The Woods Manor, Cochin

The Woods Manor is located on the main M.G Road with the airport being 32 kilometres away, south Ernakulam Rail Junction about 0.5 kilometre away and the KTDC bus stop just a kilometer away.

The Woods Manor is a tall yellow building in the bustling M.G Road. A spacious lobby greets you as you enter with the reception located at the far end of the lobby. The lobby is covered with sofas clustered into sets and an artificial waterfall on one side. The waterfall is surrounded with plants and shrubs adding charm to the whole place. You can even see the restaurant bulging like a balcony from the first floor standing in the lobby.

Hotel Facilities
Living up to the tradition of Kerala, the place has an Ayurvedic massage centre as well with collaboration with one of the renowned ayurvedic Kerala hospitals in Cochin. Also open to outsiders, the rejuvenation massages and treatments offered here have found quite a few regular clients. After the massage, you can head straight to the terrace for a swim. Yes, the hotel has a beautiful 5 feet deep swimming pool on the roof top overlooking most of the skyscrapers in Ernakulam. Besides all these, a recreation club and a gymnasium are in the making here. The in house facilities include 24 hours room service, housekeeping service, laundry service, business centre and Wi-Fi internet facilities @ Rs. 120/- per hour, handicap accessibility, basement car parking, foreign exchange counter, mobile phones on request, travel desk, safety deposit lockers, elevators, doctor on call and 24 hours check in and check out.

Room Amenities
With a total of 57 rooms, the Woods Manor is divided into 37 Deluxe rooms, 12 Kerala rooms, 4 Deluxe Suites and 4 Kerala Suites. All the rooms here have a distinct air of a very relaxed atmosphere. The room structure, light and decor are very homely and the furniture further accentuates that. The Deluxe room is a compact room with wooden flooring and basic amenities like satellite television, study table, mirror on the wall, telephone, cupboard, luggage rack, mini bar in some rooms, and an attached window seating area. The washroom is compact too, with a small bathtub, running hot and cold water, telephone, bubble bath, shampoo and a shower cap. The Deluxe Suite is bigger with a separate living room and bedroom. The rectangle living room houses the sofa unit, satellite television, writing table and chair, mini bar and phone. The bedroom is a bigger room with two sofa chairs, double bed, phone, cupboard, dressing table, satellite television and a luggage rack. The bathroom is compact but clean and non-smelly with a bathtub and running hot and cold water, and amenities like soap, shampoo, shower cap, linen etc. The Kerala Suite is carpeted and as the name suggests, is done in traditional Kerala decor. The cane sofa, bed and tables and chair complement each other and are a stark reminder that you in God's very own country! The drawing room has a quaint writing table and dressing table, a cabinet with a mini bar inside it and a cane sofa unit. The bathroom is compact with a bathtub and running hot and cold water and the same amenities as the Deluxe Suite. The Kerala room is much like the Deluxe room except that the decor and furniture here is done in the traditional Kerala style. To give a deeper Kerala impact, this room has a intricately decorated wooden plank on the ceiling, along with the cane styled beds and chairs. The bathroom is compact with the same amenities as in a Deluxe room.

Dining
The hotel has a multi cuisine restaurant on the first floor with a seating capacity of 56 persons. The restaurant is packed with tables and chairs and the ambience may not appeal to some. But ardent food lovers just find their way back into the restaurant again and again for the variety of cuisines offered here. With a buffet breakfast and lunch and a la carte dinner on the menu, the place provides value for money. To add to all the jazz, a live band performs on every weekend, while Thursday and Friday nights are reserved for ghazal lovers. The hotel also has a light bite Coffee Shop as well next to the lobby. This alfresco eating joint serves sandwiches, toasts, fish and chips along with coffee, tea and milkshakes etc.

Internet: Available | Parking Facility: Available

Check-in Time: 12 Noon | Check-out Time: 12 Noon

Conference & Banquet Halls
The lobby level houses Aster, a small banquet hall for around 100 persons. On the upper floor lies another hall that can accommodate 250 persons in theatre style. Both the halls are well facilitated with secretarial services that can be used for formal and informal gatherings. Besides these halls, there is a Board room as well for 15 persons.