Have stayed here for 2 days. Nice experience. Very spacious room and well arranged decor. Have mineral water and they clean the room every day. Service is sometimes slow. Nice food from the restaurant. Near from the airport and the famous padmanabhan swami temple. Nice hotel.

My flight was cancelled and they offered me next day mrng flight. Also, stay was arranged by them as a gesture. That's how I had to stay at this Lodge. Lodge is very basic in nature even though it's maintained clean and neat. Food is a major put off and staff are not well trained. Not a great place to stay unless no options.

From domestic airport prepaid cabs will charge you RS.350, go for auto rickshaw outside airport for RS.150. PROS: Only presentation of hotel and restaurant is nice.nice English music in restaurant. Nice and clean washrooms. Ok for transit passengers. CONS: Breakfast not worthy as items were too limited and served cold. Cold tea,cold bread with no griller,cold sambhar. A little bit overpriced tarrif. Service is too slow. Staff understand English but act oppositely. No nice views from windows.

Very rarely i write reviews but cudnt resist for this one..! This hotel just attract people by showing a huge lobby and photos taken during inauguration (probably) and will give you a shocker once you get in. The Reception itself was a turn down with 2 guys with absolutely no smile or hospitality talking to you in a rude tone as if they are doing some favour to us by giving us a chance to stay there. About the rooms i have no words. Please see the images and compare with watever given by hotel. They have stuck some wallpaper on the floor which over time was so dirty that i dint want to walk without shoes inside the room. The room was filled with mixed smell of Birdpoop and room freshener (to compensate the former) Breakfast was was served in an outdoor make-shift area behind the hotel, adjacent to the generators which again showed how proffessional they are.Half of the buffet chafing dishes empty and the restaurant guys didn't want to refill unless you remind them 3-4 times. I requested for an omlette and some poori which never came even after multiple reminders and 20-25 mins waiting. In all, this is a place you would like to avoid. There are many better options at 5-7 mins distance at much lesser cost.

connected with rickshaw, who takes me here.. I negotiate price. He knows it is worth about Rs 600 per night. says tariff is 3000 and will give it me for 2500 inc breakfast. eventually settle at at 2400. I explain to him that labour costs and rentals are less than in london. He says he pays Rs 300 to government even though there is NO government in India. Then he says will reduce price by Rs 100 if I do not want their horrid breakfast.Rs 100 is reasonable estimate of breakfast price. But then does not reduce price when I say I do mot want breakfast. Then he says extra Rs 400 if I bring woman into my room even though he is as requested giving me double room. Then he says Rs 500. I ask him for bucket, jug and a bowl. I write it down for him. I tell him 3 times Iwant it not in 10 years but soon. He says he will get boy to do it sharpish. Promises me faithfully. An hour later. No bowl, no jug, no bucket. Suppose that you come here will you get better service? NO. This guy Praveen Thampi is the pits. Must be Indian. Liar: I say I came from hotel in Kovalam. He says I did not. I show him my Kovalam hotel visitor card. He says he knows tgis hotel. Then he says it is not a hotel.... Room here is 'clean'.. What does that mean? It means that they have put down so many poisonous chemicals on the floor, on the bed, in the sheets, in the sink.. that ALL insects died and then they were swept away with dirty poisonous mop etc. Every breath I have I can smell the poison. I will stay here 1 day max. Plenty of better places in Trivandrum. Kovalam where I came from today is top tourist area in India. My hotel was 1 minute to really nice beach. Only foreigners are ripped off in Kovalam near the beach. Rs 1100 per night was my rip off price. NOT Rs 10000 because one of nicest areas in India.Anyway lovely lovely airport road. Dust. No shops open. Dirt. Cars.Indians also. No beach. No park. No buffalos. Can you sleep with hotel poisonous cleaning fumes every breath? I kid you not. Of course maybe your nostrils are so used to poison, maybe you are from Calcutta or something, maybe then you can sleep here. Possibly last ever before painful death (kidding) from rat poison, ...Anyways, even after just 1 hour here, my skin is burning. My back, my arms at present.I am getting out of here NOW.