Must-see hotels in Tsang

  • Yeti Hotel

    Tsang

    The three-star Yeti is easily the best option in Gyantse, offering 24-hour piping hot water, clean, spacious rooms, quality mattresses and reliable wi-fi,…

  • Gesar Hotel

    Shigatse

    This four-star giant has clean and modern Tibetan-style rooms, each decorated with its own thangka of Gesar Ling, and a pleasant rooftop teahouse, though…

  • Lhatse Tibetan Farmer's Hotel

    Tsang

    This courtyard guesthouse has long been popular with foreign travellers. There is an older block of basic rooms with shared squat bathrooms, but the back…

  • Qomolangzong Hotel

    Shigatse

    This plush four-star hotel opened in 2014, offering an impressive lobby of stone and wood, and extremely spacious western-style rooms. Some of the upper…

  • Tashi Choeta Hotel

    Shigatse

    A comfortable four-star place with some Tibetan decor, huge rooms with decently soft beds and a great central location. Bathrooms are modern and spacious…

  • Jílóng Fēitiān Bínguǎn

    Tsang

    The town's best budget choice has fresh and bright rooms with small but modern bathrooms. It's hidden in the north of town, around the corner from the…

  • Liángshi Bīnguǎn

    Tsang

    This unexpectedly welcoming place run by the local Grain Bureau has decent enough standard rooms with good hot water, but it's the epically proportioned…

  • Jilong Legend Hotel

    Tsang

    Don't be put off by the unassuming entrance, this small guesthouse is the best place in town. The interior decor is surprisingly stylish and the bathrooms…

  • Kyirong Hotel

    Tsang

    This high-profile hotel is well run, with clean and fresh but small rooms, with tiny bathrooms. The suite-like triples are huge, with two bedrooms and a…

  • Phuntsok Rabsel Hotel

    Tsang

    A Tibetan-run place, popular with guides, with pleasant, modern rooms set around an interior atrium. Some rooms are without windows, so aim for one of the…

  • Dà Sìchuān Bīnguǎn

    Tsang

    Rooms at this friendly place are good value, if you don't mind squat toilets, and there's plenty of hot water and a rooftop for drying clothes.

  • Yuan Mansion Hotel

    Tsang

    Sakya's best hotel is run by the nearby Sakya Hotel and is similar, but boasts newer bathrooms and better furniture.

  • EBC Tent Camp

    Tsang

    In February 2019, Tibet's Everest Base Camp, including the tent camp, was further closed to visitors to allow for continued cleanup and environmental…

  • Qomo Langma Yak Hotel

    Tsang

    If you want to break up the drive to Everest, or want to avoid sleeping at high elevation, this family home in the village of Tashi Dzom has several rooms…

  • Qomolangma Hotel Tingri

    Tsang

    Though situated in a huge, soulless compound often overrun with Chinese tour groups, this remains one of the best options in Shegar. Rooms are modern and…

  • Rongphu Monastery Guesthouse

    Tsang

    The monastery-run guesthouse at Rongphu has private rooms with proper beds, though the stone walls tend to be quite cold overnight. They are private,…

  • Tingri Bebar Hotel

    Tsang

    The rooms at this courtyard hotel were given a real freshen-up in early 2018, with new carpeting, modern bathrooms and double-glazed windows. Though the…

  • Samding Monastery Guesthouse

    Tsang

    The accommodation at this guesthouse attached to Samding Monastery is extremely simple, in dorms of four, six or seven beds with a shared, dirty pit…

  • Sakya Lhundup Palace Hotel

    Shigatse

    This three-star hotel offers modern, fresh and spacious rooms – all very clean – and there's a lovely, sunny atrium bar and restaurant surrounded by…

  • Sakya Hotel

    Tsang

    The renovated rooms at this modern hotel are spacious and comfortable, with hot-water bathrooms and electric blankets, making it the best value in town…

  • Tingri Roof of the World Grand Hotel

    Tsang

    Opened in 2017, travellers report that this spiffy place with modern Tibetan design is the nicest option in Shegar, with clean rooms and helpful staff…

  • Kangar Hotel

    Tsang

    This option on the east end of Tingri is wellrun, with western-style rooms and modernish bathrooms, a sunroof sitting area, a restaurant and great views…

  • Héhū Bīnguǎn

    Tsang

    This large central hotel is one of the better options in Tingri. The en-suite rooms are fairly clean and carpeted, with a western toilet and hot-water…

  • Tibet Zangba Hotel

    Shigatse

    This three-star hotel is a good choice with fresh rooms that are modern and carpeted, with fairly modern bathrooms and lots of Tibetan touches. There's a…

  • Jílóng Bínguǎn

    Tsang

    This central hotel has plain but clean and spacious rooms with modern western bathrooms, making it a friendly, central choice. Also runs a hotel in…

  • Snow Leopard Guesthouse

    Tsang

    A lot of groups stay in this desolate courtyard hotel on the eastern edge of town. The west-wing rooms are new, with better bathrooms and carpeted floors,…

  • Gyantse Hotel

    Tsang

    The largest hotel in town and popular with groups, this cavernous old-school place was built in the 1980s and it shows. The lobby and restaurant are…

  • Young House Hotel

    Shigatse

    The rooms at this very budget hotel are surprisingly clean, though lack natural light, and come with en-suite shower-over-toilet bathrooms. Downsides are…

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