Best Luxury Lodges & Beach Resorts In India

From guest houses in the Himalayas, heritage hotel properties in Rajasthan, niche hotels in the cities and beach resorts in Goa, to jungle lodges in southwest India, India offers a vast infrastructure of accommodations for all kinds of travelers.

It was Rajasthan that started the trend of converting ancient forts, palaces and historic havelis into lavish upmarket resorts in India for overseas visitors. Brimming with olde-world character, they deliver a quintessentially Indian experience, with turbaned bellboys and vintage vehicles adding to the exotic colonial-era ambience. Other Indian states were quick to get in on the act, and nowadays you can stay in Portuguese palacios in Goa, atmospheric former hunting lodges in the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, colonial stilted tea bungalows in Darjeeling, and wooden, gabled-roofed ancestral homes in Kerala, which all allow you to gain a true insight into life in rural India.