Take the whole place

The whole place is eight rooms. That is small enough that a single group can take all of it, and when that happens the house stops being a homestay for the weekend and becomes, effectively, yours — including the cafe, which is the part most groups had not thought about until they arrive.

What a full booking actually means

• All eight rooms, so there is nobody else on the property.
• The cafe kitchen cooking to your timings rather than ours — including the late dinner that a group driving up from Delhi always ends up needing.
• One conversation about food, with one person, before you arrive. Vegetarians, allergies, the friend who does not eat onion — all of it settled in advance instead of at the table.
• The terrace and the lawn, in the evening, with nobody asking you to keep it down at ten.

What it suits

Families doing a birthday or an anniversary where the point is that everyone is in one place. Groups of friends who have been trying to coordinate a weekend for two years. Small offsites — we have the desk space and the Wi-Fi for the working half of it, which is described on the workation page.

What it does not suit, said plainly: a loud party. The nearest neighbours are not far, the hillside carries sound further than you would think, and we would rather tell you that now than at midnight.

What it costs

₹25,000 a night for all eight rooms. That is the whole property, not a starting point to be negotiated upward.

Worth seeing why that is worth taking: the same eight rooms booked individually at our published ₹4,000 and ₹5,500 rates come to a good deal more, so the full house is the cheapest way to put a large group on this hillside — and the only way to have nobody else on it.

For what it is worth, the 15% discount on three nights or more, Sunday to Thursday applies to groups too, and a midweek group weekend is the cheapest version of this there is.

Before you ask

Two things we get asked that are worth settling early. Dogs are welcome and stay free, so a group with a dog in it is not a problem. And a room can take a third guest for ₹1,000 a night, which is how most groups get more people in than there are rooms.

In winter there is usually a bonfire, weather permitting — we will not promise you one in advance, because the weather up here does not take instructions.