The hotel is a bit dingy and gloomy. Keeping that aside, we were told upon arrival that the room we were initially allocated to wasn't vacated by the previous customer, so we have been given a better room, the view was nice, but the owner initially said, this is a higher priced room than the one you had paid for, so if you feel like you can pay the extra amount or you might not. But when we were checking out, he almost pressurized us to pay up and wasn't really letting us go. P. S. If you're considering night life at rishikesh and come back to your room late, and expect something as basic as extra blankets, forget it. Their numbers are switched off at night. If you're coming in late for check in, you'll probably be stranded.