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Cool Escapes: Design-Led Homestays in India for a Summer Getaway
A curated edit of homes across hill towns, plantations, forests, and forest ridges that offer genuine respite from the heat, each with a distinct architectural identity and a story woven into its walls
Before air conditioning became the default answer to an Indian summer, builders already knew what to do. They’d sink a house into a hillside, wrap it in a deep verandah, raise it on a coffee estate ridge where the altitude did the work, or simply build with mud and let the walls breathe. These homestays are homes, many of them ancestral, all of them shaped by the intelligence of their landscapes. From a planter’s bungalow in the Darjeeling hills where burnished teak has been cooling rooms for over a century, to a mud-brick cottage in Kalimpong where knitted bamboo walls regulate temperature without a single switch, these are spaces where climate-responsive design and personal aesthetic have quietly been the same thing all along.
Glenburn Tea Estate, Darjeeling, West Bengal
Established by a Scottish tea company in 1859 and now in its fourth generation with the Prakash family, Glenburn is the kind of place that makes you understand, viscerally, what colonial plantation life must have felt like at its most refined. The two bungalows that accommodate guests here are as much a study in interior restraint as they are a study in history. The Burra Bungalow, home to generations of planters before it was opened to guests, was restored by stripping back decades of paint and plywood to reveal burnished wood that had always been there, and its sweeping main verandah, fireplace-warmed living room with a library, and grand dining room where candle-lit sit-down dinners are held remain the beating heart of the property.
In the Planters' Suite, a regal Spanish mahogany four-poster dominates the room, Toile de Jouy furnishings carry prints of old maps and oriental figures, and a private verandah looks out across the Simbong Valley toward the hills of Sikkim. While across the stone staircase, the Water Lily Bungalow has Burma teak flooring underfoot, old cast-iron window frames, bay windows with mountain views, and bathrooms with antique free-standing bathtubs positioned to face the peaks, old-fashioned washstands, and Venetian mirrors. The detailing can be seen all through the house.
The bed linen is hand-embroidered, fresh flowers are cut from the estate gardens, hand-block printed botanical motifs on the Rangeet Suite's Camellia thea textiles, Darjeeling green tea toiletries, and no televisions in any room speak to a property that has thought carefully about what should be present and what should be left out. The estate sits 3,000 feet lower than Darjeeling town, making it naturally cooler and breezier than the hill station itself. All guests dine together at a long shared table, set with polished silver, with elegant continental cuisine, sometimes paired with a pot of tea picked that morning from the garden outside your window.
Tariff: From Rs 51,000+ per night
Yangsum Heritage Farm, Rinchenpong, West Sikkim
Two kilometres from the village of Rinchenpong in West Sikkim, hidden in the countryside is Yangsum Heritage Farm, the kind of place you find by word of mouth and leave talking about for years. Spread across a 44-acre working organic farm at 1,500 metres, the farm has unobstructed views of the Kanchenjunga range framed from a wooden balcony or a sun-warmed garden path, the air carrying the smell of buckwheat fields and fruit orchards in full season. Owner Thendup Tashi Bhutia designed and built the wooden cottages and rooms himself with the help of local craftsmen, in the traditional Sikkimese style using timber throughout for construction.
All the rooms come with private balconies and family photographs and heirlooms displayed on the walls as naturally as they would be in any lived-in home. The common room has a fireplace and a library to spend days without having to step out. Meals are organic, farm-grown, and served with the warmth of someone cooking for guests they consider friends. Slow-cooked Sikkimese dishes like nettle soup, homemade momo, and fermented local produce that you won't find on any restaurant menu in Gangtok. Days here unfold at the rhythm of the farm. Head out for early walks through forest trails, spend afternoons on the verandah watching clouds move across the peaks, and indulge in evenings around a bonfire with a host who genuinely wants to show you how people live and eat in this part of the eastern Himalaya.
