BERINAG
1,740 metres · Kumaon Himalaya
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Rooms and rates
The Valley Room is the one people write to us about. It is also the one that books out first, which is why this page exists — so you can see the other three properly before deciding.
The four
Rates shown are shoulder season and include three meals, tea, and every experience that does not require a car. Extra person ₹800 per night. Children under six free.
Ground floor · step-freeThe oldest room in the house, in the original 1940s stone section. Thick walls, a deep window seat, and a door straight onto the courtyard. It stays cool in June and needs the extra quilt in January. Chosen most often by guests travelling with parents.
₹2,400 per night, meals included
First floor · best viewTwo windows on two walls, both facing north. On a clear morning between October and December you can lie in bed and watch the Panchachuli line turn from grey to pink to white without lifting your head. The desk is here too, which is why the workation guests ask for it.
₹3,200 per night, meals included
First floor · familyThe largest room, with a double and two singles, opening onto the upper terrace above the apricot trees. In June the fruit is at eye level from the window. Sleeps four comfortably, five at a push with the floor mattress.
₹4,100 per night, meals included
Separate building · privateA separate two-room building forty steps up the slope, built in 2021 from stone salvaged from a collapsed byre. Its own kitchenette, its own veranda, and no shared walls with anyone. The choice for honeymooners and for anyone staying more than a fortnight.
₹5,600 per night, meals included
Seasons
We run three seasons rather than a floating rate. There is no dynamic pricing, no algorithm, and the number you see is the number you pay.
| Room | Sleeps | Low (Jul–Sep) | Shoulder (Jan–Mar, Aug) | Peak (Apr–Jun, Oct–Dec) | 28 nights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Heritage Room | 2 | ₹2,100 | ₹2,400 | ₹2,900 | ₹38,000 |
| The Valley Room | 2 | ₹2,800 | ₹3,200 | ₹3,800 | ₹46,000 |
| The Orchard Room | 4–5 | ₹3,600 | ₹4,100 | ₹4,900 | ₹58,000 |
| The Stone Cottage | 2–3 | ₹4,900 | ₹5,600 | ₹6,600 | ₹74,000 |
| Whole house | 11 | ₹12,600 | ₹14,400 | ₹17,200 | On request |
Nobody sleeps cold
In detail
We get asked this more than anything else, usually by people who have had a cold night somewhere else in the hills and do not want to repeat it. So: a 15 cm coir-and-cotton mattress on a wooden frame, cotton sheets washed and line-dried here, a cotton-filled quilt, and a second quilt visible in the cupboard so that nobody has to ask. From October a hot water bottle appears at turn-down. From December there is a pankhi — a handwoven Munsiyari wool blanket from Bhagwati's loom — on top of everything else.
The view from each
Photographed on the same clear morning in November, from inside each room, without a wide lens.
Two windows, both facing the Panchachuli line. There is one deodar in the frame and we have been asked to cut it twice and have declined twice.
No mountain view — the room predates the idea of a view. What it has instead is the walnut tree, the cow, the dog, and everything that happens in the house.
The terrace below the window holds apricot, plum and two apple trees. In June the fruit is at eye level. The skylight above the beds shows the whole southern sky.
Forty steps higher than the main house, which changes everything. You see the ridge, the tea garden rows, and about eleven kilometres of the valley floor.
How booking works
There is no availability calendar on this site because we would forget to update it. Instead there is a person who replies within a few hours.
A message with roughly when, how many of you, and what you are hoping for. Two lines is enough.
Which rooms are free, what the weather usually does then, and whether your dates actually suit what you want.
By UPI or bank transfer, to confirm. The rest on arrival, in cash or UPI.
Written, with landmarks, because the map application will take you to the wrong bend.
Whole house
Six times a year a family or a group of friends books the entire property. Eleven people, four rooms, the courtyard, the kitchen and the run of the place, with nobody else in it. From ₹12,600 a night, all meals included, and Kamla will plan the menus with you in advance.
Room questions
You can book the Valley Room, which faces the peaks directly. Whether the peaks are visible is weather, and we cannot sell you that. October to December it is about nine mornings in ten. In monsoon it is closer to one.
No, and there is no need for it. The warmest day we have recorded on the veranda is 29 °C and the house interior has never gone above 26 °C. Nights are cool in every month of the year.
Yes, all four, with a proper key that you keep. The house itself does not lock during the day, which is a village norm rather than an oversight.
The Orchard Room already sleeps five. If you need more, take the Orchard and Valley rooms together — they share the upper landing, which becomes yours in practice.
Yes. Deduct ₹500 per night from any tariff for solo occupancy of a double room. We do not charge a single supplement, which we understand is unusual.
Three nights, and we hold to it. Two nights after a seven-hour drive means one real day here, and guests who do that consistently leave feeling they missed something.
Ten weeks ahead for October to December, roughly eight for May and June. If you want that room on those dates, the time to write is now.
