Ranjit's Svaasa Amritsar

Hidden behind an old rustic wooden gate and enveloped by local residences all around, the exoticism of Ranjit's Svaasa silently echoes within the old trees that overshadow its innate brick-redness. Run by the Mehra family themselves, Ranjit's Svaasa is a destination spa haveli, with a history dating back to over 200 years. Its possibly one of the oldest surviving haveli in Amritsar with photographs hanging in the Time Corridor as far back as seven generations.

Illuminated by the speckle of lights and incandescent candles, the atmosphere is best absorbed in tranquility. The haveli, like 'the breath' which inspires the name 'Svaasa', breathes in life; perfect for those seeking exclusiveness spiced by the signature Svaasa touch.

A part of the award winning ITC Welcome Heritage Chain of Hotels and Resorts, Ranjit's SVAASA flowers its soothing ambience and guest services in the comforting hands of its caring staff, an extension of the family’s morals and values, with character and serenity, where silence speaks more than words.

The Accommodation is offered in various Suites which are as follows

Rai Bahadur Luxury Suite
Rai Bahadur Luxury is the base category. Opening out to terraces or the courtyard they constitute eight boutique rooms. Apt for single, double/ twin, or triple occupancy, they are spread over the ground floor and first floor.

This category houses, apart from the comforts of a well furnished designer boutique room, the signature Svaasa Tea Tray with an Electric Kettle, an electronic safe for your personal belongings, a hair dryer and pure herbs bath & shower amenities along with the eco-friendly Svaasa jute slippers.

The various Rai Bahadur Suites are

• South Court
• Court view
• West 'N' Oak
• Regal
• Classic
• Sunrise
• North West
• Park view

Svaasa Suites
A potpourri of six Svaasa suites span across the courtyard. Four occupy the rooftop with an all white Fitness Atrium amongst them, a palatial terrace with outdoor lounges and huge pots, while two settle on the first floor amidst the Ratnavali Suites.

The Various Svaasa Suites are named after the family member's who own Ranjit's Svaasa

• Raja Singh
• Kalyan Singh
• Prakash Chand
• Labh Chand
• Khushal Chand
• Lal Chand

Ratnavali Suites
Three Ratnavali Suites illuminate the back courtyard. Amravati, known for her captivating beauty, sits comfortably on the ground floor facing the courtyard. Above her, on the first floor, are her two sons Dev Chand and Mohan Chand.

Designed by the otherwise similar twins, each of the three Suites recite a different story. There's so much more to them beyond words. Being the haveli's signature suites, early confirmations are much appreciated.

Presidential Suites
Own the supreme most suites that have hosted celebrities alike in one of Amritsar's oldest but most posh haveli! Begetting for family or friends who sincerely want their own privacy and exclusivity, choose from the Rattan Chand Presidential Suite or the Kesar Devi Presidential Suite.

An option within the Presidential Suite is the Junior Presidential. As grand as the Presidential but slightly more cosy and just about right for your comfort, this houses the Grand Master bedroom  with its Day Room by itself.

After all, it's Rama Ranjit Mehra's endeavour to serve healthy. Organic, as much as possible, is procured and brought over to the Svaasa Kitchen to be cooked without the use of refined oil by the chefs. Healthy cooking practices are incorporated and a number of condiments are freshly prepared and served on a regular basis. Dishes that you would not have often seen, heard and tasted, but nonetheless are authentic to the Punjabi palate and popular to each season are served.

Dining by the Garden
The Dining By The Garden is a charming hideaway that seats thirty. It is a beautiful marriage of interiors offering a warm comfortable experience. Soft music, dim lighting, candles and a fusion of melodious aesthetics is coupled with the impeccable level of attention designed to pamper you. Dining By The Garden is popular for its buffet breakfasts and buffet dinners, as also the traditional thali dinners.

Herbs Cafe Verandah
The Herbs Cafe Verandah is a sociable lounge where one can enjoy a quite bite or high tea. A pleasant space along the north of the haveli with a scalloping roof and French style windows, its aura gives you much respite from busy sightseeing schedules. Here the evening lights play a scene from the past and an upright piano echos a fine tune; the old tapestries and the archaic flooring take you to a time way back.

Sun Deck Patio
The Sun Deck Patio is the patio breathing lovely foliage of fragrant frangipanis, finnish palms, flowering kochias, arica palms surrounding lounges waiting for your company. xA lovely spot for a private gathering, wine and cheese, Punjabi folklore... the Sun Deck Patio has hosted art exhibitions, high level executive breaks, musical evenings and more...

Aab - The Roof Top Dhaba
Aab, speckled with traditional charpais and manjas offers the locally popular Punjabi food. It serves special Punjabi delicacies like Sarson ka Saag-Makki ki roti, Poori-Aloo Laungi, Kulcha-Chana along with Lassi... typically like in the villages of Punjab. Aab, which means a river, changes its course every now and then to reveal a surprise. The cuisine, ambience and calling is like a mirror which reflects a story you wish for it to tell!

