FOR HOTELS AND RESORTS ACROSS INDIA
We Only List What We Would Stay In Ourselves
Levistay is India’s editorial hotel curator. We publish honest property assessments for discerning travellers who are planning a serious journey. If your property is genuinely extraordinary — we would like to have a conversation about including it.
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ABOUT LEVISTAY
A Curation Platform. Not a Directory.
Levistay is India’s dedicated personal luxury hotel curation platform — founded in Rajasthan and expanding systematically across India and beyond. We do not list thousands of properties. We maintain a small, deliberately chosen collection of stays that have earned their place through genuine quality, authentic character and consistent guest experience.
Our guests are discerning, well-travelled international visitors — primarily from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, Australia, the United States and Southeast Asia — who travel to seeking genuine cultural and luxury experiences that no booking engine can identify. They choose Levistay because they want someone with direct, personal knowledge of India’s finest properties to make the recommendation. Someone accountable. Not an algorithm. They arrive at a property having been told by someone with genuine knowledge: this is worth your time and your money.
Our service to guests is completely free — they pay exactly your direct hotel rate, with no markup. Because we function as an extension of your own marketing, we simply work on a performance basis: we only succeed when we send verified guests to your property. These details are managed privately and personally during our onboarding conversation, keeping our focus entirely on a shared, aligned partnership.
We currently curate properties across twelve Rajasthan destinations and are actively expanding across seven regions of India and into Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Every region we enter receives the same editorial treatment and the same personal curation standard as our founding Rajasthan collection.
FOUNDED
Rajasthan, India
CURRENT COVERAGE
Twelve Rajasthan destinations
EXPANDING TO
Seven regions across India and beyond
COMMERCIAL TERMS
Discussed privately during partnership conversation
GUEST COST
Zero — completely free to guests worldwide
BOOKING METHOD
Personal — Phone, WhatsApp, and email
ABOUT LEVISTAY
A Curation Platform. Not a Directory.
Before a hotelier decides whether to partner with any platform, they want to know one thing: who are the guests you send? Here is an honest picture of the Levistay guest.
Primarily International — with significant domestic reach
Our guests travel primarily from the United Kingdom, Western Europe, the United States, Australia and Southeast Asia. India is their chosen destination — and they arrive having made a considered, researched decision to be here. They are not accidental visitors. They are experienced travellers familiar with luxury hotel standards globally.
How our guests differ from travel advisor bookings
A guest booked through a traditional luxury travel advisor has purchased a complete package. Their hotel choice was made for them. Oru guest has independently researched, found our editorial content organically, and chosen your property specifically. They arrived at the choice themselves — through content they trusted. That independent agency tends to produce guests who are more engaged, more curious and more appreciative of what makes your property specifically what it is.
They read everything before they book
Visitors planning trip face a genuinely overwhelming amount of conflicting information online. When they find a curator with direct personal knowledge — they read everything. They arrive fully informed, with accurate expectations set by honest editorial assessment. No unpleasant surprises at check-in. No misaligned expectations in the reviews that follow.
They spend on experiences, dining and spa
Guests travelling to have often planned the journey for years. They are here to engage fully — with the food, the culture, the landscape and the experiences your property offers. They book the spa. They take the excursion. They stay for the cultural evening. Higher in-property spend is a consistent characteristic of guests who arrived through genuine editorial recommendation rather than a rate filter.
They leave detailed, positive, informed reviews
Travellers are among the most prolific and influential reviewers on TripAdvisor, nad others. When their experience matches the expectation set before arrival — which it does when the recommendation was honest — the review reflects it. Levistay’s editorial honesty about what a property is and is not protects your review profile from the disappointment that misaligned expectations create.
They return — and they refer
Visitors who have a genuinely extraordinary experience become advocates for both the country and the specific properties they loved. They return — often within two to three years. They recommend to friends, family and colleagues planning their own India journeys. In the high-net-worth international travel community, personal recommendations from trusted friends carry more weight than any advertising campaign.
WHERE WE FIT
A New Category. Not an OTA. Not a Traditional Travel Agent.
We know what you are thinking. You already work with established luxury travel advisors who send quality guests. You barely touch OTAs. So where does Levistay fit — and why does it matter?
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How we differ from traditional Travel Advisors
Traditional luxury travel advisors — are based in source markets and sell complete itineraries. They bring guests who have purchased a full package. Levistay brings guests who discovered us through editorial content online — research-driven, independently deciding, arriving with genuine knowledge of your specific property and why it was chosen for them. Two different types of guest. Both valuable. Neither replaces the other.
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How we differ from OTAs
We do not list your property alongside forty competitors sorted by price. We write editorial content about your specific property — what makes it genuinely worth someone’s journey. A guest who finds your property through Levistay has read an honest assessment of it before arriving. Their expectations are set accurately. Their reviews reflect it.
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The honest category we belong to
Levistay is most accurately described as an editorial hotel curator. We follow a proven global model of high-end curation but apply it exclusively to India and its neighboring regions. Partner hotels do not view us as a standard booking engine or a travel agency; they view us as a prestigious editorial endorsement with a seamless booking component. For the first time, this dedicated level of regional storytelling and selective curation is available for the Indian luxury market.
“Levistay does not replace your existing channels. It adds a guest profile your current mix may not be reaching.”
