In
Keylong we stayed at the hotel called the Chandra
Bhaga. The view from this hotel was stunning. To the left and right were large mountains with snow capped peaks and directly in front of us was a mountain grassy mountain scattered with houses and then 500 feet of rock cliffs above that. From our hotel it was about a 10 minute walk downtown into the market.
As you can see the outside of the hotel looks really nice, and indeed it was for some people. Me, Nate, Josh, and
Garant got the shaft though. Our room was a dorm style with four single beds that were made out of scary looking vintage mattresses on plywood. That was the nice part. Above the pillow of each bed on the white wall was a dark greasy spot from the heads of the many people that had slept there. The bathroom was by far the worst feature. As with most bathrooms here the shower comes out of the wall randomly and there is a drain somewhere on the floor. There is never a shower curtain. If you are lucky there is at least a dropped down portion of the bathroom so that the entire place does not flood when taking a shower. There was no dropped down portion of this bathroom and the drain was not located at the lowest point in the bathroom.
This meant that there was a constant pool of water on the floor. Shortly after arriving we had some people from the hotel come in to "fix" the bathroom. What they actually did was dismantle our shower and take it to the room next door. Besides this there was no hot water unit in our room so we got to take glacier cold bucket baths from the lower
spicket. Another nice feature was that the sink drained directly on to the floor. We found this out after several of us had shaved and the hair spread itself over the floor into the standing water. This bathroom was so bad that one day we offered one of the Indian drivers to take a shower in our bathroom because they were sleeping in tents outside and had to use a shared bathroom in the hotel lobby. It was so bad that he spent about 30 seconds in the bathroom before leaving,
unbathed.
As you can see the outside of the hotel looks really nice, and indeed it was for some people. Me, Nate, Josh, and Garant got the shaft though. Our room was a dorm style with four single beds that were made out of scary looking vintage mattresses on plywood. That was the nice part. Above the pillow of each bed on the white wall was a dark greasy spot from the heads of the many people that had slept there. The bathroom was by far the worst feature. As with most bathrooms here the shower comes out of the wall randomly and there is a drain somewhere on the floor. There is never a shower curtain. If you are lucky there is at least a dropped down portion of the bathroom so that the entire place does not flood when taking a shower. There was no dropped down portion of this bathroom and the drain was not located at the lowest point in the bathroom.
This meant that there was a constant pool of water on the floor. Shortly after arriving we had some people from the hotel come in to "fix" the bathroom. What they actually did was dismantle our shower and take it to the room next door. Besides this there was no hot water unit in our room so we got to take glacier cold bucket baths from the lower spicket. Another nice feature was that the sink drained directly on to the floor. We found this out after several of us had shaved and the hair spread itself over the floor into the standing water. This bathroom was so bad that one day we offered one of the Indian drivers to take a shower in our bathroom because they were sleeping in tents outside and had to use a shared bathroom in the hotel lobby. It was so bad that he spent about 30 seconds in the bathroom before leaving, unbathed.
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