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For a first Kerala programme that trade is usually the right one.","medium","photo-1596178065887-1198b6148b2b","Palms leaning over the Kerala backwaters",[615,616,617,618],"A first Ayurveda","Couples where one is treating","Beach and treatment together","Shorter stays","Somebody who wants real Ayurvedic treatment without the monastic register — a house where the programme is properly supervised and there is also a beach, a pool and a companion who is not in treatment at all. It is the softest landing on this coast and it is not a compromise on the medicine.","Resident BAMS physicians and a therapist team large enough that the twice-daily treatment schedule holds in high season, which is where lesser houses quietly slip to once a day.",[622,625,628,631],{"name":623,"note":624},"Deluxe room","Garden-facing, in the low blocks around the grounds.",{"name":626,"note":627},"Premium room","Larger, closer to the sea, with a balcony.",{"name":629,"note":630},"Suite","A separate sitting room — the sensible choice when one of two guests is on a full programme and the other is not.",{"name":632,"note":633},"Villa","Private plunge pool and garden, for longer stays and families.",[635,636,637,638,639,640,641],"Dedicated Ayurvedic treatment block","On-site pharmacy","Yoga shala","Swimming pool","Gym","Beach access","Ayurvedic kitchen separate from the à la carte one",[643,646],{"name":644,"note":645},"The Ayurvedic dining room","Prescribed, constitution-specific, and the only food guests on a full programme eat.",{"name":647,"note":648},"The multi-cuisine restaurant","For companions not in treatment. Its existence is exactly why this house suits couples, and guests on a programme do not use it.",[650,651,652,653,654],"Yoga twice daily","Cookery classes","Beach walks","Backwater and Kochi excursions","Kalaripayattu",{"airport":656,"code":657,"transfer":658},"Trivandrum","TRV","Ninety minutes by road, included",{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"slug":125,"name":126,"destinationSlug":6,"area":661,"country":8,"modalities":662,"character":127,"knownFor":663,"why":664,"signature":669,"typicalNights":670,"priceNote":671,"accolades":672,"honest":675,"relationship":128,"confidence":553,"image":676,"imageAlt":677,"gallery":678,"greatFor":685,"whoShouldGo":690,"team":691,"roomTypes":692,"facilities":705,"dining":712,"activities":719,"arrival":725,"destinationName":7,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":727},"Chowara, near Kovalam",[11,12],"The property describes itself as the world’s first Ayurveda hospital run in a resort setting — a claim we attribute rather than assert, since Barberyn in Sri Lanka makes a parallel one — and it is unquestionably among the earliest.",[665,666,667,668],"Founded by the Mathew family in the mid-1980s, long before “wellness resort” was a category. Sources differ on the exact year — the property says 1985, others 1990 — so we give the decade rather than pick one.","Classified by Kerala Tourism under the state Ayurveda scheme, with resident BAMS physicians and an on-site pharmacy rather than bought-in preparations.","A returning European clientele that books the same fortnight year after year — which in this field is worth more than any award shortlist.","Cliff-top gardens above Chowara beach, with the treatment wing separate from the guest rooms — a small thing that changes the tone of a stay considerably.","The classical 14- and 21-night Panchakarma, prescribed on arrival after a physician’s examination and revised every morning.","14–21 nights","Indicative and season-dependent; the property quotes per programme rather than per room. Confirm in writing before committing.",[673,674],"Classified under the Kerala Tourism Ayurveda scheme","Describes itself as the first Ayurveda hospital in a resort setting — the property’s own claim, not an independently established fact","Forty years of operation means forty years of building, and the estate is larger and busier than the boutique houses inland. If you want twelve guests and silence, Palakkad will suit you better; if you want the institution that invented this, it is here.","photo-1602216056096-3b40cc0c9944","Palms over a Kerala backwater channel",[679,682],{"src":680,"alt":681},"photo-1468413253725-0d5181091126","A palm-lined beach on the Kerala coast",{"src":683,"alt":684},"photo-1596040033229-a9821ebd058d","Herbs prepared in the oil kitchen",[686,687,688,689],"Classical Panchakarma","Long stays","Returning guests","Solo travellers","Somebody who wants the medicine and has understood that the medicine is the holiday. Forty years of European guests have come back to the same fortnight here, and the house is built around them rather than around a first-time visitor looking for a resort.","Resident BAMS physicians on site, with an on-site pharmacy compounding preparations rather than buying them in. Therapists work in pairs and are assigned to you for the whole stay rather than rostered daily — which matters more than most guests expect, because the fourth abhyanga with somebody who knows your body is a different treatment from the first.",[693,696,699,702],{"name":694,"note":695},"Garden cottage","Traditional Kerala timber, thatched, in the gardens above the beach. The standard room and the one most programmes are quoted in.",{"name":697,"note":698},"Sea-view cottage","The same construction on the cliff line, with the Arabian Sea in front of it. Worth the supplement for a fortnight; less so for a week you will spend indoors.",{"name":700,"note":701},"Deluxe garden villa","Larger, with a private sit-out. The choice for couples where only one is in treatment.",{"name":703,"note":704},"Heritage house","Transplanted and reassembled Keralan timber