Tariff: From Rs 5,500+ per night
PaliGhar, Kalimpong, West Bengal
There are homestays built on aesthetics, and then there are those built on conviction and PaliGhar, the farm-stay conceived by the sixth generation of the Pradhan family of Kalimpong, is emphatically the latter. The design brief here was not about creating a mood but about preserving a memory: the cottages are built using mud bricks and ekra (knitted bamboo), plastered entirely with mud, drawing directly from the traditional village architecture of the Himalayan foothills that is quietly disappearing as concrete takes over even in remote hill villages. The result is a building that is as much an act of cultural preservation as it is a place to stay. The mud brick construction is not merely aesthetic; the material carries genuine thermodynamic intelligence, the bricks regulate temperature naturally, keeping interiors cool through summer and warm through winter, without any mechanical assistance. Inside, the rooms have the deliberate simplicity of a well-kept village home: an earthy, authentic feel, comfortable beds, and large French windows that flood the space with natural light and frame the Himalayan countryside as though it were a painting.
At the entrance of each room, a spacious verandah does the work that a hotel lobby never could - it slows you down, invites you to sit, and returns you to the pace of rural life. With only two cottages and two guest rooms on the entire property, PaliGhar is radically intimate by design, its smallness a considered choice rather than a constraint. The golden-brown mud-plastered walls, the organic kitchen garden, the perennial water source, the poultry in the yard — every element of the property speaks to the family's founding philosophy: go back to the roots, and take your guests with you.
Tariff: From Rs 7,100+ per night
Sitla Estate, Kumaon, Uttarakhand
Sitla Estate sits at 7,000 feet within the Reserve Forest of the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand, on 40 acres of apple, peach, plum, and apricot orchards at the edge of a reserve forest. It's a setting so quietly beautiful that arriving here feels less like checking in and more like being let into a private world that has been running quite contentedly away from the hullabaloo. The centrepiece is a 165-year-old British-era bungalow with ivy-covered walls, a warm kitchen, a cosy library stocked for the pleasure of a bibliophile, and a sprawling dining hall where meals made almost entirely from the estate's organic farm arrive within three hours of being harvested.
Owner Vikram Maira left Mumbai decades ago to return to farming and built eleven rooms around the ancestral bungalow using traditional Kumaoni architectural techniques. Restored and designed by Adil Ahmad, the hand of a considered designer is subtly evident in every aspect. Heritage furniture, patterned carpets, and textured walls add a patina of grace, while tribal ikat prints and floral woollen carpets bring warmth and cosiness to suites that are deliberately generous in proportion. Six rooms are designed in a contemporary style that brings to mind the minimalist Swedish cabins one finds in design magazines, while the other five are more on the lines of the colonial British style of interiors. All of them roofed in wood wool, a material made from wood shavings bound with adhesive that provides such effective insulation that heaters are unnecessary even in the harshest Kumaoni winters. Outside, the architecture dissolves into landscape: apple orchards, vegetable fields, and quiet garden corners form the estate's natural envelope, shading the building through summer while keeping the air cool and uncommonly clean. Breakfast is served under a plum tree on the patio, lunch in the orchard, and a formal dinner is served course-wise in the dining room. The daily rhythm here is shaped as much by the land as by the house itself.
Tariff: From Rs 9,800+ per night
Raison D'etre, Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
There is a drawing every child makes at some point with two mountains, a small house, and a river running close by. Raison D'etre, beside the Beas River in the Kullu valley, is the real version of that image, built from scratch by Shalini and Nitin Beri after they left corporate careers in 2013 and came home to the hills. The building maximises sunlight exposure and incorporates insulating blocks to naturally regulate temperature, while all windows are double-glazed with argon gas for additional insulation, and the roofs are fully insulated too. Passive climate-control measures that make the home as intelligent as it is beautiful. Like most buildings in the Kullu hills, wood is the hero material here used structurally and aesthetically in a way that anchors the house firmly within its Himalayan context. The four rooms are named after the four seasons. Spring and Summer on the ground floor, Autumn and Winter above, a naming logic that is as much a design philosophy as it is poetic, orienting guests toward the rhythms of the landscape rather than the amenities of a hotel. The property draws water from a Himalayan aquifer hundreds of feet below, and the same mineral-rich water feeds an overflow infinity pool overlooking the Beas. Where most homestays stop at the building, Shalini and Nitin have treated the land itself as part of the design, the orchard, the riverbank, the mountain backdrop all folded into the spatial experience of the home as deliberately as any piece of furniture or chosen palette. A decade in the making, it shows.
