Darjeeling hotels

himalcrazy

Can someone please provide a list of some good budget hotels in and around the mall at Darjeeling?

abhijitbanerjee

Try Hotel Sonar Bangla, it's the best valur-for-money I could get with decent amenities and great food. It is just below the mall..

robinsparrow

the cleanest quitest place going is Andy's Guest House.....easy on the wallet and as soon as you walk in you notice how clean the place is. It serves no food but there's plenty of places to eat at...very close by ...there's a little place called it starts with S 's kitchen---she makes GREAT food...including breakfast.
Hope this helps.

robinsparrow

rockwater2

[b]If u reach New JalpaiGuri stn., there r lotta travel agents just outside the station. U can fix up a deal with em. They'll get u at a good rate with or without food, irrespective of d season. per day costed me Rs.400/- with geyser.

Enjoy
Rocky

rockwater2

Check out booking agents in New Jalpaiguri Stn.
Ull get a good deal. Rs.500 max for a room

Enjoy

machadinha

The Hotel Aliment used to be a good budget deal here, and seems to still get good reports. It is (or used to be) run by a very friendly Gurkha family. In winter, you might want to check if they have heating these days (and not just the little open pot with burning charcoal, which will suffocate you, I'm not kidding, it's a nasty and dangerous contraption. Better just suffer the cold instead -- or look for a place with heating, then, of which there don't seem to be all that many btw, or not at the budget end anyway. If I ever return, I think I'll gladly pay a little extra for the comfort, it gets freaking cold up there. The Aliment did provide endless blankets btw -- yet still I couldn't warm up, but in hindsight I think I was suffering from AMS here, so it was probably just me.)

Whether exactly close to the mall I'm not sure, it wouldn't be far though. It's on Dr. Zakir Hussain Road, tel. 0354-2255068. It used to feature a small restaurant too, don't know about today.

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himalcrazy

Thank You all for the suggestions.

rockwater, my personal experience with the travel agents at Siliguri or outside the NJP station is not so enjoyable. My suggestion is - please avoid them if possible.

I have checked Hotel Sonar Bangla - the feedback I got from a recent visit by one of my very cose associate is that the rooms except the ones at the ground floor are decent and clean. I might try to book the top floor rooms if available.

hitanshu

I forget the name but there's a very decent hotel at the beginning of the pedestrian mall road (next to where the taxis are parked). Its the one at the start of that road. Two buildings down is a ritzy hotel that only caters to rich westerners.

This one had decent amenities in all of 700 bucks for a double (and clean). choose the rooms on the 2nd floor. The renovated third floor isnt worth the hassle (and an extra 400 bucks!).

/above are just post-puja rates so pretty much peak

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steff

I can recommend the Bellevue Hotel at Chowrasta (central place in the pedestrian zone). I've been there in July 2009.
Spacious and dry rooms, wooden interior work, lot of hot water. The rooms at the upper two floors go to the back of the building, they have morning sun and they're very calm. Season tariff is 1000 to 2000 INR.

http://www.bellevuehotel-darjeeling.com

Jamil Sayed

Darjeeling is a town full of middlemen, daalals ! When u reach Darjeeling, the daalals will catch u and throw u at their will. if u try to avoid them, they will follow u and enter the hotel and claim money from the hotel manager. Naturally, the rate for staying will be costlier for u.