Nice place.Comfortably clean rooms, easy walking distance to beach.I can recoomend this guest rooms for everyone.

Greetings to you all, for a long time we wanted to write this letter. We are old travelers through India and over the years found places and met poeple we fell in love with. So we always return there. One of those special places is little family Hotel "Shirley's Beach" in Kovalam-Kerala. Situated only a minute from the beach it... More

My wife and I were lucky enough to stay at Shirley's Beach Hotel for 8 weeks from January until March. The hotel is a budget hotel but has a huge heart with the proprietor Shirley and her son Sambath looking after us better than a mother, pandering to our every need and want. I can only describe the place as... More

Shirley's Beach hotel is great value. Shirley and son Sambath will go the extra mile --Sambath met our 3:45 am flight into Trivandrum--they are also great with advice, tours, etc. The hotel is very simple, but for a budget hotel the location is very convenient to the beach. It is great value in that it is safe, clean, quiet and... More

To be honest I could write pages about my stay with Shirley at her run-down 'hotel' but I think straight to the point sentences would do the job just fine... At 3am one morning after suffering from jet-lag I noticed a torch being shone through our window which our bed was right up against. I panicked and thought that someone... More

I spent five nights at Shirley's guest house. And I was more than happy I had chosen her place at home (internet booking, so you never really know what to expect). One person above wrote about how horrible it was. Well, I suppose he/she had never travelled around in India before! Of course a guest house there is not the... More

We stayed at Shirleys this year and what a excellant reception from staff and Shirley herself. we booked for 1 night but stayed 6 nights intotal, Just off the main promanade and beach a stone throw away. The rooms were spacious, basic and very very clean all in all excellant value for money.

I have just stayed at Shirley's Beach Hotel (the white house) for three weeks and the accommodation is above standard to budget hotels in Kovalam. The 24 hour service is excellent and nothing is too much trouble for them. They wish you to have a happy stay and you are only a few steps from the main Kovalam Beach. An... More

We stayed here for 3 weeks end Nov /begining Dec 2009. OK, so its not the Taj or the Leela, but then it doesn't pretend to be. This is a hotel for people who would rather have an experience of india than an international hotel. The rooms though basic are cleaned every day and adiquate, the beds are hard but... More