Minimum accommodation standards
A rural stay does not need hotel-style luxury. It must meet a truthful, usable safety and hygiene baseline. Hosts must disclose limitations rather than hide them.
Required baseline
- A lawful stay location that the host is authorized to offer.
- A structurally sound, weather-appropriate sleeping space protected from reasonably foreseeable hazards.
- Clean sleeping surface and linen appropriate to the disclosed arrangement.
- Truthful occupancy limit, room-sharing, bed, floor-mattress, privacy, lock and host-presence details.
- Usable toilet and bathing access, accurately described as private/shared and Indian/western style, including hot-water limitations.
- Safe drinking-water source or an explicit instruction that guests must bring or purchase water.
- Electricity, lighting, charging, outage and backup details.
- Ventilation, insects/animals, smoke, cooking, stairs, terrain, accessibility and seasonal-condition disclosure.
- Mobile/network coverage, road access, pickup dependency, nearest medical help and emergency transport information.
- Reasonable cleanliness and removal or disclosure of material hazards before arrival.
Not permitted
Do not list an unsafe structure, undisclosed shared sleeping area, inaccessible toilet, illegal occupancy, surveillance in a bedroom/bathroom, undisclosed animal or dangerous condition, or a place the host cannot lawfully offer.
Government and local requirements
Hosts remain responsible for applicable State or Union Territory tourism registration, local-body permission, police or guest-register duties, tax registration, food-safety requirements and any land-use, fire, building or environmental rule. Village Miles review does not replace a licence or government approval.
Verification and enforcement
Hosts submit photos or videos and factual disclosures. Listing review is document/content review, not a professional building inspection. Guests can report material differences during check-in. Village Miles may require correction, suspend a listing, preserve evidence or refer a matter to authorities; payment remedies require the final refund policy.