Hotel Samrat Dehradun is very near to Dehradun railway station prominently located at wide Tyagi Road. You get ample space for car parking, power back up, good ambient walls 9f the corridoors to take nice portraits. The manager Shispal is always to help but has limitations due to poor facilities.
What you don't get is 24X7 hot water even in winter - they informed the hot water availability only for 0700-1200 hrs; no in house restaurant - the one shown in the site as Punjabi Veg just at ground floor does not work but sells momo and chowmin outside it in a cart - a challenge for family travellers at night, only the Hotel Gomti opposite side is a resort. Our hotel initially gave us a small double bed room that had a glass pane of a window missing, but upon insistence, changed to another room a bit better, when I started contating customer care.
the hotel owner is very curtesious but should have to address to its proper maintenance to get the advantage of its loation.