Must-see hotels in North Goa

  • Wanderers Hostel

    North Goa

    About five minutes’ walk back from Morjim Beach, Wanderers is a real find for budget travellers. The main building, decorated with original travellers'…

  • Siolim House

    North Goa

    Comprising the seven-suite Siolim House hotel and the three-bedroom Little Siolim, Siolim House is one of North Goa’s boutique treats. Situated in an old…

  • Marbella Guest House

    North Goa

    This beautiful Portuguese villa, filled with antiques and enveloped in a peaceful courtyard garden, is a romantic and sophisticated old-world remnant…

  • Jungle Hostel

    North Goa

    One of the original backpacker hostels in North Goa, Jungle brought the dorm experience and an international vibe to Vagator and has expanded to three…

  • Mandala

    North Goa

    Mandala is a very peaceful and beautifully designed eco-village with a range of huts and a couple of quirky air-con rooms in the ‘Art House'. Pride of…

  • Dunes Holiday Village

    North Goa

    The pretty huts here are peppered around a palm-filled lane leading to the beach; at night, lamps light up the place like a palm-tree dreamland. Huts…

  • Bougainvillea Guest House

    North Goa

    A lush, plant-filled garden leads the way to this gorgeous family-run guesthouse, located off Fort Aguada Rd. The eight light-filled suite rooms are…

  • Indian Kitchen

    Calangute & Baga

    Don't be fooled by the name – there's no longer a restaurant here but there is a great little budget guesthouse. Family-run Indian Kitchen has a range of…

  • Alidia Beach Cottages

    Calangute & Baga

    Set back behind a whitewashed chapel off busy Baga Rd, this convivial but quiet place has beautifully kept Mediterranean-style rooms orbiting a gorgeous…

  • Happy Panda

    Arambol (Harmal)

    Traveller-painted murals cover the walls in this very chilled backpacker place near the main village. Young owners have worked hard making the dorms, neon…

  • Dreams Hostel

    North Goa

    With a philosophy of 'art, music, wellness', former backpacker and local DJ Ravi has established a great little creative space for like-minded travellers…

  • Yoga Magic

    Anjuna

    Solar lighting, compost toilets and local building materials (including cow dung and rammed earth) are some of the worthy initiatives practised in this…

  • Elsewhere

    North Goa

    The exact location of this heavenly place, on some 500m of beachfront, is a closely guarded secret. Choose from four beautiful beachfront houses,…

  • Aashyana Lakhanpal

    North Goa

    A five-bedroom villa filled with art, another three-bedroom villa, three two-bedroom casinhas (little houses) and other cottages, set amid 1.6 hectares of…

  • Yab Yum

    North Goa

    This top-notch choice has unusual, stylish, dome-shaped huts – some look like giant hairy coconuts – made of a combination of all-natural local materials,…

  • Bean Me Up Guest House

    North Goa

    Set around a leafy, shaded courtyard that’s home to Bean Me Up, Vagator’s best vegan restaurant, rooms here look simple but are themed with individual…

  • Vaayu Waterman's Village

    North Goa

    The excellent boutique rooms at this water-sports outfit are stylish with the sort of artistic and soulful vibe that goes with the attached gallery,…

  • Resort Fiesta

    Calangute & Baga

    Large, light-filled rooms are the signature at this beautifully designed boutique resort behind the beachfront restaurant of the same name. The labour of…

  • Coco Shambhala

    North Goa

    The award-winning Coco Shambhala is a luxurious retreat with just four two-bedroom villas in a lush tropical garden, each with their own private jetpool,…

  • Village

    Anjuna

    The solid timber and rendered concrete cottages here are some of the best-designed on the beachfront. Set in a pleasant garden, they feature large beds…

  • Fort Tiracol Heritage Hotel

    Arambol (Harmal)

    The five rooms and two suites (all named after days of the week) are part of the refurbished heritage hotel within the walls of the Portuguese Fort…

  • W Goa

    North Goa

    Below Chapora Fort and terracing down to Vagator Beach, W Goa is the newest and swankiest hotel in North Goa with a price tag to match. This is luxury all…

  • Leela Cottages

    North Goa

    These luxury designer beach cottages (deluxe, luxury, grand and suite) are enveloped in a gorgeous leafy garden, just steps from the beach. Stand-out…

  • Pousada Tauma

    Calangute & Baga

    If you’re looking for luxury with your ayurvedic regime, this gorgeous little boutique hotel in busy Calangute is appropriately shielded from the outside…

  • Wonderland Hostel

    Anjuna

    Superchilled Wonderland, off the path behind Anjuna Beach near Lilliput, has a lineup of cabins comprising en suite dorms and a few private rooms (some…

  • Noi Varo

    North Goa

    This wonderful villa, ideal for families or groups looking to book the whole place, is uber exclusive. It’s a spacious, stunning refurbished Portuguese…

  • Teso Waterfront

    North Goa

    This loungy upmarket party place has a cool location looking out on the lake-like mouth of the Chapora River, and is the new home of Thalassa restaurant…

  • Nilaya Hermitage

    Calangute & Baga

    The ultimate in Goan luxury, set 3km inland from the beach at Arpora, a stay here will see you signing the guestbook alongside Bollywood stars and other…

  • Vivanta by Taj Holiday Village

    North Goa

    The Taj’s garden complex comprises 142 cottages and villas in a smart variation on a five-star theme, with all the luxuries you’d expect from this top-end…

  • D’Mello’s Sea View Home

    North Goa

    D’Mello’s has grown up from small beginnings, but is still family-run and occupies four buildings around a lovely garden just back from the beach. The…

  • Riverside

    North Goa

    At the southern end of Mandrem Beach, overlooking the creek, Riverside is an excellent, two-level open-sided restaurant with a collection of well-designed…

  • Sea Horse

    Anjuna

    A lineup of timber cabins behind the beach restaurant of the same name, Sea Horse offers a good location and decent value. The huts are small and get a…

  • Marbela Beach Resort

    North Goa

    The luxury tents and ‘Spanish-style’ villas at this slick resort are pricey but fitted out like five-star hotel rooms. Even if you don’t stay here, the…

  • Paradise

    Anjuna

    This friendly place is fronted by an old Portuguese home and offers neat, clean rooms with well-decorated options in the newer annexe. The better rooms…

  • Beach Street

    North Goa

    The beachfront huts are adorable at Beach Street, where the adjacent building encloses an inviting pool. Well-designed huts range from simple with…

  • Casa Vagator

    North Goa

    Down the steps past Nine Bar and opening out onto craggy Vagator Beach, this is a successfully rendered outfit in the deluxe Casa boutique mould, and one…

  • Beach Box

    Calangute & Baga

    About time someone in Goa thought of recycling old shipping containers. The rooms here are pretty cosy and they're a bit of a novelty in fully equipped…

  • Backpacker Panda

    North Goa

    Down a winding lane and very close to the beach, this is Candolim's best bet for backpackers. Clean four- to eight-bed air-con dorms (some mixed, one…

  • Hotel Bougainvillea

    Anjuna

    An old-fashioned heritage hotel housed in a pretty, yellow 200-year-old ancestral mansion, ‘Granpa’s Inn’ offers charm and a touch of luxury with a lovely…

  • Johnny’s Hotel

    Calangute & Baga

    The 12 simple rooms at this backpacker-popular place make for a sociable stay, with a downstairs restaurant-bar and regular yoga and reiki classes. A…