Waterfront Granary A Museum Hotel

This hotel is like a boutique hotel very authentic. Beautiful old building with lots of antiques.

The hotel is just a little ways off of the tourist path, in a quieter area, but still close by to everything. It's also right on the water.

This is a really quirky hotel in a truly unique location - a very busy market street (Bazar Road), very narrow, dusty and full of spice traders and heritage properties - only some of which are in as good a condition as the Waterfront Granary Hotel. As long as you know this before you arrive in Fort Cochin, the hotel is the ideal base for discovering Fort Cochin - the hotel staff are pleasant, the rooms are large and full of heritage charm, the food is good (we ate there 2 or 3 nights and found the food as good as any of the local restaurants and hotels) and the hotel has the added bonus of housing in itself a small museum of quirky items, a pier on the waterfront, and its own boat which does a free tour of the harbour for guests twice daily - which was an excellent way of seeing the Chinese fishing nets and even dolphins in the harbour. Walking distance to the MG Beach, Pepper House (great library, shop & cafe there), Aspinwall House (luckily the biennale was on while we were visiting so there were lots of art exhibition at Aspinwall and other heritage venues in the town). As long as you are prepared for the narrow streets, the traffic, etc, Fort Cochin is an interesting place to spend time and Waterfront Granary is good value for money. Note that the hotel has no licence for alcohol.

Lot of hassle but n checking in... staff is helpful but not very professional..