Real people, real boats, real Alleppey.

Alleppey has always drawn travellers to its palm-lined canals and slow, golden evenings on the water. But for years, booking a houseboat meant going through layers of agents and websites — each adding a markup, none of them actually there when your cruise began.

We started Book Your Houseboat to change that. As a local team living and working on these backwaters, we could offer something the big portals couldn't: direct owner pricing, boats we've personally inspected, and a real person waiting at the jetty to welcome every guest.

Five years and thousands of happy families later, that's still exactly how we work. We've grown to a network of 100+ verified houseboats across every category, and we own and operate our own premium flagship — the Grand Nirvana — but the promise hasn't changed: when you book with us, you're booking with Alleppey itself.