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Easily the best choice in Zanda is this well-run guesthouse across from Thöling Monastery. The six clean and spacious standard rooms come with hot-water…
Must-see hotels in Ngari
Drira-puk Monastery Guesthouse
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The quietest and most comfortable accommodation option at Drira-puk is a bed in the monastery guesthouse, which has comfortable new rooms but limited food.
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The monastery guesthouse is a glass-fronted block with simple mattresses in four-bed rooms or more comfortable two-bed rooms (¥50). There are pit toilets…
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The revamped Ali Hotel is now the fanciest and most expensive place in town. It's surprisingly stylish and modern, though the occasional fragrant bathroom…
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After recent renovations this is once again the main tour-group hotel in town. Bedding is clean and hot water is plentiful in the evenings, making it Saga…
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With friendly staff used to dealing with foreigners, the Héngyuǎn has a useful location, a pleasant lobby tearoom and worn rooms with attached bathrooms…
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This welcoming Tibetan-run motel is your best choice in Moincêr, with simple but clean double rooms arranged around compound parking, just beside the turn…
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This Tibetan-run guesthouse in the southwest of town is popular with many agencies. The 10 renovated rooms, new for 2018, are fresh and comfortable, with…
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Saga's best budget bet is this Tibetan-run courtyard hotel. The four-bed dorms are chilly but clean and the doubles are fresh, even if the mattresses have…
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The only sensibly priced rooms in Tsaka are at this simple compound-style guesthouse. It's a simple place, with no running water and only solar…
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Opened in 2016, this has the potential to be the most comfortable place in town, with carpeted rooms and en-suite bathrooms surrounding a central tearoom…
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The clean five-bed rooms at this monastery guesthouse are comfortable and have fantastic views of Kailash through the barred windows. The greenhouse…
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A typical dusty-courtyard guesthouse in the southeast of Paryang town, with friendly owners, a cosy teahouse and rooms with three to five beds with decent…
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Just what you didn't expect in Darchen: a four-star giant, with 102 rooms spread over half a dozen blocks. The grand lobby is impressive and surprisingly…
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This family home in remote Dungkhar village offers a rare chance in Tibet to experience a Tibetan-style homestay. There is only one guest room, with five…
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A good-value choice if you don't mind being a five-minute drive out of town. Rooms are clean and comfortable and there's pleasant seating in the solarium…
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This plush-looking branch of Lhasa's Himalaya Hotel chain offers stylish decor, an ATM and that rarest of things in Tibet – a fruit basket, making it…
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Rooms with en suite are spacious and clean, have decent hot-water showers and are flanked by a sunny sitting area overlooking the street, but they are…
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Rooms are bright and clean, but the near-transparent glass-walled corner bathroom cubicles don't offer much privacy. It's not a bad choice if you can't…
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Hard beds and squat toilets make this a simple option, even with a room humidifier. Water pressure is better in the public showers in the lobby so you can…
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Comfortable, spacious rooms are set around a pleasant courtyard of real plants (!) and wicker armchairs; perfect for drying clothes or a bit of R&R after…
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One of the best hotels in town, in the southeast suburbs. Comfortable and reliable, despite the 1980s-style decor, but there's not much in the way of…
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Probably your best choice, in the southern end of town, with gleaming white tiled corridors, regal wallpaper and comfortable rooms, though compact…
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A good three-star choice with heated, comfortable, spacious and carpeted rooms, clean, fresh linens and a rainforest shower. The back block rooms are…
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Hard beds and cramped showers are an inconvenience at this government-run place but rooms are bright and clean, if somewhat overpriced. Upper-floor rooms…
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The best hotel in town, with plush carpets, lots of space and oxygen machines in the rooms. Rates are discounted as low as ¥280 if things are quiet…
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The central heating in this hostel is a godsend early in the season and there's plenty of hot water in the bathroom. The cheaper four-bed rooms come with…
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An offbeat choice, this place has surprisingly spacious and clean rooms with attached bathrooms. It sees few foreign travellers but it's good value if you…
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This is probably the most popular of the half-dozen guesthouses lining the Manasarovar shoreline at Chiu. Rooms are simple, with pit toilets outside, but…
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An offbeat choice, with bright rooms and small bathrooms but Western toilets and 24-hour hot water, making it a decent option, though the location is far…
Zutul-puk Monastery Guesthouse
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The best place to stay at Zutul-puk is at the monastery guesthouse, with five-bed rooms set around a warm greenhouse-style solarium, and tea available at…
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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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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.
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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
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This ramshackle collection of plastic cabins has a cosy restaurant (mains ¥25 to ¥50). It's also called the Wangdrak Guesthouse.
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An acceptable hotel with bright, comfortable rooms but poky bathrooms. It's a decent backup if other options are full.
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A decent choice in the town centre, with clean and fresh rooms, though the tiny bathrooms let the side down a bit.
Gǎngdǐsī Tuánjié Zōnghé Bīnguǎn
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This simple prefab guesthouse below the Zutul-puk Monastery boasts good mattresses.
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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…
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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…
