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Wild Brook is a eco-freiendly jungle lodge and is unlike urban hotels so we do not fulfill expectations of TV and air conditioners .You reach here through a river bed driving through Rajaji National Park's Gohari Range following ruts for about 8 Km crossing streams at 4-5 places.We are on solar energy and also on electricity partly now to run fans and CFL's. The accommodation is in cottages which are safe and have an attached tiled bath rooms.We do not have running shower bath. Minimal energy consumption is our policy.Our food is like home cooked meals cooked on slow fire and without thick gravies and targeted towards wellness The property overlooks a small jungle stream which is fed by spring water.Many species of birds are found here like Oriental; Pied Hornbill,Crested Kingfisher,Wall Creeper,Small Niltava and a Brown Fish Owl besides mammals like Wild Elephants,Panther, Barking Deer,Goral,Yellow Throated Marten.Our pholosophy to run this place is to let some money go n the local economy without altering the culture and environment of this area.The water is sourced from a mountain spring which is healthy since we do not advocate use of packaged drinking water at this pristine place.You can contact us for specialised birding tours to see bird species in this area.
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HOTEL STYLE
Hidden Gem
Family
Languages Spoken
English, Hindi
Location
Rajaji National Park, Gohari Range Village Bukandi, Via Kaudia Village , Near Vindhyawasini Temple, Rajaji National Park 247663 India
Wild Brook is the perfect family getaway, offering a delightful escape into nature. Though our stay was short, every moment was filled with joy and adventure. The journey itself was an experience, with thrilling off-roading through the riverbed adding to the excitement. The staff was exceptionally generous and cooperative, making us feel truly welcomed. Manoj Ji was especially helpful, guiding us patiently over the phone all the way from Jaipur. The only concern we had was for our little dog, as we were mindful of him roaming freely in the middle of the jungle. Nevertheless, the experience was unforgettable, with breathtaking landscapes, a serene ambiance, and the thrill of jungle exploration and birdwatching. We are already looking forward to planning another visit soon!
Apologies for sharing this review a little late, but we didn't want to miss the chance to express our heartfelt experience.
Pooja, Vikas, Poornima & Leo
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Date of stay: April 2024Trip type: Travelled with family
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Wild Brook is in the middle of nowhere, which is great for nature lovers. It has basic amenities (a cold water shower, one light bulb in the room). But the wonderful staff make up for much, they serve you breakfast, lunch and dinner, whatever time your want, which is included in the price (around $125 for three people). From there you can make long walks up the hills or along the river bed.
We saw two martens from our front porch. Rajaji Park is 45 minutes away. The staff can arrange several activities (safari, guided walk).
We were there during a cold winter spell. The staff made a big fire outside every evening, but the rooms were freezing cold and we missed a hot shower!
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Date of stay: December 2019
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A place for nature lovers. One can feel totally emersed in nature once you reach the hotel. They do make a profit if they arrange transportation . The manager and the owner did not alway communicate with each other. Things are not all that straightforward. Be careful of your belongings at all times. Food was "home cooked" vegetarian that was light and very tasty. Do not go there in the rainy season.
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Date of stay: October 2021
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Room Tip:a small hotel , the rooms are all about the same.
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This resprt is located in one of most scenic location. With everything going right for it, middle of hill village, river flowing below adding to adventure, rustic amibinece again adds up to the feel. Everything was nice, no tv and sky full of stars. What could have gone wrong ?? A particular manager and his antics forced us to cutshort our visit by a day . We were so disappointed by the behaviour and complete lack of empathy showed by that manager ( i hope he is changed as we visited in Nov 2021). It was litreally a struggle for us as he couldnt arrange even basic things like Milk which seem to be availble in local tea store. Most of time we asked him if can arrange something and he out and out refused, next moment we saw same things being arranged for certain female guest. Apart from that there was continous effort to create silos between guest, interaction between guests were not being promoted infact if we stayed bit longer during bon fire it was being frowned upon and we used to leave, and suddenly we used to see he is enjoying his liquer in company of female guest. We and some other guest felt this silo and discussed among us. Infact i also conveyed same to owner and i hope he must have acted upon same. This resort can have huge potential among genuine jungle lover who just want to come and relax , wish them best of luck
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Date of stay: November 2021
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Response from Wildbrook Retreat, Owner at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 30 Oct 2022
I have read your review two times before making up my mind about how to fairly resoond to it. After covid when we wanted to reopen Wild Brook he contacted us and expressed his desire to manage Wild Brook. We were looking for someone so haplily agreed to it because of his wast experience. Similar reports were made by a family friend who was there from Rajasthan on a personal level. When I asked the nanager to explain he denied every charge but since the reporting person was known to me we took it seriously and asked him to wind up and go. We had lot of problem in managing this far flung property on an off road location but only good thing he did was to introduce us to a very nice chef who is very disciplined and looks after guests whole heartedly .Guests do not forget to mention the way he looks after them. I regret that your experience at Wild Brook was not up to the mark because of the manager Taran's behaviour but trust me if you choose to go there now you will find everything changed there. With lots of apologies and assirance of better experience next time.
