Top 10 most popular hotels in South Asia – South Asia Time

Top 10 most popular hotels in South Asia

 November 28, 2018  

South Asia has been one of the best destination of tourist form across the world.  There are many well fascinated hotels available in this region. If you are looking for some of the best hotels among them we have short listed top 10 hotels from South Asia via various feed back, ranking and popularity list.

1. Maldives :

The Muraka 

With the Ultimate All-Inclusive concept, your stay is absolutely carefree. All meals, spa treatments, activities and water sports, daily excursions, and even diving are included. Villas and beach suites are generously-sized (86-159 sqm.); the over-water villas enjoy their own sundeck with steps down to the multihued coral reefs. Special villas for families have bunk beds in a children’s area, and you can also enjoy the option of an overwater villa with plunge pool. All your meals – and more – are included. Champagne breakfasts are served at Reef Restaurant. Lunches and dinners are to be enjoyed at Azurri Mare Italian Restaurant, Suan Bua Thai restaurant or Reef Restaurant. There are two bars on the island. The island offers activities at the age-specific kids’ clubs, water activities like banana boat and tube rides, water sports, and pool games by the children’s pool. The resort hosts one of the Maldives’ best PADI dive centres, and the house reef provide fascination for snorkellers.

2. The Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai : Built in 1903, The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai is India’s first luxury hotel. Offering panoramic views of the Arabian Sea and the gateway of India, the hotel is a city landmark. The hotel offers 543 rooms including 54 suites, each adorned with original paintings and period furniture that exude an aura of old-world charm and elegance. The restaurants at The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai offer distinctive dining experiences that cover the finest Indian and international cuisines – from casual, all-day eateries to Oriental, Japanese, Indian and Mediterranean fine dining. The hotel also houses the first licensed bar of Mumbai and also a beautiful sea-front restaurant for high tea and live music. Palace Services in the Palace Wing of the hotel add to the experience, where the butler plays the all important role of guide and assistant.

3. The Westin Dhaka : Relax, revive, and experience renewal at The Westin Dhaka – the five-star hotel in Gulshan. Nestled in the new business district, we are steps from renowned shopping malls, foreign missions, restaurant, art, private clubs, and multinationals. Refreshing and contemporary, our 241 spacious guest rooms and suites offer modern amenities. Restore the body and expand the mind with the pure relaxation of our signature Heavenly Bed(R). The oversized four-fixture bathroom with Heavenly Shower(R) ensures you feel refreshed. Every guest room offers a generous workspace and High Speed Internet Access. Five contemporary meeting venues offer over 2,000 square meters of functional space. This includes state-of-the-art meeting and banquet facilities featuring LED lighting for an extensive variety of lighting effects, customized projections, and a sound system in the Westin Grand Ballroom. The Westin Dhaka offers nourishing dining for every taste and style from fresh, authentic Italian to Pan Asian and international cuisine

4. Kathmandu Guest House – The KGH is an institution. A former Rana palace,  Established 1968, KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts is Nepal’s leading hotel chain with 7 eco-friendly hotels under its flagship. Karna Sakya, founder of KGH Group, is hailed as the father of tourism in Nepal. He has been given credit for putting Nepal on the tourist map. He is renowned for opening the Kathmandu Guest House in 1968, the company’s first hotel which was instrumental in starting adventure tourism in the country and creating the famous tourism hub of Kathmandu – Thamel.

Many renowned writers, mountaineers, researchers and artists have come and left their footprints at our hotels. The KGH Group today has grown from 13-room Guest House in Thamel that hosted the hippies and the mountaineers to a 500 room hotel chain in all the popular tourism destinations of Nepal.

Under the famous Pomelo tree in the KGH gardens, where once you could spot a celebrity like Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet writing a book, today we continue to host technology savvy travelers in their laptops and cell phones along with international pop stars like Ricky Martin and Jeremy Irons who prefer to stay in a homegrown brand like KGH rather than the popular five stars of the world.

