Aranyak Resort Kanha

The resort provides a budget-friendly, luxurious stay with exceptional hospitality and rich breakfast parcels. Its prime location and spacious, well-equipped cottages offer a peaceful and comfortable experience.

Good grief, where do I start? I honestly wish TripAdvisor would let me put 6 stars for this place. This is the only place and time in my life I've been made to feel like a member of a royal family. After struggling to organise any safari trips in Kanha, from the UK, we found Rishi from Aranyak was able to sort everything. Literally everything. Payed the deposit (we were nervous transferring money from England to India, but I can confirm it worked out perfectly) and that was the end of our stress. On arrival we were greeted with multiple staff, bags taken care of, and a welcome drink waiting for us. We were then shown to our room which was lovely and spacious. The next morning, we began our safari with our driver Santosh. This *** is a God of Kanha. His knowledge of the animals in the park is astonishing. As other vehicles moved in many directions with news of tigers in the area, he often parked up in a seemingly random location and said to wait. Then, as if by magic, tigers appeared! Only a *** with 24yrs experience could do that. If you book, no, WHEN you book to stay here, make sure Santosh is your safari driver. Then after each trip out we returned to Aranyak only to be greeted the same, wonderful way again. Then we get to dinner. This was sublime. We stayed 4 nights here and I'm fairly sure I gained 2kg. Each night I waddled back to the room having over eaten because it was just so bloody good I couldn't stop eating when I should have. Top tip for westerners, I ate chicken and didn't get sick! You can relax here. On Wednesday afternoons there are no safaris allowed so we chose to just chill at the resort. Seeing us doing not very much two staff members asked if we'd like to go for a short walk down to the local river, which we did. What a lovely experience seeing a small local beauty spot from the guys living there. Yet more affirmation of how much these guys will look after you. We had one tiny problem with the shower during our stay and it was fixed very quickly after we let them know. Splendid. Finally, on the last morning, our prebooked airport transfer back to Jabalpur never turned up. I asked the *** on the desk to ring our transfer company and got the feeling it hadn't gone well. He proceeded to ring round many local people and got us a taxi who got us back to the airport with 6mins to spare before check in closed. I will forever wish i had more cash left to tip the driver. So overall? I firmly believe the team at Aranyak Kanha are the greatest people I've ever stayed with. 11/10, highly recommend.

The best part of our stay was that the staff were very courteous and always made sure that we were taken care of. They were super proactive about ensuring the guests had all comforts possible, this included special breakfast boxes they would pack for the guests to take into the safaris, or the blankets to make sure that the guests weren't cold out there. We never had any issues getting something that we asked for and they even went out of their way to make sure they could provide us with all the off menu food orders we placed.