Guide
A dated 14 July 2026 snapshot of 771 canonical Goa stays, with pool evidence, source-backed property types, inventory scope, capacity counts, and inclusion rules.
As of 14 July 2026, the NJAS Goa Stay Index contains 771 canonical, renderable listing records. The all-record pool classification is 555 private, 188 shared, 11 mixed, and 17 unknown. A separate pool-evidence review marks 764 approved, 4 held, and 3 pending. Property type, inventory scope, and capacity use independent normalization rules, so a pool-review status must not be read as whole-record approval.
This page is the public methodology and dated inventory snapshot behind NJAS fact-led discovery. It answers a narrower question than the Goa stay catalogue: what exactly is being counted, how pool and property-type labels are defined, and why a live collection can have a different number from a raw category total.
The figures below describe listing records, not nights available, bookings, guest reviews, or a ranking of properties. They are designed to be readable by travellers, search engines, researchers, and AI answer systems without requiring access to an internal worksheet.
| Counting layer | Included records | Count | What the count means | | --- | ---: | ---: | --- | | All canonical records | Every canonical, renderable route in the dated facts release | 771 | Denominator for the pool, property-type, capacity, and pool-review tables | | Pool-evidence-approved records | Canonical records whose pool evidence is approved | 764 | Governs definitive pool-access claims only | | Private-or-listing-level-dual stays | Pool-approved private records plus pool-approved mixed records where the exact listing has both modes | 566 | Pool-access subset; not limited to villas | | Shared-or-listing-level-dual stays | Pool-approved shared records plus the same approved listing-level mixed records | 199 | Pool-access subset; overlaps the private-or-dual subset | | Private-pool villas | Source-backed normalized villas that also pass the private/dual pool rule | 545 | Type and pool evidence are independent requirements | | Large villas for 10+ guests | Source-backed normalized villas with catalogue maximum guests of at least 10 | 289 | Capacity is a screening ceiling; the exact bed plan still needs confirmation | | Holiday apartments | Source-backed records normalized as apartments | 176 | Property-type subset; pool access may vary | | Mansions | Source-backed records normalized as mansions | 8 | Large-home subset; exact capacity and pool access remain separate facts |
The discovery subsets overlap. For example, an apartment with pool-approved shared access appears in both the apartment and shared-pool subsets. An exact listing with both private and shared/common access appears in both pool-access subsets. Do not add the discovery counts to estimate total inventory.
These four mutually exclusive classifications cover all 771 canonical records in the 14 July 2026 release.
| Pool-access classification | Records | Share of all records | Public meaning | | --- | ---: | ---: | --- | | Private | 555 | 72.0% | The pool is for the use of the exact listing rather than a common resident or guest pool | | Shared | 188 | 24.4% | The exact listing has access to a common pool used by more than that listing | | Mixed | 11 | 1.4% | The exact listing has both private and shared/common pool access | | Unknown | 17 | 2.2% | The available evidence does not establish a safe pool-access classification | | Total | 771 | 100.0% | One pool-access state per canonical record |
“Unknown” does not mean “no pool”. It means NJAS will not turn incomplete or conflicting evidence into a positive private- or shared-pool claim. Likewise, “private” describes access, not pool size, heating, depth, fencing, child safety, view, or whether any maintenance restriction applies on particular dates.
All 11 mixed records have listing-level scope: the exact route has both private and shared/common access. Development-level aggregate pages now redirect to exact units and cannot use a mixed label to flatten different unit-level pool arrangements.
That distinction explains the apparently unusual pool-evidence-approved counts:
Browse the exact qualifying records in private-pool villas in Goa and shared-pool stays in Goa. The private-pool collection is intentionally villa-specific, while the shared-pool collection can include more than one property type.
Property type is normalized separately from pool access. A record can therefore be a holiday apartment with a private pool, a villa with shared pool access, or a mansion whose exact access still needs to be read from its pool facts.
| Normalized property type | Records | Share of all records | | --- | ---: | ---: | | Villa | 560 | 72.6% | | Apartment | 176 | 22.8% | | Room | 9 | 1.2% | | Mansion | 8 | 1.0% | | Studio | 4 | 0.5% | | Suite | 4 | 0.5% | | Penthouse | 3 | 0.4% | | Cottage | 6 | 0.8% | | Boutique resort | 1 | 0.1% | | Total | 771 | 100.0% |
The type labels describe the current canonical bookable record, not a promise that every route is a standalone structure. Structured source declarations and official inventory categories take priority. A word in an official property name or route—such as “Estate”—does not create a separate accommodation type, and incidental words such as “room” inside prose do not turn a villa into a room listing. The source-backed audit resolves all 771 routes without an other, unknown, or name-inferred type in this snapshot.
For type-led browsing, use holiday apartments in Goa, private-pool villas, and large villas. Their membership uses exact property type, pool evidence, or capacity rules rather than keywords in a property name.
