pakdoktergolfblog: Brunton Boatyard Hotel.......

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Brunton Boatyard Hotel.......

Friday, 22nd January 2010

Walking the streets of Fort Kochi, pakdokter came across the Brunton Boatyard Hotel, the alternative hotel we had considered should we fail to secure rooms at the Malabar House. Having walked the streets of Fort Kochi the whole morning, and feeling somewhat tired, thirsty and a little hungry, pakdokter decided to visit the hotel and check out its restaurant.

Located on the seafront, by the ferry terminal to an island across the port, the hotel has 27 rooms ( or maybe 47 rooms if pakdokter remembers right). Another old establishement it has the feel of our own E&O Hotel in Penang, albeit on a smaller scale.

The reception directed pakdokter to the sea-front garden restaurant for lunch and to reach it pakdokter had to go through its Taj Bar, a lovely bar reminiscent of the many bars of Edinburgh.

It was nice to have a bottle of ice-cold Kingfisher to soothe the fried, spicy, curried fresh and tender calamari rings, under the breeze of the sea witnessing the ferry transporting cars and passengers come and go every 15 minutes or so from the island to the mainland and vice versa. Most of the other ( all of whom were Mat Sallehs) people at lunch look like the type who came out of cruise liners. Many were senior citizens, couples with stiff upper lip British ascents.

In past lives, pakdokter must have been a 'spoilt' prince of the local 'Raj', returning to witness what has become of the Empire.......!

the Brunton Boatyard Hotel, viewed from the tourist pier...