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From PuneAn Hour to the Pool

Twenty-two thousand a night for four bedrooms and five bathrooms, rated 4.9 across fifty-one stays, and roughly an hour from Pune. There is no better opening offer on this list.

Twelve guests. If this is the first time your group is doing this, book this one and spend the difference on dinner.

Four bedrooms, four bathrooms, twelve guests, 4.8. One bathroom each with nothing to negotiate, at twenty-four thousand.

Eighteen stays behind the score — a shorter record than most here, so take it as solid rather than proven.

Four bedrooms, four bathrooms, pets allowed, 4.8 across thirty-four stays, and it sits in our Luxury Villa tier rather than the standard one.

Karjat is the longer run from Pune — about two hours against one for Lonavala — but the hills are emptier for it.

Kamshet is the closest anything on this list gets to Pune — around forty-five minutes — and this is the best-rated villa in it. Three bedrooms, five bathrooms, 4.9.

Ten guests, and almost two bathrooms each. Paragliding country, and quieter than Lonavala town on every weekend of the year.

Forty-four stays and not one of them marked it down. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, nine guests — small, and perfect at what it does.

This is the villa for one family or two couples who want the weekend to be quiet. A group of fifteen will be happier further down this list.

Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, fifteen guests, 4.9 across fifty-five stays. More bathrooms than bedrooms at thirty-two and a half thousand is unusual and it shows up on Sunday morning.

The most sensible mid-range booking from Pune, and the one we suggest when a group cannot agree on anything else.

Four bedrooms, five bathrooms, pets welcome, 4.9, and in the Luxury Villa tier. A step up in finish from most things at this rate.

Twelve guests. Karjat rather than Lonavala, so budget the extra hour from Pune.

Four bedrooms, four bathrooms, twelve guests, 4.9 held across forty-three stays. A properly tested villa an hour from the city.

Nothing here is trying to be dramatic. It is simply well run, which over forty-three groups turns out to be the rarer quality.

Five bedrooms, five bathrooms, fifteen guests, 4.9. One bathroom per room and no sharing, which is the thing fifteen people argue about most.

Karjat hills, two hours out from Pune. Straightforward, and rated accordingly.

Five bedrooms, five bathrooms, pets allowed, 4.8 across thirty-two stays, and the river is genuinely at the bottom of the garden rather than a kilometre away.

Fifteen guests. In the monsoon this is one of the best settings we have anywhere near either city.

Seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, twenty-one guests, at thirty-eight thousand. Split across the group that is under two thousand a head, which is the sharpest arithmetic on this page.

Rated 4.9 across twenty-nine stays. An hour from Pune, and the obvious answer for a large group that does not want to spend large-group money.

An infinity pool looking down Pawna lake, four bedrooms, room for sixteen, 4.9 across thirty-five stays.

Pawna is about an hour from Pune and the lake is the reason to come. If the photographs are part of the point of the weekend, this is where to go.

Seven bathrooms for four bedrooms is the most generous ratio in this edit, and it comes with an infinity pool and a straight 5.0.

Kamshet, so forty-five minutes from Pune — the shortest drive here to the most extravagant plumbing. Twelve guests.

Twelve bedrooms and twelve bathrooms for forty-two thousand a night, with a straight 5.0 behind it. Across twenty-four guests that is seventeen hundred and fifty a head.

Nothing else we have near either city puts this many separate rooms at this price. If your group is large and the budget is not, this is the answer and it is not close.

Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, sixteen guests, pets welcome, 4.9 across thirty-one stays, near Pawna lake.

The most flexible villa in the middle of this list — big enough for an extended family, close enough to Pune for a one-night trip to be worth it.

Six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, twenty guests, pets allowed, 4.8 across forty-eight stays. Two spare bathrooms at this size changes how a Sunday morning goes.

Karjat, so two hours from Pune. Worth the extra hour when the group is this big.

Sixty-two stays, every one of them full marks. In the Luxury Collection, pets welcome, five bedrooms and five bathrooms for fifteen guests.

Holding a perfect score across sixty-two separate groups is genuinely difficult. This is the surest booking under fifty thousand on this page.

Five bedrooms, eighteen guests, pets welcome, Luxury Collection, and a straight 5.0 across thirty-two stays.

Eighteen guests in five bedrooms means some sharing — worth knowing before you book. If everyone wants their own room, Monte Blu above has seven for less.

One hundred and forty-six stays. That is more evidence than anything else at this rate, and it is still sitting at 4.8.

Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, sixteen guests. A 4.8 that has survived a hundred and forty-six separate groups tells you more about your weekend than a 5.0 from twelve.

Five bedrooms, five bathrooms, fifteen guests, 4.9 across one hundred and eighteen stays, in the Luxury Collection.

At the top end, the number of stays matters more rather than less — you are paying enough that a small sample is a real risk. This has the opposite problem.

Seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, twenty-one guests, 4.9 across one hundred and twelve stays. One bathroom per room at this size, with a track record to match.

The same rate as The Barn above but two more bedrooms and six more guests, for an extra hour of driving from Pune. That is the whole decision.

Ten bedrooms, twelve bathrooms, thirty-two guests — the largest villa in this edit and a straight 5.0 behind it. Two spare bathrooms even at this scale.

Fifteen stays, so a shorter record than The Barn or The Den. But if you are putting thirty-two people in one place an hour from Pune, there is no real alternative.