Weekends disappear fast when work is relentless, and the best fix for that isn’t a week-long vacation, it’s a proper resort near Pune that’s close enough to actually get to. We’ve re-checked pricing, ratings and contact details across all 15 properties below, so this list reflects what’s actually true right now, not what a brochure said a few years ago.
| # | Resort Name | Area | Starting Price/Night | Best Known For |
| 1 | Fort Jadhavgadh | Jadhavwadi | ₹13,500 onwards | 300-year-old Maratha heritage fort |
| 2 | The Corinthians Resort & Club | Undri | ₹9,100 onwards | 25-acre luxury property, TripAdvisor #7 in Pune |
| 3 | Della Resorts | Lonavala | ₹11,700 onwards | Largest extreme-adventure luxury resort |
| 4 | Atmantan Wellness Resort | Mulshi | ₹11,945 onwards | Structured wellness & Ayurveda programs |
| 5 | The Machan | Atvan, Lonavala | ₹10,500 onwards | Treehouses 30-45 ft above the forest |
| 6 | Malhar Machi | Mulshi | ₹11,300 onwards | Lakeside wooden cottages, 4.2★ (2,840 reviews) |
| 7 | Casa Dios | Khandala | On request | Ultra-premium private pool villas |
| 8 | Sentosa Resort & Water Park | Ravet | ₹5,000 onwards | Waterpark + luxury suites combo |
| 9 | Sunny’s World | Susgaon, Pune | ₹5,800 onwards | 100-acre in-city adventure resort |
| 10 | Ambrosia Resort | Bavdhan | ₹3,000 onwards | Independent bungalows, private hospitality |
| 11 | Mantra Resort | Bhor | On request | Altitude views over Bhatghar Dam |
| 12 | Rutugandh Resort | Panshet Road | ₹1,500 onwards | MTDC-approved, budget lakeside views |
| 13 | Camp Temgarh | Watunde, Mulshi | On request | Cottages or tents, bonfire on request |
| 14 | Osho International Meditation Resort | Koregaon Park, Pune | ₹760/day pass | In-city meditation retreat, 32-acre campus |
| 15 | Rutu Farms | Bhor | On request | Organic farm-stay, slower-paced getaway |
Top rated by verified guest ratings and review volume across Justdial, TripAdvisor and Google, not by an arbitrary order.
It’s a real fort. Built in 1710, held by a Maratha general named Pilaji Jadhavrao, and at some point someone had the good sense to turn it into a resort instead of letting it crumble. Current packages run ₹13,500 to ₹14,300 a night, which caught us off guard, we’d had this listed at ₹4,500 the last time we wrote this piece, and that number was simply wrong. Secret passages, actual cannons, a gateway older than most countries’ constitutions. You don’t get that at a themed property, however good their interior designer is.
Starting Price: ₹13,500 – ₹14,300 per night onwards (verified via current packages)
Location: Hadapsar – Saswad – Jejuri Road, Jadhavwadi, Maharashtra 412301
Contact: +91 8191900062 / +91 8191900102
4,300+ reviews on TripAdvisor, ranked #7 of 381 hotels in Pune, 4.3 stars holding steady across 12,900 Justdial ratings. That’s a lot of people agreeing on something. Rooms now start closer to ₹9,000 a night, higher than we’d quoted before, and reading through the reviews, almost nobody’s actually talking about the rooms. It’s all Chef Zameer’s nihari. A couple of reviewers did mention the property’s showing its age, which tracks for something this established.
Starting Price: ₹9,100 per night onwards (varies by room type and season)
Location: Corinthians Club Internal Rd, Nyati County, Undri, Pune, Maharashtra 411060
Contact: +91 20 2697 0900
Della calls itself India’s largest extreme-adventure luxury resort, and for once the marketing checks out, 246 rooms, an actual adventure park, glamping tents with jacuzzis in them. People clearly go for the activities. The food, less so. ‘Average for the price’ shows up review after review, which is an odd thing to read about a five-star property, but there it is.
Starting Price: ₹11,700 per night onwards
Location: Della Enclave Road, Kunegaon, Khandala, Lonavala, Maharashtra 410401
Contact: Available via dellaresorts.com
Not really a weekend resort. Atmantan is rated 4.4/5 and sits out near the Sahyadris with proper wellness programs, Ayurveda Panchakarma, master cleanses, that sort of thing, and most people who go seem to book it as a multi-day program rather than a single night. If you were hoping to pop in for one Saturday, this isn’t built for that.
Starting Price: ₹11,945 per night onwards (double sharing)
Location: Village Palse, Tamhini Ghat Road, Mulshi, Maharashtra 412108
No TV. Patchy signal at best. Treehouses 30 to 45 feet up in a forest that’s apparently one of the more ecologically significant patches of land in the country. Sounds like a hard sell until you read enough reviews from couples who clearly had the time of their lives up there, candlelit dinners, private balconies, actual silence. That last one’s rare this close to a city.
Starting Price: ₹10,500 per night onwards
Location: Private Road, Jambulne, Atvan, Lonavala, Maharashtra 410401
Contact: Available via themachan.com
This is the one where our old numbers were most wrong. We’d had it listed at ₹6,500 a night; current listings put it closer to ₹11,300, which is nearly double. Otherwise it holds up, 4.2 stars across 2,840 reviews, lakeside wooden cottages, bamboo furniture someone clearly put real thought into. The tractor rides sound like a gimmick on paper. Several reviewers specifically call them out as a highlight, which we didn’t expect either.
Starting Price: ₹11,300 per night onwards (updated from earlier listings)
Location: Post Valne, Taluka Mulshi, Maharashtra 412108
No nightly rate published here, because Casa Dios isn’t really a resort in the usual sense, it’s a villa, and you rent the whole thing. Odd fit for a solo weekend. A much better one if there’s six or eight of you splitting the cost.