5. Serena Hotel , Kabul : The Kabul Serena Hotel, conveniently located in the centre of Kabul city overlooking the famous Zarnegar Park, is situated close to all the embassies and ministries, and is just 20 minutes from the airport. Built in 1945, amid landscaped gardens, the hotel has undergone a complete refurbishment, through the rehabilitation of the existing building and the addition of a completely new section. The hotel dominates a busy junction and is situated in the city’s commercial centre. The hotel has undergone a phased up-grading to incorporate 177 luxurious rooms offering various categories of rooms and suites. The hotel has two restaurants, modern banqueting and meeting facilities, wellness facilities, an up-market shopping area, a pastry shop and a laundry shop.

6. Bhutan

 AMANKORA, PUNAKHA​

To reach this superb lodge, designed by Kerry Hill, the venerable Australian-born resort architect, you must first cross a suspension bridge over the Mo Chhu​ River. On the other side you’re dispatched by electric buggy to the lodge proper, framed by a stunning traditional Bhutanese farmhouse that was built some decades ago by an erstwhile Buddhist chief abbot. Today it serves as the main dining room and guest library for the lodge. One of a circuit of luxurious Aman properties scattered throughout Bhutan, the exceptionally well-appointed accommodation is set amid rice fields.  A swimming pool, looking across the splendid river valley, is being added. Doubles from $US1550  a night. See aman.com

7. Pakistan

Movenpick Hotel Karachi

Just 17 kilometres from Jinnah International Airport and situated in the centre of Karachi’s business district, the 407-room Mövenpick Hotel Karachi is a five-star destination for business, dining and recreation. Business travellers can make use of our extensive conference and event facilities for up to 1,000 people. Kemari Harbour and the city’s nearby beaches are leisure highlights and there is easy access to local shopping and sightseeing destinations.

8. Srilanka

Ceylon Tea Trails
The five bungalows of Ceylon Tea Trails are scattered among the emerald hillsides of Sri Lanka´s Golden Valley of tea, Bogawantalawa. Around a five-hour drive from Colombo and two hours from Kandy, it is set in the cool, verdant hills so loved by the British during the colonial era, with bungalows dotted around Castlereagh Lake, offering nothing but uninterrupted valley views, absolute quiet and a small local village to visit. The idea is to disconnect and lose yourself in time while enjoying the pristine scenery. Hiking, biking and boat trips are offered in the surrounding area, alongside day excursions to tourist highlights such as Sri Lanka’s highest town, Nuwara Eliya, two hours away.

Nepal  

9.Dahlia Boutique Hotel Pokhara

Whether you’re a tourist or traveling on business, Dahlia Boutique Hotel is a great choice for accommodation when visiting Pokhara. The excitement of the city center is only 1 km away. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to the city’s must-see destinations.

At Dahlia Boutique Hotel, every effort is made to make guests feel comfortable. To do so, the hotel provides the best in services and amenities. A selection of top-class facilities such as 24-hour security, daily housekeeping, free Wi-Fi in all rooms, car power charging station, convenience store can be enjoyed at the hotel.

All guest accommodations feature thoughtful amenities to ensure an unparalleled sense of comfort. Besides, the hotel’s host of recreational offerings ensures you have plenty to do during your stay. When you are looking for comfortable and convenient accommodations in Pokhara, make Dahlia Boutique Hotel your home away from home.

The resort’s location is a fine one, perched high on a palm-dominated headland with magnificent Indian Ocean and coastal views, just a few miles from surf-orientated Weligama. The ocean panoramas are breathtaking and the owners have made the most of the hotel’s location by eking out superb clifftop viewpoints for drinks or private dining. The only downside is that there isn’t really a beach – from the thin slivers of sand either side of the headland you can swim if the seas are calm. Galle’s 17th-century fort – a regional highlight – is a 40-minute drive away.

10. Cape Weligama

Weligama, Sri Lanka

The resort encompasses the entire 12-acre headland and its meticulously landscaped gardens brim with exotic jewel-hued flowers and trees. Many of the rooms are vast freestanding villas clustered in twos or threes in separate walled gardens with emerald lawns and 15-metre swimming pools. As such you barely see other guests around the resort except in the restaurant or by the pool. Buggies whizz you around the resort, however nowhere is too far to walk.