With 43 properties, one in Innsbruck, two in Thailand, one in Dubai, and the rest throughout India, Club Mahindra provides a kind of vacation ownership, largely for an Indian clientele, of pre-bought, one-week stays for 25 years (!) at a range of extraordinary resorts with an emphasis on family activities. Although we are not Indian, had not purchased any kind of “ownership,” and were traveling without any other family members, founder Arun Nanda had arranged for us to “experience India” (as he put it) first hand beginning with a flight out of Mumbai to the ancient coastal city of Cochin in the state of Kerala, a narrow sliver of land at the southwest tip of India bordering on the Indian Ocean and the Malabar Coast...  

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