Bolvar Inn
We liked the atmosphere in this unpretentious, family-run place set around a courtyard filled with the din of air-conditioners. Rooms and toilets are clean, but there’s only one shower.
We liked the atmosphere in this unpretentious, family-run place set around a courtyard filled with the din of air-conditioners. Rooms and toilets are clean, but there’s only one shower.
Rooms have good bathrooms and are newer than the Apadana’s, but the place lacks any atmosphere and is about 1km further from the historical sites. Prices are hazily defined so it’s worth bargaining.
Great location, pity about the rooms/price ratio. Your last resort.
Set around a pleasant courtyard of orange trees, this clean, central yet surprisingly peaceful mosaferkhaneh (cheap hotel) lies just a minute’s walk from Shahrdari Sq...
Modern yet cosy, this super-clean place has unusually well equipped rooms including minibar, excellent hot showers and even provides toilet paper. OK restaurant.
Before a flight, congenial modern rooms at the professionally run Oxim Hotel are a sensible choice, being just 2km from the airport.
There’s cheaper accommodation, in little dormitories at the Ostad Khanim Mo’allem if they allow you to stay...
Beyond a somewhat disinterested reception (no English spoken), almost-smart corridors lead to very good rooms with full Western facilities.
At the western end of town, Hotel Park is one of the region’s best-value hotels, with an understated elegance and very well-kept, fully equipped rooms.
Above an expansive restaurant, sparklingly clean, new rooms have tiled floors, displays of plastic flowers and curtained-off shower booths. Toilets are shared. It’s bearable value for single travellers but otherwise overpriced.
Small, simple but relatively comfortable.
Look for the obvious blue-roofed modernist restaurant across the river. While not entirely tasteful, the suites are well-equipped with bathtub, choice of toilets and a balcony (no mountain views)...
By far Zanjan’s top option, the stylishly sparse, international-standard rooms are spacious, with impeccable bathrooms, a slight niggle being the ill-conceived light-switching system. Staff try hard to please...
The 10 rooms above this Nahar Khoran restaurant are small suites with little kitchenettes and there’s a modish bar-style area. Back rooms face the woods with the murmur of streams. It’s approximately opposite Coffee Soufi café. No English sign.
Overlooking the river east of Si-o-Seh Bridge, Melal is so professionally managed that staff refused all our attempts to actually see a room because it was full...
Rooms are fair value if somewhat less attractive than you’d expect from the rather upmarket entrance.
With bigger apartments; usually four or five beds in each.
The town’s very basic Mosaferkhaneh Baharestan.
Recently rebuilt with reasonably neat tiled floors, this upstairs place charges what it feels you’ll pay, apparently irrespective of whether you get a room with an OK bathroom or have to share the communal squat toilet...
Basic accomodation, some rooms have washing facilities.
This long-established place has the most magical location of several Nahar Khoran forest places. Compact, tastefully furnished bungalows are fairly closely packed through pines and palms that twinkle merrily in multicoloured evening lights...
Most of the plain but clean rooms have Gulf views though you’ll need big biceps to get the windows open. It’s 1.8km west of town down a lonely side road but the position, literally on the water’s edge, justifies the trip.
The extremely basic, showerless Mehmunpazir Takht-e-Jamshid is signed ‘Pensiun’. Rooms have recently been repainted but conditions remain far from inviting. The owner knows the odd word of English.
Semi-detached bungalow units with crazy-paving walls are peacefully perched above the popular Kyo boating lake. They are fully renovated with good bathrooms, wooden floors and velveteen bedspreads.
The Tourist Inn successfully emulates a typical midrange European chain-hotel in facilities, price and anodyne could-be-anywhere atmosphere. Comes complete with annoying Muzak in the irreproachably clean, utterly bland coffee shop.
If you stay in Jiroft, the Mosaferkhaneh Valiasr is the very simple budget option about 100m east of the museum.
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