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Feb 2014. With love to all! (Authors, Seniors, LingerFolk)

All of Feb 2014, we’re in spread-the-love and thanks! mode.

Please come over and write!

If you’re a published author working on the next book (fiction only!) all of Feb is 35% off at all of our properties! Do share your book links with us when you send the mail – we might even get copies for our libraries!

Seniors more than welcome. And gifting vacations to them even more so.

We usually do a 15% off over weekends and 30% off over weekdays for Seniors all year. But all of Feb, it’s 25% off over weekends and 40% off all weekdays. If you gift them a vacation, we’ll up that another 5% each.

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LingerFolk, of course. Our most special guests.

If you’re part of our LingerFolk (you’d have received an email for the same) – one weekend in Feb is a name-your-price one (do write in – will let you in on the dates).

And the rest of the month is a double-the-usual benefits anyhow.

More places? Soon.

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We’re actively working on adding locations – in the Nilgiris (finally!), perhaps a couple in Kerala, and not sure of the dates, but soon in Sakleshpur as well. And one up north in Palampur, Himachal, overlooking the Dhauladhars! Chettimani and Balur Estate will see two pretty rooms added as well. Stay tuned.

Looking forward to a fun February. Let cupid strike all over again 🙂

 

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What we stand for or the Ethos of Linger Guesthouses

After 2+ years, we have finally figured out a tag for what our places are! We’re NOT hotels, of course. Nor did we ever get comfortable with the idea of being a string of “resorts”. None of our properties is a homestay since you do not intrude upon any homeowner’s privacy, not they yours.

What we settled down on is an unsurprising, age old and how-did-we-not-think-of it “Guesthouses”.

Sorry if its a little bit of a damp squib in this age of creative marketing and superlative tags – but thats what Linger places are.

They’re meant to be like the guesthouse a sarkari department your Uncle headed ran in this pretty corner of an irrigation project, or one the bank your dad worked in owned in a charming little town somewhere. They’re spacious, amidst sprawling greens, comforting, comfortable and relaxed, not architect-designed marvels of creative architecture that leave you breathless and in awe. Its about your vacation, really, not how dazzling our places are.

“Guesthouses” describes that perfectly, we think.

What do we stand for?

We’re comfortable with who and what we are. In Coorg, we more than eagerly cook Pandhi Curry and are insect friendly, love the rains and grow coffee.
At Balur Estate we’re proud of the coffee heritage, and the hard work that goes into running the place. We’re all learning about the history, enjoying the stark yet stunning landscape and surpisingly great vegetarian food at the campsite in Devarayanadurga. We’re not about reception desks, uniforms and encourage the staff to not only take pride in who they are, but share the stories and richness of their surroundings. We build locally, use local know-how and help, and rediscover local cuisine, flavours, traditions and practices. We get involved in conservation where it helps. We try hard to be true to the places we find.

   

We believe you should be comfortable too. We want you to laugh out loud, slurp your tea if you enjoy it that way, eat with your fingers, walk around in that old comfortable tee and shorts – its your vacation! We want you to let your hair down and be yourself.

And we believe travel is about the midway point where you come together and seek out and shake hands with this other/new/different thing. Both comfortable with who they are, and both without pretence.  Yet both ready to accept, give, explore and accept with an open mind and ready senses.

That makes going somewhere so much worth it.

Especially to that little guesthouse which you didn’t expect.

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The Do Nothing Tee

We have a Tee!!

Our friends over at the very creative Hung Shoe have made us a Tee Shirt that we want to share with you.

Its got a small Linger logo at the back, and costs 399/- to buy. For details – click on the pic for a very well made tee that reminds you to take some time out for doing nothing….

The Do Nothing Tee
The Do Nothing Tee

Click on the above pic to go the the Hung Shoe page and buy it, gift it, or just plain admire it. Its available in both “Girls” and “Boys” in a bunch of sizes (there’s a useful size chart for help too!).

There’s loads of other nice, funny, interesting stuff there you can see there too.

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Especially Blissful Lingering

Vacations feel that much extra fun and relaxed when you take a break midweek. For one, there’s lesser traffic. The destinations are quieter. And of course, the “hehe, they’re all in office…..” bit cannot be discounted, can it ? 🙂

In fact. we like the idea so much that weekdays are at 15% off (except those special times of the year, of course). But we don’t see enough folks make the effort and make their “leaves” count. So here’s what we decided to do :

All through Feb & March 2011

Checkin on Monday – preferably by lunchtime, Checkout on Fri, post lunch

Pay for just 2 nights! Yessir – thats a full 50% off on a 4 night/5 day stay!

Nopes, doesn’t work for 2N, or 3N.

Take the whole week off, and we’re making it special for you.

Includes everything-out-there, as usual.

So get hold of whoever-it-is you need to get your leave sanctioned, and plan a nice Linger-ing time. At either of our properties (and there’ll be a couple more ready soon).  There’s bikes, books, food, rivers, bonfores, walks, treks and lots of time for doing nothing, snoozing in a hammock and catching over chai or coffee.

Mail us at stay@lingerleisure.in.

Or give us a call right away :

?Vijay: +91-98452-68678 or Sameer: +91-98451-80207 or Santosh : +91-98454-42224