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The India Benares is a luxurious hotel for the discerning traveler. Perfectly located in the heart of the holy city of Varanasi, the hotel offers plush amenities and fabulous service.
Mint Road Subroto Chowk, Opposite Airforce Station, Varanasi 221002 India
The India Benares
222 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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The India Benares hotel garners praise for its impeccable cleanliness and spacious, stylish rooms. Its location is favored for being close to local markets and temples while offering a tranquil retreat.
Guests have called out the attentive service and the variety of tasty food options, contributing to the hotel's positive atmosphere. However, opinions on room amenities and value for money are mixed, with some concerns over maintenance and room service charges.
Location
Convenient
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Inviting
Rooms
Spacious
Value
Pricey
Cleanliness
Immaculate
Service
Attentive
Amenities
Satisfactory
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Excellent room service, good facilities, very near to RLY station and proximity is good. Food served is super good. Very well managed breakfast unit by Vikas and Rajesh… The spread is too good. We were here during Navrathri and the food served was customized with no onion - no garlic. Loved it. Rooms are spacious too.
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Date of stay: October 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Â Would have been good if the hot water is available without delay so that water wastage is...
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 30 Oct 2024
Dear Valued Guest, Thank you for staying at The India Benares , Varanasi !! We appreciate spending your quality time to share your feedback online and we are delighted that your stay & experience with us was memorable. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us as we try to achieve even higher standards of service. We look forward to welcoming you back to The India Benares , Varanasi , where possibilities are endless and we assure you of our best services and undivided attention at all times. Warm Regards
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The hotel is located in Cantt area which is very near to railway station. There is ample parking too . We got early check in and good hospitality . The rooms are spacious and all amenities are available . There is a lift for easy access.
We could easily get taxi , auto or e rickshaw for sightseeing and travel within the city . The breakfast was a good spread . And food was very delicious .
we did not take dine in services but the room service food seemed on the higher side charges .
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Date of stay: March 2024Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 3 Apr 2024
Dear Valued Guest, Thank you for staying at The India Benares , Varanasi !! We appreciate spending your quality time to share your feedback online and we are delighted that your stay & experience with us was memorable. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us as we try to achieve even higher standards of service. We look forward to welcoming you back to The India Benares , Varanasi , where possibilities are endless and we assure you of our best services and undivided attention at all times. Warm Regards
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The rooms are clean and spacious. The location of the hotel is good. Staffs are cooperative and courteous. The dining restaurant have a good ambience followed with lip-smacking food. The food prices in the restaurant is on the higher side but the food is sumptuous. Breakfast spread is wholesome. Overall a very comfortable stay.
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Date of stay: January 2025
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Trip type: Travelled on business
Room Tip:Â You can try to eat out as food prices in the dining restaurant is a bit steep.
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, General Manager at The India Benares
Responded 2 weeks ago
Dear Valued Guest, Thank you for staying at The India Benares, Varanasi!! We appreciate you spending your quality time to share your feedback online, and we are delighted that your stay & experience with us was memorable. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us as we try to achieve even higher standards of service. We look forward to welcoming you back to The India Benares, Varanasi, where possibilities are endless, and we assure you of our best services and undivided attention at all times. Warm regards
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The India Benaras is a reasonably priced hotel for maybe slightly above-budget travelers. The hotel is a run down and hardly gives the warm feel when we step in. The rooms are smelly dank and everything seems damp and moldy inside the room. The sheets are all very old and the bathroom towels urgently need to be thrashed. Cheap toiletries in the bathroom. The AC didn't work efficiently as it must have. The morning breakfast buffet was sad. The serving staff forgot, I am guessing, to tell us that we could order dosas from the kitchen. The serving dishes and cutlery are all ancient and dull.
We hardly saw any other guests during our stay and that added to the morose feel to this hotel. Though a ten-minute drive away from the old-city, there's hardly anything around this hotel to step out and do. With innumerable cheaper choices to stay in Varanasi, Hotel India Benaras is a miss.
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Date of stay: October 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Â check if wifi is available. the staff didnt tell us. Check for options at the restaurant. the...
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 30 Oct 2024
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.
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We were probably given the worst hotel room 1210 I believe, no window and minimal lights - felt like all moon light and there was no light at entrance where there was a room for storage, flawed design. The hotel does not have a wheelchair lol - when asked for it we were told we have it but it broken. The guy at reception was grumpy and had never heard H for hospitality lol. Apart from damp room and horrible lighting it was fine, somehow functional hotel.
