Travel style
Family holidays
Short drives, big rooms, good pools
Families travel better with fewer hotel changes and shorter days. We cap most drives at four or five hours, choose hotels with pools and space, and pick activities with a clear start and end.
Age rules matter: some safari zones and high-altitude routes have minimum ages or are simply hard on small children. We check these for your dates and tell you before you book.
Journeys
Routes in this style
Places
Where it fits best
Gurung villages and Poon Hill dawn on short, guided walks
A car-free Newar bazaar on the old road between India and Tibet
Brick squares, potters and the five-tiered Nyatapola temple
Rhinos, gharials and sal forest in Nepal's first national park
Lake town at 822 m with the Annapurnas on the skyline
A living golden fort at the edge of the Thar
Leopards on granite hills among herders and temples
Tigers among lakes, ruins and a thousand-year-old fort
Sand dunes, Bactrian camels and monasteries beyond Khardung La
Gentle village walks, Likir and Basgo, west of Leh
A Balti village of apricots and stone lanes on the Shyok
Planters' bungalows, tea gardens and the river at Nameri
The glass-clear Umngot river on the Bangladesh border
Sikkim's ridge-top capital, facing the Kanchenjunga range
Home of most of the world's one-horned rhinos
A tidy Khasi village with a root bridge on its doorstep
Pine ridges, Khasi markets and a lake resort at the edge of town
Waterfalls, limestone caves and the rain capital of India
Houseboats, Kuttanad paddy and the snake-boat races
Lake resorts and bird life on the shore of Vembanad
A fishing village beach between Kochi and the backwaters
Tea estates, cool mornings and the Nilgiri tahr
Periyar's forests, a dammed lake and cardamom hills
Coffee, pepper and elephant forest on the high plateau
Villa lanes, flea markets and a clifftop fort in north Goa
South Goa's long beach, from Majorda to the mouth of the Sal
Fort Aguada, the Reis Magos ramparts and north Goa's calmer beaches
Waterfalls, spice farms and a Kadamba temple in the Western Ghats
The curved bays and forest edge of Goa's far south
The Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and the Mughal river bank
Tigers, rhinos and swamp deer on the Nepal border
Akbar's red sandstone capital on a ridge west of Agra
Where the Buddha gave his first sermon, 10 km from Varanasi
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Rooms that suit it
A small lodge of stone cottages on a ridge above the Pokhara valley, facing Machapuchare and the Annapurna range. It has a pool, a long terrace …
An eco-resort of private villas set on a working organic farm in the countryside outside Pokhara. Villas face rice terraces and forested hills, the spa and …
A Taj Safaris lodge on the banks of the Rapti River in western Chitwan, facing the national park across the water. Rooms and villas draw on …
A luxury tented camp among the granite hills of Jawai in southern Rajasthan, built for leopard safaris on open land shared with Rabari herders. Stays are …
A palace-style hotel built in golden Jaisalmer stone on the road to the Sam dunes, about 15 km west of the city. It is the most …
A luxury tented resort on the edge of Ranthambore National Park, with large canvas tents set in landscaped gardens, a spa and naturalist-led safaris. It is …
Nimmu House is a restored early 20th-century village house at Nimmu, 35 km west of Leh, with rooms in the house and tents in its orchard. …
Lchang Nang, meaning house of trees, is a small retreat in Sumur village in Nubra, set among willows and fields with views of the surrounding peaks. …
A lakeside resort on the wooded shore of Umiam Lake, about 20 km north of Shillong, with cottages built in the Khasi manner of timber and …
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