Best Vegan Friendly Hotels in India

India is a vegetarian’s dream, but that’s not much help for us vegans. Only once you’ve got your head around how vegan actually fits into the picture, will you eat better here than almost anywhere else on the planet. 

That part, I promise, was never going to be the hard bit of this trip.

You’ve already got the street food sorted, you know your dosa from your idli, and you don’t need another list of restaurant recommendations clogging up your bookmarks. What you’re here for are some places to lay your head at night that aren’t going to undo all that good work with a breakfast buffet built entirely around paneer and curd.

The real challenge is finding somewhere to stay that puts the same effort into veganism as the meals in front of you. And that, it turns out, is a much shorter list. 

A properly, unmistakably vegan hotel, the sort you’d stumble into in Paris or London, is still a genuine rarity on the ground in India. But dig a little deeper, ask the right questions, and there’s a solid mix out there if you know where to look.

Some hotels have gone fully plant-based from top to bottom, some have restaurants inside bigger properties, and a few proper wildcards don’t resemble a conventional hotel in the slightest, but will feed you better than one ever could.

Vegan Friendly Hotels in India

Bean Me Up

Anjuna, Goa
Bean Me Up has been doing the rounds on vegan travel lists for years now, and it’s earned every mention. The restaurant is 100% vegan, no small feat in a state as seafood obsessed as Goa, and the attached guesthouse means you don’t have to walk far after a plate of their tofu scramble to pick up your stuff and set out on an adventure.

The setup is simple by design. You’re a short walk from Ozran Beach, tucked under a canopy of mango, jackfruit, and palm trees that do most of the interior decorating for free. Rooms are clean and comfortable rather than showy, each with its own theme, a mosquito net, a fan, and fresh linens changed daily, which matters more than you’d think once the Goan humidity kicks in. Some rooms come with attached bathrooms, others share, and the shared ones are cheaper without feeling like a downgrade.

The real draw, though, is what’s on your doorstep. The restaurant serves vegan food from all over the world rather than sticking to one lane: English breakfast, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, chocolate mousse, the full spread. It makes you forget you’re meant to be trying local Goan food, at least for a day or two.There’s a “Chill Out” area strung with hammocks and parachute canopies for the days you genuinely can’t be bothered doing anything at all, plus space to practice yoga if you’re feeling more virtuous than last night’s mousse suggests. Goa gets a lot of attention for its beach parties and late nights. Bean Me Up is the version of Goa where you go to bed early after a second helping of dessert, and feel smug about it the next morning.

Six Senses Vana

Dehradun, Uttarakhand
If you need a break from India’s hustle and bustle, Six Senses Vana is exactly the place you’re looking for. It’s a luxury wellness retreat tucked into 21 acres of sal forest on the outskirts of Dehradun, with the Himalayan foothills and Mussoorie rising just to the north, and it’s built around the kind of stillness that’s genuinely hard to find on a normal trip through India.

I’ll be upfront: this one is vegan friendly rather than fully vegan. But the kitchens do serve up a dedicated vegan and vegetarian menu. What you do get in return is food taken seriously as part of the whole experience rather than an afterthought. Everything is cooked from scratch on-site, right down to the bread and the ice cream, using organic, seasonal, local produce, with no refined sugars, grains, or air-freighted ingredients anywhere near the kitchen.

Phones are banned from public spaces, which sounds like a gimmick until you’re three days in and have stopped reaching for yours. Meals become something you actually sit through and talk about instead of photograph. Days are built around Ayurveda, yoga, and Tibetan healing traditions, with treatments planned around your specific body type by an in-house team of doctors, so no two stays look quite the same.

It’s a splurge, and stays run on a minimum-night basis rather than a quick overnight, so this isn’t a spontaneous detour. But if you want somewhere that treats a vegan diet as one legitimate option among several rather than a hassle to accommodate, and you’re willing to disconnect properly to get there, Vana delivers on both counts.

Sadhana Forest

Auroville, near Pondicherry
This one isn’t a hotel, and I’ll admit it feels a little cheeky including it on a list like this. It’s an off-grid reforestation project that happens to let you stay, and it might be the most vegan place on this entire list, because veganism isn’t a menu option here, it’s the entire operating principle.

The community has spent over two decades regreening 70 acres of severely eroded land just outside Auroville, recreating a rare Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest type found almost nowhere else on earth. Every meal served is 100% plant-based and whole-food: fruit, vegetables, rice, millets, beans, and dal, nothing processed and nothing pretending to be something it’s not. Meals are shared communally, costs are split at a genuinely modest daily rate, and there’s a real emphasis on food being fuel for the work rather than an indulgence.

