Luxury Villas and Nature-Based Luxury Stay Experiences You Should Explore Planning a Vacation?
Planning a vacation used to mean picking between beach or hills, big city or quiet town. That binary still exists, but somewhere over the last few years a third category snuck its way onto the shortlist for a lot of us: the kind of stay that isn't really a holiday in the traditional sense. It's slower. It's more intentional. You come back from it actually rested rather than just having been somewhere different.
That pull toward nature-based luxury is real and it's growing. Travellers who've done the overwater bungalow, the Maldives honeymoon, the city boutique hotel — many of them are quietly pivoting. They want green. They want quiet. They want to feel like the place they're staying is actively good for them, not just beautiful to photograph.
If that sounds familiar, keep reading. Because what The Forestry is building is exactly the kind of thing that belongs on this list — and it covers more ground than most.
What Makes a Five Star Nature Resort Actually Worth It
Not every resort with trees qualifies as a five star nature resort. Plenty of places slap “eco” or “wellness” on their brochure, drop a few potted plants in the lobby, and call it done. The ones that genuinely earn the label are built differently — from the ground up, around the idea that nature isn't just scenery, it's the actual amenity.
The Forestry falls into the second category. Its design philosophy isn't borrowed from a marketing deck — it's the founding idea. Zero pollution, zero waste, zero stress. Resilient microclimates with water features, green infrastructure, and renewable energy woven into the built environment. The air you breathe at a property like this is genuinely different from what you're inhaling in most cities. That's not a small thing. It's arguably the whole thing.
When you experience The Forestry first hand, what strikes you isn't one standout feature. It's how many layers there are. Which is what we want to walk you through here.
Samvana: The Luxury Forest Resort Side of Things
The Forestry's resort experience lives under the name Samvana — a Sanskrit word that carries the meaning of a peaceful atmosphere, a state of equanimity and protection. That framing matters. A lot of resorts offer peace as a product. Samvana positions it more like a condition — something the place itself holds, and you step into.
As a private luxury resort experience, Samvana is built around the idea that genuinely switching off requires more than a "do not disturb" sign on the door. It needs the environment to cooperate. Forest cover, natural light rhythms, managed microclimates, the absence of noise pollution — these are structural decisions, not accidental ones. When a luxury forest resort is designed this way, the quality of rest you get there is qualitatively different.
If you've been planning a vacation that's meant to actually reset something — not just pause it — this is the kind of setting worth seeking out.
Samsara: When the Resort Is Also Where You'd Want to Live
Here's something interesting about The Forestry's setup. There's a residential side to it — The Forestry Samsara, the luxury estates and townships offering — and it overlaps meaningfully with the resort experience.
Samsara (the name references the cycle of renewal, transformation, community) is positioned as an eco luxury residential township project. But what that means in practice is that guests staying at the resort are essentially getting a preview of a fuller way of living. The same green infrastructure, the same wellness ecosystem, the same cultural amenities — available not just for a long weekend but as a permanent address.
A lot of people who visit places like this come away with a slightly different question than the one they arrived with. They don't just ask where to stay next time. They start asking what it would take to stay permanently. That shift in thinking says something.
The Spa, the Healing, and What Body-Mind Wellness Actually Looks Like Here
The wellness component of The Forestry isn't bolted on as an afterthought. It runs through the whole thing, and nowhere is that clearer than at Aum: The Spa.
Aum is a spa and wellness resort experience rooted in Ayurveda and healing care. The therapies are bespoke, which matters more than it sounds. A bespoke treatment isn't just a massage with a fancier price tag — it's designed around your specific state, your body's imbalances, what you actually need rather than a menu option chosen at random. The approach is genuinely therapeutic. Detoxification, de-stressing, inner realignment. The language the brand uses for it is good: they talk about tapping into your inner reservoir of pure, positive power. That's not empty wellness-speak. That's a description of what Ayurveda-informed healing, done properly, actually achieves.
For anyone who's been carrying a load — work pressure, family stress, the particular exhaustion of being permanently online — this is a luxury healing experience that operates at a different depth than the typical hotel spa. Couple it with the Wellness by BIOAYURVEDA range, a luxury Ayurveda brand whose products are built on the same philosophy of nature-synced, conscious wellness, and the body mind wellness proposition here starts looking genuinely comprehensive.
The Club That Actually Earns the Word Exclusive
Exclusive is one of those words that gets overused until it means nothing. The Amana: The Club at The Forestry uses it carefully.
Amana (peace, trust, loyalty) is an exclusive members club with three membership tiers: Gold, Platinum, and Titanium. These aren't loyalty points programs dressed up with a fancy name. Members get complimentary room nights in Presidential and Grand Presidential Suites, full all-inclusive access to resort amenities including dining, pool, gym, and spa, plus meaningful discounts at the AMOHA Galleria. The value ratios are genuinely substantial — Titanium membership is priced at ₹5 crore annually but delivers benefits worth ₹15 crore. For corporates and individuals who spend meaningfully on premium experiences year-round, this calculus works.
More than the numbers, though, it's what the membership signals about the community being built here. The people who join Amana aren't looking for a discount card. They want to belong to something that reflects how they actually want to live. That's a different kind of exclusivity altogether.
AMOHA: Where Art, Music, and Luxury Share a Roof
One of the more unexpected parts of The Forestry universe is this: it takes culture seriously. Not as decoration, but as infrastructure.
The AMOHA: The Galleria — an art and music sanctuary conceived as a museum-led luxury precinct — is curated by the Adishakti Museum of Heritage and Arts. Global brands, master artisans, fine dining, cultural programming, shoppable galleries. Contemporary design sitting alongside timeless heritage. It's the kind of space that makes the people who inhabit it more interesting, simply by the things it surfaces and the conversations it starts.
For travellers who find that the best memories from a trip are rarely the spa menu or the thread-count of the sheets — but the unexpected thing they saw in a gallery, or the performance they stumbled into — this matters. A lot of luxury resorts are beautiful but empty of meaning. AMOHA is an attempt to make the space genuinely worth being in, beyond its visual appeal.
So Is It Worth Adding to Your Travel List?
Honestly, the question isn't whether The Forestry deserves to be on your radar. It clearly does. The question is which version of the experience you're looking for.
If you're planning a short stay and want the full-immersion nature reset, the Samvana resort experience is what you're after — a private luxury resort stay that combines the best of a five star nature resort with genuine wellness depth and cultural substance.
If you're thinking longer-term, and the idea of living inside this ecosystem rather than just visiting it has crossed your mind, the Samsara township side is the direction to explore. It's one of the few eco luxury residential township projects in the country that isn't just using sustainability as a selling point but building it into the architecture of daily life.
Either way, the whole thing is underpinned by a philosophy that the founders of The Forestry have been consistent about from day one: regenerating our planet is integral to renewing ourselves. That's not a positioning statement. It's a commitment that shows up in how the spaces are designed, how the wellness is delivered, how the community is built, and how the culture is curated.
Some places you visit are great for a few days. Places like this tend to stay with you a bit longer than that.
The Forestry is currently coming soon. You can join the waitlist and download the brochure at www.theforestry.in.