Old Harbour Hotel

Fort Kochi

Thirteen rooms in a building first recorded in 1788.

The place

Dutch and Portuguese in its bones, on the harbour side of Fort Kochi, with hardwood floors, Casablanca fans turning over the air conditioning, and a garden with a pool in it. Art-led without being precious about it. The restaurant is named 1788 after the first year the building appears in the records.

What is there

Garden and pool behind the house
The 1788 restaurant, spilling onto a terrace
Sitar and tabla some evenings
Rooms in natural cotton, soft lighting
The Chinese nets and the harbour on the doorstep
Spa treatments

Getting there

Fort Kochi, an hour and a half from the airport.

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