste — the fleet answers.
BEDROOMS
Any22 VESSELS
ANY481216
The full fleet, smallest to largest.
Rates are off-season, per night, before 5% GST · peak season (Oct–Mar) and festival dates are quoted on request
LIFE ABOARD
A floating villa, and your own crew to run it.
Every vessel sails with a captain, chef and steward. Take a one-bedroom for two, or the sixteen-bedroom flagship for a wedding — the rule never changes: the whole boat is yours.
The staterooms
01 — 04
FIVE MEALS A DAY · EVERY MENU YOURS
Dining & the chef.
Your chef shops the village market at dawn and cooks to order on board — karimeen from the morning catch, toddy-shop curries, or exactly what your grandmother likes. All meals are included, always.
THE UPPER DECK · JACUZZI FROM LUXURY UP
Sundeck & jacuzzi.
The upper deck is the boat's living room — daybeds, a dining pavilion, and a private jacuzzi from the small Luxury boats upwards. Sunset happens at anchor, by regulation. It's the best hour of the day.
CAPTAIN · CHEF · STEWARD
The crew.
Captain, chef and steward — born on these waters, discreet to a fault. They know which canal the herons fish at four o'clock, and when to simply let the boat be quiet.
THE ROUTE
Where the water takes you.
No two cruises trace the same line — your captain reads the light and the water. These are the stretches every route is drawn from.
Punnamada
ALLEPPEY · THE BOARDING JETTY
Kainakary
KUTTANAD · VILLAGE WATERS
Vembanad
THE WIDE WATER
Champakulam
PAMBA RIVER · OLD CANAL
Pallathuruthy
THE NIGHT ANCHORAGE
A DAY ABOARD
Noon to nine, hour by hour.
Every boat is at anchor by nightfall — it’s the rule of the backwaters. Watch the day turn as you scroll through it.
12:00
Board & welcome
Check in at Punnamada jetty. A tender-coconut welcome, cool towels, and a walk-through of your boat and crew before you cast off.
13:30
Lunch on the water
A Kerala lunch served as you cruise — karimeen fish, avial, thoran and rice on a banana leaf. Veg, Jain, halal and vegan menus on request.
16:00
Village walk & canoe
The boat noses into the narrow canals. Step off for a coir-and-toddy village walk, or take a country canoe where the houseboat can't follow.
17:00
Evening tea
Chai and hot snacks — banana fritters, bonda — on the sundeck as the light turns gold.
17:30
BY REGULATIONAnchor for sunset
By backwater regulation every boat anchors before dusk. The engine stills and the water mirrors the sky — the quietest hour of the trip.
20:00
Dinner under lanterns
A multi-course dinner cooked fresh by your chef, served on deck under lantern light. Bring your own bottle — no corkage.
08:00
Sunrise & breakfast
Wake to mist on the water. Appam and stew, puttu, fresh fruit and filter coffee on the sundeck as the boat gets underway.
09:00
Ashore, unhurried
Cruise back to the jetty and disembark by nine — or extend on toward Kumarakom and the bird sanctuary.
Twenty-one hours on the water, and not one of them hurried.
NOONSUNSET AT ANCHOR09:00 ASHORE
Plan this route
Overnight cruises board at 12:00 noon and come ashore at 09:00 — every meal cooked aboard
EXPERIENCES
There is the boat — and then there is everything the water carries you to.
ABOARDSunset at anchor
THE BACKWATERS
Four hundred kilometres of water, and a name for every bend.
scroll to drift downstreamPunnamadaKainakaryNedumudi
VembanadChampakulamKuttanad
Pathiramanal
Kumarakom
Marari
Alappuzha
Pallathuruthy
Ambalapuzhaand back up again
STORIES
From the guest book.
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