Tariff: From Rs 12,500+ per night
Windermere Estate, Munnar, Kerala
Perched at 1,600 metres on Observatory Hill in the high ranges of Munnar, Windermere Estate has been a working cardamom and coffee plantation since the 1930s. The original Planter's Bungalow remains the residence of owner Dr Simon John’s family at the centre of the property, the oldest and most known building on the hill. Sweeping views of the tea valleys on one side, the majestic high ranges on the other, and a small cliff to tuck into so that the building would feel grown from the hillside rather than placed upon it. That founding logic has governed every subsequent addition.
The eighteen guest rooms that were added over many years are arranged around the original Planter's Bungalow built chalet-style into the mountain in clusters of four, two above and two below, so that the estate retains the spatial grammar of a home rather than expanding into the geometry of a resort. Each room features high gabled roofs and red cedar beams, with either terracotta floors rubbed with linseed oil or hardwood polished with traditional wax, materials chosen for their thermal logic as much as their beauty, staying cool through Munnar's warm afternoons without mechanical assistance. The interiors echo plantation simplicity through whitewashed walls, natural wood furniture, and floor-to-ceiling windows that make the tea gardens as much a part of the room as anything inside it. The breeze moves through the rooms, the scent of cardamom drifts up from the groves below, and meals arrive without a menu, course by course, based on what the gardens and local market have provided that morning.
Tariff: From Rs 12,500+ per night
The Bungalow 1934, Coorg, Karnataka
There are heritage homestays that invoke the past decoratively, and then there is The Bungalow 1934 where history is structural, inseparable from the walls themselves. Built by Ketolira Diwan Bahadur Chengappa, the first Chief Commissioner of Coorg and the first District Magistrate of independent India, the bungalow follows the traditional architecture of old Kodagu homes. An elevated open verandah thrusts into the building with a pitched roof, fanning out into the living spaces with bedrooms flanking either side. It is a plan that is inherently climate-responsive where the deep verandah shades the interiors from the summer sun, the pitched roof sheds the monsoon rains, and the altitude of the Brahmagiri range does the rest. The custom-burnt Mangalore roof tiles keep the place cool in summer and warm through winter, a detail that speaks to the accumulated material intelligence of Kodava building tradition.
The most recent renovation, which was radical and ambitious, was completed in 2023. It married bold colour choices, generous use of wood and stone, and textured walls with a remarkable display of antiques and bric-a-brac accumulated across four generations of the family. Host Amrith Thimmaiah, who cites interior design as one of his three life's passions, has ensured the update never tips into nostalgia-for-hire. The bathrooms are a vision of jungle green with wood-framed mirrors above live-edge timber washbasin counters and curving half-walls embracing the wet area, a contemporary gesture that holds its own against the colonial bones of the house. The old car shed, once home to Diwan Bahadur's prized Studebaker, has been converted into a two-room annexe, its verandah now lined with framed illustrations of Kodava culture and flora. A new building with an old soul, as Amrith himself puts it and the phrase earns its weight here.
Tariff: From Rs 15,000+ per night
Gone Fishing Cottages, Tirthan Valley, Himachal Pradesh
Hosts Dimple and Uppi imagined a home tucked into the mountains, next to a stream, with a fabulous view, somewhere to watch clouds roll by, lie under a starriest sky, and walk into a forest. What they built in Tirthan Valley's Village Deori is precisely that, and the lack of professional distance shows in the most pleasing way. The original cottage is a quirky home, replete with a staircase inside the bedroom that leads to an attic with a glass roof, a detail guests remember for years. Sitting on the bank of the Kalwari stream, which meets the Tirthan River about 500 metres downstream, and bordered by orchards and step-farming fields on one side and pine and deodar forest on the other, the cottages do not so much command the landscape as nestle into it.
