Valley of Flowers & Hemkund Sahib

Dilwala is right. We were literally pushed away from Ghangaria GMVN
on 6th of October morning. All staffs were on holiday mood. The manager himself left the lodge on 6th October. We were given room on condition that we should vacate the place on 6th morning. Every year Hemkund Sahib is closed on 5th of October. All activity on that area stops after that.

hi all. beautiful pictures... what is so special about Brahma Kamals.
I went to kedarnath n badrinath on 20-22 june. helicopter service was there for kedarnath. badrinath we didnt check as it has good road .FOR VOF IT WAS THERE TO GHANGHARIA.I DIDNT GO TO VOF AS I WAS TOLD HERE ONLY THAT ITS BETTER TO GO IN LATE JULY-SEPT
i am planning VOF AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER IN MY SANTRO .

DAY 1-2 - DOING MY MORNING DUTY AND START AT NIGHT 10 PM OR SO N REACH GOVINDGHAT BY NEXT DAY EVENING BY 6PM. STAY THERE OVERNIGHT AND BOOK HELICOPTER IF ADVANCE BOOK IS THERE.

DAY 3- VISIT VOF N BACK

DAY- 4 BACK TO DELHI

IS IT FEASIBLE.

HOW IS THE STAY OPTION N FACILITIES AT GOVINDGHAT.SHOUL I STAY AT JOSHIMATH OR AULI INSTEAD ON DAY 2

hello

my family and I are planning a trek to Hemkund in early september. However are having trouble finding and booking accomodation for places such as Govindam on the way up: I tried one link given on this forum but it didn't seem to work.

Can anybody help me on this?

Thanks

which link are you u trying ...try this
http://gmvnl.com/newgmvn/tour/booktrh.asp

GMVN are fully booked during the period i would like to travel.


Does anybody have a list of all the hotels with the contacts info/websites in Govind Dham?

Thank you

Don't worry about it, you'll get something nearer the date, even without a booking. GMVN tends to show sold-out status becos of blocking rooms for package tours.

4000 bucks for a room? Yes! Too expensive I mean. Waste of money.

is it possible somebody can provide us with contacts of hotels at govindham?

We stayed at Hotel Pritam just opposite to GMVN. Sorry lost their phn no . But there are so many options to stay. OK, very basic options but you’ll definitle get one room or in worst case, if no accommodation anywhere then you can stay at Gurudwara.

I would want to avoid Gurudwara as much as posible. I stayed there, great folks but the bathrooms were extreely dirty. You wouldnt want to step inside, there was no water and there was terd lying all over. I almost threw up. The so called god hotels would definitely charge you 2k + due to the heavy rush. Even they are very bsic as said above.

Hi,
I was trying to find out this no from my files and here is the result:

Hotel Pritam - Govind Dham, Ghangaria.
Prop:
Raghuvir Chauhan
Satish Chauhan
Phone:
01381 226203
Mobl:
+91 9411908743
+91 9411368695


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Hotel Sriram - Joshimath
Phn:
01389 222332
Mobl:
+91 9412008918

Much obliged Somnath, that is very helpful thank you very much!
Also for anyone else enquiring,
http://www.pantown.com/board.php?id=...24&action=view
this link is to a thai forum, so it is all unreadable, but a forum user, Mex, posted this link and in comment 8 you can see the number of a 'Hotel Deepak' on the window

01381 226214

It looks beautiful from the photos!
Please keep the posts coming, as more replies and posts of accommodation, the more chance we will have of finding rooms!

Hiya...
All I'll say is relax...
And please avoid booking in advance...
One, you'll surely get even better accommodation than what you book for, once you are there...!
Two, that better accommodation will surely always be at a much lower price...!
Thatz another version of the Good Ol' Murphy's Law for you...!

There are a plethora of hotels at Ghanghria (Govind Dham)...
Pick a hotel of your choice only on arrival...

Just one piece of advice, try and look for a hotel slightly away from the main central street... Two reasons for that - the street dogs might keep barking right through the night... And two, the early morning 'jathas' (groups of pilgrims) to Hemkund Sahib start off as early as 4.00 a.m. with their soothing religious chants...

One last option, if you have that kind of money to spare, are the Swiss Tents just before you reach Ghanghria... They are located next to the Helipad, around a kilometer short of Ghanghria...

But honestly, I would rather just walk past those Deluxe tents, and check out the hotel options in Ghanghria itself...

Cheers...!

solo trekker is absolutely right. lots of hotel in ghangaria. even you will get gmvn on arrival as we got it.

We were not lucky – GMVN was full. The location of those tents…….

Here is the pic:



- Somnath

what was the cost of the tents Somnath ?