Hotel Index
Luxury Hotels Across India
Every real luxury hotel we book, across every region — pick a destination below or see the full spread.
Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Haveli Hari Ganga, Haridwar
★★★★☆
The Haveli was built in 1918 as a private house directly on Har Ki Pauri, and it is still the only hotel with its own private ghat stepping into the Ganges. It is furnished as a haveli rather than a hotel: courtyards, carved wooden balconies, and a rooftop restaurant looking straight down the river toward the aarti ground. Guests can watch the evening aarti from the hotel's own steps rather than from the public crowd along the ghat, and the kitchen is strictly vegetarian and alcohol-free in keeping with the setting. It is a five-minute walk from the main ghat and the temples on either bank.
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand
JW Marriott Mussoorie Walnut Grove Resort & Spa
★★★★★
The JW Marriott sits on its own ridge outside the main town, among old walnut trees, with the Doon valley falling away on one side and, on a clear day, a line of snow peaks on the other. It is built low and spread out rather than stacked, with an indoor pool, a large spa, and several restaurants. The rooms are large by hill-station standards, most with a balcony onto the valley or the forest. It sits a short drive from Mall Road and Camel's Back Road, close enough for an evening walk but away from the town's crowds, which on a busy weekend is most of the point of staying here.
Nainital, Uttarakhand
Naini Retreat
★★★★☆
Naini Retreat was built as a British summer home on the ridge above Naini Lake, and it keeps the manner of one: a pitched slate roof, wood panelling, and a wide terrace that looks straight down over the water and the town. It is run by the Leisure Hotels Group, and the public rooms are furnished with period pieces and old photographs in keeping with the house. There is a small garden and a bar with the same lake view as the terrace. It is a short walk down to Mall Road and the lake, close enough for an evening stroll and far enough to be quiet at night.
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Ananda in the Himalayas
★★★★★
Ananda occupies the former palace estate of the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal, on a forested ridge above the Ganges at Narendra Nagar, about forty minutes from Rishikesh. It opened in 2000 as one of the first destination wellness resorts in India, and it is still the name most associated with the idea here: full-time Ayurvedic physicians, yoga and Vedanta teachers, and a spa built into the hillside with views down the valley. Guests generally come on a set programme — detox, weight management, Ayurvedic rejuvenation, or simple destress — built around consultations, treatments and daily yoga rather than a la carte spa visits. The old viceregal palace building holds the restaurant and library. It is priced and run as a serious wellness retreat, not a resort with a spa attached, and most stays run five nights or more.
Darjeeling, West Bengal
Glenburn Tea Estate
★★★★★
Glenburn is a working tea garden founded in 1859, on a ridge above the Rungeet river with Kanchenjunga filling the horizon on a clear morning. Guests stay in two colonial-era planters' bungalows, the Burra Bungalow and the Water Lily Bungalow, furnished with the family's own antiques rather than as a conventional hotel. All meals are included and taken together, largely from the estate's own garden and dairy. The point of a stay is the garden itself: a walk through the tea rows with the manager, a visit to the factory where the leaf is still processed by hand in stages, and a tasting of the estate's own first and second flush teas. There is also a riverside camp lower down at the Rungeet for a change of scene. It is a genuine working-estate stay, not a resort built to look like one, and it runs on a full-board, few-rooms basis.
Kalimpong, West Bengal
Elgin Silver Oaks, Kalimpong
★★★★☆
Silver Oaks is a colonial-era cottage hotel set in its own gardens on Rinkingpong Road, one of Kalimpong's older addresses. It is run by the Elgin group, which keeps a small collection of heritage hill hotels across Darjeeling and Sikkim, and the house style carries through here: low, slate-roofed buildings, open fires, and gardens planted with the region's orchids and cacti, a nod to Kalimpong's nursery trade. It is quiet and unhurried, a short walk from Kalimpong's small Mall and the Durpin monastery road, and it suits a two-night stop rather than a longer base.
Kolkata, West Bengal
The Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
★★★★★
The Oberoi Grand has stood on Chowringhee since 1892, and it is still known locally as the Grand Dame of the city. It is a white colonial building around a courtyard pool and garden, with high-ceilinged public rooms, chandeliers and a long colonnaded verandah facing the street. It has hosted a long list of visiting royalty, writers and film stars over more than a century, and the hotel keeps that history visible in its corridors and its restaurants. It sits in the heart of the old business district, close to New Market and Park Street, and it remains the address most associated with grand Kolkata hospitality.
Sundarbans, West Bengal
Sundarban Tiger Camp
★★★☆☆
Sundarban Tiger Camp sits on the edge of the delta at Dayapur, reached by road from Kolkata to Godkhali and then a short boat crossing. It is a cluster of cottages and huts around a garden, built in local style with mud-and-thatch detailing, simple by design rather than luxurious, since the reserve itself is the draw. Meals are Bengali home-style, largely fish and rice, taken together in a central dining hut. The camp runs its own permitted boat safaris into the reserve's waterways with a naturalist and an armed forest-department guard, as required inside the core zone, along with village and birdwatching boat trips outside it. It is the most established of the Sundarbans lodges, and the standard base for a multi-day visit.
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