Mathura
This modern budget business hotel has excellent, spacious rooms with up-to-date bathrooms, making it both excellent value for money and superconvenient…
Must-see hotels in Uttar Pradesh
Varanasi
This inner-courtyard guesthouse near the Vishwanath Temple is a pleasant diversion from the chaotic maze of alleyways that lead to it. For the price, it's…
Uttar Pradesh
There’s a huge range of rooms at this well-run and bustling establishment in Faizabad. The cheapest ones are a bit gritty and have rock-hard beds, but…
Prayagraj (Allahabad)
This professionally run 20-room midrange hotel is in a good location along MG Marg and offers a slight step up from similarly priced competition. A glass…
Varanasi
You'll find a huge variety of rooms at this ramshackle but friendly place, which is better than it looks from its entrance down a scruffy side alley. Most…
Prayagraj (Allahabad)
One of the best-value places in Prayagraj (Allahabad) in this price range: rooms are modern and clean, with mellow colour schemes and good beds. Standard…
Uttar Pradesh
Marginally the most comfortable option in town. The AC rooms have good beds set around a small courtyard, and there's a decent restaurant attached. The…
Agra
Of the 21 rooms in this West Gate staple, those on the ground floor are stylish for the price, with marble walls, cable TV and clean bathrooms with hot…
Uttar Pradesh
A well-organised but somewhat grubby budget option conveniently close to the train station, with small rooms but a good multicuisine restaurant (excellent…
Mathura
A clean and solid hotel, the older of the two Brijwasi properties has 40 rooms, a good restaurant, a bar and a central location. The cheapest rooms…
Vrindavan
The well-run guesthouse of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness is at the back of the Krishna Balaram temple complex, keeping you near the…
Uttar Pradesh
With a big breezy lobby, gleaming floors and modern rooms with flat-screen TVs, bathtubs and minibars, this 44-room hotel is the most comfortable, though…
Sarnath
A peaceful place with a refined owner, and spotless marble-floored rooms overlooking a large and very pleasant garden. Upstairs rooms come with AC and hot…
Uttar Pradesh
More cush than any of the railway-front hotels. Rooms here are business-quality, with patterned wall designs and good mattresses. Also situated near…
Linh Son Vietnam Chinese Temple
Uttar Pradesh
Simple, clean triples with modern private bathroom and hot water. Not very cosy but great value.
Prayagraj (Allahabad)
A stone's throw south of the train station, this sprawling, well-organised local flophouse is helpful and boasts wi-fi (lobby only), a State Bank of India…
Uttar Pradesh
This institutional-feeling place has basic, scruffy and stained rooms, but the bathrooms have sit-down toilets and hot water – it's doable. Look at a few…
Sarnath
This simple guesthouse is run by a grandfatherly doctor of geography, whose wife whips up home-cooked pure veg thalis (₹180). The five dusty rooms have…
Uttar Pradesh
Definitely the best choice of the noisy hotels in front of the railway station. Rooms are on the small side but are modern. The room service and 24-hour…
