Palace on Ganges

Property class: 3

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Located close to Assi Ghat and Tulsi Ghat, Palace on Ganges provides a terrace, a garden and a hair salon. Treat yourself to a massage at the on-site spa. In addition to a library and dry cleaning/laundry services, guests can connect to free in-room WiFi.

Reviews

6.8 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Spa
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air-conditioning
  • Breakfast available
  • Parking available
The current price is HK$704
HK$831 total
includes taxes & fees
28 Oct - 29 Oct

Room options

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A hotel room with a bed, bedside table, lamp, and a desk with a chair.

Deluxe Room

  • 168 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

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A hotel room with a bed, bedside table, lamp, and a desk with a chair.

Basic Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed
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About the area

Located in Varanasi, Palace on Ganges is in the historical district. Notable landmarks in the area include Assi Ghat and Tulsi Ghat. Sant Ravidas Ghat and Hanuman Ghat are two other places to visit that come recommended. Explore all the area has to offer with hiking/biking trails and horse riding. Visit our Varanasi travel guide
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B-1/158, Assighat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221001

What's nearby

  • A riverside cityscape with boats, a temple, and a crowd of people.
    Assi Ghat
    2 min walk - 0.2 km
  • A row of colorful boats docked at a calm river.
    Tulsi Ghat
    5 min walk - 0.4 km
  • A bridge over water, a flock of pigeons on a ledge, and boats in the distance.
    Hanuman Ghat
    14 min walk - 1.2 km
  • Sant Ravidas Ghat
    14 min walk - 1.2 km
  • Harishchandra Ghat
    16 min walk - 1.4 km

Getting around

  • Varanasi Junction Station
    7 min drive
  • Varanasi (VNS-Lal Bahadur Shastri)
    61 min drive

Restaurants

  • The New Banaras Hotel
    3 min drive
  • Aman Restaurant
    17 min walk
  • Starbucks
    16 min walk
  • Domino's Pizza
    13 min walk
  • Chachi Kachori
    13 min walk

About this property

Palace on Ganges

  • Hotel near Assi Ghat
  • Located close to Tulsi Ghat and Sant Ravidas Ghat, Palace on Ganges provides a terrace, a garden and a hair salon. Treat yourself to a massage at the on-site spa. In addition to a library and dry cleaning/laundry services, guests can connect to free in-room WiFi.
  • You'll also find perks such as:
    • Buffet breakfast (surcharge), bike hire and self-parking (surcharge)
    • A 24-hour front desk, tour/ticket information and newspapers in the reception
    • ATM/banking services, a front desk safe and concierge services
  • Room features
  • All rooms are individually decorated, and feature comforts such as 24-hour room service and air conditioning, as well as perks such as free WiFi and safes.
  • Extra amenities include:
    • Bathrooms with free toiletries and hairdryers
    • TVs with cable channels
    • Electric kettles, ceiling fans and daily housekeeping

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Frequently asked questions

Is Palace on Ganges pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at Palace on Ganges?

As of 23 Oct 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Palace on Ganges on 28 Oct 2026 start from HK$704, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Palace on Ganges?

Self-parking is available for INR 400 per day.

What time is check-in at Palace on Ganges?

Check-in start time: noon; check-in end time: 2 PM. After-hours check-in is not available.

What time is check-out at Palace on Ganges?

Checkout is at noon.

Where is Palace on Ganges located?

Situated in the historical district, this spa hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Assi Ghat and Tulsi Ghat. Sant Ravidas Ghat and Hanuman Ghat are also within 15 minutes.

Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?

Yes, this property offers free cancellation on selected room rates because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.

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Reviews

Palace on Ganges Reviews

6.8

7.0

Cleanliness

8.4

Location

7.2

Staff & service

6.8

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 12 out of 52 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 11 out of 52 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 17 out of 52 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 52 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 52 reviews

Reviews

Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a great place to stay next to Ganges river. The staff is so polite and respectful. Food is amazing. The outdoor restaurant is my favorite. You can walk to the Aarti and to all the ghats.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Verified review

6/10 Okay

This property was well located but the rooms were not as clean as I would like, there is lots of dust and because they are renovating there was a paint smell. Breakfast area is quite poor and needs to be renovated , the food was great from the kitchen and the staff friendly
Stayed 2 nights in May 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Wonderful staff and convenient to all places close but cannot get into hotel in the evening as road blocked off by police, they need to fix it as very inconvenient to guests arriving in the evenings to carry in baggage
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotels in a good location. Food was excellent. Room had no window. Only one power point in the room. WiFi was variable and needed to be reactivated every time you went out.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great Location!

The location is great, right on the Assi Ghat with great morning sunrises and evening prayer ceremonies. The stay was comfortable, the staff was friendly, and the food was good and affordable.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was right off the ghat. We could walk to the aarti. Rooms wear clean. Staff was polite and helpful.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing experience !
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and neat hotel , the rooms are too small for three adults but worth the effort. Everyone is wouderflly polite and helpful.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was a dungeon. We could not unpack the suitcases as it was crammed. No place to take a shower. Refer room # 301
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2026
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Rooms were noisy from outside till 2.00AM Room service was good. Hotel is in place a big car like Toyota entigra(Indian) can’t go in street. No parking place.hot water was lukewarm. Toilet and bathroom very tight, difficult to even brush. Aircondition control not working it was fixed at 25C
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2026
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Basic, quiet, reasonably convenient but overpriced

Does the job of providing a clean bed and place to rest in an easily accessible location. However, the circuit breaker to the room power tripped twice in two days. Compared to the general cost of living, it is overpriced.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dont book here. A well located hotel but a dissapoinent. Team not prepares, not clean, service not good.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was being painted inside resulting in the room smelling like chemicals. The internet was terribly slow and kept disconnecting. The aircon is old and noisy. The floors were quite dirty. Rest of the room was perfect
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Mi estancia fue de dos la comida del restaurante de la terraza fue espectacular y la atención de los muchachos muy buena
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
It was in a great location but unfortunately most of the staff were not attentive to details nor did they action any request that you made. 2 gentlemen who were probably managers were good.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness

Good Location, Not too pleasant.

