Hotel Yoga Badrinath Dham

It was shockingly bad.  First, we came with a group of 16. Had emailed several times in advance to make sure the rooms and room assignments were clear and each time we’re told everything is ready. We arrived early evening after a long drive from Kedarnath and…the rooms weren’t ready.  The triple rooms we had reserved were given away to others and we spent the next hour trying to sort everything out with people who were completely incompetent and had no idea what they were doing.  But this wasn’t the bad part.  When we got into the rooms we immediately began calling to find another place to stay. The rooms weee freezing because, get this, they don’t have heating!!!! Badrinath is cold!  It’s in a deep valley at 10,800 elevation. This was October and the temperatures were just above freezing at night. They kept insisting that it was ok because the beds were heated. 30% of the beds were not heated and those that did work went between scalding hot to cold.  Mind you, this does nothing to heat up the room.  When we asked if they had space heaters, they said no.  They eventually were able to scare up a few, but most of our group had a cold night and ended up catching colds.  The rooms themselves are nothing like the photos.  The walls are t white. They are stained with mold. Places on the walls near the door and windows have paint bubbling up because clearly they tried to paint over the mold.  The rooms smell awful. I end onto every room and the rank, musty, moldy smell was so strong it gave most a headache.  See, without a heating source to dry the air, the rooms are moist alll the time.  Also, whenever you take the key out of the master switch when you leave, all power is cut. So the condensation on the windows from your breath and the moisture of the cold keeps everything damp, so the walls, the bedding, the curtains, towels, everything is modes or smells of mold. The windows do not open, so other than leaving the door open when they clean, no fresh air.   The dining hall was small, dark, and unclean.  The finner buffet consisted of 5 things and they all looked disgusting. I lived in India for 15 years and have never seen a hotel this bad—and believe me most of that time would be in very simple, Indian hotels. But the combination of discomfort, uncleanliness, and terrible staff was hands down the worst I’ve seen.  We had to stay the night there because most were too tired to shift hotels and everyone just got into bed with their clothes on because the beds are so unsightly. I didn’t even look in or use the bathroom.  Just got up, put on my shoes, grabbed my luggage and walked out, my breath visible in the freezing room.  The hotel manager never showed up to talk with me either the night before or the next morning even though he was on the phone with the duty manager.  And finally, they wouldn’t refund our stay. We wrote and called trip.com who called the hotel and they wouldn’t refund our money, nearly US $5000. Trip.com also would not cover the refund even though we booked through them and wrote them that the photos and descriptions of amenities were completely misleading. Finally we challenged the payment through Amex (cannot recommend amex strongly enough!) and only once they realized they weren’t going to receive any money did they agree to refunding everything except the one night we spent there.  Not sure I’ll ever use Trip.com again after this either.  Consider yourself warned.

We called the hotel for rates and directions, the GM Mr. Gusain was extremely rude in providing us with the info. Some how we reached the hotel, Google had incorrect location updates. Rooms were shown to us where they had extreme seepage issues, since it was a one night affair, we decided to take it. They charged us 11k for a night. Absolutely not worth it. Negatives: Lift not working Power socket not working Seepage in all rooms Rats, cats running in the room ceiling No hot water in the washroom Extremely rude manager (who had an attitude, take it or leave it - this is a premium property) Breakfast was average Few pics are attached.

The hotel is very nice and beautiful u should visit with your family and friends the food is very clean rooms are very clean washrooms are very nice the staff is very friendly and kind they provide anything u want visit now at YOGA PREIUM ( BADRINATH)

Absolutely don't stay here! We booked through a travel agency for Hotel Yoga Premium & they said they never got the booking! They have the Hotel Yoga in back to put people because they overbook! We had the proof & call from the travel agent. After bad weather, we arrived there late in the evening after calling to confirm we had a room -- and upon arrival they said all rooms were taken. They lied -- and had a fake person call us & argued with us. This hotel has bad vibes. Stay away! I gave it 1 rating, but I want to give it zero.