Must-see hotels in Mumbai (Bombay)

  • Fariyas Hotel

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    This smart, friendly place has tasteful, traditional-style rooms and a small pool, which nonguests can use (₹1000 per day). With its peaceful spot on a…

  • Hotel Lawrence

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    Run by kindly Michael, this venerable place has been hosting shoestring travellers for years. Rooms are certainly basic but kept pretty tidy, as are the…

  • Salvation Army Red Shield Guest House

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    A Mumbai institution popular with rupee-pinching travellers. Accommodation is very spartan (and a little grubby) but doable for a night or so. Dorms…

  • Sea Green Hotel

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    This art deco place has spacious but spartan air-conditioned rooms, built in the 1940s to house British soldiers. The hotel is slightly less appealing…

  • India Guest House

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    Run by the same people as the excellent Sea Shore Hotel, it's not as attractive but its box rooms (some with partial sea views) are cheap as chapatis and…

  • Hotel Moti

    Mumbai (Bombay)

    A crumbling, colonial-era building on prime Colaba real estate, where owner Raj tows a line between welcoming and wishy washy. Rooms are spartanly…