OUR CURATION STANDARD
The Five Tests Every Property Must Pass
Before any property joins our collection — regardless of its star rating, its brand or its marketing budget — it must answer five questions honestly. A property that fails even one is not listed. There are no exceptions.
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The Story Test
Is there a genuine story here that would excite the most well-travelled guest we know — before they have read a single review?
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The Destination Test
Is this experience inseparable from its specific location? Would it be meaningless anywhere else?
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The Experience Test
Does this property offer at least one experience that is completely unavailable anywhere else in the destination?
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The Luxury Test
Would a guest paying USD 300 or GBP 240 or more per night feel completely and genuinely well served — not merely comfortable?
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The Pride Test
Would we personally recommend this property without hesitation to our most discerning guest?
“If your honest answer to every question is yes — your property belongs in our collection. We encourage you to apply.”
THE PARTNERSHIP PROCESS
From First Message to First Guest — How a Partnership Begins
The process is deliberately simple. We do not require lengthy applications, formal contracts upfront or exclusivity agreements. A conversation is where everything starts.
You reach out
Send us your property name, location, room rate range and a brief description of what makes your property distinctive. A website link is enough to begin.
We assess
We apply our five-point curation standard honestly. We will tell you clearly whether your property qualifies for our collection and which tier it sits within. We respond personally within 48 hours.
We agree terms
We have a direct and honest conversation about how we work together commercially. This conversation happens personally — between Levistay and your property — not on a webpage.
You go live
We write your property page personally. Your listing goes live in the Levistay collection. Enquiries from discerning guests begin arriving.
EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST
Tell Us About Your Property
Whether your property is in Rajasthan, Kerala, the Maldives, Bhutan or Sri Lanka — if you believe it meets our standard, a brief message is the right starting point. We work with properties across South Asia and beyond.
We review every expression of interest personally and respond within 48 hours with an honest assessment. If your property does not currently qualify, we will tell you clearly — and why.
All property information you share with us is treated with complete confidentiality. We do not share enquiries with other hotels or third parties.
- Responded to personally within 48 hours
- No listing fees at any stage
- Complete confidentiality guaranteed
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions From Hotels About Partnering With Levistay
It is a genuinely fair question and deserves a direct answer. Traditional luxury travel advisors bring guests who have purchased a complete India itinerary — the hotel is one component of a managed experience. Levistay brings guests who discovered the platform independently through editorial content, researched your property personally and chose it because of what our assessment said about it specifically. These are two different guest profiles. A guest who chose your property themselves — rather than having it selected by an advisor — arrives differently. More curious, more informed, more engaged with the specific character of your property.
The practical difference is simple. Traditional advisor bookings are built on long-standing relationships between the advisor and the hotel. Levistay bookings are built on the guest's own trust in our editorial content. Neither replaces the other. They reach different segments of the same luxury market.
Honestly — some will initially. What is different is everything. We do not sell packages. We do not operate tours. We do not have a database of clients we call with recommendations. We publish editorial content that is discovered organically by guests doing their own research. A guest arriving through Levistay found our property assessment through a Google search or a social share — not through a travel agent they have used for twenty years. That discovery pattern produces a different kind of guest and a different kind of stay. The model may look similar from the outside. The guest experience it creates is genuinely different.
All enquiries from Levistay guests come directly to us — via WhatsApp, phone or email. When a guest is ready to book, we facilitate the connection between them and your property directly. The booking is confirmed between the guest and your hotel in the same way a traditional travel advisor booking is confirmed — personally, directly and without an automated system in the middle. No GDS. No booking engine. No automated confirmation. A real person handling a real booking for a real guest.
No. Levistay does not require exclusive rates, preferential pricing, blocked availability or any arrangement that affects your existing distribution relationships. We work entirely within your existing rate structure. The only thing we ask is that when we introduce a guest who is ready to book — the booking is honoured and the guest is well looked after.
We write the content ourselves — based on direct research of your property, its positioning and its genuine differentiators. We apply our five-point curation test publicly on the page, source verified guest testimonials from TripAdvisor and Google, and present your property in the same editorial format used across our entire collection. You review the content before it goes live. Any factual corrections are made before publication.
When a Levistay guest is ready to book your property, we make the introduction directly — sharing the guest's name, contact details, travel dates and any relevant preferences with your reservations team. From that point the booking is handled directly between your property and the guest in the same way you handle any direct or advisor booking. We follow up after the stay to ensure everything went smoothly. The whole process is personal, transparent and handled between real people.
Yes — and we actively welcome expressions of interest from our Beyond India regions. We curate properties in Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and in future the Maldives under our Beyond Borders collection. Our international guests frequently combine an India journey with a Bhutan mountain experience or a Sri Lanka coastal retreat — making these properties natural extensions of our Rajasthan collection. The same five-point curation standard applies. If your property meets it — we would like to hear from you.
We will tell you honestly — and specifically — which test was not passed and why. Some properties are not currently listed because the pricing does not yet sit within our collection tiers, not because the quality is insufficient. Others may need improvement in a specific area before they qualify. We treat every expression of interest with genuine care and genuine honesty. A conversation is always worthwhile.
Typically two to three weeks from initial expression of interest to live property page — depending on how quickly we can gather the information needed to write the editorial content accurately. We respond to initial expressions of interest within 48 hours. The property page writing and review process typically takes one to two weeks from agreement.