Your New Year luxury holiday just got a lot costlier
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Planning a luxury getaway at the end of the year? It may be too late for that. From Rajasthan’s royal palaces to beachside retreats in Kerala, India’s top resorts are seeing unprecedented demand for Christmas and New Year.
Rooms are vanishing fast, even though the New Year is still two and a half months away. For those still available, expect to pay a steep premium—some as high as ₹1.5 lakh a night. At the Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra, it costs ₹1.75 lakh to book a stay for Christmas eve, up 40% ₹1.25 lakh at the beginning of the year.
For the days until New Year, the rates vary from ₹1-2 lakh. Meanwhile, at Oberoi's Vanyavilas resort in Ranthambore, it costs ₹1-1.5 lakh a night at the turn of the year. It is already sold out between December 23-25, and for the days that it is available, the rates are above ₹1.5 lakh, both before and after Christmas.
The situation is no different at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur operated by Taj Hotels, where rooms cost ₹1.15 lakh a night on 24 and 25 December, ₹3.15 lakh on 26 December. While two nights at Kovalam's The Leela Raviz set you back by more than ₹60,000 in January this year, during Christmas, the same rooms are being sold for ₹1.2 lakh for two nights. Luxury tents at Raas Chhattisgarh will cost ₹40,500 at night on Christmas day.
Radisson Blu in Alibaug is already sold out. "Leisure demand is looking very good for our hotels. It is trending 25% over last year.
November is looking similarly high. Christmas and New Year for our upcoming property in Assam, which will launch by then, is already sold out. More than half our hotels -- 11 that will be operational by then -- are expected to be sold out," said Kapil Chopra, director at Untitled Hotels &
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