Ayurveda · Soma Palmshore · Kerala
Slimming Programme
Soma Palmshore’s slimming package — herbal powder and oil massages, steam baths and a special diet — for 21 or 28 nights.
What this actually is
The programme
- Accommodation in a sea-facing room of the category booked
- Ayurveda treatments as per the package
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full board
- Daily yoga and meditation, complimentary
The Slimming Programme is package 2 at Soma Palmshore, sold at 21 or 28 nights with accommodation, Ayurveda treatments as per the package and Ayurvedic vegetarian full board, per its 2026–27 tariff.
The Somatheeram group describes it as two daily massages, with medicated herbal powder and with medicated herbal oil, plus a medicated steam bath, herbal juices and herbal tea, and a special Ayurvedic diet throughout the stay.
Is this your kind of stay?
Who it suits — and who it doesn’t
Travel-planning guidance. Medical suitability is for your own doctor and the qualified team at the property.
Consider this if
- Guests with three or four weeks to give it
Consider another option if
- Anyone wanting a strictly hospital-first regime — the package tariff does not set out daily doctor’s consultations
Price & inclusions
What it costs, and what is in it
21 nights, sharing a Sea Facing A/C Standard room
The price includes: Accommodation, the slimming programme’s Ayurveda treatments and Ayurvedic vegetarian full board.
Counted, so you can compare
- 21nights
It also sells a 28-night package.
- 2massages a day
With medicated herbal powder and with medicated herbal oil, as the group describes the programme.
Included
- Accommodation in a sea-facing room of the category booked
- Ayurveda treatments as per the package
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full board
- Daily yoga and meditation, complimentary
- Airport transfers from Trivandrum, complimentary
- Interpreters for German, Italian, French and Russian, complimentary
Not included
- Christmas and New Year gala dinners, mandatory at €30 and €40 per person
Cancellation. Every property sets its own terms, and they change. Your written quote includes the current property and travel-supplier conditions before you confirm anything.
Where you stay
Soma Palmshore
The Somatheeram group’s house at Kovalam itself, on the cliffs along Lighthouse Road: three categories of sea-facing rooms, with Ayurveda packages from seven nights or a room on breakfast.
Worth knowing: It is a beach resort with an Ayurveda hospital rather than a hospital first: the package tariff lists treatment, Ayurvedic full board and complimentary yoga, but not the daily doctor’s consultations its sister houses spell out. Stays from November to February must be paid in full, and Christmas and New Year gala dinners are mandatory.
The full profileWho looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
Teams are described by role and qualification rather than by name, because staffing changes. The property confirms the current team and how practitioners are assigned before or on arrival.
- Clinical supervision
- The tariff lists an Ayurveda hospital and a doctor on call among the amenities; it does not set out a consultation schedule for its packages.
- The team around you
- The tariff does not publish staff numbers.
- Consultations
- Not set out in the package tariff; we confirm the schedule with the house before you book.
Make a trip of it
Before, during and after your 21 nights
The excursions and extra stays we arrange in Kerala, placed by when to take each — a good day out on the wrong day of a treatment course is not a good day out.
Before you begin
Arrive early — see the country while you are fresh
Extra stay · 3 nights
Kochi & the backwaters
The obvious and correct opener: fort Kochi, a barge night, and an unhurried arrival into the time zone before anyone takes your pulse.
Nature · Overnight, or a half day
A night on the backwaters
A converted rice barge from Alleppey through the Kuttanad channels. The overnight is worth it; the three-hour version is a queue of identical boats.
Culture · Full day
Fort Kochi and Mattancherry
The Chinese fishing nets, the Paradesi synagogue, the Dutch Palace murals and a spice-market walk. Five hundred years of Portuguese, Dutch and Jewish Kochi in one walkable afternoon.
During the stay
Light enough for a rest day or a free afternoon
Slimming Programme · 21 nights at Soma PalmshoreCulture · 3 hours
Kathakali, properly
Arrive an hour early to watch the make-up go on — it is the better half. Ask us for the Kochi hall that still plays to Malayali audiences rather than the tourist matinée.
Culture · 2 hours
The oil kitchen and the pharmacy
At the houses that still compound their own preparations, ask to be shown the room. Most will say yes and few guests think to ask. It is the single most convincing hour of the fortnight.
After you finish
The reward, once the treatment is done
Extra stay · 5 nights
The Golden Triangle
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur on the way home. Long flights internally and worth every one of them if it is a first trip to India.
Extra stay · 4 nights
Tamil Nadu temples
Madurai, Thanjavur and Chettinad — the living Dravidian south, three hours east and a different civilisation.
Nature · Full day, or two nights
A tea estate day in Munnar
Four hours up from Kochi into the Western Ghats at 1,600 m. Genuinely cold, entirely different country. Too far and too long for a treatment rest day — take it before or after.
Nature · Two nights
Periyar, for the elephants
A tiger reserve where you will not see a tiger and will see elephant, gaur and hornbill. A boat on the lake at dawn is the version worth doing.
Begin with a conversation
Plan your 21 nights at Soma Palmshore
Tell us your dates and who is travelling. A specialist comes back with a written quote for the stay, the treatments, the flights and the transfers.
- 1
Share your plan
Two minutes: when you would like to start, how long, your nationality and your WhatsApp number.
- 2
Talk it through
A wellness travel specialist picks it up on WhatsApp or a free call — length, room, season, and whether this is the right house for you.
- 3
Your written quote
Room, dates, treatments, flights and transfers in one quote, with the current cancellation terms.
- 4
Confirm when ready
Nothing is paid until you confirm in writing. One team then looks after the whole journey.