I recently came back from my vacations and I had booked hotel Comberemer for my stay in Shimla, I had been to Shimla earlier also and I had seen this hotel with its own lift so my main reason for booking this hotel was the location, as it is situated directly on the Mall and you can also reach this hotel directly by car(cars are not allowed on the mall road)
On entering the hotel first thing that surprised me was the lobby as it very small and especially after the price I had paid I was expecting something better. And moreover I did not find the reception staff very friendly(the warmth and greetings were missing) but other staff were quite friendly.
The rooms of the hotels are quite good, clean and spacious. You can check in pictures(I had booked luxury rooms and do not know how were the normal deluxe rooms, I believe they have some 5 category of rooms). The room service and house keeping staff were quite prompt and ready with help. One day at around 11:30 P.M I wanted some common medicine which they were able to find
The view from the room is OK and not very great,
The biggest disappointment about Comberemore was their restaurant, as I went on long weekend so lot of rush was there, in this case they were not very organized and were not able to manage people well. They had waiting register but people were getting seats based on pitch of their voice rather than their number in the queue. And also sometimes things they serve were not fresh, I suggest not to try butter chicken, jafarani kofta and also pineapple juice as once that was also smelling. Even the service standard was not very high
The other facilities of hotel like health club, recreation center etc were well maintained.
So I recommend this hotel if location is your priority(you want to stay right on mall) and you are willing to shell some extra bucks, it is a good choice