No window in the rooms. Nice rooftop but breakfast is served in the 'restaurant' on the ground floor which is a bit dark. Found small cockroaches in the bathroom. Location is very good because Assi ghat is one of the few ghats in Varanasi that can be reached with cars and auto rickshaws. Boat ride we booked through the hotel was okay, but it ended with our boat being tied to a motored boat because the boat driver didn't want to paddle the way back, which exposed us to constant smoke from the back of the motored boat. Recommend booking boatrides elsewhere with lower prices.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Varanasi 100%

Zona optima pata descubrir varanasi Evitar primer nivel de habitacion al ser hab interiores. La suite es antigua pero con vistas impresionantes. La hab exterior es correcta aunque vista exterior relativa .. comida muy buena . Personal muy agrafable y servicial
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort

Good basic hotel at the Ganges river

It's a bit difficult to rate this hotel. The hotel is small, rather old, very basic, my room smelled moldy/musty (for the first 2-3 minutes when I entered the room), restaurant on top of building is very basic but the food was delicious (and it didn't ruin my sensitive stomach). My room window was facing a wall (1 meter away) which was not super but also not a big problem. Hotel is located 200 meters from Assi Ghat and the river. Location is very nice although quite a walk (1-2 miles) from the more interesting Ghat's. I did enjoy the walks along the river so it was not an issue. Area and surroundings seem safe and I didn't have any issues whatsoever. Wifi was ok but not great. At times I was able to stream a bit of Youtube .. I could not see the river from the hotel. Service level was in general ok. Some of the people working there were eager to assist - others couldn't be bothered. Compared to a 5-star hotel in New Delhi the hotel is rather bad but compared to the rest of Varanasi the hotel was actually quite good. I enjoyed my stay there and would recommend it to anybody. There was a lot of other foreigners staying in the hotel during my stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Service good. Property ok. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Basic

The hotel is v. basic; no frills or fanciness here, though it is a step up from a hostel. There is free wifi for up to 2 users per room and the staff are generally agreeable. The restaurant is just so-so. It's on the rooftop (which isn't all that pretty) and we got eaten alive by mosquitos in the evening. The location is great; it's right near Assi Ghat, which is the neighborhood I recommend staying in, as it's much quieter and cleaner than the Main Ghat. I recommend going to morning aarti on Assi Ghat; it is v. serene and beautiful. My main disappointment comes from the fact that we paid a similar room rate in Delhi, Jaipur, Chennai, and Mumbai for 5-star, luxury hotels. But that's also because we were here during Holi. I would actually recommend staying at the adjacent Hotel Ganges, as they have a lovely rooftop area and much more attentive staff. (We visited Hotel Ganges for breakfast and to watch the Holi festivities from their rooftop, as it was much closer to the action.)
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Location, Location, Location

The location of the hotel was excellent, but that's where the compliments stop. For the price paid the hotel was poorly furnished, not real clean and staff were always less than helpful. We stayed there for 3 nights and was able to access the Ganges as much as we liked, however, the hotel was not a good standard for the $$$'s paid.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Location is excellent if you wish to stay close to the Ganga river. Otherwise is hotel is not worth the money you pay.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Room comfort

Below average quality, high premium for location

The best part of this place is the location, bang on Assi ghat. The rooms are small and very average in terms of decor, cleanliness and comfort. The walls are paper thin and one can hear everything from outside, upstairs and flush in the room next door. The room flush makes huge noise, there is no place to keep your soap/ shampoo when you take a shower, the shower stream is pathetic. We asked for wi-fi, got the code after 30 mins and it did not work. The food was sad - low on salt and spices, stuffed paratha had no stuffing, breakfast was minimal variety. Stay here for max 1 night, if you want to attend the morning aarti at Assi and plan to be outside the room most of the time.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2018
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Seriously overpriced

Emailed the hotel and asked for an airport pick up. Was confirmed and reassured twice that a car was going to be there to pick up us with a sign. Arrived at the airport and none was there. Called the hotel, none picked up the phone. On arrival at the hotel I mentioned to the receptionists none came to pick up us from the airport, they looked at me and continued with the booking. No apology offered, no comments said. We booked a double bed room, we were given two separated beds in the underground floor. Then we were moved to another bed room but the bedclothes where not changed from the previous couple so when I discovered this at night I went with my pillow, which was still wet, and asked the receptionist for a change. He just went to an empty room and picked up a pillow and put the dirty one on the other bed, so the next people can also enjoy it, I guess. The rooms on the floor -1 are the worse ones as no air circulates and breathing is almost impossible. For the second night we were moved to the last room available on the first floor which improved the air circulation. No hot water Breakfast wasn't good. Food restaurant was ok.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Room comfort
Had a comfortable stay. Hotel employees are willing to help
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017