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Extremely unhappy with Wildbroke. We had to cancel our booking due to a tragic incident at my family. Mr Manoj promised to refund full amount almost 2 years back but received only one third of my money. If this is how you are treating your guests, trust me your can't run your business. Every time I caused you for money you had multiple excuses for delaying and now I am hopeless to get back my hard earned money
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Date of stay: May 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Don't pay before you go there
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Response from Wildbrook Retreat, Owner at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 23 Aug 2024
Dear Mr. Sribas You booked a holiday a year back and informed me at last minute about your cancellation due to suddenly cropped up family reason. In such cases we suggest you not to cancel but choose another date to stay to support you from loosing money within a year after mutual agreement because on cancelling at last moment the cancellation policy does not allow you to get any refund. You were kind and nice so after passage of some time when you conveyed that you may not accept a holiday later I still thought of refunding you part of it which I did considering your kind words and behavior, though you do not entitle to get any refund as per the cancellation policy to run the small business of having 6 cottages open only for 7-8 months in a year inside a national Park remote on an off road location. Kind regards.
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Dont go to this hotel. They charge Rs. 6800 per room per night and provide very less things. Hotel staff told that they show wrong things on website to attract the costumer. There is no wifi, no TV, very dim light etc.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Room Tip:Only four rooms are there in this resort.
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Response from Manoj Kulshreshtha, General Manager at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 24 Mar 2021
Thanks for the review. We exhibit our charges which we keep updating and guests booking with us agree to the package cost and pay us then only they get the booking in one or some cottage rooms located remotely in wilderness. We provide delicious vegetarian food to our guests.When you go to places which are far away from city and everything works on a pre-decided plan we definitely do not run a multi cuisine restaurant in jungle, cities are best suited for them. The menu comprises of one legume ( Dal/ Chhola, Rajma, Chola etc.),two green vegetables, rice, yoghurt, paneer, high dietary fiber chapatis, salad, pickle, poppadum. You forgot to point out those wrong things which we have shown on our website.All pictures on website have been clicked by me and I own a copywrite to them. The text is also written by me so very politely submit that accusing without substantiating because you found it expensive.It is expensive because of following reasons: 1. The package includes all three major meals,morning and evening tea and applicable taxes in it. 2. Everything you consume there comes from 18 Km far city . 3. We do not have a public transport to bring materials which are used here.4.All the laundry goes for washing once to drop and second time to pick up after washing.5.We only have six cottage rooms to let out.6. Rajaji National Park remains open only from 15th Nov. to 15th June every year for seven months.7. Time to reach the retreat or exit it is in between sunrise to sunset as against road side hotels which are open all 24 hours but on our visitors National Park rules apply and the can not come to us after sunset and can not go out before sunrise so many people do not book our place. 10.We do not want to use TV in jungle lodge where our activities are Jungle drives,Bird Watching,Treks and show wild life.11. We do not use stark white powerful lamps in jungle so that it does not disturb wild life and we do not want them to feel our presence. People coming from cities love to watch constellations and stars which they hardly see in bright light and smog prevailing in atmosphere of the city. I would like to emphasize here that there is a certain value for having pollution free, oxygen rich green surroundings in a country where we are increasing in numbers in geometric progression. We also hear here the babbling of stream, whispering of winds, rustling of leaves, buzz of a bee and many other superlatives which we only read in books but never experience in real urban life. Just give it a thought that why we like to book a cottage in Jungle as compared to nearby very busy cities like Haridwar and Rishikesh where you can get cheaper accommodation.?
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Wild Brook Retreat is a bit off road with katchha jungle road and crossing small rivers to reach at. With very suuportive staff, very tasty food and nice location the overall experience is good. We enjoyed our stay.
