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| Accommodation
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all the cottages vary in configuration, and some
of the air-conditioned units are newly built replicas
incorporating only fragments of old tharawads
that could not be saved in their entirety, Coconut
Lagoon offers three basic types of accommodation:
Heritage Mansions, Heritage Bungalows and Private
pool villas. The former have two stories, the
upstairs bedroom gallery offering particularly
magnificent views of Lake Vembanad. The latter
are more compact, single-level cottages. Both
are furnished in aiyny and jack woods, and retain
all the charm of original family homes, with thick,
solid doors, intricate window carvings, and terra
cotta tile floors.
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| Restaurants |
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| Cited
in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning best-seller,
"The God of Small Things," the restaurant
at Coconut Lagoon is renowned as much for its
superb Keralan cuisine (vegetarian and non-vegetarian
alike) as for its authentic setting, and is housed
in one of the resort's most impressive tharawads.
Known as an ettukettu, the building incorporates
two atrium- like courtyards under an expansive
tile roof supported by dozens of slim columns,
a design that enables the space within to benefit
from the slightest breeze. The restaurant is the
oldest structure at Coconut Lagoon, and it, too,
formerly belonged to a prominent Malayali family
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