Casa Aranya — Boutique Hotel

Casa Aranya is a 1907 Portuguese house in Assagao with eight rooms, one long table, and no reception desk. Someone will be in the courtyard when you arrive. There is no minibar, no room service after nine, and no television anywhere in the building.

What there is: forty-foot ceilings, a pool nobody is loud in, breakfast until eleven, and a cook who will make you what she is making for herself if you ask nicely.

T H E G A R D E N R O O M S

Four, on the ground floor

Original stone floors, a door straight onto the courtyard, and a bathroom bigger than the bedroom. ₹9,400 a night.

The view from an upper room, over the coconut grove

T H E U P P E R R O O M S

Three, under the roof

Beamed ceilings, a private balcony over the coconut grove, and the best light in the house between four and six. ₹12,800 a night.

T H E L O N G R O O M

One, at the end

The old drawing room: a four-poster, a working fireplace nobody needs, and two walls of shuttered windows. ₹16,200 a night.

The table

Dinner is at eight, at one table, for whoever is in the house. There is no menu and no choice — Fatima cooks what the market had, which in September means a great deal of kingfish and, if you are lucky, the crab. ₹1,600 a head, wine extra, and you may of course go out instead.

Breakfast runs until eleven, on the veranda, and is included. Nobody will ask you what time you would like it.

“We did not speak to a member of staff in the conventional sense for four days, and yet everything was already done. I have stayed in a great many hotels and this is the only one I have wanted to keep to myself.”

Devika Shah

Stayed four nights, February 2026

Where exactly is it?+

Assagao, North Goa — fourteen minutes from Anjuna, forty from the airport, and far enough up a lane that you will need our directions rather than the map application's.

Is it suitable for children?+

Over twelve, gladly. Below that, honestly no — the pool is unfenced, the stairs are 1907 stairs, and the house is very quiet in a way that is unfair to ask of a small child.

What about the monsoon?+

We close from 10 June to 20 September. The house is at its most beautiful in those months and entirely impractical as a hotel; we would rather shut than sell you a compromise.

Do you have a spa, a gym, a bar?+

None of the three. There is a masseuse in the village who is better than any hotel spa, a cupboard of drinks you serve yourself and write down, and a pool.

How do I book?+

Through this page or by telephone. Two nights minimum, three over New Year, and we take a night's deposit which is refundable up to fourteen days before.

A house, run as a hotel, by people who live in it.

Four, on the ground floor

Three, under the roof

One, at the end

The table

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