The Kettuvallom of Kerala are the giant country craft measuring up to 80 feet in length. Once a means of transport, now a tourist fantasy. A Kettuvallom usually has one to seven well furnished bath attached bed rooms, an open lounge, deck kitchenette and a crew comprising oarsmen, a cook and if you wish a guide. Usually the check in time will be 12:00am and check out time 9:00 am next day.

As soon as the tourist check in the house boat it will go for the sight seeing, by the time they can have all food like break fast, lunch, dinner, enough tea, coffee and fruits, cruise starts with lunch and finish with break fast. In the night the boat will anchor somewhere in the backwater assuring hundred percentage safety. Again early morning they can have a small cruise up to 9:00 am.

By the time of sailing through the interior part of the remote backwater village, if you would like to get down somewhere, you are requested to inform the boat captain. At once the captain will manage to keep the boat to the next shore. As soon as the boat tied, you can step to the land and can walk through the local back water villages. This will be a best chance to touch with the locals and their day to day life. On this occasion you would realize much about paddy fields, rice cultivation, Toddy tapping, Fishing and especially much about their transportation.

Alleppey back waters are more blessed by her varieties of fish, while cruising through the narrow canals and small rivers you can see different types of fish along the both side of the canal for sale like prone, crab and shell. What you have to do is just buy from them and give to the cook on the boat so the dinners will became more delicious than which you ever had. After 6:00pm, the time for anchoring the boat because of the safety manners Kerala government denied the night time house boat cruise. So the boat will anchor at a calm and quite place. Next day morning the cruise will finish after the breakfast.

Usually people are selecting one or two nights for their backwater cruise enjoyments. Sure that will be enough for a nice backwater experience but nowadays its seemed to be a slight changes in that attitude like two to five nights because that may be an exact realization or awareness much about the Alleppey backwaters and Alleppey house boats by the tourists among the world, especially from UK, USA, FRANCE and GERMANY. My sixteen years experience in Kerala or Alleppey backwater tourism field molded me also to say like “if we have more than five nights we would not able to see the whole backwaters of Alleppey”, that much of area acquired by backwater in Alleppey.

In addition to over night cruise Sandra holidays offering day time only house boat cruise also. It will start 11:00 in the morning and ends at 05:00 at Evening. Trips will include lunch and tea. We have reasonable number of well furnished house boats for the day cruise, having a capacity of two to more than seventy people in a boat with all modern amenities and vast get together felicity. That may be a big reason to attract the famous companies, banks and some other organizations is being shifted their get together, birthday party, send off meeting and business conference to the peace atmosphere of the floating house boat from the busy structure of town.

According to the taste of the travelers we have classified our house boats in to two categories like standard and Luxury. While forwarding your enquiry to our concerned department, you have to mention the category of house boat which you are looking for. Moreover for the exact conformation you are requested to remit 50% advance of the booking amount to our state bank account. Rest of the amount you can pay while you are here but before the cruise.