Ngari
This Sichuanese-run hotel is above the restaurant of the same name, on Sangsang's main crossroads. Bathrooms are small but the beds boast electric…
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Standard rooms in the main building are decorated with Tibetan motifs but are quite small. The cheaper rooms in the back are bigger and almost as good.
Ngari
One of several simple hotels set in a large compound, this dour place has decent-value rooms with cramped attached bathrooms, making it worth a look.
Tsang
Rooms at this friendly place are good value, if you don't mind squat toilets, and there's plenty of hot water and a rooftop for drying clothes.
Ngari
At the eastern edge of town is a huge new top-end government-owned hotel that opened in 2018. It's managed by Shigatse's Gesar Hotel.
Snowland Brothers Restaurant & Hotel
Ngari
This ramshackle collection of plastic cabins has a cosy restaurant (mains ¥25 to ¥50). It's also called the Wangdrak Guesthouse.
Lhasa
Renovated three-star hotel with fresh, clean and slightly dull rooms, though not particularly spacious. Staff are helpful.
Ngari
An acceptable hotel with bright, comfortable rooms but poky bathrooms. It's a decent backup if other options are full.
Tsang
Sakya's best hotel is run by the nearby Sakya Hotel and is similar, but boasts newer bathrooms and better furniture.
Ngari
A decent choice in the town centre, with clean and fresh rooms, though the tiny bathrooms let the side down a bit.
Eastern Tibet
The hotel is ageing but is still a good first choice for clean and comfortable rooms in a central location.
Gǎngdǐsī Tuánjié Zōnghé Bīnguǎn
Ngari
This simple prefab guesthouse below the Zutul-puk Monastery boasts good mattresses.
Tsang
In February 2019, Tibet's Everest Base Camp, including the tent camp, was further closed to visitors to allow for continued cleanup and environmental…
Lhasa
Even if you’re not in the market for showy five-star digs, it’s worth investing ¥10 in a cab ride out to this opulent hotel in the east of town. Occupying…
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While most places at Nam-tso look like glorified toolsheds, this is an actual structure, decorated with photos taken by the guesthouse owner. The cheapest…
Tsang
If you want to break up the drive to Everest, or want to avoid sleeping at high elevation, this family home in the village of Tashi Dzom has several rooms…
Tsang
Though situated in a huge, soulless compound often overrun with Chinese tour groups, this remains one of the best options in Shegar. Rooms are modern and…
Tsang
The monastery-run guesthouse at Rongphu has private rooms with proper beds, though the stone walls tend to be quite cold overnight. They are private,…
Tsang
The rooms at this courtyard hotel were given a real freshen-up in early 2018, with new carpeting, modern bathrooms and double-glazed windows. Though the…
Tsang
The accommodation at this guesthouse attached to Samding Monastery is extremely simple, in dorms of four, six or seven beds with a shared, dirty pit…
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This basic guesthouse beside the parking lot has bare-bones mattresses in three-bed rooms and a pleasant Tibetan-style restaurant next door, making it a…
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The guesthouse run by Tengyer Nunnery is probably the nicest place to stay at Tidrum proper, with conditions clean but basic. Riverside rooms have four…
Shigatse
This three-star hotel offers modern, fresh and spacious rooms – all very clean – and there's a lovely, sunny atrium bar and restaurant surrounded by…
Ngari
This simple Tibetan guesthouse in Zhungba offers an alternative place to break the Ali–Gertse trip. Rooms have four or five beds and a dung stove, and you…
Lhasa
After only a couple of years under the Tibetan sun the paint is starting to peel off this four-star Sheraton property. It's functional rather than…
Tsang
The renovated rooms at this modern hotel are spacious and comfortable, with hot-water bathrooms and electric blankets, making it the best value in town…
Tingri Roof of the World Grand Hotel
Tsang
Opened in 2017, travellers report that this spiffy place with modern Tibetan design is the nicest option in Shegar, with clean rooms and helpful staff…
Mindroling Monastery Guesthouse
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Staying overnight at a Tibetan monastery sounds romantic, but there are some significant drawbacks at this one, including dirty rooms, ropy mattresses,…
Ngari
Rooms are spacious and comfortable with decent attached bathrooms, making this a good-value option, though you can expect hard beds and some road noise…
InterContinental Lhasa Paradise
Lhasa
This monstrosity of pyramids and glass in Lhasa's far eastern suburbs is so architecturally out of place that it feels more like a science experiment than…
Tsang
This option on the east end of Tingri is wellrun, with western-style rooms and modernish bathrooms, a sunroof sitting area, a restaurant and great views…
Tsang
This large central hotel is one of the better options in Tingri. The en-suite rooms are fairly clean and carpeted, with a western toilet and hot-water…
Drigung Til Monastery Guesthouse
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Foreigners are allowed to stay in this scruffy guesthouse just below the main monastery entrance, but the cleanliness and quality of the mattresses varies…
Shigatse
This three-star hotel is a good choice with fresh rooms that are modern and carpeted, with fairly modern bathrooms and lots of Tibetan touches. There's a…
Ngari
This rustic but welcoming mud-walled Tibetan truck stop has basic five-bed rooms with Tibetan stoves and can provide basins of warm water for washing;…
Ngari
Like most guesthouses in Drongba, this place is little more than a mud-walled block of rooms lined up against a central pit toilet, but it's cleaner than…
Ngari
This state-run guesthouse is in a compound with a solarium-style entryway. The carpeted rooms with bathroom are OK but can be booked up with visiting…
Eastern Tibet
Comfortable rooms but far from the lake and the main strip, the focal selling point here is that it's your only option in town. Look for it in the swathe…
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If you prefer atmosphere over mod-cons, you can overnight at the monastery. The four-bed rooms with a shared pit toilet are simple but comfortable enough…
Eastern Tibet
Fairly average rooms and amenities make it hard to justify higher than average room rates, but at least unusually friendly staff help ease the sting to…