Homestays in India

Homestays in India is an excellent choice for accommodation if you wish to experience India at its incredible best, a homestay offers you the chance to live and dine with a local family. Homestays in India are so much more than the mere overnight stay; they let you experience a range of activities which bring out the best of Indian culture, introducing you to its beauty in more ways than one.

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One of the best places to choose a homestay hospitality tour is Kerala, with many homestays offering backwater trips with a local family or cultural interactions in fishing villages. Rajasthan offers an entirely different experience in the form of camel walks, safari tours, and countryside drives. Staying in spice gardens, tea plantations or hillside bungalows introduces you to a range of treks and activities, all with a local family acting as your host.

Delicious food and decent comfort are apparent and what these homestays pride themselves on is offering the chance to discover the ‘real India,’ the country seen through the eyes of its locals. You can expect individual attention and engaging conversations with your hosts and also look forward to hearing stories, tales, and local folklore.

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Agra, Uttar Pradesh – Coral Court Homestay

Are you looking for a homestay in Agra, a good choice would be to choose Coral Court homestay, it’s close to The Taj Mahal and situated in lush green surroundings. You will love the location, ambience, neighbourhood, outdoor space, the local people and culture. This tasteful Homestay is a creation of the owner, and his wife Beena Talan with her great sense of aesthetics, choice of colours and space creation has given shape to a gem of a Homestay.

Agra, Uttar Pradesh – The Coral Tree Homestay

Vandna & Gopal Singh take immense pleasure in having you at their Newly Opened bungalow style homestay, The Coral Tree is situated in lush green surroundings, hardly a 6 minutes walk from the Taj Mahal. Wake up to birds singing each morning in the eclectic garden. A very safe environment for ladies travelling on their own. Highly recommended by Mystic India, one of our favourite stays in Agra due to its style, location and service.

Alappuzha, Kerala – Taamara Homestay

Taamara is lovely homestay located right on the water’s edge. Two over-water cottages offer luxury accommodation, while the home-cooked meals provide an unforgettable backwater experience. As you drive into the home’s premises, you’re welcomed by a lotus pond in full bloom and its smiling owners, waiting with a pink lotus to gift you. Taamara is the 100-year-old home of Mr Babu, an award-winning filmmaker and his gracious wife, Nirmala.

Alappuzha, Kerala – Vembanad House Homestay

A stunning Kerala-style home embraced by water on three sides, this 10-acre property with four rooms is perfect for families. Open-air meals in the gazebo by the lake and yoga classes are just two memorable experiences at this luxury home. When describing the home of the Balakrishnans, the word “stunning” seems like an understatement. The homestay is so idyllic that it might be considered the capital of God’s own country.

Banni Village, Gujarat – Shaam E Sarhad Village Resort

The Hodka Endogenous Tourism seeks to promote Local Culture and Craft based Tourism for Sustainable Livelihoods and integrated rural development. Imagine an authentic and charming retreat complemented by the unique experience of being hosted by the local community and the richness of culture that awaits you here.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu – Frangi House

Frangi House, a charming and peaceful guesthouse in the heart of bustling Chennai. High-quality guest accommodation, located in the poshest and quiet centre of town, near the British Consulate in Nungambakkam. Frangi House offers a good location, great prices, and excellent value.

Coonoor, Tamil Nadu – Acres Wild Farm Homestay

Acres Wild is our 22 acre, family-run organic cheesemaking farm and farm stay (Homestay with Bed and Breakfast) in Coonoortown (altitude 6000 ft). Our goal at Acres Wild farm is to shape an eco-friendly, holistic and self-sustaining lifestyle, grow our own food organically and share this experience with visitors to our farm stay.

Coorg, Karnataka – Casa Coorg Homestay

Casa Coorg Homestay is nestled in a coffee estate in one of the lush green valleys of Coorg. Coorg is a hilly district in the Western ghats in south-western Karnataka and is blessed with an abundance of Nature’s bounties. Misty hills, meandering streams, thick tropical jungles and verdant coffee estates make this inexpressibly beautiful land one of the biodiversity hotspots in the entire world. The variety of flora and fauna, make it a nature lover’s Paradise.

Delhi – Colonels Retreat

Colonel’s Retreat Delhi has been lovingly created by people who are frequent global travellers themselves and who take pride in maintaining the highest world-class standards of hospitality. All rooms are air-conditioned rooms with cable TV, refrigerator, free wi-fi, electronic safe. Attached baths, with hot and cold running water.

