Is Palace on Ganges pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Palace on Ganges?

Self parking is available for INR 400 per day.

What time is check-in at Palace on Ganges?

Check-in start time: noon; Check-in end time: 2 PM. After-hours check-in is not available.

Where is Palace on Ganges located?

Situated in the historical district, this spa hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Assi Ghat and Tulsi Ghat. Sant Ravidas Ghat and Hanuman Ghat are also within 15 minutes.

Palace on Ganges Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

8/10 Good

Ramesh

29 December 2023

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Wonderful staff and convenient to all places close but cannot get into hotel in the evening as road blocked off by police, they need to fix it as very inconvenient to guests arriving in the evenings to carry in baggage

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Ajay

10 February 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hotels in a good location. Food was excellent. Room had no window. Only one power point in the room. WiFi was variable and needed to be reactivated every time you went out.

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

ANA

17 March 2024

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Dont book here. A well located hotel but a dissapoinent. Team not prepares, not clean, service not good.

Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Machiel

10 June 2025

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities

The property was being painted inside resulting in the room smelling like chemicals. The internet was terribly slow and kept disconnecting. The aircon is old and noisy. The floors were quite dirty. Rest of the room was perfect

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025

6/10 Okay

Rishi

28 May 2025

This property was well located but the rooms were not as clean as I would like, there is lots of dust and because they are renovating there was a paint smell. Breakfast area is quite poor and needs to be renovated , the food was great from the kitchen and the staff friendly

Stayed 2 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Salil kumar

20 March 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Amazing experience !

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

naina

10 December 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This is a great place to stay next to Ganges river. The staff is so polite and respectful. Food is amazing. The outdoor restaurant is my favorite. You can walk to the Aarti and to all the ghats.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

yulenia

28 March 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Mi estancia fue de dos la comida del restaurante de la terraza fue espectacular y la atención de los muchachos muy buena

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Andrew

11 March 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great Location!

The location is great, right on the Assi Ghat with great morning sunrises and evening prayer ceremonies. The stay was comfortable, the staff was friendly, and the food was good and affordable.

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

24 February 2020

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities

It was in a great location but unfortunately most of the staff were not attentive to details nor did they action any request that you made. 2 gentlemen who were probably managers were good.

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

T.B., Israel

20 February 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Very clean and neat hotel , the rooms are too small for three adults but worth the effort. Everyone is wouderflly polite and helpful.

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

3 May 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Basic, quiet, reasonably convenient but overpriced

Does the job of providing a clean bed and place to rest in an easily accessible location. However, the circuit breaker to the room power tripped twice in two days. Compared to the general cost of living, it is overpriced.

Stayed 1 night in May 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

21 April 2019

Disliked: Cleanliness

Good Location, Not too pleasant.

No window in the rooms. Nice rooftop but breakfast is served in the 'restaurant' on the ground floor which is a bit dark. Found small cockroaches in the bathroom. Location is very good because Assi ghat is one of the few ghats in Varanasi that can be reached with cars and auto rickshaws. Boat ride we booked through the hotel was okay, but it ended with our boat being tied to a motored boat because the boat driver didn't want to paddle the way back, which exposed us to constant smoke from the back of the motored boat. Recommend booking boatrides elsewhere with lower prices.

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

RICARD

25 March 2019

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Varanasi 100%

Zona optima pata descubrir varanasi Evitar primer nivel de habitacion al ser hab interiores. La suite es antigua pero con vistas impresionantes. La hab exterior es correcta aunque vista exterior relativa .. comida muy buena . Personal muy agrafable y servicial

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Uno

4 November 2018

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Room comfort

Good basic hotel at the Ganges river

It's a bit difficult to rate this hotel. The hotel is small, rather old, very basic, my room smelled moldy/musty (for the first 2-3 minutes when I entered the room), restaurant on top of building is very basic but the food was delicious (and it didn't ruin my sensitive stomach). My room window was facing a wall (1 meter away) which was not super but also not a big problem. Hotel is located 200 meters from Assi Ghat and the river. Location is very nice although quite a walk (1-2 miles) from the more interesting Ghat's. I did enjoy the walks along the river so it was not an issue. Area and surroundings seem safe and I didn't have any issues whatsoever. Wifi was ok but not great. At times I was able to stream a bit of Youtube .. I could not see the river from the hotel. Service level was in general ok. Some of the people working there were eager to assist - others couldn't be bothered. Compared to a 5-star hotel in New Delhi the hotel is rather bad but compared to the rest of Varanasi the hotel was actually quite good. I enjoyed my stay there and would recommend it to anybody. There was a lot of other foreigners staying in the hotel during my stay.

