Rudra - Houseboats In Kumarakom - Houseboat rental service in Kumarakom - Kottayam, India

Yesterday we had a trip booked with RUDRA and changed to Rajahansam on capacity reasons. The trip was ended in a worst experience to all of us. There were no flush working in one bath room when complained response was poor and they were trying blame us for damaging the flush. No table fans were working & foot step plywoods were damaged to cause an accident. All these are adequate reason spoil a picnic mood. But most terrifying was the behavior of the boat driver. Not at all friendly really arrogant.He was always in fighting mood. This one man made black mark in evryone's mind. We hope Rudra will correct these mistake for their future buiness

Terrible experience...... Recently we had booked a house boat unfortunately they provided another boat because we had 49 family members. The boat's name was " Rajahamsam" the boat did not have good fitnes and the driver's behaviour was bad and terror (his name vaishak)! the driver spoiled our memorable moments. He has a criminal mentality and he is shouting against the passengers. He is very irritating and spoiled our day. We have travelled alot all over India but first time we face such a bad experience.

Had booked 1bedroom houseboat. It was initially good ,the ride the food were excellent. Room maintainence wasn't even satisfactory... everywhere lizards and cockroaches...had booked for 3 adults with extra bed but was told it was a floorbed only at night which was unacceptable. The caretaker was good.and managed it like one man army (Mr.Rajesh). It was once a experience but could have been better. Suggest the team Rudra to.impeove on hygine and interiors.

We were 2 adults and a 4 year old kid. We had one of the memorable experiences. We had gone with a mindset that experiencing nature its truest form might not be an indulgence with a luxury but an experience of a different kind. However in this rawness the staff did maintain a good level of comfort. Vineet the chef and caretaker is an amazing person and did his duty well and also helped customise few food options for our kid. He surely needs to be appreciated for the good food (we had vegetarian) & was assertive and quite co-operative. Rajesh the boat driver was good and navigated quite well in uncharted areas. One point of improvement can be to explain to the relevance of few points to the customers, overall it was a memorable experience

Room is full of crawling/flying insects. AC was dripping water, constant cooling was not coming through. Very shitt drainage smell coming from one of room/ diesel smell make you feel vomitted. Under the bed full of cobwebs and insects. Here i am giving you 1 star is for cook Vineeth, who did his job well.

Pathetic experience on Rudra boat-1 We booked a single occupancy bedroom boat which was unhygienic Lizards in bathroom as well as bedroom. Small insects on towels. Except this food was good .

Good crew in general. Very responsive and good hospitality. Bathrooms not so clean. AC inside bedroom started dripping in the evening and wasn't fixed. Wouldn't open an empty room to replace the one I'm staying at. Had the guts to ask for tips at the end of the trip after that incident.

Overall an awesome and Wonderful experience, we had fun with family. We had booked 2 bedroom houseboat for group of 5 with a small child. The journey started at around 11.30. They have very good staff, the helpdesk lady called us multiple times in morning to guide us to the location of boat. We stayed on the boat till morning. schedule was : welcome drink once the boat starts off, lunch(boat stopped for lunch in the lake), evening tea and snacks(payyamburi), boat halts at a location for evening till morning, dinner and boat moves back to starting point, breakfast, then Deboarding. The staff on the boat( driver, cook and one more person) wer very courteous and polite. They guide you and tell you fascinating stories about the place. Loved their hospitality. Food: It was awesome, but if you are from North, pls do ask the chef to use Kashmiri chilly instead of the red hot chilly, even after more than a month since our trip,we still remember spicy dinner Tip: pls ask for the duck mappas, the best that we had there(we paid additional of 500 for buying duck) . Also pls carry mosquito repellent and own snacks if you are travelling with child.