At Svaasa, the evidence supporting the circadian prescription of therapeutic massages, diet, nutritional supplements & lifestyle is sturdy. Human bio-chemistry is rhythmic and sequential. It simply makes sense that your body will function better if given the right raw material - carbohydrate and protein - when they are needed. At Svaasa the team, keep the state of your body in balance and the circadian rhythm in synchrony by advising natural supplements & healthy lifestyle practices that tend to move in the direction of multiples.

At Svaasa Spa, the therapies are not just an expanse of treatments across the menu, but thoughtful works of art meant to recoup, revive and rekindle the body and mind.

Various Therapies include

• Head & Hair Therapies
• Foot & Leg Therapies
• Healing Therapies
• Facial Therapies
• Body Therapies

Yoga, Pranayam & Meditation
For a complete purposeful holistically balanced touch of wellness to help you achieve and sustain your optimal physical, mental & spiritual health, Ranjit's Svaasa along with Svaasa Spa offer Yoga, Pranayam & Meditation.

Stretching, Aerobics & Exercises
A 50 minute workout with a personal instructor. Synchronise your mind, body and reflexes with a session of stretching, bending and loosening your body. Exercise oxygenates body tissues and improves lymph circulation. Many body tissues derive their nutrients and get rid of their wastes through light exercise/physical activity.

Wellness Counselling
A proactive session with the Svaasa Expert's for a holistic analysis of your health and well being. Help us determine your balance-imbalance of Vata-Pitta-Kapha with insight into your diet & lifestyle and how it is affecting you. A reversal in any imbalance would beget mental and physical equilibrium. They advice you on corrective eating habits,  nutritional supplements & an exercise/yoga regime.

The Hibiscus Pavilion
A handsome courtyard with a marble basin, around which resting are chairs sheltered under fruit trees, invite you to break into the monotony of sipping a healing cup of organic herb & spice infusion or a health beverage as selected by you or advised by your Svaasa Wellness Consultant. Ayurveda, Alternative Medicine, Accupressure, Universal Therapies, Diet & Nutrition are holistically incorporated to address your wellbeing.

Gym in the Hut
Gym Hut houses a Cross-Trainer, a Cycle and a Rowing Machine. It is a great den for your cardio-workout and is open from morning till evening. Workouts are your own responsibility and they wish you the best of health while you're at it.

The diverse range of activities may be a reason enough for you to step out of your relaxation and indulge yourself in some memorable recreation. All the activities are personalized sessions keeping you in mind.

Feeding the cows at the Gaushala
Over 600 cows are looked after in this Gaushala (gau means cow and shala means shelter) by the walled city of Amritsar. Also, a part of the Rai Bahadur Rattan Chand Trust, it supplies cow's milk to a number of homes including Ranjit's Svaasa.

Feeding Lunch at Amritsar's blind school
Ranjit's Svaasa will be pleased to organize your visit to the Blind School during their lunch hours so you can give food to them. You may buy some fruits on your way to distribute or just feed them their cooked lunch.

Bhangra / Gidda
A 30 minute session to learn the lively traditional folk dances of Punjab performed at the time of a ceremonious occasion or merriment. Enjoy this authentic dance class with our instructor with soulful Punjabi music.

Table Laying & Napkin folding styles
A 30 minute workshop on how to lay a table for a sit down dinner as well as a buffet. Also, beautiful napkin folding techniques to liven your dining layout.

Science of Ayurveda
A 30 minute workshop on Ayurveda: Vata - Pitta - Kapha. Learn about this traditional influential system of medicine and how on a simple level it relates to you and your family's everyday life.

Night Palki at the Golden Temple - Tanga ride
Enjoy a memorable ride sitting on your own private horse cart (tanga) to visit the evening procession of the Holy Book at the Golden Temple. An escort accompanies you on your journey to the Golden Temple, lit beautifully with the sounds of devotees chanting and trumpets blowing, and brings you back on your tanga post the breathtaking ceremony.

Market streets & the Ram Bagh gardens - Tanga ride
A joyous tanga ride with an escort to relive the days of the Raj. Trot into the royal historic Ram Bagh Gardens and capture the sights of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's statue, ride by his Summer Palace and visit the Panorama - a museum made in his memory.

Local dinner outing - Tanga ride
What better way to get the best table in the house than by riding out to your preferred local restaurant or dhaba for your dinner in style. Enjoy your meal as your chariot awaits you and brings you back boasting of the same oomph as you went in.

Amritsar literally translates as 'amrit ka sar-ovar', the lake of the holy nectar. It is a patchwork of malls, branded stores, coffee joints, restaurants adjunct to which are the narrow streets and lanes of the walled city where till today one finds the old world charm thriving.