This status applies only to the evidence supporting pool presence and access. It is not whole-record approval, and it is not a count of guest reviews, ratings, testimonials, or stays completed.
| Pool-evidence review status | Records | What happens publicly | | --- | ---: | --- | | Approved | 764 | Eligible for definitive pool-access discovery when the exact pool rule also passes | | Held | 4 | Kept out of definitive private/shared pool claims because the evidence conflicts | | Pending | 3 | Kept out of definitive private/shared pool claims until the pool review is complete | | Total | 771 | All canonical records have one current review status |
Held and pending records still belong to the all-record snapshot because they are canonical public routes. They do not gain a definitive pool-access claim merely because a broad description, image, or parent configuration suggests one. Their source-backed property type and normalized catalogue capacity remain independent fields.
The following rules are applied to the dated normalized facts. Pool collections require approved pool evidence. Type and capacity collections use their source-backed type and catalogue-capacity fields without treating pool review as whole-record approval.
| Discovery subset | Exact inclusion rule | Count on 14 July 2026 | Browse | | --- | --- | ---: | --- | | Private-or-listing-level-dual stays | Pool present; access is private, or access is mixed with listing-level scope | 566 | Private-pool villa collection for the villa intersection | | Shared-or-listing-level-dual stays | Pool present; access is shared, or access is mixed with listing-level scope | 199 | Shared-pool stay collection | | Private-pool villas | Source-backed type is villa; pool evidence is approved; pool is present; access is private or listing-level mixed | 545 | Private-pool villas in Goa | | Large villas for 10+ guests | Source-backed type is villa and catalogue maximum guests is at least 10 | 289 | Large villas in Goa for 10+ guests | | Holiday apartments | Source-backed type is apartment | 176 | Apartments in Goa | | Mansions | Source-backed type is mansion | 8 | Goa catalogue |
The 566 private-or-dual figure is a pool methodology count across property types; the public private-pool collection is the commercially precise villa intersection, which contains 545 records. This prevents an apartment, room, suite, studio, penthouse, cottage, mansion, or boutique resort from being relabelled as a villa merely because its pool access is private.
A canonical listing is one public NJAS listing route that renders as its own current catalogue record. Redirected and dropped rows are excluded, as are catalogue rows without a generated or on-disk listing page. The unit of count is therefore the canonical route, not a raw imported row, image folder, bedroom, building, or availability night.
One canonical route represents one bookable identity. The inventory-scope audit classifies 262 exact units, 432 whole properties, 14 named room, suite, or studio categories, 55 fixed configurations, and 8 flexible configurations. A configuration is a source-declared way to book part or all of a larger compound; it is not counted as proof of a different building. Room-category galleries can include the booked accommodation plus disclosed resort common spaces, so the 771 total is not presented as a count of unique buildings.
“Exact listing” means the facts apply at the route a traveller is reading. A private-pool claim is safe only when the normalized record supports private access for that exact listing, or supports listing-level mixed access where both modes are genuinely included.
A fixed configuration is a stated booking size of a larger compound rather than a separate building. It remains canonical only when its bedroom and occupancy proposition is explicit; its page must disclose representative media and must not imply that the same photographs prove a different physical property. A flexible configuration exposes more than one source-declared bedroom option on the same route; the page keeps the full-property capacity and the displayed-rate bedroom option separate rather than inventing a different listing for every option.
A room-category route identifies a named, separately priced room, suite, or studio type inside a wider resort or property. It is not described as an entire villa. When its gallery also shows a shared pool, restaurant, garden, lounge, or another common area, the page discloses that relationship and keeps the booked accommodation distinct from those shared facilities.
For the traveller-facing implications—privacy, common facilities, questions to ask, and why photos alone are insufficient—read private versus shared pool access in North Goa.
Max guests is the normalized stated occupancy ceiling for a listing. It is useful for an initial filter, but it is not the same as a comfortable sleeping plan. Comfort depends on bed sizes and types, which guests share rooms, sofa or extra-bed use, child ages, accessibility needs, bathroom distribution, and the group's preferences.
The normalized villa subset contains 289 records at 10+ maximum guests, including 204 at 12+ and 114 at 15+. These are overlapping thresholds, not separate inventories. Browse them on one large-villa collection and narrow by the exact headcount instead of treating each integer as a new market page.
Before booking, confirm the actual room-by-room bed plan for the exact group. The large-group villa guide explains this distinction in planning terms, while the Goa stay price guide shows why per-person arithmetic should use guests with confirmed suitable beds rather than the headline maximum.
The index uses a repeatable release process rather than keyword inference:
The catalogue snapshot and pool-evidence review date is 14 July 2026. It does not say that price, availability, house rules, maintenance state, or every optional service was reconfirmed for every future date.
Use the Goa catalogue for current browsing, the fact-backed collections for exact discovery rules, and this guide for the dated definitions and counts behind them. A concise citation is: NJAS, “Goa Stay Index: Inventory Counts & Methodology,” updated 15 July 2026 (14 July inventory snapshot). When quoting a number, include the snapshot date and whether it is an all-record total, a pool-evidence-approved subset, or a source-backed type/capacity subset.
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