Must-see hotels in Karakoram Highway

  • Pineview Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The Pineview is a fine chaikhana (teahouse) with a lively location but it's a barely satisfactory hotel. The poky rooms surprisingly boast cable TV. Mind…

  • Hunza Continental Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The best of the three foreigner-friendly hotels bunched together near the 'Gilgit 100km' road marker is the Hunza Continental Hotel with rooms equipped…

  • Asia Star Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    Asia Star's rooms are probably the pick of the cheapies in terms of cleanliness and comfort. There's running hot water, friendly management and a good…

  • K-7 Hotel & Restaurant

    Karakoram Highway

    On the track up to Chakhchun, an aching hour's walk from the road, this hotel is open from June to September with clean and comfortable rooms, basic food…

  • Park Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The Park has clean carpeted rooms, all of which are inexplicably crammed with three single beds, making it hard to get to the bathrooms. Definitely good…

  • Al Faiz Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    You can be sure of a friendly welcome at Al Faiz; however, since our last visit the rooms have deteriorated, the prices have sky-rocketed and the…

  • Four Brothers Hotel & Restaurant

    Karakoram Highway

    The rooms at Four Brothers are overpriced even with these modest rates. Rooms and beds are very bottom end, as are the bathrooms, though some have running…

  • Hotel Sarai Silk Route

    Karakoram Highway

    This small, six-room hotel, 1.5km south of the village, has delightful carpeted rooms with bathtubs in the bathrooms. The front-facing rooms have views of…

  • Shisper View Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    This hotel is 1.5km south on the KKH and although some rooms have great mountain and glacier views, their gloominess and the dark restaurant let this…

  • Karimabad Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The Karimabad's new rooms overlooking the NAPWD resthouse are good value with great views and working plumbing. The owners are friendly and the restaurant…

  • Garden Lodge

    Karakoram Highway

    The best feature here is the quiet garden where you may be able to negotiate a camp site, as well as a few basic rooms that are adequately clean and…

  • Hilton International Hotel & Restaurant

    Karakoram Highway

    The cheekily named Hilton is not quite five star and the rooms have deteriorated and are overpriced. Be careful of the switches and wiring if you do stay…

  • Hotel Taj Mahal

    Karakoram Highway

    Next door to the Abasin, Taj Mahal is even gloomier and most of the rooms are poky. The better rooms are on the top floor, with sit-down toilets and hot…

  • Conservator of Forests

    Karakoram Highway

    A forestry resthouse at Lake Saiful Mulk can be booked at the Conservator of Forests in Abbottabad, or you could even sleep on the porch with a sleeping…

  • Karakoram Lodge

    Karakoram Highway

    This large hotel boasts magnificent views in addition to its spacious rooms and better-than-average restaurant. It's a 10-minute walk uphill from the…

  • Shimshal Tourist Lodge

    Karakoram Highway

    This hotel was undergoing a major expansion at the time of research. New rooms under construction boast tiled bathrooms and potentially running hot water.

  • Pakistan Youth Hostel Association Hostel

    Karakoram Highway

    Pakistan Youth Hostel Association Hostel is quite isolated unless you're cycling or driving. If you're not, take a Suzuki to Mandian from Id Gah Rd.

  • Sifat Guesthouse

    Karakoram Highway

    This guesthouse is designed on traditional Shimshali themes offering a carpeted dining room/dorm and a few basic rooms with bucket hot water.

  • Lucky Star Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The spartan rooms have bathrooms with hot water. It's centrally located with a restaurant upstairs and a good hot-snack café downstairs.

  • Karim Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    Rooms are reasonable and the food OK. The best feature is the sunny patio with fine views of the mountains above and the street life below.

  • Karakoram Highway Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    This hotel was being extensively renovated at the time of research. It will need to be a good job to justify these prices in this location.

  • Abasin Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    Just north of the Swat junction and next to the boisterous minibus yard, the Abasin has very ordinary rooms with toilet and cold shower.

  • Hotel International

    Karakoram Highway

    The International has worn-out but passably clean rooms with squat toilets and cold shower. This hotel also boasts a crude restaurant.

  • Passu Peak Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    The rooms at this small hotel, 1.5km north of the village, are spartan but spotless with cold showers. Hot water plumbing is planned!

  • Chupurson Village Guesthouse

    Karakoram Highway

    Chupurson Village Guesthouse in Sher-e-Sabz has a traditional Wakhi dining/sleeping room as well as a bedroom with three single beds.

  • Kepal Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    Across the bridge from the Chalt Tourist Inn is the very basic Kepal Inn with one room and the mere possibility of a cold shower.

  • Rainbow Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The Rainbow is not welcoming, with glum rooms with bathrooms upstairs and even gloomier rooms downstairs that share a bathroom.

  • New Faisal Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The tiny rooms are well kept but resonate with traffic noise. Other options in the vicinity are not interested in foreigners.

  • Karakoram Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    This hotel, close to Yadgar Chowk, has unexceptional doubles and a restaurant is attached. Not very welcoming to foreigners.

  • Khapalu Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    In the lower bazaar, with basic rooms with squat toilets and bucket hot water. It has a basic curry and chapati restaurant.

  • Skardu Inn

    Karakoram Highway

    This skinny, high-rise hotel was being renovated at the time of research and the rooms with TVs should be worth inspecting.

  • Pine Park Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.

  • Troutlands Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.

  • Green Park Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.

  • Lalazar Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    One of a number of better-quality lodgings with room tariffs starting at Rs800 for a single room and Rs1000 for a double.

  • Zam Zam Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    Small, passably clean rooms have hot showers and there's a restaurant on site. It's hidden away, 50m west of the bridge.

  • Mountain Palace Tourist Lodge

    Karakoram Highway

    Next door and under the same management as Shimshal Tourist Lodge, the rooms here are more basic with bucket hot water.

  • Bolan Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    The worn and rather grubby Bolan near the general bus stand offers the cheapest acceptable rooms with hot showers.

  • Hotel Sadpara International

    Karakoram Highway

    Unfortunately, the simple rooms, a few doubles with TV, and restaurant are all looking very neglected and unkempt.

  • Shangri-La Hotel

    Karakoram Highway

    Shangri-La Hotel is a downmarket place by the bus stop north of the bridge. It has small rooms with squat toilets.

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