Babita Rai is the backbone of Bamboo Retreat Hotel. Her multitasking and team management skills is excellent. With her 10 plus years of collaboration at Bamboo Retreat Hotel, she is an experienced and trustworthy member of our team. With her intelligence, she supports in operating the hotel smoothly and overlooks all the areas: garden, guests and team.

Sunita is the energy force of our team since 2023. She looks after reservations and communications of our hotel and tour activities in the area www.sikkim.ch. Her diligence contributes to the satisfaction and happiness of our guests. Her hospitality and charming personality is essential within our team.

Bhawana is an edibles and perennial enthusiast, a passionate garden- andscape designer. She is entrepreneur with her own initiative farmEAT, farm/garden consulting company and recently starting ‘Edibles Academy’ to establish wider stakeholder collaboration in this sector. She has been collaborating with Helen since 2019 and accelerating in the same spirit to excel business. Helen’s and her visions align together in establishing bamboo retreat hotel as a self-sustained eco hotel.

Helen of Switzerland established Bamboo Retreat Hotel with her late husband in 2004 along with the travel agency Terralaya (www.sikkim.ch and www.terralaya.com) in 1999. She continues to manage tours & travels in Sikkim, Northeast-India, Bhutan and all over India. She strives towards fulfilling Bamboo Retreat Hotel’s aims. Her passion for ethnobotany and growing food organically is reflected at Bamboo Retreat Hotel and the tours she develops for her customers.