Raht Aashyana Lakhanpal
A beachfront resort in a coconut grove, where the garden ends at the sand.
It began as a family estate on Candolim beach; Raht Hotels & Resorts keeps it now. Villas with private pools, garden and beach cottages, and rooms in the big house — with six and a half acres, two pools, a spa and the restaurant shared by everyone.
A resort that began as a family estate
The villas and cottages were built one at a time over the years: the big house first, then Venus by the water, three tiled casinhas in the grove, and the cottages. It became a resort without ever being laid out like one, which is why it still feels like a home.
Laterite paths run between them under coconut and banyan. There is a zen garden by the spa, a havan kund and a Shivling under the palms, a garden deck above the sand and a shack on the beach itself — two places to sit and watch the sea, both yours.
From above: six and a half acres of grove, the pools, and the beach at the end of it.
Private pool villas, beach cottages and rooms in the big house
Twenty bedrooms across the resort: two villas, three private-pool casinhas, four cottages and the rooms of the big house. Every stay includes breakfast at the restaurant, the two big pools and the grounds.
A beachside villa for six with a pool of its own, always taken whole. Three bedrooms, verandahs, and the sand a short walk through the palms.
The big house. Upstairs: three bedrooms and the library, as a three-bedroom villa or room by room. Downstairs: two rooms, each booked on their own, and the resort’s restaurant, where every guest is served.
Three tiled Goan houses hidden in the coconut, being renewed house by house. Two bedrooms, an open-air shower and a private pool each; always taken whole.
A two-storey cottage of its own in the garden. One bedroom, or both floors as a two-bedroom house.
Two interconnecting rooms under one roof with a wide verandah, a few steps behind Taurus and close enough to hear the waves at night. One room for a couple, or open the door between them and take the cottage for four.
Two one-bedroom cottages nearest the sand — you hear the sea from bed, first thing and last thing. Each with its own sit-out; taken separately. The ones we suggest to couples.
Whichever villa, cottage or room you take, all of this comes with it
The two pools
Two big pools in the grove, shared by every house. Venus and the casinhas have their own as well.
Spa, yoga, zen garden
Two treatment rooms and an open-sided yoga pavilion, with a zen garden between them.
Havan kund & Shivling
A temple and a fire pit under the coconut palms, for a morning puja or a ceremony on the estate.
Why people come here
The beach, from your door
Two private gates from the lawn straight onto Candolim sand — a garden deck above it and a shack on it. A swim before breakfast, the sunset without leaving the resort.
Table for two, with a violinist
Five courses written for the two of you, five paired beverages, a violinist under the banyan, and no other table in sight — the evening most people come here for.
Mornings in the pavilion
Yoga and yoga nidra under a tiled roof with no walls, the grove on every side. Visiting teachers come to you; a retreat takes the pavilion whole.
Sound healing on the shack
Bowls played on the beach shack as the sun goes down, the sea the second instrument. By the zen garden on quieter days.
Everything we plan, from a table for two to a wedding with the whole resort to yourselves.
A Goan original, long before it became a trend
Writers from Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveller and Gourmet were describing Aashyana as a private, design-led escape on Candolim beach years before boutique Goa became a genre. Twenty years on this shore, since 2005; the pieces are kept here as they were written.
“Aashyana is a dreamboat; a modern design in lush gardens, right on the beach.”
Vanity Fair
“You swim in a diamond blue pool being dive-bombed by dragonflies… masses of space for everyone to get away from everyone else.”
Condé Nast Traveller
An art-filled Goan escape; later selected among fifteen gorgeous beach villas across India.
Gourmet
Alexander Frater, the Observer’s former chief travel correspondent, on a week in Goa: “a large, homely villa with cottages adjoining”.
Write to us
Tell us who is coming and what for. One of our planners writes back today, on email or WhatsApp as you prefer, with the villa, cottage or rooms we’d pick for you.