Accommodation is basic huts built from local, natural materials, with shared bathrooms and compost toilets, so leave the five-star expectations at home. In exchange, you’ll spend part of your stay doing seva, selfless community work, whether that’s planting trees, mulching, fixing solar panels, or helping out in the kitchen. There’s also a small farm animal sanctuary on site where you can spend time with rescued cows, which tends to be a highlight for most visitors regardless of how they feel about composting toilets.

It’s not for everyone, and a minimum stay applies. But if you want to actually live inside a vegan community for a few days rather than just one night, this is about as real as it gets in India. Pondicherry and Auroville proper are close enough for when you want a hot shower and a change of pace.

Indhrivanam

Thekkady, Kerala
Kerala does dreamy, jungle adjacent stays better than almost anywhere else in India, and Indhrivanam is the vegan pick of the bunch, mostly because there’s genuinely nothing else quite like it. It’s a single detached stone cottage set inside a small private forest in the Thekkady and Kumily area, near the Periyar Tiger Reserve, one of Kerala’s most visited wildlife spots, so you get real seclusion without actually being cut off from anything worth seeing.

The forest surrounding the cottage is planted with rosewood, rudraksha, mango, jackfruit, avocado, and orange trees, which makes the short walk from your bed to breakfast feel more like a nature trail than a hotel corridor. There’s only one cottage available, run by a husband-and-wife team who both have years of experience in Kerala’s tourism industry and do the cooking themselves. Meals are prepared specifically for each guest, vegan or vegetarian depending on what you ask for, so there’s none of the usual scanning the menu for hidden ghee routine you’ll get used to elsewhere in the country.

It’s a genuinely low impact stay too, right down to a dry composting toilet system, which won’t be for all of you, but fits the whole ethos of the place. It’s ideally suited to couples and honeymooners after something a bit different, or anyone who wants total privacy away from the more crowded parts of Thekkady.

Because it’s a single cottage rather than a proper hotel, this is very much a book ahead situation rather than a turn up and see. Give yourself a few days here if you can. It’s not the kind of place you want to rush.

Bunk Stay

Laxman Jhula, Rishikesh
Rishikesh has built its whole reputation around yoga, the Ganges, and travelers trying to find themselves somewhere between a sunrise meditation and a rafting trip, and Bunk Stay fits neatly into that world. It’s a hillside hostel a short walk from Laxman Jhula Bridge, and its rooftop cafe runs a fully vegetarian and vegan menu, no meat anywhere on it, which in a town this geared toward yoga tourism isn’t as rare as it would be elsewhere, but is still a genuine relief to land on after a long travel day.

Worth knowing before you book: Bunk Stay has deliberately shifted away from its old party-hostel reputation. The whole property is now alcohol and smoke free, and the focus has moved toward yoga, breathwork, and a calm reset rather than late-night jam sessions, though the rooftop is still very much the social heart of the place. Expect optional morning yoga, a genuinely stunning view over the river and hills, and a crowd that’s there to unwind rather than party.

Rooms are simple, dorm-style bunks alongside a handful of beautiful private rooms that don’t break the bank, with decent Wi-Fi that makes it a genuine option for anyone trying to work remotely between hikes. The food itself leans toward hostel comfort classics rather than anything ambitious: aloo paratha, toasties, pasta, and solid breakfasts, all built around the vegetarian and vegan base rather than working around it.

It’s a budget stay through and through, better suited to solo travelers and small groups than anyone chasing five-star polish. But for a genuinely calm, entirely meat-free base in one of India’s most visited spiritual towns, it’s hard to beat.

What Does “Vegan Friendly Hotels in India” Actually Mean?

Two of the five above, Sadhana Forest and Indhrivanam, are closer to vegan-first retreats than conventional hotels, and worth going in with the right expectations. Basic huts and a single stone cottage aren’t for everyone, but they’ll feed you better and more honestly than a five-star buffet with a green dot on the label.

Bean Me Up and Bunk Stay are as close to a standard hotel or hostel stay as you’ll get in India, with a strictly vegetarian-and-vegan kitchen built in, no negotiating with the kitchen required. Six Senses Vana sits somewhere in between: a proper luxury hotel experience, but vegan friendly rather than fully vegan, so the vegan menu shares the kitchen with vegetarian and mindfully sourced options rather than having the place to itself.

And if you do want any help piecing your Indian adventure together, Rebecca at Veggies Abroad is your all-in-one, vegan travel planning extraordinaire.

She’s supported hundreds of vegans as they embark on journeys across the world, who just needed a bit of reassurance and support getting going.

You’re in the safest of hands with Rebecca and she’d love to hear from you.