Please postpone the dates if possible. Expect heavy rains in the month of October also since monsoons are arrived late.

Since its Mumbai Pune meet

1) Meet up at Hotel Mirchi (Lonavala besides train tracks) for dinner say by 8pm - both the groups.
2) Have dinner by around 11 or 12 max.
3) Go to slope of hell and spend the night there.
4) Breakfast at Ramkrishna or can disperse from there if needed.
5) Disperse or ride to Amby

Preferable dates would be end of October or first week of November.

I have added a poll tor everyone's preference. Its a multiple choice poll and as everyone can see I'm available on both the dates.

Regarding the destination we will proceed with regular stay option keeping the Open Air option as standby and if the weather permits we can take a call a day or two before the G2G.

I don't mind the dates, but keep the options like Tarkarli, goa out...... I mean come on...... I am not saying it can't be done in two days. But we are sure going to miss the real fun of those places. Because we will spend most of the time riding.

I am in favour of anjarle, Guhagar or shrivardhan or dive agar.........

And please please please.......... There are other places on earth other than that of Lonavala and Amby valley. Please choose any place other than something close to Lonavala....... Please :-$

@Eshan - jara kahi zala ki Lonavala........ Jara kuthe ride tharli ki Amby valley........ :-P

Options like Tarkarli and Goa are out and so is Lonavla. I'm looking at Karde Beach option looks quite good to me.

Gourab dada, anjarle will be a much better option if people are willing to ride till Karde.

My input:

If we want DJ-Dance baarty at the beach all night or till 2-3 AM, I have a contact in Divegar who can arrange the setup. We went there Aug second week. (my office team)

The guy (Santosh) setup generator (with raincover, but we were lucky, it didnt rain whole night) + two bulbs + one table + chairs for us , we took our own DVD player n music cd's, dancing-madirapaan till the genset fuel was over. We were the only group on the beach at night (far away from water, of course).

After partying we walked till the guest house, which is very close to the beach (~300m). 4 rooms (2 up+ 2 down) with attached bathrooms, one room can easily accomodate 10-12 people.

Parking space: 40-45 bikes easily.

Only problem: Breakfast/lunch at his home, 10-12 people at a time since the dining hall is small.

We requested to get dinner and next day's tea to the guesthouse and again back to his place for breakfast. His place is ~2 kms from the guesthouse.

P.S.- That part of the beach was not that great. Since it was not visible at night, I liked the place.

Will post the pics if required.

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Sumit, Divegar nahi re, Diveagar bolne ka... BTW your plan sounds good to me.

Thoda Pune side ka location hota to........, 'm just saying

@MG - thanks for keeping goa, Tarkarli, Lonavala out.

@sumit - mate, its an at least 10 - 12 hours ride from mumbai. Do you really think, enough energy will be left to enjoy the places or party on the same day when we reach and again leave for mumbai on the next day!!!! And about karde beach..... It only half the distance from mumbai than goa, there can not be comparison between karde and goa.

Oops!

Diveagar is 150~160 kms from Pune and AFAIK 10~15 kms less from Panvel (not sure though), then how cum 10-12 hours??!!!

Anywhich ways, it was just a suggestion. Chillax.

Saurabh must have been referring to GOA and Tarkarli... Prolly quoted you incorrectly, it surely wasnt you

Hhmmm I was referring to goa only :-P
wrongly quoted you :-P
by the way your plan sounds good :-D

Guys any more updates about this ride its been 3 days no updates on this thread..

Anyway I am In for both dates... ...overnight G2G...

I agree...its been few days nothing has come up...may b xbhpians would b busy with ganpati festival...even im ok with sny dates...

wow.already in love with this plan.lets make it happen properly. preliminarily what matters is the mindset of the group. parameters to be considered IMO would be
1) dates
2)distance ready to be cove
3)hillside lakeside or beachside
4)accomodation preference -hotel with service/ basic overnight stay lodges/camping/the world is my bed
5)food- nonveg/veg /seafood speciality/local food special/i am a cook/eat to live.
6)activity-barbeque/boating/trek/photo op/dance party/exploring the local scene etc.
7)misc: music preference etc.

i think it will put some perspective into this plan.

personally i would prefer 20th october at srivardhan beach .it would be nice to set up acamp with tents and barbeque right on the beach , hooking up the food from a mouthwatering local seafood and meat place apart from the bbq.a campfire ,some alcohol and ambient music with some activities in the morning and a beat the heat afternoon local visit.
will put up some pictures cos nothing explains better.
my two cents

this is mukane before rains this year. all this stuff is ours but can always be rented out no problem.

Some info on Anjarle
I know its weired to ask someone to do this but really stuck with office training session throughout week
So can somebody call these numbers..
last pic is like dream place for overnight G2G no one to disturb not even ...."Mere paihe kithe hai"...