When we arrived at Trivandrum airport, I reckoned there was a 50/50 chance that someone would be waiting to pick us up.
There was no-one.
No problem. Instead we took a prepaid taxi that cost 500 rupees (€7) – half the price that the hotel would have charged us.
We found our run-down looking hotel not far from the taxi drop-off in Kovalam. The Vedante Wake-up is part of a chain of guesthouses in India. We were not too surprised to see there was some confusion about our booking: Clearly they were not expecting us. However, this wasn’t going to be a problem since there happened to be rooms available.
The Lighthouse Beach at Kovalam is a 500-meter strip of restaurants, bars and local shops. The beach itself is divided between a dozen or so hawkers who will rent you 2 beds & umbrella for anything between 100 and 400 rupees for the day (€1.50 – €6).
100 rupees for a 1/2 day – including a bucket of water for your feet
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