Also beware of the cloth shop inside the hotel, I needed a lower in emergency as I ran out of clothes and the guy sold me 50 rupee lower ( cheapest possible quality) for Rs 400.
Breakfast was just ok, overall not worth a cent, better to look for alternative , saw few good ones nearby in same lane.
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 1 Dec 2023
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.
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So many opportunities to improve! My 2 night stay booked by my travel agent, encountered wonderful but novice staff all willing to help, but unable to resolve issues. Food quality and pricing including the dinner and breakfast buffet(s) is excellent, flavourful, (a little too spicy for me, but good).... however tables, mats, chairs all need a thorough cleaning. Outside of that, issues include poor internet in my room (1016) as a windowless room has poor reception.... was a major issue for me! Hot water for showering is warm at best.... watch for slippery marble floor in shower. In room safe is Not bolted to the wall and easily removed. Lots of maintenance issues needed. Really it's a 4 star hotel downgraded to a 3 star for many of these issues.
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Date of stay: August 2024
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Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:Â Don't get Room 1016 Suite if you need decent internet access.
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 3 Oct 2024
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.
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I have been there last year in 2021 that time we have booked 3 rooms. On the basis of that experience we booked again, but this time we had different experience. Room was very shabby, our room no was 3007, it was a very dark room, and a very bad smell was coming from the exhaust of the bathroom. We complained and requested to change the room but they were like we don't have any other room now. For food order there were at least more then 6 options in salads menu, so I tried to give order but we came to know that chef is not there and they can give only green salad, green salad was having maximum of onions and costing more then 250 rs. Food is really very costly and it's not as delicious as per Varanasi standard. Fried rice and Manchurian cost was more than 750 Rs. They have old Mitasi Brands TV in the room not a single good channel was subscribed by the hotel. Overall we have decided to never book a room again in this Hotel. In 6000 Rs any body can get the best experience. This hotel is very expensive and not worth the money.
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Date of stay: February 2023Trip type: Travelled on business
Room Tip:Â It's better to see the rooms first, I guess the front side room may be well ventilated and have...
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Response from The India Benares, General Manager at The India Benares
Responded 5 Mar 2023
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.
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The locations is good. 25km from airport but u reach in half hour. The rooms were pretty posh. Paid 5k per night per room. Staff was extremely courteous. Loved the stay. Food was very tasty though a tad expensive. Lunch and dinner cost us 2.5k each for veegtarian food for two adults and two senior citizens. The complimentary breakfast spread was sumptuous and tasty. All in all highly recommended.
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Date of stay: September 2023Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Â Nothing particular about the hotel. But if u want banarasi sari u hav loads of shops near the...
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 1 Dec 2023
Dear Valued Guest, Thank you for staying at The India Benares , Varanasi !! We appreciate spending your quality time to share your feedback online and we are delighted that your stay & experience with us was memorable. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us as we try to achieve even higher standards of service. We look forward to welcoming you back to The India Benares , Varanasi , where possibilities are endless and we assure you of our best services and undivided attention at all times. Warm Regards
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I had the opportunity to visit india Benaras in April. The hotel was nice clean high standards of hygiene and great care were given to us for the 3 beautiful days we spent in Varanasi
Rt. From welcoming us at the gate by the extremely polite reception staff who made the process smooth for check in , and the other gentleman whom was so proffesional . Room had provision both for fan and Aircon, which added to the comfort level with the taking tempbw nt and day. Room service was prompt fast and quite good. Food quality though vegetarian was very freshly done, and good range from continental to Indian. The staff were so polite.....I was recommended stay in beautiful hotel
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Date of stay: April 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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Response from Sushil Tiwari, Revenue Management at The India Benares
Responded 21 Apr 2022
Dear Valued Guest, Thank you for staying at The India Benares , Varanasi !! We appreciate spending your quality time to share your feedback online and we are delighted that your stay & experience with us was memorable. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us as we try to achieve even higher standards of service. We look forward to welcoming you back to The India Benares , Varanasi , where possibilities are endless and we assure you of our best services and undivided attention at all times. Warm Regards
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Great service. Comfortable rooms, cleanliness ok, Good restaurant with professional service. Location close to other hotels in the same range about half an hour by tuk tuk from the ghats. Also recommended for stays of more than one day
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Date of stay: February 2025Trip type: Travelled with friends
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There are more places to choose from in the Varanasi area.
PRICE RANGE
₹7,803 - ₹14,999 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
IndiaUttar PradeshVaranasi DistrictVaranasi
NUMBER OF ROOMS
68
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