Hotel Akbar Srinagr (Dal Lake)

The hotel is run by Mr Boktoo and his family is a nice place to stay, very close to Dal Lake. The hospitality was good, and staff was quite friendly and always available. The hotel has a nice garden in the front, facing the lake and is quite well maintained, with plenty of roses of different varieties, even thick stemmed mint. If you are into gardening you would definitely like the ambience there! All our travel arrangement to Gulmarg, Sonmarg and drop to Pahalgam were arranged by Dawood, son of Mr Boktoo, who was quite helpful and the rates were also competitive as against local taxi rates outside. For local sight seeing, a day auto should be sufficient as most places are close by, within 5-10kms distance. We were offered complimentary kashmiri kahwa at check-in time, but would have preferred it to be 'complimentary' daily on our return from sight-seeing. One drawback is the access to the hotel, which is about 3-5 mins walk from the Dal gate, from a slightly narrow market, which might be a problem for elderly people as they have get down stairs and climb them up, including a small 5 m bridge, every time you have to go and visit any tourist spot. I would call it a mid-price/budget hotel good for families and tour groups (speaking of which Kesari groups almost occupied the whole of hotel!!). We availed only breakfast buffet, which was simple but descent with 2-3 options to pick from.

located in a narrow lane. Not reachable by car. Rooms are smelly.Before ushering the guest inside the room; they spray a poor quality freshner to camafloge the repelling odour. Despite whole property being vacant ;they made me to stay in a room in an obscure corner of the property which was highly insecure and scary by all accounts.I could not sleep for whole night.Poorly maintained rooms with poor service.I got trapped.You better stay away.The attached photos self speak the insecurity of the place and poor condition of their dlx rooms.

it was A great experience with this hotel...and the hotel services and the staff of the hotel is very good and polite one...food quality was also good....location is very good and convenient and will like to recommend couples and friends...overall a good experience..

It has very good scenic beauty around...with neat clean rooms and prompt services...location was perfect...so i would surely suggest it to each category of people !