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| Very nice - Terrace Rainbow Guesthouse, Tiruvannamalai, India |
What hostel style is best for India?
Well, this depends strongly on the
budget – even for a backpacker, it makes sense to spend something
between 8 and 15 Euros for a single room.
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| Very nice - Bed and Breakfast Marie and Paul, Pondy, India |
Then, there are good chances, that
there are no dead cats under the bed and no living animals in the
mattress...
For sure, you can not count on it –
but it is very often like this...
I usually prefer a family run Hostel or
Bed and Breakfast to a smart hotel – basically because of the free
information about the city and the community which comes along in
addition to the lodging.
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| Sri Thillay Womens Hostel, Chidambaram, India |
For solo women travellers, there is a
great range of "Womens Hostels". Actually, they are meant
for Indian students, however when there is space, they rent out rooms
to female travellers.
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| Sri Thillay Womens Hostel, Chidambaram, India |
I can‘t remember a place with more fun than the „Women Hostel“ in Chidambaram. For instance they are reasonably priced - the equivalent of just 8.-€. The price comes with three meals.
AND – as a female traveller you will
not find a safer place to stay!
An okay place for the equivalent of 8.-€ is Valli Hotel in Thanjavur - certainly no beauty, the green wall colour is real – it is not photoshop.... The mattress was another issue – only three centimeters thick, which makes sleeping not at all easy, but at least the room was clean....
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| Hotel Valli, Thanjavur, India |
