Lahore
The Sanai has biggish rooms and is probably the most salubrious midrange option if you wish to stay reasonably close to the main train station.
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Lahore
The Orient's cheapest rooms are drab and dingy - you're better off paying a bit more to get one of its more-comfortable (more-expensive) rooms.
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Spacious, comfortable rooms and the tranquil location and pleasant veranda overlooking the small garden make this a relaxing midrange choice.
Karakoram Highway
This guesthouse is designed on traditional Shimshali themes offering a carpeted dining room/dorm and a few basic rooms with bucket hot water.
Karakoram Highway
The spartan rooms have bathrooms with hot water. It's centrally located with a restaurant upstairs and a good hot-snack café downstairs.
Pakistan
A good midrange option, with well-appointed and decent-sized rooms. The decent hotel restaurant makes this a comfortable hotel for the money.
Karakoram Highway
Rooms are reasonable and the food OK. The best feature is the sunny patio with fine views of the mountains above and the street life below.
Pakistan
Quiet and set back from the road, the average rooms are somewhat offset by the relaxing garden courtyard. Located opposite the TDCP Office.
Karakoram Highway
This hotel was being extensively renovated at the time of research. It will need to be a good job to justify these prices in this location.
Pakistan
The attraction of this hotel is that it's quieter than many others; however, the grassy central courtyard gets more points than the rooms.
Pakistan
Located just off Aziz Hotel Chowk, Silver Sand is a sound choice apart from having some run-down rooms that are starved of natural light.
Karakoram Highway
Just north of the Swat junction and next to the boisterous minibus yard, the Abasin has very ordinary rooms with toilet and cold shower.
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Although in need of a minor revamp, Al-Baddar's humdrum rooms are good-sized and still rate better than many other places at this price.
Karakoram Highway
The International has worn-out but passably clean rooms with squat toilets and cold shower. This hotel also boasts a crude restaurant.
Pakistan
At the time of research the Sangam Hotel, by the junction of the Jhelum and Neelam Rivers, had been rebuilt and was fully operational.
Balochistan
One kilometre further along the Loralai road from the PTDC Complex, this is not as conveniently located or as comfortable as the PTDC.
Pakistan
About 200m north of Dera Adda Chowk, this is one of Multan's most appealing midrange offerings with good (albeit not luxurious) rooms.
Karakoram Highway
The rooms at this small hotel, 1.5km north of the village, are spartan but spotless with cold showers. Hot water plumbing is planned!
Karakoram Highway
Chupurson Village Guesthouse in Sher-e-Sabz has a traditional Wakhi dining/sleeping room as well as a bedroom with three single beds.
Lahore
A fairly sound choice in the Lower Mall area - given Lahore's paucity of midrange offerings - but like most places, it lacks pizzazz.
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Although the simple rooms are certainly nothing to write home about, they aren't bad at this price and some have views over the Mall.
Lahore
Formerly called Hotel Kashmir Palace, a new name and a renovation makes for a good value option with wi-fi and breakfast included.
Southern Punjab
Inside the gates, this motel has quiet gardens and a good restaurant. If you're on your own they may take Rs250 off the room rate.
Karakoram Highway
Across the bridge from the Chalt Tourist Inn is the very basic Kepal Inn with one room and the mere possibility of a cold shower.
Karakoram Highway
The Rainbow is not welcoming, with glum rooms with bathrooms upstairs and even gloomier rooms downstairs that share a bathroom.
Karakoram Highway
The tiny rooms are well kept but resonate with traffic noise. Other options in the vicinity are not interested in foreigners.
Karakoram Highway
This hotel, close to Yadgar Chowk, has unexceptional doubles and a restaurant is attached. Not very welcoming to foreigners.
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
The rooms are sparsely furnished and smallish, but this is still one of the better choices in Murree's mundane budget bunch.
Gilgit
The tidy doubles here are pretty good value and the attached Green Dragon Chinese restaurant does acceptable Chinese dishes.
Pakistan
At the time of research a new Pearl Continental Hotel was under construction between Chattar and the junction of the rivers.
Lahore
Next door to the Ambassador, this new hotel is staffed by friendly Lahorites and is great value amongst the other midranges.
Karakoram Highway
This skinny, high-rise hotel was being renovated at the time of research and the rooms with TVs should be worth inspecting.
Pakistan
Neither new nor particularly relaxing, this hotel has worn and weary rooms, making it the worst of the best midrange batch.
Karakoram Highway
In the lower bazaar, with basic rooms with squat toilets and bucket hot water. It has a basic curry and chapati restaurant.
Pakistan
At Brook Laspur there is the ultra-basic Qraqrum Hotel & Restaurant if you need to stay to catch transport to Shandur.
Karakoram Highway
One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.
Karakoram Highway
One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.
Karakoram Highway
One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.
Karakoram Highway
One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.
Pakistan
This is one of the best-value budget choices, with some of the cheapest and most salubrious rooms in this price bracket.
