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Reviews of Hotel Alka 3 stars

D 3/23 Meer Ghat, 221001 Varanasi, India

#134 of 262 hotels in Varanasi

Guests' Choice

Review score

Based on 454 hotel reviews

6.7

Score breakdown

  • Cleanliness

    6.9

  • Comfort

    6.9

  • Location

    8.2

  • Facilities

    6.5

  • Staff

    7.3

  • Value for money

    6.8

  • Free WiFi

    6.2

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  • Reviewed: 26 May 2022

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Royal View Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Must clean the room on daily basis. Hotel must improve the inside infrastructure bit more and must add more staff in kitchen for quick service to customer.

    Location was very good, it's connected to Ganga ghat(Meer Ghat) beside Manikarnika ghat, can attend Gangaji arti from the balcony itself, spacious room and polite staff.

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: 8 May 2022

    8.0
    Very good and enjoyed
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Premium Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Food taste

    Location Staff Food taste was average

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: 7 May 2022

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Deluxe Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Food facilities

    Cleanliness

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: 7 May 2022

    6.0
    Pleasant
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Budget Single Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Conveyance

    Not applicable

    Stayed in May 2022

  • Reviewed: 25 April 2022

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Couple
    • Standard Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Pick up n drop facility from last point of public transportation to hotel must be provided from hotel authority.

    Hotel view is awesome but to reach there its terrible.

    Stayed in April 2022

  • Reviewed: 22 April 2022

    7.0
    Good
    • Business trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Location and property

    Stayed in April 2022

  • Reviewed: 13 March 2022

    6.0
    Location excellent, room good, food average, approach horrible!
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Royal View Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Lack of variety

    Run of the mill stuff.

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 7 March 2022

    8.0
    rooms are good , Food is bad
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Royal View Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights

    restaurant staff are not great, and very rude, their service and quality of food is very very poor and danger for getting sick. please ensure hygiene is maintained.

    Stayed in March 2022

  • Reviewed: 28 January 2022

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Good hotel

    Stayed in January 2022

  • Reviewed: 28 January 2022

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Good hotel staff also cooperative

    Stayed in January 2022

  • Reviewed: 8 January 2022

    7.0
    Good
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Standard Double Room with Fan (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    You have to walk atleast 1 km from the main road to the hotel. So if you carry a lot of luggages, it will be very difficult for you

    The location is both positive and negative. The hotel is very close to Ganga river , Kasi Viswanath Temple.

    Stayed in January 2022

  • Reviewed: 29 December 2021

    8.0
    Overall good property
    • Leisure trip
    • Solo traveller
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    In hindsight, didn’t check that it is shared bathroom and toilet. Also it is squat toilet, so please be careful if you have some physical issues.

    This property is right at the ghats and walking distance from KashiVishwanth Ji temple and Dashashwamedh ghat - if you have good set of binoculars, you can also watch famous Ganga Aarti from this place. Place was clean and well maintained. Staff was cooperative and courteous. You can definitely opt for this one if you’re going with Family (and they can Walk and climb stairs)

    Stayed in December 2021

  • Reviewed: 26 November 2021

    7.0
    A pleasant stay with average facilities.
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Accessibility to the location is little difficult , you have to walk atleast 15 minutes from main road , no rickshaw nothing will reach there as it is on the banks of Ganga .

    Location was good

    Stayed in November 2021

  • Reviewed: 23 November 2021

    7.0
    Nice
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Premium Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Being tourist hotel, the canteen facilities may be open for 24x7

    Can improve upon

    Stayed in November 2021

  • Reviewed: 11 November 2021

    8.0
    Very good
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Premium Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Approach road.

    Location and view from the room

    Stayed in November 2021

  • Reviewed: 16 May 2024

    1.0
    Brust
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Everything

    Nothing

    Stayed in May 2024

  • Reviewed: 16 May 2024

    5.0
    Only the location was great but it was hard to visit the location with the old person and luggage..
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    AC not working multiple times, staff were not helpful. Also water served on welcome time only, after that all times it was chargeable.

    Only the best part is the view from the hotel as it is in the ghat.

