Dwarikas Hotel in Kathmandu Nepal is everything you would want to find in an hotel. It has the architecture of an ancient building, yet this is a boutique style hotel with all the facilities and none of the drawbacks of an international style hotel.
The architects who designed Dwarikas can be very proud of their efforts in creating a unique atmosphere and yet such luxury in absolutely stunning surroundings. Kathmandu is such an evocative city, and Dwarikas Hotel blends in totally.
Dwarikas has 74 sumptuous rooms and suites, and unlike modern chain hotels, they are all unique in their design and character, and when you arrive you will be given a traditional Nepalese greeting with a prayer shawl. A nice touch, very genuine and not at all tacky as it sounds.
The rooms at Dwarikas are in the main enormous, with huge bathrooms, enormous beds, and the whole room is redolent of Nepalese architecture with traditional woodwork everywhere from the windows, the doors, the furniture. All of this is a long way from the norm in modern hotels, in fact the hotel encourages local people in ancient woodworking techniques to keep them alive.
Dwarikas has also a...