The rooms are large and plush, with plenty of natural light, sunbathed in the morning, moonstruck at night, as the hosts describe it. Long glass doors open onto private balconies above the sound of moving water. The interiors are intentionally minimal. Every object is chosen and many are upcycled. Empty bottles have been turned into lampshades, light fittings are wrapped in twine, and there are books in every corner.
The whole property sits within the eco-zone of the Great Himalayan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which means the surrounding landscape is as carefully preserved as any interior. This is a home that grew organically, a room added, then another and its design logic is the logic of affection rather than architecture.
Tariff: From Rs 7,500+ per night
Woodway Estate, Jakkanahalli, Chikmagalur, Karnataka
Sculpted in the early 1900s by its British owners and perched on a vantage point of the estate, Woodway is a pre-independence bungalow that was converted into a boutique homestay in 2003. Old enough to carry real memory, it has recently been reimagined to host guests. At 4,500 feet above sea level, the bungalow sits high enough that the hill air does what air-conditioning cannot: it arrives with the scent of coffee blossom and the cool indifference of altitude, naturally tempering the Deccan heat below. The bones of the house are unmistakably colonial: the verandah, called the Glass Room, offers a view of the surrounding mountain and valley that shifts colour through the day and into the night. A passive design feature that functions as the estate's finest amenity.
What makes Woodway genuinely distinctive, though, is the density of considered detail within each of its eight rooms. Each is named after something drawn from the estate's natural and cultural world, and furnished with a specific object or gesture that gives it character. The Minivet has a Singer sewing machine repurposed as a vanity; Kaffea has a fireplace facing the bed and an Athangudi tile writing desk at the window; Caneflower’s working fireplace and a carved four-poster with a reading alcove make the perfect choice for those who don’t intend to leave their room.
Shola boasts of a floor-to-ceiling carved torana mirror and a blue-teal bathroom; Birdwing’s exposed stone wall is highlighted by a stained glass bathroom; and Cicada has a stone cottage with carved temple doors and a canopy balcony where the coffee forest effectively becomes the room's fourth wall. The overall aesthetic is eclectic but coherent, antique and artisanal, Southern and colonial, held together by the architectural confidence of the houseAnd then there is the table: Woodway's Malnad cuisine, cooked on firewood stoves with ingredients pulled from the kitchen garden, is an extension of the same design ethos - seasonal, local, and made without shortcuts. The freshly brewed single-origin Arabica, grown on the estate itself, arrives each morning as both beverage and proof of concept.
Tariff: From Rs 9,500+ per night
Hoongla Inn, Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh
Hoongla Inn earns its place in a summer escapes list almost paradoxically sitting in the Eastern Himalayas near the borders of Tibet and Bhutan. It is not a place most people have heard of, which is entirely the point. Located in the scenic Hoongla village, approximately 45 kilometres from Tawang at a gentler altitude of 6,500 feet compared to Tawang's 8,500 feet, Doima Lhamu and her family’s inn occupies a climatic sweet spot that makes summers genuinely pleasant rather than merely bearable.
The five rooms are designed in a tasteful style that merges modern comforts with the essence of village living, adorned with local artwork, traditional motifs, and earthy tones. The design is indigenous rather than imposed, inspired by the architectural and decorative traditions of the Monpa people who have inhabited these hills for centuries. Large windows in each room frame panoramic vistas of snow-capped peaks, functioning as the rooms' primary design element. Nature acts as wallpaper, and the mountains as artwork. The village itself is 700 years old, which means the inn's surroundings carry a depth of habitation that most purpose-built retreats can only gesture toward. There is something rare in a homestay that is genuinely remote without being inaccessible, and genuinely traditional without being performative.
