Alleppey Houseboats, Houseboat Tours, Deluxe Houseboats, Luxury Boats

Houseboat or Boathouse is a boat designed or modified into as Floating Home with all facilities convenient to Luxury Hotel. This is undoubtedly one of the most luxurious holiday homes to experience. This mobile holiday accommodation of Houseboat floating through the lakes and canal network is different from other typical holiday locations because it is often pass through many historical monuments, water lodged lagoons, village townships and unspoiled rural villages takes you away from city busy life to pleasant and silent environments.

Houseboats in Kerala are large slow moving barges for leisure tours. They are a remodel of “Kettuvallams”, which in earlier times were used to transport goods and passengers. The popularity of Houseboats becomes major tourist attractions in Alleppey. The Alappuzha houseboats are about 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 m) long and about 15 feet wide at the middle. The hull is made of wooden planks tied together with copper nails. The roof is made of bamboo poles and palm leaves. The houseboats are built in different sizes having 1 to 10 elegant bedrooms with attached bathrooms, upper decks, corridors, front portico, balconies, kitchens & dining halls, Boathouses are decorated fancifully and named romantically and even whimsically. The houseboat hiring cost includes all meals and highly personalized services are extended too.