Stay where the event is.

How booking around events works here

India's big travel windows are predictable: Dussehra and Diwali, the December concert and wedding season, and the January festival run fill their cities weeks out, while the monsoon weeks are when the same hotels discount. Each venue on this calendar pulls the sensible base towards a different district, and the ride home is the fact that matters, because concerts here end late and the metro cities are vast.

Stay near a metro or suburban rail station and the city's distances shrink. The choice is between the event district itself, with everything on foot, and a quieter base that costs you a ride each way. Decide by the evenings: festivals and concerts are night events, and the best base is the one you can ride home to after the encore.

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Where to stay, city by city

• Mumbai

  Bandra and Juhu for the western-suburb venues and the NMACC; Fort and Nariman Point for the NCPA and the south Mumbai halls; near Mahalaxmi for the racecourse fixtures. The airport hotels suit one-night concert trips to DY Patil and the NESCO halls.

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• Delhi

  Lodhi Road and the centre for Mandi House and the India Gate season; Pragati Maidan and IP Estate put Bharat Mandapam on foot; Aerocity for the airport and the Dwarka venues; Gurugram's Sector 29 for the NCR's arena shows.

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• Bengaluru

  MG Road and Richmond Town for the central halls; Whitefield and Thanisandra for the expo and stadium end; the airport road for Yelahanka fixtures. Bengaluru traffic is the planning fact: stay on the same side of the city as your venue.

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• Chennai

  Mylapore and Alwarpet for the Margazhi sabhas; Nungambakkam and Teynampet for the centre; Guindy for the racecourse and the airport side; Nandambakkam for the trade centre.

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• Kolkata

  Park Street and the centre for Nandan and the Maidan; Salt Lake for the stadium and the expo halls; Ballygunge and Southern Avenue for the south Kolkata season.

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• Hyderabad

  HITEC City, Madhapur and Gachibowli for the tech-corridor venues and the indoor stadium; Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills for the centre; Uppal for the cricket stadium.

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• Pune

  Baner and Balewadi for the stadium; Koregaon Park and Viman Nagar for the east; Kothrud and Shivajinagar for the theatre rooms.

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• Goa

  The search opens in Panaji, the capital: the base for IFFI, the Serendipity Arts Festival and the Mandovi riverfront, with Margao and the Fatorda stadium a short drive south. For the beach-belt season, Calangute, Baga and Vagator are the north Goa bases; the search's wider Goa results cover them.

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• Guwahati

  Khanapara and the GS Road corridor for the stadiums; Panjabari for the cultural complex; the centre for the Brahmaputra riverfront.

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• Bhubaneswar

  The old town for the temple season; Patia and the north for the stadiums and expo halls; Khandagiri for the festival grounds.

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• Kochi

  Fort Kochi for the biennale-season streets and the harbour; Ernakulam and Kaloor for the stadium fixtures; the airport side at Angamaly for one-night trips.

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• Indore

  Vijay Nagar and the AB Road corridor for the stadiums and expo halls; the old city for the food streets around Sarafa.

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• Ahmedabad

  Motera for the stadium; the riverfront and Ashram Road for the centre; GIFT City and Gota for the expo end.

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• Jaipur

  The old city and MI Road for the literature festival venues; Malviya Nagar and Sitapura for the expo halls.

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• Lucknow

  Hazratganj and the centre for the season's halls; Gomti Nagar for the Ekana stadium and the expo centre.

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Where to stay for an event

For the biggest dates on the calendar, the stay advice is written around the event itself: