The India Benares
Enjoy Varanasi day or night with a stay at The India Benares. Go beyond the touristy and get deeper into the offerings of Varanasi with a stay at The India Benares, located merely 6.6 km from Sarnath. Did you know? Banaras Railway Station is just 4.0 km away, giving guests convenient access to one of the city's urban transportation options.
The India Benares provides a range services and amenities to help make your stay more comfortable. Never be out of touch with your contacts, with free Wi-Fi offered throughout your stay. Taxi and shuttle services provided by the hotel make it easy to plan your day trips, sightseeing, and more around Varanasi. If you plan to arrive by car, you'll appreciate the hotel's free parking, right on-site.
The hotel provides front desk services such as concierge service, express check-in or check-out and luggage storage for guests' convenience. If you need, the ticket service and tours can even help you book tickets and reservations at all the best shows and programs nearby. Staying for a long time, or just need clean clothes? dry cleaning service and laundry service offered at the hotel will keep your favorite travel outfits clean and available. For lazy days and nights, in-room conveniences like 24-hour room service, room service and daily housekeeping let you make the most of your room.
Smoking is limited to designated areas only, for the health and well-being of all guests and staff.
Feel right at home during your stay at The India Benares. Some rooms are equipped with linen service, blackout curtains and air conditioning for your convenience. In-room entertainment such as daily newspaper, television and cable TV is provided for guests in some selected rooms. The hotel also offers a refrigerator, bottled water, a coffee or tea maker, instant coffee, instant tea and mini bar in some rooms for when you feel like it is needed.
Knowing that bathroom amenities play an important role in increasing guests' satisfaction, the hotel provides a hair dryer, toiletries and towels in some select rooms.
Dining and things to do
Nothing starts a morning better than a delicious free breakfast, which you'll always enjoy at The India Benares. Everyone loves a good cup of coffee! A coffee shop on-site means you can enjoy a cup of real, freshly brewed coffee every morning -- or anytime you feel like it. If you don't feel like going out to eat, you can always opt for the delicious dining options at the hotel. Regardless of any dietary restrictions you may have, you'll eat well at The India Benares which has a selection of halal options.
A night in at the hotel's bar and nightclub can be as fun as a night out with your travel companions. The India Benares has vending machines for 24-hour available light snacks and/or drinks.
Never let a day go wasted when you're at The India Benares with all the activities and facilities provided. Finish your vacation days right by dropping in at the spa. Start your vacation off right with a dip in the pool. Skip the dress code and opt for a casual cocktail or beer at the hotel's poolside bar.
Fitness lovers who want to keep up their routine on vacation can drop in at the hotel's fitness facility. Pick up something memorable for yourself or those waiting for you back at home, at the shops and souvenir shops.
Around the property
Take advantage of the opportunity to explore Varanasi while in the city. One of the city's most iconic and famous buildings is Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple (Golden Temple), located 3.4 km away. An afternoon of browsing the works at Ramnagar Fort located 680 m away can familiarize you with the local art scene.
Reasons to stay here
Know you'll get excellent dining options here, where past guests have rated onsite or nearby dining above 86% of the city's accommodation.
This hotel scores higher than 83% of the city's accommodations for cleanliness.
It's hard to beat the room comfort here, which is rated higher than 87% of other accommodations in Varanasi.
Bina Sheth ”
Had a very comfortable long stay. Very good hygiene food location n staff. Peaceful area n easily accessable to temples etc in near vicinity. Thank You
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Dear Guest, Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Exceptional”
The hotel is very good. However the room service is only between 7.30 am to 11 pm. If they make it round the clock, it would be great
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Dear Guest, Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Needs a bit of sprucing ”
We were a group of 4 friends (1 couple and 2 single) on a rad trip. Our hotels were important from rest point of view. India Benaras is a good clean open location but a tad far from ghat (12 km). It has a parking spot right opposite the hotel across the road however they were nice enough to allow us to park inside. The rooms are good sized room with decent size bathroom. My friends got good rooms however we had a bit of trouble with our rooms. We had to move through quite a few rooms due to various issues from musty smell to noise of ac outdoor units (which reverberated due to the window facing the narrow shaft area having all of them in a row) to other issues. The staff was very good. Full points to them for trying their best without any complaints. Sanjay and the reception were exceptionally helpful in taking cognisance of our complaints. They moved us to a suite to help us stay well. Tip : Take rooms on left from the left with windows facing the parking or on right towards the other end of hotel that faces the back part. Food was decent and adequate in quantity though a tad overpriced.
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the the India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Decent hotel at a good price”
The hotel is in the cantonment area. I was told that the food is very good too. I didnt have the opportunity to taste their meals, except for the breakfast. The breakfast spread was quite well spread out with sufficient options and variety. The room was good - the usual amenities with tea/coffee maker and a hair dryer. The desk staff seemed a bit distant, but the rest of the staff were kind and cooperative.
