Southern Grand Kashi

Hello Readers, am going to share my personal experience with you all so do give a 👍 in case this review helped in making your decision of staying here. Visited varanasi for first time in July 2023 and here is my experience at this guesthouse. Location 5 stars, as its situated inside Kashi vishavnath Temple complex. Service and maintainance 2 stars, poorly managed and run. Its really nice building but managed poorly. I think the contract of this guest house should be given to some new management rather than current hotel management team. The washrooms were poorly maintained, spare bed not provided, as they were short of it, 2nd day booking was asked but instead they wrongly booked for day after that. Though a kettle and tea supplies were kept in room but no water bottles. So we asked them to arrange it and the Tea was arranged by hotel/guesthouse support staff from outside (a local boy came with his tea pot and served us the tea). The tea was very good. And I WON'T SUGGEST THIS GUESTHOUSE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE bcoz one has to walk too much to reach till this place from gate no.4 and there are so many security checks right from outside gate no.4 uptill the guesthouse. Distance from railway station 3 stars, it's very far from railway station and it took around 35 to 40min to reach there during daytime in Innova (pickup arranged on payment basis by guesthouse). After reaching a chowk near guesthouse you are dropped there and from there you have to take Manual rickshaw (100/- rickshaw) uptill gate no.4 of Kashi temple (from there is way to guesthouse), as diesel, Erickshaw or auto were not allowed due to congested area where gate no.4 is situated. Mind it, its heart of the city and too congested area. So, the best part about location of guesthouse is that one can visit temple as many times as he or she wants while staying there. But I feel and suggest that DON'T STAY HERE. The staff is not professional at all and the guesthouse/hotel is not well kept or maintained. BOOK A HOTEL OUTSIDE THIS AREA AND STAY THERE. My suggestion is Hire a rickshaw and visit the city instead or you can say plan a city tour and visit city and enjoy the food and places and return to your hotel (where ever you have booked). Auto, erikshaw is reasonable. We paid 1500/- for Innova which came to pick us from railway station whereas auto took 150/-(for complete auto carrying 4 people and luggage) uptill railway station. So auto is reasonable and it just took 15min from heart of the city till railway station in auto. So, stay in a good hotel but not at this place. The only USP of this guesthouse is proximity to the temple and nothing else. All puja services of the temple are online and one can buy vip darshan tickets outside gate no.4. As there was huge rush and long ques so we decided to get vip darshan slip and It costed Us Rs.500/- per head and children upto 12 yrs go free alongwith adults. Camera and mobile phones are not allowed inside the temple area so better leave mobiles at lockers available in every shop near gate no.4. They are free lockers. I availed the said facility and find it good and useful. We also dropped our slippers there only. There are no charges for normal darshan in the temple, it's free and open to everybody. But with vip slip it becomes a lot easier, specially when one has kids and elder persons along, one should avail this service. (Its also just like donation to the temple so that they can run and manage the temple well). So, due to this experience We checked out 2nd day from here and booked hotel near railway station, which was just awesome. Do visit varanasi, it's just awesome place 😇👍👍👍.

I recently visited kashi, it's been a wonderful experience. Staying at this place was best decision. Staff is very helpful and supportive. They will help you with each minor/major details about the city and places you can visit. Special Thanks to Mr. Radhe krishan choubey ji for making our stay comfortable.😇 😇