Good place to be with nature . Review on Maval Srushti, Pune

Comments: If I had to mention our (My wife & Me) experience at Maval Srushti in just one word - Excellent. It is truly a 20 acre mountain paradise (as advertised by the resort owners). If you are a nature lover & like to be with nature this should be your ideal weekend gateway just one hr. from Pune & around 3 hrs. from Mumbai. Situated at height of 2800 Ft. (around 400 ft. more than Lonavala) the best time to visit this resort is during monssons as the pvt. waterfall (the best part of the resort) can be enjoyed during this season only. You can reach the waterfall & explore this big property with well marked treks which is another plus point of this resort. We also found thousands of plants, flowers & trees in the resort, in fact not a single area has been left without any plantation.

The resort is a photographers delight as we found out (Photograhy being our new found passion) & spend most of our time clicking pictures, getting wet in the waterfall & enjoying three hearty meals in a day of Maharashtiran Veg. Cuisine. The resort also has two swimming pools one at the upper level & the other one at lower levels. It also has play areas for children & other activities include table tennis. The rooms do not have T.V. which is a plus point as you tend to spend more time with nature instead of exploring the idiot box. To sum up our experience at Maval Srushti, we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in the company of nature & minus T.V., Mobile (No mobile network), Newspapers, No vehicular traffic (Excpet for those visiting the resort) etc.,

Best Experience:Our entire stay was the hightlight & it was truly one of the best experience we had. There were no. of best experiences which I would like to share.

1] The Waterfall is the best attraction of this resort. We stayed at the resort for 3 nights / 4 days & each day we paid visit to this waterfall which can be approached through three different levels. The only negative part about this waterfall is that it is active only during monsoons (But that is in nature's hands). Also being a pvt. waterfall as it falls in the resorts own area outsiders are not allowed, which leaves entire waterfall to the guest of the resorts. In fact during early morning two of us were the only visitors to the waterfall that means we get to enojoy the same entirely.

2] Another good feature of this resort is that it does not allow smoking & drinking of alcohol - which keeps the trouble makers out of this resort.

3] The resort being eco-friendly has a no. of water tanks for storage & through out the year the water is supplied to the guests from this water tank. Hence the rain water is utilised at it's fullest.

4] The season being monsoon & the hot water facility being run on Solary Energy which is ineffective during this time, the resort has installed LPG based water heaters which is good. As a hot water bath is must after visiting the waterfall. The staff (room service boy) was very co-operative in delivering hot water buckets to our room.

5] Another of our best experience was at the dining hall. We being consumers of Stricly Jain food, the lady looking after the day to day work of resort (You may call her the manager - Ms. Chaya Joshi) took excellent care of our food habits & instructed the cooks about the same. Also she made a point that everyday we get different variety for breakfast & also looked after that vegetables were not repeated any day during our 4 day stay. If the crowd is more she herself sits down to help the cooking staff. Also everyday fresh vegetables were brought from nearby villages & Pune. The other staff is also very courteous & helpful.

6] On last day upon request our chek out time was extended from 11.00 AM to 4.00 PM, which is a sign of their excellent hospitality.

7] I came to know about this resort through India Resorts & then I visited Maval Srushti's website & after visiting the resort found out that everything mentioned in the website is exactly the same at the resort.

8] On the first day we found out that bathroom light of our room was not working & within 15 minutes of bringing the same to the notice of the resort staff it was rectified.

9] To protect insects & mosquitoes from entering the room all the windows in our room were fitted with nets & also Goodnight was provided.

10] We had uniterrupted power supply through out our stay with the help of generator as there is not govt. power here during monssons.

Worst Experience: Worst Experiences - Not exactly worst but still would like to mention:

1] Although the resort arranges for pick up to & from Pune (at extra cost) the resort vehicle did not come to pick us up at Pune Railway station & also did not drop us at railway station. We had to reach to the vehicle by taking a rikshaw.

2] The room & bathrooms although clean could still do with some makeover. For eg. We stayed for 4 days & found that to keep clothes & other luggage there is no space or cupboard. Although a door mat is provided at the entrance of the room it is not useful in cleaning the legs (most of the time your legs are wet) & whole room gets wet because of this as we have no option but to enter the room with wet legs.

3] We were not able to use swimming pools (two of them) as the water there was not clean. This may be because of the monssons.

4] The utensils (especially glasses & water jugs) used for serving food were not 100 % clean. This is one area where they need to improve.

5] Although we were more than satisfied with the food being served but a little bit of variety in food will do a lot of good for the resorts non-maharashtrians guest