houses — the most characterful rooms on the estate and the darkest.",[706,707,708,638,709,710,711],"On-site Ayurvedic pharmacy and oil kitchen","Separate treatment wing, away from the guest rooms","Yoga hall and meditation pavilion","Herb garden used in the preparations","Library and reading room","Direct path down to Chowara beach",[713,716],{"name":714,"note":715},"The main dining hall","Ayurvedic vegetarian, cooked to the constitution the physician assessed on arrival. Your plate is not the next table’s plate and that is the point.",{"name":717,"note":718},"The juice and tea counter","Herbal preparations through the day, prescribed rather than chosen.",[720,721,722,723,724],"Daily yoga and pranayama","Cookery demonstrations","Kathakali evenings","Beach walks at low tide","Backwater excursions on request",{"airport":656,"code":657,"transfer":726},"An hour by road, included",{"amount":16,"currency":17},{"slug":136,"name":137,"destinationSlug":20,"area":729,"country":8,"opened":730,"modalities":731,"character":138,"knownFor":732,"why":733,"signature":738,"typicalNights":605,"priceNote":739,"accolades":740,"honest":744,"relationship":128,"confidence":553,"image":745,"imageAlt":746,"gallery":747,"greatFor":754,"whoShouldGo":759,"team":760,"roomTypes":761,"facilities":781,"dining":790,"activities":797,"arrival":803,"destinationName":21,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":806},"Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal",2000,[11,12],"India’s first destination spa, on the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal’s palace estate above the Ganga valley — and for twenty years the most decorated wellness address in Asia.",[734,735,736,737],"Named the world’s number one destination spa by Condé Nast Traveler readers repeatedly between 2005 and 2020, and by Travel + Leisure in 2008 — a run of recognition no other property in this atlas matches.","Roughly a hundred acres of palace estate at around 1,000 m, with a Viceregal Palace building added in the 1910s and views down the valley to Rishikesh.","It runs genuine programme structures — Ayurveda, yoga, detox, weight, stress — with physicians and a consultation on arrival, rather than a spa menu.","It is the property that made \"wellness\" a luxury category in India, and everything built since has been measured against it.","Programme-based stays of 7 to 21 nights combining Ayurveda, yoga and Vedanta with a Western spa infrastructure.","Among the higher price bands in India, varying widely by season and programme. Indicative only.",[741,742,743],"Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice — world’s No.1 destination spa (2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2019, 2020)","Travel + Leisure — No.1 destination spa (2008)","India’s first destination spa (opened 2000)","It is a luxury hotel that does wellness extremely well, not a clinic. If you want a medically austere Panchakarma with nothing else in it, Palakkad is the more honest answer and costs a good deal less. What Ananda gives you that Palakkad cannot is comfort, a view and a properly run spa — and for many people that is what makes a three-week programme survivable.","photo-1506905925346-21bda4d32df4","Himalayan peaks above a wooded valley",[748,751],{"src":749,"alt":750},"photo-1439853949127-fa647821eba0","A still lake in the foothills",{"src":752,"alt":753},"photo-1447452001602-7090c7ab2db3","A figure holding tree pose at sunrise",[755,756,757,758],"Ayurveda with hotel standards","Yoga and Vedanta","Weight and detox","First-timers who want comfort","Somebody who wants a serious, supervised programme and is not prepared to give up a properly made bed to get it. Ananda is the point where a five-star hotel and an Ayurvedic clinic genuinely meet, and it is the house we send people to when the medicine matters and so does the plumbing.","Ayurvedic physicians, yoga and Vedanta teachers, and a large treatment team across a spa of about 25,000 square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms. Every programme opens with a physician’s consultation and the prescription is revised through the stay.",[762,766,769,772,775,778],{"name":763,"size":764,"note":765},"Deluxe palace-view room","about 45 sqm","In the Maharaja’s palace grounds, looking back at the building.",{"name":767,"size":764,"note":768},"Deluxe valley-view room","The Ganges valley and Rishikesh below. The room most programmes are quoted in and the one to take.",{"name":770,"note":771},"Deluxe suite","A separate sitting room and a larger terrace.",{"name":773,"note":774},"Garden and Ananda suites","The larger categories in the main building.",{"name":776,"note":777},"Viceregal suite","The palace’s grandest room, with the history to match.",{"name":779,"note":780},"Ananda villas","One and two bedrooms with private pools, in the sal forest.",[782,783,784,785,786,787,788,789],"A spa of about 25,000 sq ft with twenty-four treatment rooms","Hydrotherapy pools and thermal suite","Outdoor heated lap pool","Two yoga pavilions","Fitness centre","Six-hole golf course","Meditation pavilions in the sal forest","A hundred acres of estate",[791,794],{"name":792,"note":793},"The Restaurant","Calorie-counted, dosha-appropriate wellness cuisine, with the prescription driving the plate. The kitchen will build to a programme rather than offer a menu.",{"name":795,"note":796},"The Tea Lounge","Himalayan teas and the between-meal preparations, in the old palace drawing room.",[798,799,800,801,721,802],"Yoga, pranayama and Vedanta talks daily","Guided treks in the sal forest","Rafting on the Ganga in season","Ganga aarti at Rishikesh","Golf",{"airport":804,"code":26,"transfer":805},"Dehradun (Jolly Grant)","About an hour by road, included",{"amount":25,"currency":17},1788864741907]