From the palaces of Rajasthan to the backwaters of Kerala — designed by specialists who know the country intimately.
Explore More →India is not one country so much as twenty, stacked together — each with its own language, cuisine, climate and code of hospitality. Travelling it well is less about ticking sights and more about choosing the right hotel in the right season with the right guide at the door.
Luxury Retreats is an India-based travel consultancy. Our designers live here. Our guides work with us, not for us. Our relationships with Oberoi, Taj, Aman, Ananda, Leela and Six Senses mean our clients receive the rooms, rates and quiet upgrades that aren't available elsewhere.
Most of our clients blend two or three of these. The journey is always yours — these are the frameworks we start from.
Each is its own pilgrimage. Travelled privately, with the right guides, at the right hour.
A starting point for the conversation. Most journeys weave two or three of these together.
Palace cities, desert forts and the most storied hotels in India.
Explore Rajasthan → No. 02Backwaters, tea country, temple towns and slow-luxury wellness.
Explore the South → No. 03Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand — high-altitude retreats and monastery routes.
Explore the Himalayas → No. 04Tiger reserves, rhino country and Asia's finest private safari lodges.
Explore Wildlife → No. 05Delhi, Agra, Jaipur — the classic route, privately rewritten.
Explore the Triangle → No. 06Private villas, Portuguese heritage and the south coast's quieter beaches.
Explore the Coast → No. 07Varanasi, Rishikesh, Bodh Gaya — the places India comes to pray.
Explore Spiritual India → No. 08Maharajas' Express, Deccan Odyssey and private rail carriages across India.
Explore Luxury Rail →Experiences arranged quietly for our clients across India — never packaged, never scheduled. Designed for couples, families and small private groups, each shaped to the people travelling and the moment they're travelling for.
Candlelit tables in courtyards and durbar halls closed to other guests, served by the palace's own kitchen.
Historians, curators and authors who know the city behind the monument — arranged privately.
Private jeeps, senior naturalists and lodges with the best drive allocations in Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh.
Chartered Kerala kettuvallams, staffed and provisioned to your preference, through the backwaters at your pace.
Matched to your practitioner, your intent and your time — at Ananda, Kalari Kovilakom and Somatheeram.
Private cabins on the Maharajas' Express and Deccan Odyssey — or entire carriages for multi-generational parties.
Royal kitchens, spice plantations, master weavers and block-printers in their own workshops.
Anniversary vow renewals, surprise birthdays and proposals — staged with the discretion they deserve.
From four-hundred-year-old palaces to contemporary wellness sanctuaries — a shortlist of where our clients sleep, eat and unwind.
India rewards good timing. A brief guide — though your designer will shape the dates around you.
Cool mornings, open skies and the softest light of the year. The traditional window for palaces, the Golden Triangle and the south.
Plains warm quickly — but it is peak tiger season, when wildlife gathers at dwindling waterholes and sightings are at their best.
The south and coast turn emerald and fragrant. A quieter, more contemplative India — and the traditional time for Ayurveda.
India's most cinematic moments. We arrange festival access, private viewings and the hotels worth booking twelve months ahead.
We've travelled India three times before. This was the first trip where we felt we'd actually been let in — to the right rooms, the right guides, the moments we hadn't thought to ask for.Mr. & Mrs. P. — New York 12-Night Rajasthan & Wildlife Journey
Tell us the shape of the journey you have in mind — the occasion, the pace, the people travelling with you — and one of our India designers will respond within 24 hours, entirely without obligation.
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