You send this form
It opens WhatsApp with your details already written out. Or email, if you would rather — same inbox.
Four rooms.
One conversation.
There is no availability calendar on this site, because we would forget to update it and an out-of-date calendar is worse than none. Fill this in and a person will reply within a few hours.
- A person answers, not a portal
- Thirty per cent advance, balance on arrival
- Every meal is already in the rate
- Free cancellation up to fourteen days out
- We will tell you the real weather odds for your dates
On its way.
Deepak will confirm which rooms are free and what the weather usually does on your dates. If they are the wrong dates for what you want, he will say so.
What you are paying for
The rate is the rate
There is no service charge, no resort fee, no per-head activity pricing and no surcharge for a view. GST is not applicable at these tariffs under current rules. The only things added to a room rate are the drives, and those are charged at exactly what the driver charges us.
- Three meals a day and tea, six or seven times, unrequested
- Every walk, farm morning, cooking session, bonfire and telescope night
- Laundry twice weekly on stays of five nights or more
- Written directions, and somebody who comes out when they hear your car
What happens next
Five steps, and none of them is a portal
The whole thing usually takes two messages and about a day.
Deepak replies
Within a few hours. Which rooms are actually free, and what the weather does on your dates, honestly.
Thirty per cent by UPI
That confirms it. We send a written confirmation, not an automated one.
Directions arrive
With landmarks, because the mapping application stops eight hundred metres short. Plus the driver's number if you asked for a pickup.
You arrive
Somebody comes out when they hear the car. Tea within four minutes. Dinner at seven.
Payment and policy
The short version
The full text is on the cancellation page and it is genuinely short.
Thirty per cent to confirm
By UPI or bank transfer. We will send the details; we never ask for card numbers and never will.
Balance on arrival
Cash or UPI. There is no card machine and the nearest one that works is fifty-five kilometres away.
Full refund fourteen days out
No questions, no form, no admin fee.
Half refund seven days out
And if the reason is illness, bereavement or a blocked road, the full amount, because those are not choices.
Inside seven days, no refund
With the same exceptions, applied generously. We have never once argued about this.
If the road closes on your departure day
You stay, free, and we help you rebook whatever needs rebooking.
Before you send it
Six things worth mentioning in the notes box
None of these are problems. All of them are much easier known in advance than discovered at seven o'clock.
A diet
Vegan, Jain, gluten-free, no onion or garlic, diabetic. The shop is fifty-five kilometres away, so this genuinely has to be known before you arrive.
A knee, a hip, a chest
It changes which room we give you and which walks Deepak suggests. Nobody will make anything of it.
An eighty-year-old
The Heritage Room is step-free and next to the dining table. Say so and we will hold it for you.
A very small child
The stairs to the upper rooms are steep, there is a cow, and there is an unfenced terrace. All manageable, all worth planning around.
A dog
Yes, with notice. Bhalu will be territorial for about an hour and then permanently delighted.
A birthday, an anniversary, a proposal
Kamla will make kheer and nobody will sing. Two people have proposed on the ridge at sunrise and both said yes, which we mention purely as data.
Choosing dates
What each month will actually give you
Before you commit, read the trade-off rather than the adjective. If your dates are wrong for what you are after, we would rather tell you now.
March – April
Rhododendron
Every north-facing slope turns red with buransh. Days reach 20 °C, nights fall to 6 °C. Walking weather, and the honey is at its palest.
- Peaks visible ~7 days in 10
- Buransh squash pressed here
- Book 5 weeks ahead
May – June
The escape
The plains hit 45 °C and Berinag sits at 26 °C. Our busiest window. Apricots ripen in the second week of June and the orchard smells of them.
- Peaks visible ~5 days in 10
- River pools warmest now
- Book 8 weeks ahead
July – September
Full volume
Cloud in the room, water everywhere, the whole valley roaring. Almost no other visitors. The mountains hide for weeks. The forest has never been greener.
- Peaks visible ~1 day in 10
- Leeches on forest trails
- Lowest rates of the year
October – December
The clear window
The best mountain viewing of the year. Air scrubbed by the monsoon, humidity gone, Panchachuli standing up sharp at breakfast. Cold at night, brilliant by day.
- Peaks visible ~9 days in 10
- Photographers' season
- Book 10 weeks ahead
January – February
Snow and silence
Snow falls two or three times, thirty centimetres at a go. The fire is lit at four and stays lit. Roads can close for a day. The sky at night is unreasonable.
- Peaks visible ~8 days in 10
- Darkest skies of the year
- Bring a proper coat
Booking questions
The eight asked at this stage
Because we would forget to update it, and an out-of-date calendar is worse than none at all. Instead there is a person who answers within a few hours and knows exactly what is free.
No. Nothing is charged anywhere on this website. The form opens WhatsApp with your details written out, and a person confirms before any money moves.
Thirty per cent, by UPI or bank transfer. We send the details after confirming the rooms. We will never ask for a card number, a CVV or a one-time password.
Ten weeks for October to December, eight for May and June, two or three for anything else. In monsoon you can often write on a Tuesday and arrive on a Friday.
Yes, for forty-eight hours, without payment. We will tell you before the hold lapses.
Free, once, more than fourteen days ahead. Inside that we will still move it wherever we can refill the room, which outside peak season is usually.
Some, but booking direct is cheaper for you and considerably better for us, and you get a conversation rather than a confirmation email.
Yes — eleven guests, four nights minimum, from ₹12,600 a night with all meals. Ask on WhatsApp and Kamla will plan the menus with you.
Or don't fill in a form
Just send a message
Two lines — roughly when, how many of you, what you are hoping for. That is genuinely all we need to give you a useful answer.