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Lou, Chicago

3 November 2018

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Service good. Property ok. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Rachel

12 March 2018

Basic

The hotel is v. basic; no frills or fanciness here, though it is a step up from a hostel. There is free wifi for up to 2 users per room and the staff are generally agreeable. The restaurant is just so-so. It's on the rooftop (which isn't all that pretty) and we got eaten alive by mosquitos in the evening. The location is great; it's right near Assi Ghat, which is the neighborhood I recommend staying in, as it's much quieter and cleaner than the Main Ghat. I recommend going to morning aarti on Assi Ghat; it is v. serene and beautiful. My main disappointment comes from the fact that we paid a similar room rate in Delhi, Jaipur, Chennai, and Mumbai for 5-star, luxury hotels. But that's also because we were here during Holi. I would actually recommend staying at the adjacent Hotel Ganges, as they have a lovely rooftop area and much more attentive staff. (We visited Hotel Ganges for breakfast and to watch the Holi festivities from their rooftop, as it was much closer to the action.)

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

4/10 Poor

Vicki, Sydney

28 February 2018

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Location, Location, Location

The location of the hotel was excellent, but that's where the compliments stop. For the price paid the hotel was poorly furnished, not real clean and staff were always less than helpful. We stayed there for 3 nights and was able to access the Ganges as much as we liked, however, the hotel was not a good standard for the $$$'s paid.

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018

6/10 Okay

Anand

12 February 2018

Location is excellent if you wish to stay close to the Ganga river. Otherwise is hotel is not worth the money you pay.

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

22 January 2018

Disliked: Room comfort

Below average quality, high premium for location

The best part of this place is the location, bang on Assi ghat. The rooms are small and very average in terms of decor, cleanliness and comfort. The walls are paper thin and one can hear everything from outside, upstairs and flush in the room next door. The room flush makes huge noise, there is no place to keep your soap/ shampoo when you take a shower, the shower stream is pathetic. We asked for wi-fi, got the code after 30 mins and it did not work. The food was sad - low on salt and spices, stuffed paratha had no stuffing, breakfast was minimal variety. Stay here for max 1 night, if you want to attend the morning aarti at Assi and plan to be outside the room most of the time.

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018

4/10 Poor

Aniloqui, UK

10 January 2018

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Seriously overpriced

Emailed the hotel and asked for an airport pick up. Was confirmed and reassured twice that a car was going to be there to pick up us with a sign. Arrived at the airport and none was there. Called the hotel, none picked up the phone. On arrival at the hotel I mentioned to the receptionists none came to pick up us from the airport, they looked at me and continued with the booking. No apology offered, no comments said. We booked a double bed room, we were given two separated beds in the underground floor. Then we were moved to another bed room but the bedclothes where not changed from the previous couple so when I discovered this at night I went with my pillow, which was still wet, and asked the receptionist for a change. He just went to an empty room and picked up a pillow and put the dirty one on the other bed, so the next people can also enjoy it, I guess. The rooms on the floor -1 are the worse ones as no air circulates and breathing is almost impossible. For the second night we were moved to the last room available on the first floor which improved the air circulation. No hot water Breakfast wasn't good. Food restaurant was ok.

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

14 December 2017

Liked: Room comfort

Had a comfortable stay. Hotel employees are willing to help

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

24 January 2016

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Great location, mediocre hotel

Great location. Not so polite at desk. Internet included only means one device.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

20 January 2016

Liked: Staff & service

Ottima posizione

Posizione fantastica praticamente sul Gange. Ristorante discreto,personale gentile ed attento anche se con i tempi indiani,quindi un po' lento. Reception sempre disponibile. Camera purtroppo sull'interno ma silenziosa. Niente di che la colazione. Rapporto qualità prezzo discreto.

10/10 Excellent

Ipshita, New Delhi

6 October 2015

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Keeping the Varanasi heritage alive

Palace on Ganges is true to its name. It is right on Assi Ghat which allows you to atetnd morning and evening aartis, go on boat rides, or just walk along the ghats of Varanasi--the best way to imbibe the spirit of Varanasi. The hotel has been built, designed and maintained with care. Each room is named after a state and the furniture and upholstery chosen carefully to match the traditions of the state. We stayed at the Punjab room decorated with Phulkari work and a charpoy. The best room is the attic room that gives a 360 degree view of Varanasi, but unfortunately it can be reached after a steep climb of five floors. Service is good and food is above average.

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