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.
Iran Hotels, Hostels & Accommodation
Hotel Nazr
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.
Bushehr Tourist Inn
Great location, pity about the rooms/price ratio. Your last resort.
Hotel Pars
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.
Khoy Tourist Inn
Modern yet cosy, this super-clean place has unusually well equipped rooms including minibar, excellent hot showers and even provides toilet paper. OK restaurant.
Oxim Hotel
Before a flight, congenial modern rooms at the professionally run Oxim Hotel are a sensible choice, being just 2km from the airport.
Ostad Khanim Mo’Allem
There’s cheaper accommodation, in little dormitories at the Ostad Khanim Mo’allem if they allow you to stay.
Hotel Negin
Beyond a somewhat disinterested reception (no English spoken), almost-smart corridors lead to very good rooms with full Western facilities.
Hotel Park
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.
Venon Hotel
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.
Hotel Razavi
Small, simple but relatively comfortable.
Hotel Park Chaman
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).
Zanjan Grand Hotel
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.
Hotel Rahumah
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.
Hotel Melal
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.
Ana Hotel
Rooms are fair value if somewhat less attractive than you’d expect from the rather upmarket entrance.
Salar Kish Hotel
With bigger apartments; usually four or five beds in each.
Mosaferkhaneh Baharestan
The town’s very basic Mosaferkhaneh Baharestan.
Mehmanpazir Shushtar
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.
Hotel Delgoshay Salmas
Basic accomodation, some rooms have washing facilities.
Tourist Inn
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.
Bandar Lengeh Inn
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.
Mehmunpazir Takht E Jamshid
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.
Ittic Tourist Inn
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.
Urumia Tourist Inn
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.
Mosaferkhaneh Valiasr
If you stay in Jiroft, the Mosaferkhaneh Valiasr is the very simple budget option about 100m east of the museum.
Hotel Sarim
One block east of central Imam Khomeini St, Hotel Sarim has accommodation that is comfortable and would be fairly appealing if they fixed the droopy curtains and threadbare corridor rugs.
Kavir Hotel & Restaurant
Worn almost to the point of being worn out, and none too clean, avoid the Kavir unless you’re an overlander looking for lock-up parking.