Hotel in Amritsar

ganga17

Hi did anybody stay in Hotel Sita Niwas near Golden Temple or Hotel Royal Inn?
If yes how was is it?
Thanks petra

anubisgrau

http://www.sgpc.net/sarai-booking/index.asp

has anyoned stayed at any of the mentioned places for pilgrims?

the last one - new akil rest house has 5 rooms for the foreign tourists at 50rp plus deposits.

i'm wondering how is it there?

Indizen

I stayed at one of the guest houses run by the SGPC which was then newly built and had nice rooms with en-suite washrooms.
All that in a serene atmosphere, with the added previlege of being able to visit the shrine at all hours.

Sadhu

I have stayed at the Niwas several times. They are quite comfortable, at least as nice as a Paharganj hotel. There is also a new niwas across from the Baba Atal Tower Gurdwara which is nice as well. If you need assistance with this or other stuff, directly across from the new niwas is a travel agent/money changing office named Satija. The guy there will hook you up with a room etc. if the people working at the niwas don't speak English. I have used Satija many times for all kinds of things. Tell him Henry from USA/Sweden sent you.

Have fun, Amritsar is amazing.

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anubisgrau

i just don't get - are these places inside the temple complex or outside?

Mickey S

Is that a recommendation?

shere

To be honest the SGPC accomodation is quite bad. The good rooms are kept for senior SGPC and Akali Dal people of the current ruling regime in Punjab. The accomodation with communal toilets is worst, they smell very bad, so bad that you feel sick.

However the Nishkam Sewak Jatha from Birmingham (UK) have built new accomodation (I think near Baba Atal tower). It is very clean and worth a visit to see if you can get a room.

shere

Forgot to add, another NRI accomodation block is also being built by a charity based in Wolverhampton. They have a very good track record in maintaining good clean accomodation for pilgrims.

From what I recall it will be located near Chathar Singh Jiwan Singh Book Publisher.

kristinm

Hope this isn't too late - we stayed at Royal Inn, really nice and friendly, great bathroom & hot water!!, great food recommendations, tiny room - but that's OK it was clean and comfy bed. They organised a taxi to the border ceremony for us and generally looked after us well.