Family holidays in Kerala
Families travel better with fewer hotel changes and shorter days. We cap most drives at four or five hours, choose hotels with pools and space, and pick activities with a clear start and end.
Age rules matter: some safari zones and high-altitude routes have minimum ages or are simply hard on small children. We check these for your dates and tell you before you book.
Places
Where to go
Houseboats, Kuttanad paddy and the snake-boat races
Lake resorts and bird life on the shore of Vembanad
A fishing village beach between Kochi and the backwaters
Tea estates, cool mornings and the Nilgiri tahr
Periyar's forests, a dammed lake and cardamom hills
Coffee, pepper and elephant forest on the high plateau
Shape your own journey Tell us your dates and what you hope to feel. We draw the route around you. Begin Not sure where to start? We match the land to your month, your pace and the people travelling with you. Begin Talk to a planner A first route and an indicative price within one working day. No payment to start. BeginJourneys
Routes to start from
Experiences
Hours that fit the style
Stays
Where we would book
A working cardamom and coffee plantation at Pothamedu, about 3 km from Munnar town, with cottages and a planter's bungalow set on a hillside facing the …
A CGH Earth resort of thatched cottages among spice gardens on the edge of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, built in the style of the area's tribal …
A CGH Earth resort on the shore of Vembanad Lake, reached only by boat, built from old Kerala wooden houses dismantled and reassembled on the site, …
A large lakeside resort on Vembanad with traditional Kerala-style villas and pool villas along a long winding pool, a respected Ayurveda centre and its own jetty …
A CGH Earth beach resort in coconut groves behind Marari beach, with thatched villas modelled on fishermen's cottages, some with private pools, an organic farm, an …
Shape your own journey Tell us your dates and what you hope to feel. We draw the route around you. Begin Not sure where to start? We match the land to your month, your pace and the people travelling with you. Begin Talk to a planner A first route and an indicative price within one working day. No payment to start. Begin