Hotels in Varanasi
Hotel Ideal Tower
Hotel Ideal Tower, The Mall Road, cantt, Varanasi ( Uttar Pradesh ). View Map
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Description: Hotel Ideal Tower offers luxurious accommodation in the holy city of Varanasi. It also offers superior services and facilities to ensure that business... more »
Review:
"A very neat and clean hotel located in one of the cleaner areas of Varanasi. Courteous staff and delicious food add to the pleasant experience of putting up at Ideal towers" more » |
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Hotel Ramada Plaza, JHV
Ramada Plaza JHV, The Mall , Cantonment, Varanasi. View Map
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Description:Hotel Ramada Plaza JHV located at the Mall in the cantonment area of Varanasi is approximately 5 kilometres from the Banaras Hindu University and 3.5 kilometres... more »
Review:
"Although it was very short journey/stay. But the quality service we got, it was wonderful experience. Especially complementary breakfast was marvelous. Would definatley look forward to visit this hotel again in our next stay in..." more » |
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Description:Location
Hotel India Varanasi is situated in the Cantonment area of Varanasi and enjoys close proximity to the heart of city central business district... more »
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"Overall pleasantly satisfying. Service staff polite and courteous, as well as mannered. Appear to have been trained reasonably in hospitality etiquette. Restaurant table cloths require a good wash. Standard of linen washing also..." more » |
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Description:Location
Hotel Sarin Inn is located near Hotel Raddision in the cantonment area in Varanasi. The closest airport is Babatpur which is 20 kms away and... more »
Review:
"There is no customer focus. The front desk folks are not trained on how to handle customer concerns. We got to know that this hotel is undertaken by UP Govt. and we don't have any choice. I booked for 2 rooms, one semi deluxe..." more » |
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Varanasi Overview
One of the oldest living cities in the world that has preserved its tight net of gullies and lanes, Varanasi continues to be the holiest city for Hindus, and one of the most fascinating for westerners. They say that if you die here you attain instant nirvana; through the ages, sages have come here to find harmony – from Gautam Buddha to the great Hindu reformer Shankaracharya.The sepia image of its ghats lining the Ganga is one of the most arcane, and intriguing. And yet a crass, materialistic culture thrives here too, when the priests try to fleece you and the touts want to sell you tailor-made doses of spiritualism.Varanasi is the epitome of everything that Westerners find ‘exotic’ in India. And yet it goes on to defy stereotypes, continuing as any normal Indian city, devoid of surprises for the Indians, yet completely revered by them. The cycle of life and death is nowhere more pronounced, for this is the city people come to die in, to rid themselves of the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, to attain ultimate salvation, moksha.The city also holds within its alleys the depth of human despair – widows who have come here to live out the rest of their lives after their husbands have passed away, elderly people driven away by their offspring.But the city goes on like it has for 8,000 years, populated around the convex arc of the Ganga. Each of its ghats has devotees washing their sins in the holiest river of the Hindus that lies terribly polluted today. They offer prayers, meditate, wash their laundry and bathe here. They touch their foreheads with its waters before putting their feet into it, they drink it and fill it in bottles to take away a part of it, hoping to get a draught when breathing their last breath. They immerse their loved ones’ ashes in the Ganga, hoping for heaven, praying for eternal peace.