Tariff: From Rs 11,000 per night
Shel Ladakh, Shey, Leh District, Ladakh
Shel Ladakh operates from a design principle that very few homestays have the confidence to hold. The interiors are deliberately minimal so as not to compete with the mountainscape around them. Located on the banks of the Indus, twenty minutes from Leh, the house takes the high-altitude Ladakhi landscape as its lead designer and defers to it completely. The common spaces are finished using local woodwork and mud bricks, warmed and lit by natural sunlight streaming through large bay windows. The materials speak the thermal and tactile language of traditional Ladakhi construction, where thick mud walls regulate temperature with a passivity no mechanical system can replicate.
The three suites - Zanskar, with copper accents echoing the valley of the same name; Changthang, with a sky roof directly above the double bed for sleeping under the Milky Way, and Nubra, minimal but rich with a smattering of colour and a west-facing balcony for sunsets, are each named after and designed in conversation with a distinct Ladakhi landscape, so that the interior and the world beyond the window are in continuous, meaningful dialogue. Shel takes only one booking at a time, which means the library, the rooftop, the dappled garden and the entire Indus riverfront are entirely yours, a spatial generosity that is itself a form of design.
Tariff: From Rs 55,000+ per night
Birdsong & Beyond, Chamoli, Uttarakhand
On a mountain ridge in Guniyala Khal village in district Chamoli, almost equidistant from the ranges of Kedarnath and Badrinath, well off the pilgrim and trekking circuits, surrounded by the old indigenous forests of the Nagnath reserve is Birdsong & Beyond. It is the culmination of a lifelong dream by sociologist, writer, and organic farmer Kiran Chaturvedi, who found this plot in 2007 and spent the next five years building the home she had always imagined. This pinewood cottage comes with full-length glass windows on the mountain-facing walls, a sun-kissed terrace, an organic kitchen garden, a pantry stocked with local grains and foraged ingredients, and shelves of books that guests are trusted to treat as their own. The design logic is essentially literary. Every spatial decision prioritises contemplation, view, and quiet and the pinewood construction provides natural insulation at high altitude while the full-length glazing means the Himalayan range is the dominant feature of every interior, weather and all, cloud and light moving across the peaks as you sit with your morning tea. Meals are simple and deeply local featuring mandua (black millet), ferns, nettles, rajma, and bhat ki daal, prepared from the kitchen garden and neighbouring farms. The place operates at a pace that gently insists you slow down and stay longer than you planned.
Tariff: From Rs 3,000+ per night
Coffee and Pepper Homestay, Thekkady, Kerala
Near the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, Coffee and Pepper Homestay sits within a 70-year-old working estate where coffee, cardamom, black pepper, Ayurvedic herbs, jackfruit, and seasonal fruit trees grow so densely that the canopy drops the ambient temperature by several degrees. This makes the plantation itself the most effective climate management system on the property, the kind that no architect can replicate but that Kerala's plantation builders understood instinctively when they placed the house deep within the grove rather than at its edge.
Built by the Mathew family and expanded into a two-storey guest home by George and Theresa Mathew, the house is arranged so that every room has a balcony looking into the trees. The deep verandah and generous overhangs of the Kerala plantation typology do the same work they were always designed to do, shading the interior from direct sun while keeping the rooms open to the movement of air through the canopy. Three generations of the same family have worked this land, and the hospitality carries that continuity. George leads tours of the spice and herb garden, the kitchen runs on produce from the estate, and the meals that arrive at your table are a direct expression of what is growing just outside your window.
Tariff: From Rs 4,300+ per night
Follow the winding paths to the quiet side of Munnar. Image courtesy, Windermere Estate
Where every verandah opens up to the hills of Darjeeling. Image courtesy, Glenburn Tea Estate
Slow mornings and misty gardens at Windermere Estate. Image courtesy, Windermere Estate
Nature at the doorstep and nowhere else to be. Image courtesy, Gone Fishing Cottages
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