Varanasi Hotels - Reviews and Rates

My alarm went off at 5.10, and I had 20 minutes of fighting a vicious, bloody battle with my body and mind. I knew I should get up, the ghats were waiting, the ghats man! My body and mind had other priorities. The bed is here man, the bed! Eventually at 5.29 I dragged myself out of my stupor, fuelled more by obligation to the Norwegians than any...

Similar to how we started the New Year, Jesmar started his 30th birthday traveling, however on train rather than on a sleeper bus. We left Agra for Varanasi. Varanasi's chaos was very much similar to that in Agra with the addition that here you also have the boatmen pleading for a boat ride even after you have just stepped out of one. The main a...

This is a fascinating place. It stretches for about 6 miles along one bank of the Ganges. All along its length are 'ghats' - steps down to the river, where people bathe, swim, wash their clothes and cremate their dead. Actually, there are 5 types of person, including pregnant women and babies, who are considered already pure and do not need to b...

Hey All, Just had a great time in Varanasi. Just hung out the first day and had a bit of a look around then at night went to this jam session of this Indian 3 piece band which was great, the flute guy was really good, then of course cam the customary fleecing of 100 rupees each for listening and then trying to sell us a CD for 3 time the normal ...

After a very (very) 12 hour bumpy ride from Pokhara to Varanasi. Inclusive of millions of mosquitoes, hitting my head against the ceiling, bus changes and the first signs of wiggling heads. I finally arrived in Varanasi in the middle of the night, it took me a while to find a hotel, which actually kind of sucked, but the next morning I moved to ...

It ain't Varanasi unless you've stepped on some sacred cow droppings. It is hard enough traversing the alleyways of Varanasi at the best of times. But when the electricity goes off at night it is one heck of an adventure! Last night it happened as I tried to get back to my Guest House. The man in front of me kept moving and in 5 seconds there wa...

The reputation of Varanasi is ambiguous. We heard stories of half burned body parts floating around the boat you are supposed to take to see the 'action'. All along the Ganges river there are access gates called 'ghats'. Some are praying ghats, but the most interesting and weird are the burning ghats. Our hotel was located right next to the chim...

so, yes, it took everything we had to pack up the suits/wraps and gear up in head to toe body covering, get on the 72 hour train ride and settle into holy land. Although, in retrospect, we're glad we did. As opposed to the south, what the north lacks in comfort for travelers, it makes up for ten fold in culture and food. We have been here for tw...

5th August - We arrived in Varanasi on time but tired and feeling very grubby. Thankfully our bags were still with us after we padlocked them to the seat. Apparently not a day goes by on this journey without someone arriving without their backpack. The main budget area of Varanasi is down in the old town by the river but we thought we would rath...

[written jan. 24, 2002] hello! so i've been in varanasi for almost 4 days now...this city is by far the most interesting of the places i've been to so far in terms of it being a living, working environment...the city as a whole is what's most exciting, not just different touristy sites around the city. everything of interest that happens here is...