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Dear Guest, Thank you for your review, We are glad to know that you had enjoyed your stay with us. We are looking forward to welcome you again. Thanks Hotel Team
Nice stay”
Good hotel for staying
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Dear Guest, Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Very good”
It is a very good place and has value for money
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Dear Guest, Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Staying in Banares”
Hotel location is convenient and food was great! However, the internet availability is very poor and housekeeping DONOT respond timely. The door access key gets rejected almost every day and hotel staff, instead of solving the problem blame on you keeping card near mobile phones etc…regards / Mayank
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Dear Guest, Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for your valuable feedback, our endeavor at the hotel is to provide best-in class service to our guests and we are glad to learn that we lived up to your expectations. We are looking forward to welcome you back whenever you are in Varanasi, India.
Understaffed, no hot water”
The hotel is understaffed. Anything you ask for takes an hour or sometimes never comes without several reminders. Cold water was not available. On complaining no action was taken.
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Good hotel not managed well.”
Staff ignorant about city sightseeing, breakfast not good, glasses, spoon, plates not replaced table uncleared it was not a good experience.
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Dear guest greetings from the India Benares !!! thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests' expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you
Room is ok but staff!”
Room is fine and clean but hetel staff were very rude
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Dear Guest , Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guest's expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Acceptable”
Hotel is no good at all . Day 1st I faced the electrical issues , during electricity cut off until you remove the entrance card from the holder and put it back after the light blink ( manual ) your room electricity will not resume and it happen during night where i felt suffocated and when I wake in night there was not electricity in the room . Staff are not cooperative . They don't even the toiletries in your room until you ask them to do so . I dont recommend anyone to go to this hotel .
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Dear guest greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests' expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
It was the most over priced hotel that I have ever stayed in. ”
There were no face or hand towels provided. Bath towels had no life left in them. They were supposed to be white I guess but they were brown with dirt! The phone did not work. Told them 4 times but it never got fixed. We had to go to the reception for everything as the phone did not work. Two of us stayed but it was a challenge to get two access cards for room access. Breakfast was very limited. Some items were supposed to be made to order but it was never communicated properly. We accidentally found out. For a tourist town of Varanasi, the staff did not speak much English. It was a struggle to communicate anything. It appeared as except the door man and security guard, nobody really cared about the guests.
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Only for name 4 star hotel”
Hotel India is a 4 star hotel only for name. There is nothing which will make you feel like you are staying in any 4 star hotel. As per the facilities they provide, staff hospitality and the breakfast they provide it's a 1 star hotel.
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Dear guest greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests' expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Receptionists are ill mannered”
The entire regular staff are tired and have not learned to value customers. I strongly recommend the management of the hotel to change the receptionist.
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Find another place”
3 star ? Forget stars. These guys are worse than the local ones available for 300 per day. No running hot water, 1 hanger in closet. No proper table. Some smell in bathroom. The room service staff is good. The restaurant staff is lazy. One line advice. Stay away. Find a better place
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Dear guest greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests' expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Waste of money Pathetic experience”
Location is near naala, stinks all the time.food is not good and expensive. Staff is also not satisfactory. I had two days booking. Food is not tasty and expensive Pool is indoors and no open space, they donot have facilities as mentioned. It is highly priced but worst then a 500 rupee hotel. I will not recommend this hotel to anyone.
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Dear Guest , Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guest's expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Very bad staff behaviour”
Not recommended due to behaviour and facilities not upto the cost .
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
Very bad experience. They are making falls food bill.”
Room service is also very poor. Condition of wardrobe etc.was in bad shape and in damged condition. I strongly not recommend anyone to stay at india benaras hotel. Behaviour of senior staff is also not satisfactory.
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Dear Guest , Greetings from The India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guest's expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.
worst hotel”
Arrogant manager Room handle not working Electronic reset 4 time Lobby and colliders dirty. Seems renovation work going. I left the hotel in 4 hour and shifted to other,
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Dear Guest , Greetings !!! As per hotel policy we don't allowed unmarried couple with local ID's in our hotel .As booking was done on double occupancy and u checked in first then our manager Mr Pankaj Singh asked about the other guest and u said he will be checking in shortly but it turned out to be a she and she had local ID .hence My Front Office Team refused to let her go in your room which was explain to you as we don't allow unmarried couple with local ID , and there after you decided to check out immediately . With regards to room handle not working ,electronic reset for four times we didn't not received a signal complain from your end .so this simple a case to malign the hotel name just because our front office was alert and avoided you lady guest who has a shady reputation locally ..
Worst”
Given in the feedback.
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Dear Guest, Greetings from the India Benares !!! Thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. I am really disheartened to read your feedback but on the other side it gives my team and me a chance to perform better to meet our guests expectations which we could not do for you. Apologies for not able to meet up with your expectations. We have identified a training need in few our staff members who have joined us recently. Please treat this incident in isolation and give us another opportunity to serve you.