• This was the very first hotel to open in this area (in the hills outside of Cherrapunjee town) and it was the owners, Denis and Carmela, who brought the story of the living root bridges to the world.
• It is the best hotel in the best location for getting to the living root bridges.
• The owners are committed to bringing benefits of any tourism to the local communities.
• The friendly staff are almost exclusively Khasi (which is rare in this area).
• The views to the forested hills are beautiful.
• The rooms are very comfortable, and they offer a very good vegetarian buffet breakfast and dinner.

If you’re coming to Cherrapunjee, you’re coming to see the living root bridges. In our view, if you’re coming to see the living root bridges, you need to be staying at Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort. It’s in a far more beautiful location than the more expensive hotels in Cherrapunjee town and closer to the bridges. More than that, the rooms are good (we recommend the premiums), the owners are lovely big-hearted people, their staff are great and, while the food is not haute cuisine, it’s really tasty! 

Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort is not a holiday resort in the way that the term tends be understood in the west (no pool, no spa, no particular in-house activities nor many facilities). It is, however, a good base from which to explore the beauty of the hills around Cherrapunjee and especially the living root bridges.
Founded and still run by Denis and Carmela, this couple were the first to set up a hotel in this area, and have been the key drivers in bringing the world’s attention to the living root bridges here. They have always done this with a view to bringing the local communities here (which are quite remote) some economic benefit from tourism.
The hotel is not the most luxurious in Cherrapunjee (that would be the Jiva Resort or the Polo Orchid) but this is our preferred place to stay here.
It’s still quite a small hotel and it has the ambience of an explorer’s resthouse, though with better rooms! It’s the kind of place you can sit at night and chat to others about what bridges they’ve seen that day and how hard the treks were. Since most people eat at the same time (the buffet) it encourages the intermingling of guests and so conversations tend to start up easily. Most of the clientele is Indian (Meghalaya is still not really on the international travellers’ map) so it’s interesting to chat to the other residents.
The premium rooms are well-appointed with comfortable beds, en-suite bathroom, ceiling fan and kettle.