Abad Turtle Beach

This is a lovely, family-friendly resort with delicious, fresh-cooked meals and attentive service. You stay at individual cottages tucked throughout well-tended gardens, dotted with fountains, fish ponds and a swimming pool, with patches of jungle throughout. Highlights include: -the gardeners who so carefully tend to the butterfly garden (which was full of butterflies) and the large organic vegetable and fruit garden -security guard royce who gave us an impromptu tour of the beach when we tried to access it via the resort's beach path after dark. He explained that the gate to the beach is carefully locked late in the evening (well after sunset) until dawn, to keep the beachside dogs from making mischief. So, he escored us to the shore himself, to keep us safe while we took a brief look at the stars and the twinkling lights of the fishing boats, moored on the sand. He explained the boats would go out around midnight to fish all night - an ayurveda clinic tucked away at the edge of the lush, bird-filled jungle-like setting - an evening buffet with tandoori that surpassed the meals we had at a 5-star resort the night before, and an equally lovely breakfast buffet with omelette station - a tree in our indoor shower atrium, and comfy, rose-petal strewn beds (one twin and one queen as requested) when we arrived. One small hiccup happened at checkout when the harried manager had forgotten to book us our 1030am cab to reach our alleppey houseboat (and the whole Abad Turtle Beach was checking out at the same time and the area is a bit remote, so make sure to give him an early-morning reminder. The lovely guy seems to be perpetually on duty, 12+ hours a day, 24/7, with a fairly full Abad Turtle Beach of guests so. Cut him some slack!

I wanted to give a 5 star but i believe there is a lot of scope of improvement with the food. The food quality was not great. Dinner buffet lacked the taste and don’t find worth the price charged. Breakfast was comparatively little better but not upto the mark. Else, this property is peaceful enough right at the beach. Totally enjoyed the beach and pool. Cottages are far and they should arrange cart bogie specially for senior people for easy movement. The resort itself is very big in space and have different vegetables plantations inside and a butterfly garden. They have open washroom concept. Rooms are spacious and can easily accommodate 3 people. Evening tea and coffee with snacks is a complimentary service which they provide and tasted really good. I would like to revisit only for the beach which was really clean and enjoyable.

The resort is at an excellent location, very easy to reach. The property is pretty huge and well maintained. Staff very courteous. The rooms, bathrooms and all the amenities were great. The cottages open to a backyard garden. Amazing place to spend a quiet afternoon reading the book and listening to waves of the beach. Private access to the beach the whole day from 7 am to 7 pm truly helped us to build memories lasting forever. The swimming pool is also well maintained and hygienic. Toilets are bit away from the pool. And no changing rooms present near the pool. The food was top notch. We were very much pleased to have delicious vegetarian food from a wide spread menu. Our daughter enjoyed at the kids play area. The swing tied to the tall tree was icing on the cake for her.

From the check in to check out, every single thing was amazing. Amble parking space, friendly reception staff, welcome drink, buggy service. The room was near and clean. The bed was decorated with rose petals and leaves. Fruit basket, drinking water, toiletries, dental kit, swimming pool towels. We got a room near the garden and they have a wide variety of flowers. Also the property has a lot of trees and we can see different varieties. The beach is at a walkable distance. It is clean and safe and life guard and security are also available. All together a fine experience.

Location is excellent. The entire premises is well maintained. Lot of open space, greenery, organic gardens, hammocks, buggy (vehicle) to take you around. Private beach (I heard it is only to the Abad Turtle Beach customers) very well maintained. Food was good. Rooms were neat and spacious, with open-to-sky bathroom. Overall we had a great time at the resort. My daughters birthday celebration was celebrated on the beach-side at sun-set and the Abad Turtle Beach staff were nice enough to put in the little things required for the birthday celebration at the beach.

Awesome location, butterfly garden, organic farm. BeSt part was feeling of nature paradise with lush green surroundings, greenery. Well maintained pool, beautiful and clean beach. Superb staff, everyone greets you with the smile and ready to help anytime. Only con I couldn't proper area for the kids where they can play with some slides and swings. They can improve upon it and it will be perfect resort. Would also like to add that pricing is perfect which gives you sense of value for money. I am really looking forward to visit again it in future.

The Abad Turtle Beach has gardens all around the property is full of cottages. The staff was very polite and good behaviour towards customers. The interior of the cottage was designed very old like a small cottage fitted with aircon. The food was good. And will get sea food as per order. The cottage is near beach. The beach is very clean and not crowd y, the kids will enjoy very much. The experience was very good. The staff was very concern about their customers. There was vegetables garden, cows, swans etc inside the Abad Turtle Beach.

The abad property is rightly located with an awesome private beach. Food was good, like homemade. The complementary breakfast was yummm!the rooms are nice, they could do with a clothes line/a drying rack for drying wet clothes. The pool was heated in the evenings and was perfect!the extra activities like tt (broken table needs replacement, badminton corks(broke off easily)can be taken care of. The employees were polite, always pleasant and needs special mention. Overall, a perfect place if you are a waterbaby or wants to relax.

It’s was simply amazing staff was good property is located right next to marari beach couldn’t have asked for more to stay

The location was great with the beach so close by and the feel of the property was great and good ayurweda treatments.

Excellent Abad Turtle Beach with all amenities, beach nearby, bicycle riding, good swimming pool. Good place to stay. Clean beach with golden sand. Children enjoy playing on sand. Good food. Stay at Abad is value for money. Strongly recommended for family.

Resort is good (private beach access), with excellent food. Ideal for weekend trip with family

Location is near to beach is wonderful experience as we get private beach access and food was also good

Short stay but the ambience service and food is 5-star standard. They probably are not rated 5-star just because there is no bar.

Booked Abad Turtle Beach for 2 days, they had provided fruits basket in Abad Turtle Beach room. Room is very spacious, ventilated and beautiful for a honeymoon couple. There was hammock outside your room and direct beach view and access to go directly to beach. Food quality is very good for both veg and non vegetarian. Great hospitality.

Good place & great ambience, we had a nice stay in beach side villa.

Fantastic, in a lap of nature, located right on the marari beach, staff was well-mannered and disciplined. Buffet spread was great and the restaurant had various alleppey cuisine which were just superb. Overall had great experience.

Well mannered staff with a great weekend getaway experience

The resort was amazing. It was like walking into old style traditional houses with luxury, the entire ambience feels like a world on its own. The breakfast was windblown with a huge spread and the dinner was good too. Swimming pool was great, the water was super clean. Kids loved it. Flowers, birds and coconut trees is all that you see when you swim in complete silence. Only disappointing thing was booking a Beach Villa thinking I will have a view of the Beach but no.. It's just close to the beach than other villas.

Great service by staff. They treated us very well. Only problem was mosquitoes inside the room. Even after using repellents was not able to sleep. Rest all was good. They even arranged complimentary birthday cake for my dad.