Roadhouse Hostels: Ready room for backpackers

Next time you decide to put on your backpacks and want to be an explorer, leave your accommodation worries behind and let the team of professionals at Roadhouse Hostels - who have been travellers by instinct and understand the importance of crafting a great experience for backpackers - take care of it!

It was founded in 2014 by a group of school friends - Uday Jhamb, Shubham Garg and Rajesh Borah. Their first hostel starting in Goa in November the same year, Roadhouse is a chain of backpackers' hostels that offers air-conditioned dormitories, with bunk beds and private rooms. Additionally, a common room where guests can unwind and share their experiences with other travellers, beside offering a recreational room where a playstation, a fussball table and a pool table are pre-installed.

"We understand the needs of a traveller and provide exactly the same look and feel of a place they would prefer staying at," says Jhamb. With its guesthouses in Goa and Jaipur, Roadhouse has hosted guests from as many as 49 countries. It is planning to add five properties this year. Operating in a marketplace crowded with major players like Zostel, Roadhouse has already started seeing growth, with each customer generating an average revenue of about Rs 1,200.

"This financial year will give us a turnover of Rs 4 million, with Goa accounting for a year's sale and Jaipur for four months. We aim to achieve a turnover of over Rs 2 crore from beds and food and beverages sales next year," Jhamb says.