Harbour House
East Coast Road, Mahabalipuram
From the airport car straight to room 304.
Check in on the drive, open the door with your phone, and order dinner without calling the desk.
9:41
In-room dining
Kitchen open till 11:30 pm
BreakfastCoastal platesDessertsDrinks
Appam and prawn moilee
Lace appams, prawns in coconut
₹7801
Meen pollichathu
Seer fish roasted in banana leaf
₹9201
Tender coconut panna cotta
Palm jaggery, toasted coconut
₹420Add
Filter coffee
Dabarah set, Chikmagalur beans
₹180Add
2 items · to room 304
₹1,700 · at the door in 25 min
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Key
Dine
Explore
Kavya
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Experiences
Picked for your three days by the coast
Veena on the lawn, 7:30 pm
Free for guests · no booking needed
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Key
Dine
Explore
Kavya
9:41
Good morning, Kavya
Your room is ready from 2 pm today.
Online check-in done
ID verified · key goes live at 2 pm
Arriving 2:30 pm
Airport car · Chennai, 58 km
Mahabalipuram, 31°
Sea calm · breeze 14 km/h · sunset 6:08
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Key
Dine
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Kavya
Harbour House
304
Kavya Raman
Sea view · until Sun 22 Sep, 11 am
Kavya, arriving from Bengaluru on a Thursday
Landed at 11:40 after a red-eye. The drive took 90 minutes. Then the desk took another 21.
21 minstanding at the front desk,
fourth in line, with two bags.
fourth in line, with two bags.
1:10 pm
Passport photocopied
1:16 pm
Two-page form, signed twice
1:24 pm
₹5,000 deposit on a card
1:31 pm
Plastic key coded, finally
Then four calls to reception that evening: towels, the Wi-Fi password, the AC remote, dinner.
The whole stay on one screen, checked in before you land.
Room, dates, reference
What the desk makes you repeat.
Checked in on the drive
No photocopy, no form.
The car knows your flight
Driver waits at gate 4 for AI 540.
9:41
Good morning, Kavya
Your room is ready from 2 pm today.
Online check-in done
ID verified · key goes live at 2 pm
Arriving 2:30 pm
Airport car · Chennai, 58 km
Mahabalipuram, 31°
Sea calm · breeze 14 km/h · sunset 6:08
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Key
Dine
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Kavya
Tap the door. Then set the room the way you like it.
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Room 304
Key live until Sun, 11:00 am
Harbour House
304
Kavya Raman
Sea view · until Sun 22 Sep, 11 am
Hold near the door handle
Also opens the lift and the pool gate
Your roomLights · 3 of 7 on
Arrive
Read
Sunset
Sleep
Cooling
Now 26.8°
Sea-side curtains60% open
ClosedOpen
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Sunset scene
Balcony lamps warm, bedside at 30%, ceiling off. One tap at 6 pm.
Arrive
Read
Sunset
Sleep
23° before you arrive
The AC starts cooling when your car is 10 minutes out.
Cooling
Now 26.8°
HarbourHouse-304
Joined from the key. No password to ask for.
Dinner on the balcony in 25 minutes.
9:41
In-room dining
Kitchen open till 11:30 pm
BreakfastCoastal platesDessertsDrinks
Appam and prawn moilee
Lace appams, prawns in coconut
₹7801
Meen pollichathu
Seer fish roasted in banana leaf
₹9201
Tender coconut panna cotta
Palm jaggery, toasted coconut
₹420Add
Filter coffee
Dabarah set, Chikmagalur beans
₹180Add
2 items · to room 304
₹1,700 · at the door in 25 min
Stay
Key
Dine
Explore
Kavya
Appam and prawn moilee
₹780 · Chef Anand's mother's recipe
Meen pollichathu
₹920 · seer fish from this morning's boats
Sail at sunset, then book the spa for tomorrow.
9:41
Experiences
Picked for your three days by the coast
Veena on the lawn, 7:30 pm
Free for guests · no booking needed
Stay
Key
Dine
Explore
Kavya
9:41
Sunset catamaran
A kattumaram from the fishing cove below the hotel, sailed by Murugan and his son Selvam.
When
Thu 19 Sep, 5:15 pm
How long
90 min, back by 6:45
Meet at
Beach gate, level 0
Included
Tender coconut, jackets
Guests
₹3,200 each, billed to room 304
Sea calm tonight, 0.6 m swell. Free to cancel until 3 pm.
Book 2 seats · ₹6,400
Three experiences, real times, billed to the room.
A key you would want to keep.
Harbour House
304
Kavya Raman
Sea view · until Sun 22 Sep, 11 am
Key-tag grommet
After the brass fobs at the old desk
304, embossed
Lit from the top left, so it reads in a dim corridor
NFC ripple
Shows where to hold the phone to the lock
1. Brass
Nine stops of light, one gradient
2. Brushed
Hairline grain, a soft top light
Harbour House
304
Kavya Raman
Sea view · until Sun 22 Sep, 11 am
3. Struck
304 raised, the ripple engraved
Harbour House
304
Kavya Raman
Sea view · until Sun 22 Sep, 11 am
Your key arrives before you do.
Check in on the drive from the airport. Room 304 opens to your phone from 2 pm.
Harbour HouseA Goat Scale concept
Harbour HouseA Goat Scale concept
21 minutes, or none.
One Thursday arrival at Harbour House, drawn to scale.
At the desk
21 min
With Harbour
None
1:10 pm
Passport photocopied
1:16 pm
Two-page form, signed twice
1:24 pm
₹5,000 deposit on a card
1:31 pm
Plastic key coded, finally
Checked in on the drive
Key goes live at 2 pm
Phone opens room 304
Kavya is upstairs by then.
The 21 minutes are hers, counted from the moment she reached the counter. Harbour takes away the counter, not the welcome.
Harbour HouseDesign system, v1
Sea salt
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Harbour
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Sea
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Sand
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Brass
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Brass light
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Cormorant Garamond
600 · titles, room numbers
Sea-view room 304
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Manrope
400–700 · labels, times, ₹
Thu 19 Sep, 5:15 pm · ₹6,400
Order bar
2 items · to room 304
₹1,700 · at the door in 25 min
Light scenes
Arrive
Read
Sunset
Sleep
Tab bar, a brass rule on the active tab
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Kavya
Stepper and add
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Time slot
Thu 5:15TonightFri 5:15Sat 5:202 left
Icons, 1.6 px line
Motif: the wave line and the arch
Harbour House, East Coast RoadDesigned by Goat Scale