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Date of stay: March 2021
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Response from Manoj Kulshreshtha, Owner at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 21 Mar 2021
Thanks a lot Mahendra Pahadia sa. for writing a review about your group's stay at Wild Brook during 13-15th March,2021. We are happy to read that you liked the service of our staff and the food that they cooked was delicious. I just thought that I clarify that this place is still pristine even after it had opened about 18 years back as a first eco-lodge in Rajaji National Park. Reason for this is that there is no road and it will never be made because the way to reach Wild Brook is through the core area of Rajaji. As per Supreme Court's directive no road can be made in any National Park which is a blessing in disguise for properties like Wild Brook.While responding to your review I am taking this advantage to convey once again that this place is located just next to core area of Rajaji National park's Gohari range and offers you to stay in mountain view and river view cottages located along a small hill stream in wilderness serving healthy home cooked meals.
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Absolutely best gateway for nature lovers & adventure lovers... Stay was amazing and food too was nice & fresh like home.. It was an amazing experience, totally out of City Life, peace & only peace.. Would like to visit again 😊
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Date of stay: November 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Manoj Kulshreshtha, General Manager at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 7 Dec 2022
Thank you so much for taking out time to review Wild Brook Retreat for your stay. We,are really happy that you liked it and had a nice experience about food and stay. People like you are our inspiration to continue on the path we chose about 20 years back of developing the first eco-lodge of Rajaji National Park. We were the first one to realize the potential of this park and eversince the inception of the Wild Brook Retreat we have been promoting Rajaji National Park using pictures personally clicked to highlight the unique Wild life and other components constituting its biodiversity. We also started the first jungle safaris in this park to support the local economy . We would look forward to host you again whenever we get this opportunity. Best wishes.
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Our stay at the Wild Brook Retreat was, from start to finish, a complete disaster.
The website for the retreat could not be more misleading. This is not the eco lodge the owner makes it out to be, rather it is a run down and unfinished mess.
This review could run into pages, so bad was our stay, but we will confine it to the worse points.
1. The toilets do not flush and so waste sat in the toilet for days. 2. We had money and clothing stolen from our room. 3. The kitchen was filthy - with piles of plates left for days, unwashed, in the sun. 4. When we complained the owner was insulting and extremely aggressive. 5. The rooms look like abattoirs - simply red brick huts with a corrugated iron roof.
We have been travelling for about 5 months and nowhere comes even close to being as bad as this place. It was dreadful. Do not stay here.
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Date of stay: November 2012
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from wildbrook, Owner at Wild Brook Retreat
Responded 8 Apr 2013
We seriously object to all what this reviewer has written. They deducted our due money saying their money was stolen while she had the lock and key with her. She also accused our staff for so many other things without proof and called me on phone to refund money given against all the services like meals,jeep hire,entry tickets and dropping to Rishikesh in a local jeep. They created such a scene and threatened us through mails to tarnish our image if we did not give them a free stay. We have all those nasty mails stored with us which on request we can make public.They do not know what is an eco-lodge and just want to have luxurious stay in wilderness to reach where you drive through the river bed for some kilometers crossing shallow streams at 3-4 places and the view of Gohari Range's core area. Our location is remote but picturesque and you can hear wild animals calls and many bird species within the campus.Some people have an agenda of free rideand they can not be made happy by even putting your best efforts.
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Mr. Manoj Kulshreshtha, is Scientist and Ornithologist with an great knowledge of wildlife. The resort is located at edge of the Rajaji National Park (Gohari range). Wildbrook retreat surrounding to nature and is an excellent place to visit for bird watching and photography. Activities at Wildbrook - Park Safari in Chilla range, bird watching, trekking, rock climbing, walks outside the park and plunge in streams, rafting in Ganges under expert guides. It is best place to spend closed to nature. Retreat cottages are comfortable and Eco-friendly in wilderness. Lodge will give you the real feel of Eco tourism destination.
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Date of stay: April 2014
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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Yes, each cottage has a single bed and a queen bed (our cottage definitely had).
Pick up from Rishikesh, Haridwar and airport can be managed. Inform in advance so that this can be arranged. Don't expect any luxury vehicle. You will get a local pick-up truck as the terrain in the last 6-7 miles is rough.
Do write if you need any more details.
There are more places to choose from in the Rajaji National Park area.
PRICE RANGE
₹9,288 - ₹10,590 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
IndiaUttarakhandRajaji National Park
NUMBER OF ROOMS
6
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