100 Best Resorts and Retreats In India

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• A variety of luxury, mid-range and budget hotels from the choicest tourist destinations (Goa, Kerala, Rajasthan.) and less explored havens (Coorg. Kumaon) across the country
• A snappy 2-line overview in the beginning of each chapter to help you decide if that hotel is for you. Followed by first-hand experiences of our writers as they visit and experience the place
• Descriptions of the accommodation and food arrangements in each hotel
• Detailed information on each hotel: contact numbers, websites emails, how to book your rooms, best seasons to visit, places nearby
• Detailed facilities’ checklists of services available, such as TVs in rooms, room service, in-house restaurant/ ban dining room, spa/ massages, swimming pool, travel assistance, sightseeing arrangements, babysitting, games and so on.
• Information on how to get to your hotel by air, rail or road. Route guides that help you get there.
• I Special indexes to help you pick your hotel: each hotel indexed cost-wise as ‘luxury’, ‘midrange’ or ‘budget’, and category-wise as ‘beach- side’, ‘heritage’, ‘hill retreats’ and morePhotographs to help you make up your mind.

You'll notice we have chosen to not call this book a guide to the best 'hotels' in the country. Those who've made the grade here are worlds away from the impersonal experience of your average hotel. These are 'getaways' with a lot of personality, most run with intelligence. passion, commitment and personal involvement from the owners, who often double up as hands-on managers. Which makes all the difference.

Many of our chosen retreats celebrate their location on beaches, in plantations. or next to forests with such abandon that they feel it meaningless to have TVs in rooms. Some of them are located so away from it all that you might have to do without your mobile signal. Yet others are initiatives of enterprising people who have turned their homes-in delicious corners of Coorg or Himachal or Rajasthan - into home stays where they share their hospitality. Traditional cuisine and ways of life with you.

But we've also got you resorts that cater to every luxury you may want and to the whims of every member of your family. There are dreamy spots for honeymoons, once-in-a-lifetime splurges, or perhaps for that 25th anniversary celebration? The tourism hotspots of the country - Rajasthan. Coa and Kerala - do get a big slice of representation but we've also focussed on the fantastic potential of places like Coorg. Kumaon and the Nilgiris.

With the help of these pages you can go hiking, trekking. rafting. camping, diving, snorkelling, boa ling. house- boating, birdwatching, wildlife-spotting, water-skiing, horse riding. tea plucking .... But. Just as often, you can sink into a couch and get massaged. Lie in a hammock and read books. Sit on the sands and hold hands ... Be warned. You'll become really good at doing nothing.