Club Mahindra Backwater Retreat Ashtamudi is located at Ashtamudi near Kollam, Kerala. It is a network of lakes canals and estuaries opening. The backwaters are a self supporting eco-system teeming with aquatic life. The canals are still used for local transport.

There are almost a dozen of such backwaters in Kerala of which Ashtamudi is the second largest. Ashtamudi means, eight-armed’, after the eight arms of the lake.

Facilities at the Resort are as under:

• Cottage accommodation in Traditional Kerala Cottages

• Multi-cuisine Restaurant (Indian, Chinese and Continental)

• Kerala Ayurvedic Massage  

Access : You can reach from Kollam (Quilon) by car within 30 minutes, or by speedboat within 10 minutes. From the Trivandrum international airport it is 2 ½ hours distant by car; from Cochin, 3 hours. Another possibility is to travel at leisure from Alleppey by ordinary cruising boat or by houseboat.

Distance
Kovalam : 100 kms / Alleppey : 80 kms

Kollam is also visited as a Weekend Getaway ex-Kochi / Trivandrum or as a part of larger Itinerary covering other parts of Kerala.