Banjara Orchard Retreat Thanedar

Excellent experience with staff service & comfortable stay. Clean rooms & surroundings. The property is in an Apple orchard. While visiting any place here, you need to climb up & down a lot. From road to property there are close to 60 steps. So for elderly, this can be a problem. Mr. Sharma, the ***ager, was very approachable & gave excellent information on the nearby sightseeing & nature. I and my 10 yr old daughter had to do hiking for which he arranged us a guide, Sunil from his staff. He had good local information & was good at supporting kids. We had two hikes & absolutely loved it. Food options were limited, but taste was excellent. Had bonfire in the evening & it was overall a fun & relaxing experience with the family. The best time to visit will be during Aug & Sept, time for apple harvest. But overall a highly recommended property.

Banjara Orchard Retreat is a beautiful property and certainly a HIDDEN JEM for sure!! It has magnificent view of Dhauladhar range from the rooms. The host, Mr. Thakur is very warm and welcoming. The food was delicious. We felt like we hadn’t spent enough time. There was a personal touch that cannot be found in 5-star properties. The property is an experience. First the good part...Banjara Retreat is in the middle of fruit, particularly apple, belt of Himachal. The property and entire surrounding area are full of fruit trees. A huge shout out to Mr. Srinivasa. Mr. Srinivasa helped organize our stay. I praise the service enough! They were happy to do whatever we wanted. The rooms were comfortable, and the food was great. We stayed in “Walnut” Log cabin. Its almost inside the apple trees, but as this is off season and there is no apple on this time, but you can visit at the season time (May-July). You can enjoy the property in full as there is no TV. You can buy apple jam from the resort itself and made by resort staff. Overall, it’s an excellent experience to stay at Banjara Orchid Resort!! A must stay resort and recommended to all types of traveller's. We will try other Banjara property also very soon!! Thanks Banjara team for making our stay memorable!!

It is a hidden gem amid apple orchads. Thakur Saab the owner of the property interacts with the guests for their comfortable stay . The rooms overlook the undulating hills and apple orchards. We were on a full moon night . The view from the room was enchanting

The host, Mr. Thakur is very warm and welcoming. He helped us ***euver a situation with a landslide. Our problem had become their problem. The food was delicious. We felt like we hadn’t spent enough time. There was a personal touch that cannot be found in 5-star properties. The property is an experience in it’s self. A huge shout out to Mr. Srinivasa. Mr. Srinivasa helped organize our stay across all properties. He also helped us get a car for our tour. Words cannot do justice to how much we enjoyed our stays and how grateful we are to Banjara for making this trip (Spiti/Lahaul) a memorable one. Thank you !

We stayed at three of Banjara’s properties; Thanedar, Sangla and Jispa. We loved all three properties. The hosts are very warm and welcoming. The food across all three locations was delicious. Across all properties, we felt like we hadn’t spent enough time. There was a personal touch that cannot be found in 5-star properties. Each property is an experience in it’s self. A huge shout out to Mr. Srinivasa. Mr. Srinivasa helped organize our stay across all properties. He also helped us get a car for our tour. Words cannot do justice to how much we enjoyed our stays and how grateful we are to Banjara for making this trip (Spiti/Lahaul) a memorable one. Thank you ! Thanedar: The property is beautiful. The owner, Mr. Thakur is very nice to talk to. He helped us ***euver a situation with a landslide. Our problem had become their problem. Sangla: The property is beautiful. A big thank you to Captain Sud for the lovely conversations and for generally making us feel so much a home. Views at the property are beautiful. Jispa Gemoor Khar: The property is nice. The rooms are equipped with heaters and hot water. Food is good.

A beautiful place to stay and great rooms and interiors. The staff is extremely helpful and friendly The place has apple and cherry trees and we had fun plucking cherries and eating them fresh. The views are amazing and overall it's a very cosy place. The room interiors are very good and of high quality. The food was quite good and we could get even extras like snacks and liquor on paid basis. Wish we could have stayed for more than a day

I can't praise the service enough! They were happy to do whatever we wanted including arranging a hot picnic breakfast in the forest for 10 of us! The rooms were comfortable and the food was great. We went during the apple session so that was an added plus!

First the good part...Banjara Retreat is in the middle of fruit, particularly apple, belt of Himachal. The property and entire surrounding area is full of fruit trees. At the end of May, the apples were tiny but cherries were ripe for plucking. The region also grows plums, pears and apricot. The property itself is well maintained with clean rooms, each with a different character. The food is excellent...not too spicy, yet tasty. The open areas of the property is small but that is to be expected in the hills. On the downside, the service was indifferent. A few of the staff including the ***ager was helpful but at times it felt like they were running a boarding school. Did not clean our rooms and then told us it can't be done after 4PM. They never asked for the keys to clean in the first place. Similarly we were told that the activity room can only be used until 1030 even though there is nothing else to do and weather was bad. Finally, we were keen to experience plucking a few cherries and were willing to pay for it but they almost don't allow access to the cherries and didn't take us on the orchard tour. They did cherries for the breakfast from the property though and they were delicious.

An extremely pleasant stay in picturesque surroundings. The camp was much more comfortable than I had expected. Of the three Banjara camps I have stayed in (no disrespect to the other two which were more remote) the food here was superb. The whole camp was in immaculate condition and the gardens and flowers meticulously tended. As with the other camps the ***ager Mr Sharma was extremely helpful and considerate. I was wonderfully cosy in my room with terrace. The organised walks were unde***ding for someone of my advanced years and the views were memorable. I would like to thank all at the camp for a wonderful stay. As an afterthought my ten day trip was organised entirely by Banjara. The driver who was with me for the duration, Bhuvaneshwar Singh, helped make my trip so effortless. His experience and skill on some of the rough mountain roads left me aghast. He was brilliant company as well even if my Hindi and his English didn't always meet in the middle! I have had ***y wonderful drivers in my life and he has to be up there as one of the most skilled I have every met. Quite remarkable. My comments in a review I have just done on the Sangla camp re wifi also apply here.