Starting Price: On request, quoted per booking, not a flat nightly rate
Location: Plot No. 18, Hill Stone Park, Kunegaum, Khandala, Maharashtra 410401
Contact: Available via casadiosvillas.com
Waterpark, banquet hall, and ‘luxury suites,’ all in one property off the expressway. 4.3 on Justdial. But, and this came up often enough to mention, a handful of recent reviews complain about broken AC units and patchy Wi-Fi. Worth asking about before you book, basically.
Starting Price: ₹5,000 per night onwards
Location: Mumbai Pune Expressway, Ravet, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra 412101
Contact: 099 22 99 2520
Ranked #5 of 297 specialty lodgings in Pune on TripAdvisor, which sounds impressive until you notice the actual rating sits at 3. That’s the split with Sunny’s World: great if the 100-acre adventure park (100+ games, apparently) is what you’re there for, less great if the room itself matters to you.
Starting Price: ₹5,800 per night onwards
Location: Sr. No. 217, Pashan Sus Road, Near Mumbai-Pune Bypass Highway, Susgaon, Pune, Maharashtra 412115
Contact: Available via sunnysworldpune.com
Private bungalows in Bavdhan, which is really the whole pitch, no pool deck shared with forty strangers and their kids. If you already live around co-living spaces near Baner, this barely counts as a trip.
Starting Price: ₹3,000 per night onwards (confirm current rates directly)
Location: Ambrosia Resorts, Bavdhan, Pune, Maharashtra 411021
2,700 feet up, overlooking the Bhatghar Dam backwaters. Kids’ waterpark, a rope course, Saturday-night events for the adults. The altitude is the real selling point though, the air’s different, the views are different, and you get a hill-station feeling without the four-hour drive to an actual hill station.
Location: Bhatghar Dam, Bhor, Pune, Maharashtra
Contact: Available via resortmantra.com
₹1,500 a night. MTDC-approved. Actual lake views of Khadakwasla from the balcony. We keep expecting to find the catch at this price and keep not finding one.
Starting Price: ₹1,500 per night onwards
Location: Gorhe Khurd, Off Donje Phata, Panshet Rd, Pune, Maharashtra 411025
Contact: +91 8308828382 / +91 9100076000
Cottages if you want a proper bed, tents if you don’t, a bonfire either way if you ask nicely. This is the pick when half the group wants ‘real camping’ and the other half wants a bathroom that flushes.
Starting Price: On request, confirm current rates directly
Location: Lavasa Road, Mulshi, Taluka Watunde, Maharashtra 411032
Contact: +91 94225 16089
Maroon dress code. No photography. A 32-acre campus running ten-plus styles of meditation a day that isn’t remotely trying to be a fun weekend, this is the one entry on the list with nothing to do with waterslides. If quiet is actually what you want, though, nothing else here gets close.
Starting Price: ₹1,400 registration + ₹760/day meditation pass (roughly ₹15,000 for a 5-day stay package)
Location: 17, 1st Lane, Koregaon Park, Pune, Maharashtra 411001
Contact: +91 20 6601 9999
Fewer amenities than everything else on this list, and that’s kind of the point. It’s a working organic farm, produce, open fields, a pace of life that’s the opposite of the waterpark-and-buffet formula most of these resorts run on. Smaller operation too, so call ahead instead of just showing up.
Location: Near Bhor, Pune, Maharashtra
If a couple of these resorts have you thinking about spending more time in Pune rather than just a weekend, that’s worth acting on too. A lot of people who visit for a trip end up wanting to stick around for work or study, and if that’s you, it’s worth looking at hostels in Pune or PG in Pune rather than committing to a full flat straight away. Dormitory-style and shared-hostel setups are a lot more flexible if you’re not sure yet how long you’re staying, and they come with the same chef-prepared meals, housekeeping and Wi-Fi that make the actual weekend-planning part of this list possible in the first place.
Either way, don’t let another month go by without using a weekend properly. Pick one resort off this list, actually book it, and go. The fort, the treehouse, the lake — none of it matters as much as just getting out for a couple of days. You’ll be back at your desk soon enough.
Based on current guest ratings and review volume, Fort Jadhavgadh, The Corinthians Resort & Club, and Della Resorts are the most consistently well-reviewed. All three combine strong reputations with genuinely distinct experiences, heritage, scale, and adventure respectively, rather than just similar amenities under different names.
Across our updated list of 15, prices range from around ₹1,500 a night at Rutugandh Resort to premium properties like Fort Jadhavgadh and Malhar Machi starting above ₹11,000. A handful of resorts, including Casa Dios and Camp Temgarh, don’t publish fixed rates and quote per booking instead.
Yes, Sunny’s World in Susgaon and the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park are both technically inside Pune city limits, so there’s no real commute involved if your weekend is short on time.
Sentosa Resort & Water Park and Mantra Resort both work well for families, thanks to their waterparks and activity programs. Camp Temgarh is a good option too if your group wants the choice between cottages and tents.
Fort Jadhavgadh is the clear standout, it’s built around a genuine 300-year-old Maratha fort structure rather than a themed replica, and it’s the only heritage fort resort of its kind in Maharashtra.
Atmantan Wellness Resort in Mulshi runs structured programs like Ayurveda Panchakarma rather than a generic spa menu. If meditation specifically is the goal, the Osho International Meditation Resort in Koregaon Park is a completely different but equally strong option.
Not always, while researching this list, we found several properties (Fort Jadhavgadh, Malhar Machi in particular) charging noticeably more than what’s commonly quoted in older articles. It’s always worth calling the number listed to confirm current rates before booking.