    Stayed in May 2024

  • Reviewed: 12 May 2024

    5.0
    Avoid if you do not thrive on this location
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Premium Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Everything else. We stayed from April 12 to April 15, 2024. Were given Room 118 maa Parvati and Room 102 maa ganga. Both rooms were handed to us in a semi clean state. Some furniture had layers of dust. Both the rooms were premium river facing rooms with the promise of a private balcony. Room 102 had an attached terrace balcony, but it was not private access. The balcony of room 118 was private. They do not clean the room every day unless u request 3-4 times and do follow ups. Fresh air fan in the 3rd floor toilet was out of order. There is almost no water pressure in our 3rd floor room toilet (room 118). If the next-door occupant takes a shower, you will get no water. Cooking is average. For them, extra cot means a matress on the floor. Refrigerators r in delapitated condition with the doors starting to loosen, hence not giving proper cooling. We were of family of 5 with one child and two old people. The property worked for us only because of the river view, dasawamedh ghat view and it view as well as proximity with Kashi Viswanath temple. It's one of the best options for those who just want to enjoy the river view and want to stay beside the temple. Or else, please avoid.

    Location. That is the ONLY good point.

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: 29 April 2024

    9.0
    Superb
    • People with friends
    • Deluxe Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    No room service

    Location

    Stayed in April 2024

  • Reviewed: 25 March 2024

    9.0
    Worth it, if you want to experience the original Varanasi
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    It is a little inaccessible as it's deep in the heart of the streets of Benaras, so one has to walk about 500m from the nearest auto stop. The shared washroom could use a Lil more space and remodeling.

    The location is perfect, if you want the feel of living in Benaras. Just by the Meer Ghat. It offers fantastic views and has a super kind and accommodating staff.

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 24 March 2024

    10
    I enjoyed living in this place.
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Budget Single Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    I enjoyed living in this place.

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 9 March 2024

    9.0
    Superb
    • Business trip
    • Family with young children
    • Budget Single Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 1 night
    • Submitted via mobile

    Need to improve Room Service & Coordination & Hospitality

    Excellent Staying & Comfortable. Best Wishes to Alka All Staff Members & Team Alka

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 6 March 2024

    9.0
    Excellently Located Very Decent Hotel
    • Leisure trip
    • People with friends
    • Premium Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 3 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Location : One Flipside of its location is that since it's very near temple, Cars & Autos can reach the hotel only till a distance. From there, one has to walk nearly 1.5 kilometers through congested & dirty small bylanes, just 4 to 6 feet wide. But it's a city problem, nothing the hotel can do about it. They do send their boys for Luggage Pick up & drop till the Place where cars can come. But Old, Infirm people who can't walk, can't stay here. But then they should not come to Varanasi in the first place, where everything requires walking. Steep Stairs : Our room was on the second floor, & climbing steep stairs up & down was tiresome after a while. No Room service : But hey, you aren't on a Pleasure tour. You're on a Teertha Yatra. Also, soaps, towels, etc were not of good quality. So carry your own. Linen & Blankets were good though. No Tea / Coffee in Rooms.

    Excellent Location : Right on River Ganga, just 5 minutes walk from Kashi Vishwanath Temple. The 6 Premium Rooms had a balcony facing the River. Other Deluxe rooms were also well located. Food : Their Restaurant served very tasty Food. Mainly North Indian. Food is Pure Veg, & they don't have a Tandoor. But their Tawa Rotis & Parathas were very nice. Staff : By far, pretty Co operative & helpful. Rooms were Air Conditioned, with decent Bathroom (No separate shower cabin though). Room Charges : Quite Affordable. About 5,500 to 6K per night for premium room.

    Stayed in March 2024

  • Reviewed: 21 February 2024

    9.0
    Superb
    • Leisure trip
    • Family with young children
    • Standard Double Room with Shared Bathroom (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 2 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Good view had a very comfortable stay and staff were very cooperative

    Stayed in February 2024

  • Reviewed: 19 February 2024

    1.0
    Very poor
    • Leisure trip
    • Group
    • Deluxe Double Room (Includes Ganga Aarti and Darshan assistance to Kashi Vishwanath Temple)
    • Stayed 4 nights
    • Submitted via mobile

    Actually I did not stay at this place. This hotel was asking me to pay the money in advance by sending me some weird QR code through watsapp which is AGAINST the booking.com policy. If this property cannot handle the terms and conditions of booking.com, they should not be using that platform

    Stayed in February 2024

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