Diveagar Hotels

Diveagar along with Shrivardhan and Harihareshwar is one of the destinations around Mumbai and Pune at the perfect distance for a quick get away, its neither too close nor too far! With Murud Janjira also just a ferry ride away from Dighi; 15 kms from Diveagar, its not surprising that this region has been frequented by tourists from Mumbai and Pune.

There are many resorts and hotels in Diveagar and after MTDC introduced the bed and breakfast scheme, almost all the houses here offer accommodation or food to the tourists. Living in a homestay in Diveagar also adds to the flavor of the holiday with a new experience although they might not be able to offer all the amenities that you would find in Diveagar hotels.

Pearl Resort          

One of the bigger resorts in Diveagar, Pearl resort is spread over a large 3 acre campus. With 26 rooms which include luxury suits, deluxe rooms and family cottages along with open spaces & kids play area and ample parking space within the campus Pearl Resort is an ideal accommodation option for families.

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MH 12

MH 12 is amongst the mid range hotels in Diveagar with 12 rooms, hence the name MH 12!! They also have hotels in Shrivardhan and Harihareshwar. With AC and non AC rooms and an inhouse restaurant which in fact serves quite good food MH 12 is located at a walking distance from the Diveagar beach.

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Abhijeet Guest House

Abhijeet Guest House at 5 minutes walking distance from the beach is just the perfect place to stay if you are looking for a budget accommodation in Diveagar for a group or a large family. They have rooms on the ground floor as well as the first floor including a AC double bedroom on the first floor. They do not serve lunch or dinner.

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Atharva Nivas

Atharva Nivas is located near the famous Diveagar temple from where the golden mask of Ganpati was unfortunately stolen recently. Atharva Nivas is ideal for groups with large dormitories. This MTDC approved facility in Diveagar also has double bedrooms for families. Atharva Nivas serves nly breakfast and tea however on prior order lunch and dinner also is arranged.

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Om Holiday Home

Om Holiday Home is a small guest house in Diveagar with four spacious rooms with attached toilets. With four double bedrooms where additional beds can be laid out if necessary this Om Holiday Home serves home made food. You can also enjoy delicious home made veg and non veg traditional delicacies like 'modak' 'ghavan chatni' and 'amboli chatni' here.

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Jai Malhar Nivas

Jai Malhar Nivas is a homestay in Diveagar with spacious rooms and a homely ambiance. Located very near the 'Roop Narayan' temple and less than 5 minutes walk away from the Diveagar beach Jai Malhar Nivas is a good option if you want a home stay experience in Diveagar. Jai Malhar Nivas serves home made food.

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Mathra Holiday Home 

Mathura holiday home is located slightly away from the beach near Anand Yatri holiday home. Its almost 10 minutes walk from the beach. Although the distance might be a deterrent the amazingly delicious pure veg food this homestay in Diveagar serves augurs well and makes up for it, after all catering is their primary business!

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Ameya Guest House

If you are looking for a real homestay experience in Diveagar this is the place that you need to go to. With a very homely ambiance Ameya Guest House has almost everything like a regular home in Diveagar set in a spacious 'wadi'. Ameya Guest house also serves delicious home made food. Do not expect anything that you might find in regular hotels in Diveagar!

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Hope these reviews are helpful in making your decision when choosing your hotel to stay in Diveagar. If you want to review any hotels in Diveagar please  write to puneritraveller@gmail.com 
 

Diveagar – A village with a Beach

It had been a while that i traveled with friends and hence for this weekend i decided to hang out with friends and what better than a beach do that. So we decided to head for Diveagar a beach not too far from Pune.

We hired a 17 seater van which cost us about Rs 7200 and booked a bunglow which cost us Rs 2100 and left for the beach on 22nd March 2010, a Saturday morning.

May is hot and near the cost it is hotter and may be a wrong time to go to a beach but we couldn’t care lesser. The road to Diveagar was re-done recently and was in quite good condition for almost the entire distance. Narrow winding roads leading up-to this tiny hamlet took us a drive of about 5 hours with more than one stop, once for breakfast and then once for no justifiable reason!! For the records the distance from pune to Diveagar was about 165 Km as the milestones read but from experience i don’t trust milestones much.

Diveagar is for starters a small village with a beach which shot up in popularity after a golden idol of ganesha – the elephant god was discovered by a woman in her farm and was later placed in a temple the Suvarna Ganpati temple.

The locals here seemed to have taken up the hospitality business with a zest. Almost all the houses here seemed to have a board soliciting the bread and breakfast board. However its better to have a place booked before reaching here as almost all the good places seemed to have been booked during even this off season weekend!

Once we checked in to the bunglow that we had booked from Pune we headed for lunch. To be honest the lunch was disappointing because our host couldn’t manage to get fish that day and what is lunch without fish that too while in Konkan.

Anyways after a lunch of chicken thali which was nothing to boast about a few of us headed to scout the Diveagar beach. The beach was understandably deserted at this time of the day. The diveagar beach is quite a long stretch of beach which seemed close to about 5km with a river meeting the sea at one end. The sand is very fine and quite mucky once wet. I wasn’t too happy with the color of the sand but who cares…its a beach after all !!
 We went back to our room and after resting for some time in the evening we again headed to the beach this time for a dip in the ocean. Diveagar is quite a wavy beach, though not the high waves it has waves coming in constantly unlike most of the beaches in this stretch which are quite calm. After having a lot of fun in the water and football in the beach we headed back for our shower and dinner. This time around food was nice at this joint which seemed to extremely busy. I never expected myself to be waiting in line for dinner at a place like Diveagar but here i was waiting for people to finish their dinner as the place was packed. Food was good and the fish fry was great!!

Like all groups our group also had a singer amongst us and we jammed quite late into the night and i don’t remember when drifted to sleep.

All in all I would rate Diveagar as a good weekend destination, pluses would be not too close yet not too far, not too crowded but not sparse either, availability of the resorts and the minuses would be the food which was quite disappointing overall.

waiting for my next weekend and eagerly waiting for the monsoons which is supposed to arrive in a fortnight!!!