Must-see hotels in Southeastern Iran

  • Motevibashi Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    The classic, 180-year-old house of Aramgah's one-time motevibashi (caretaker) has been tastefully converted into an eight-room boutique hotel using…

  • Keykhosro

    Southeastern Iran

    Built around a century ago to accommodate the priest of the nearby (and still active) Zoroastrian temple, this delightfully quirky place has two spacious…

  • Parvin Homestay

    Southeastern Iran

    This ultra-simple, 40-year-old adobe house has just two thick-walled rooms, one adorned with embroidery on old rice sacks and the other with decor…

  • Kashkiloo Lodge

    Southeastern Iran

    By far the most comfortable logings in the Kaluts region, Kashkiloo is a very professional six-room mini hotel combining stylishly modernised traditional…

  • Akhavan Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Faux Corinthian columns and King Kurosh (Cyrus) reliefs give a sense of slightly kitschy grandeur, while warmly decorated rooms are comfortable if…

  • Khane Pedari

    Southeastern Iran

    German-speaking tour guide Jalal has poured his heart into restoring his classically styled ancestral home to create an appealing little guesthouse. The…

  • Meymand Guesthouse

    Southeastern Iran

    Eight of Meymand's old cave-rooms have been equipped with clean bedding, tree-branch shelving, heater and lamps for overnight stays. Yet with namad and…

  • Omid Guesthouse

    Southeastern Iran

    Female-run Omid is cleaner than most ultra-budget guesthouses; the simple rooms have a TV and fridge – and rock-hard beds – and guests can use the kitchen…

  • Hezar Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Barely signed in a residential yet reasonably central location, this low-profile hotel has a 1960s-retro minimalist style. There's a large, rectilinear…

  • Shabhayeh Rayen

    Southeastern Iran

    A short walk from the fortress complex, this 'apartment hotel' has five luxurious new suites with two bedrooms, new bathrooms, kitchen/sitting room and…

  • Hotel Ghaem

    Southeastern Iran

    In a bland, new, grey-white stone building set back from Imam Khomeini Sq, the Ghaem's location is excellent and rooms are good value: unfussy but…

  • Kian Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Opened only since early 2016, the Kian is a comfortable place that is (for now) good value for money, with large en suite rooms and frilly sash curtains…

  • Mahan Tourist Inn

    Southeastern Iran

    Designed throughout with pointed arch effects for a sense of local style, this hotel offers reliable midrange quality at very affordable prices. It's on a…

  • Shahdad Desert Camp

    Southeastern Iran

    Confusingly not in Shahdad at all, this ultra-budget option allows you to lie down on a raised, tiled camping base, partly sheltered by a kapar …

  • Kalut Ecolodge

    Southeastern Iran

    Kalut Ecolodge is marginally the most charming of half a dozen closely grouped homestays in Shafiabad village, thanks in part to friendly hostess Sekina…

  • Birjand Mountain Grand Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Tucked into ruggedly contoured hills in a sharp stream valley around 4km southwest of Birjan's southern ring road, this upper-market layered hotel has…

  • Mehmansarai Bagh-e Shah Zadeh

    Southeastern Iran

    Want to sleep in a Unesco site? There are 15 relatively simple guest rooms in arched spaces to the right of the gatehouse as you enter the Shahzde Gardens…

  • Kerman Pars Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Tour groups typically end up at this 197-room behemoth at a motorway junction nearly 10km west of Kerman's centre. East-facing rooms survey distant…

  • Mehmanpazir Navid

    Southeastern Iran

    This little guesthouse is far better inside than you'd guess from the tin-pot little reception desk. New mattresses are comfortable and there's an air of…

  • Birjand Tourist Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    Recently refurbished with a pleasant restaurant and coffeeshop. Some rooms have rather busy decor with whole-wall picture wallpaper, but many have sit…

  • Mehmanpazir Reza

    Southeastern Iran

    Signed 'Guefd Hufe' in Latin script by a typographically challenged translator, this very basic guesthouse has spongy mattresses on new beds. Walls are…

  • Yadegar Ecolodge

    Southeastern Iran

    Yadegar is the only homestay within the intriguingly timeless settlement of Dehseif, tucked behind that village's ruined caravanserai/citadel ruin. It's…

  • Mehmanpazir Saeed

    Southeastern Iran

    The Saeed looks unpromising but actually offers unexpectedly pleasant, clean rooms if you can score one of the front-facing, en suite options. Those at…

  • Jalal Guesthouse

    Southeastern Iran

    Some 2.4km north of the bazaar, local guide Jalal Mehdizadeh rents rooms in a suburban home when there's no room left at the co-owned Khane Pedari…

  • Khane Moalem

    Southeastern Iran

    If you want to stay near Meymand but need a room with en suite facilities, this rather tired place in central Shahr-e Babak is the closest you'll find.

  • Milad Guesthouse

    Southeastern Iran

    The box rooms are a little tatty, with rusty fittings and peeling paint, and the shared squat toilets don't necessarily have flush mechanisms, but it's…

  • Hotel Tala Arg

    Southeastern Iran

    Oddly located in a row of car mechanics' workshops, 300m north of Azadi Sq, this cheap, basic place comprises an unremarkable restaurant, tea garden and…

  • Amin Hotel

    Southeastern Iran

    The Amin's selling points are English-speaking management and en suite rooms that are handy for the bazaar, but beds are soft and springy and the…