Dibrugarh, Assam – Mancotta Chang Bungalow

Mancotta Chang Bungalow is located in the middle of Mancotta Tea Estate, just outside Dibrugarh, 5km from railway station; 15km from the airport. This 157-year-old bungalow was built by British tea planters offering six double rooms with wooden floors, king size beds all with ensuite facilities. The accommodation also offers facilities like Laundry, shoe shine, complimentary newspaper and food with cuisine varying from traditional Assamese cuisine, Indian, continental to oriental.

Jaipur, Rajasthan – Barwara Kothi

Barwara Kothi is a colonial villa with the building dating back to the early 20th century. Inspired by Lutyens Delhi, it has a distinct ‘Raj’ feel to it and is spread over 2000 sq. yards. The ‘kothi’ was the residence in Jaipur of the Barwara Royal Family. The royal family of Barwara, Heritage properties in Jaipur, family run heritage property Jaipur, family run heritage property

Jaipur, Rajasthan – The Farm

The Farm Jaipur is a luxury homestay located on the outskirts of the city. A modern homestay with individually styled rooms. Five rooms and two suites which have dip pools. The owners are artists that love travelling and have incorporated their love of discovering new areas into the unique design of their home.

Jorhat, Assam – Thengal Manor

Amidst the typically Assamese village of Jalukonibari, stands the 72-year-old Thengal Manor in Jorhat. Thengal offers you the unique pleasure of gracious living in the lap of nature. Plush suites of single and double bedrooms with baths and dressing rooms attached. Also, there is a sitting room, dining room, lounge, kitchen and pantry.

Kodikulam, Kerala – Dewalokam Homestay

A stay at Dewalokam is a truly unique way to relax and unwind in our peaceful and unspoilt heaven. Enjoy our home grown produce freshly cooked as you sample gourmet traditional Keralan food and join the professional chefs in our state-of-the-art kitchen in informal learn-to-cook sessions.

Kurseong, West Bengal – Cochrane Place

Discover tranquillity in Kurseong, which in Lepcha means ‘the Land of White Orchids’, referring to the small white orchid prolific here. Often you can look down on the cloud below. It seems like the sea, stretching for miles, filling the valleys and the peaks. Ranges rise out of it like islands and peninsulas.

Palampur, Himachal Pradesh – The Lodge at Wah

Best Homestay in Palampur we recommend The Lodge at Wah, an eight bedroom property based on the largest working tea estate in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh in India. The property is 100% eco-friendly, and the materials used in its construction are wood, stone, slate and mud. Only 40 minutes from the world-famous site of Bir-Billing for paragliding, we are perfectly situated to enjoy the tourism in the area and yet remain in a tranquil part of the Kangra region.

Samthar, West Bengal – Samthar Farmhouse

The Samthar Farm House has been created by converting an abandoned Lepcha tribal farmhouse into a comfortable country residence, whilst preserving its natural stone and old timber construction. The house nestles in a clump of pines, with a terraced nature garden rising to the rocky outcrop at the top of the hill. The natural landscape has been retained.

Udaipur, Rajasthan – Pahuna Haveli Heritage Homestay

Pahuna Haveli is built in the Mewar style of architecture surrounded by beautiful, lush gardens; a source of pride for Hemant Kumari. Hanwant Singh, son of Brigadier Jaswant Singh worked for many years in the tea plantations of NE India & the coffee plantations of the South. On his retirement, he and his wife Hemant Kumari returned to live in Udaipur at Pahuna Haveli.

Varapuzha, Kerala – Teak House Homestay

Teak House is a home-stay for the discerning traveller who looks for an authentic Kerala experience; for people who want to experience life in Kerala villages not from the cocooned comfort of a star hotel but right down from the heart of the village itself. Located a mere 40-minute drive away from the airport, amidst a stately stand of tall teakwood trees on the banks of the Periyar, Teak House offers home-stay facilities par excellence in an ambience that is scenic and serene.

Wayanad, Kerala – Amaryllis Homestay

Set amidst the serenity and timeless beauty of Wayanad’s famed mist-shrouded mountains, is the new home of Victor and Ranjini Dey (of Tranquil Plantation Hideaway). The property looks down on the backwaters of the Karapuzha Reservoir, and with the Western Ghats in the background, the views are truly spectacular.