I enjoyed the stay at the Ganga Lahiri, it’s right on the Ganges and the rooms really are of a very high quality with well proportioned shower rooms and plenty of hot water.
Nice.I enjoyed the stay at the Ganga Lahiri, it’s right on the Ganges and the rooms really are of a very high quality with well proportioned shower rooms and plenty of hot water. Nice view of the Ganges, but through a main corridor so one must be careful about privacy.
It’s a little inconvenient not being able to reach the hotel by taxi and you must take a bicycle rickshaw with all your luggage from the nearest main road for an extra 30/40 rupees but hey, it’s not the end of the world! The restaurant only had 1 option for dinner which was a thali, luckily I enjoy thalis very much and it was tasty but to only have 1 available option on your menu as a 3 star hotel is really not good. the only other complaint I had was the price quoted for a taxi back to Rishikesh, ( where we had come from) it was 1800 rupees.
It cost 850 to come down exactly the same way, the Staff had quite a poor grasp of English and didn’t seem particularly interested, they said it would be the same elsewhere and I was welcome to try, a 3 minute walk to any main road or travel agency and I had one booked for 1000 rupees, so I felt rather disappointed by that but I suppose you can’t blame them for trying the old extortion trick. Generally though it’s a lovely hotel even if the staff need a little more help in hospitality training.