In Amritsar
Golden Temple
Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, is the most important and sacred shrine of the Sikh faith. It is the only place of worship in the world where the sanctum is located in a tank.

Gurdwara Baba Atal Sahib & Shahidganj Baba Deep Singh Gurdwara
A little further from the Golden Temple, a beautiful octagonal tower over 45 meters in height,  commemorates the birth of the 9 year old son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Guru.

Jallianwala Bagh
About 200 meters from the Golden Temple is the historic icon Jallianwala Bagh. It is here that India’s freedom struggle reached a turning point. At the farthest end of the Bagh lies the Martyr’s Memorial built in the shape of an eternal flame.

Shree Durgiana Mandir
A famous Hindu shrine - Durgiana Mandir also known as Sitla Mandir. The Shitla Mata (Durga Mata) temple is more than six hundred years old. A complex is built as a replica of the Golden Temple. The domes of the temple are in the process of being plated gold.

Khalsa College
A breathtaking creation of architecture, the Khalsa College catches many an eye for its pure opulence and functionality. The majestic red-stone building is considered a gem of the Indo-Saracenic style which is strongly influenced by the Indian and Mughlai schools of art and architecture.

Wagah Border
Also known as the window to Pakistan, the Wagah Border, along the erstwhile Grand Trunk Road, is a joint Indo-Pak check post located about 29 km from Amritsar at Atari. It stands like a mute witness to the convoy of history but also shares the laughter of peace and good times. The Lowering of Flags Ceremony, better known as the Retreat, is like a high energy theatrical production which runs non-stop 365 days a year.

Sarai Amanat Khan
Near the Wagha Border lies a dilapidated Mughal era caravan sarai. It is one of a chain of caravan sarais on the Grand Trunk Road that was built by the Mughals to make the otherwise difficult Lahore-Agra journey an easier one. Amanat Khan was the legendary calligrapher of the Taj Mahal.

Pul Kunjarian
Pul Kunjarian is situated near the villages of Daoka and Dhanoa Kalan, close to the Wagha border, about 30 kms from both Amritsar & Lahore. It is a square pond near the site of a weekly market that used to be held before 1947.

Hall Bazaar
The Walled City or the Old City is popularly known as Hall Bazaar. Just as the name suggests it is a bagful of shops on the ground floor and homes above. Lined along the streets, within narrow galis and lanes, each katra (area) has its own speciality.

Around Amritsar
Radha Soami Satsang of Beas
The Radha Soami practice of Shabd-Yoga meditation involves recitations of God’s name and complete surrender to divinity. One may attend the daily Satsang and enjoy the spirituality and beauty of this Ashram.

Tarn Taran
Tarn Taran which lies 24 kms from Amritsar was founded by Guru Arjan Dev in 1590. Charmed by a picturesque little village called Khara-Plasor, he decided to construct a magnificient holy tank measuring 300 square meters.

Khadoor Sahib
Just 20 kms east of Tarn Taran lies the hamlet of Khadur Sahib, where Guru Angad, the second Guru, began to give a distinctive form to Sikhism. It stands 32 Km from Amritsar and was established by him on Guru Nanak Dev Ji's advice.

Goindwal Sahib
Probably the first pilgrimage site of Sikhism, Goindwal Sahib lies 10 kms southeast of Khadur Sahib. Founded by Guru Amar Das on the banks of river Beas, it is famous for its Baoli or stepped well which has 84 steps leading down to the water.

Takht-I-Akbari
The platform or Takht-I-Akbari used for the coronation still stands on the towns outskirts as does the Akbari Masjid, built to commemorate the occasion. It is protected by Archaeological Survey of India and the Masjid is beautiful.

Mahakaleshwar Temple
The only Shiva temple in India where the Shivalingam is in horizontal position. Since time immemorial, a big Shivratri fair is held every year in the Mahakaleshwar temple on Shivratri day when a large number of devotees gather here to celebrate the festival.

Dera Baba Nanak
Situated 45 Kilometers west of Gurdaspur, Dera Baba Nanak is where Guru Nanak's son reburied his father's ashes next to the Ajitta's well where he use to sit and preach.

Beyond Amritsar
Dharmashala
The hill station of Dharamshala, in the upper reaches of the Kangra Valley, is surrounded by dense coniferous forest, mainly deodars. A scenic drive begins its climb after Pathankot and it takes odd four hours from Amritsar.

Mc Leod Ganj
Further up Dharamsala lies McLeod Ganj, named after David McLeod, once the British Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab. Situated on the Dhauladhar range, it is this upper district that is home to the Tibetan community and the center of tourist activity.

Dalhousie
A beautiful hill station in Himachal Pradesh, Dalhousie was established in 1854 by the British Empire in India as a summer retreat, named after Lord Dalhousie who was the British Viceroy at that time.