New Opening: Port Muziris Kochi

THE RECENTLY OPENED Port Muziris, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel in Kerala's Kochi is primarily looking to capture the imagination of hipsters and business travellers alike. And as we take a stroll around the property, we view everything from F&B outlets to guestrooms through the lens of Lila, a fictional character from Kerala whose story held us from the beginning until the end.

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A quick five-minute ride from the Cochin International Airport, the property is Marriott International’s first Tribute Portfolio Hotel in South Asia. The purpose of the hotel is to give travellers a pleasant start to their journey in Kerala, which is also the hotel’s tagline “Your Kerala starts here”.

The welcome, as expected, was in traditional Kerala-style. We were presented with a stole (a cloth resembling Kerala’s