Extended weekend fuels holiday fervour
₹1.25 lakh. This price doesn’t include breakfast. Similarly, a stay at Taj Fort Aguada in Goa will rack up a bill of ₹95,000.
Most other leisure resort properties of the two companies are already sold out. Luxury properties of The Leela in Jaipur and Goa are sold out, too, while two nights at Kovalam will set you back by more than ₹60,000. Take, for instance, The Khyber Himalayan Resort & Spa in Gulmarg in Jammu & Kashmir.
It has just one family suite left to book on its website, with the rest of its rooms already sold out. The price of that is a princely ₹2 lakh a night. General manager Vinit Chhabra isn’t complaining, though.
The property’s average daily rates are up 5% year-on-year, and the occupancy is the same—sold out for the first big weekend of the year, as it had been last year. “Kashmir has been on the bucket list of a lot of people, and such types of weekends only give an impetus to travellers. On a weekend like this, we expect travellers to fly in from pretty much everywhere, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, and some driving from NCR," he said.
Similarly, Marriott International’s popular leisure properties are expecting a sold-out situation. Monisha Dewan, vice-president, sales & distribution South Asia, Marriott International, told Mint the rates will be 15-20% higher across the board this weekend. “Long weekends are here to stay.
People are looking forward to disconnecting and are looking for experiences, so our weekend packages are very popular in leisure locations. Coorg, Mahabaleshwar and places like Sohna, Aravali and Rishikesh are doing well on the weekends, and will likely be sold out. Goa will also do well.
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