Hotel Norbu House

Owners gives personal attentions to all details to ensure guests are taken care well and return with best of memories

Entire offerings by the hotel, it speaks about their commitment

I loved staying here. The location is great in McLeod Ganj, close to everything to walk but in a very quiet area. 3 min walk to the Dalai Lama temple. The staff are extremely friendly and the rooms are great. The bed is very comfortable, tea/coffee and kettle in the room, a fridge, snacks and water. The room was clean and a beautiful balcony overlooking Dharamsala. The buffet breakfast in the morning is excellent and the sitting area has a beautiful view. The staff will help you out with anything you need.

I would have stayed here the whole time if it was cheaper.

Good location and friendly staff

The hotel entrance is hard to find

Location nice view

Rooms were not very clean and not well maintained, the wall was falling off, there was not enough food for all the guests at the breakfast

The value for money. Very kind reception staff, which I haven't experienced in any of the 5* resorts in India, and beyond. Value for money, nice big bathroom and comfortable beds. Views from our room and outside area were great. Fresh cakes for breakfast and great cappuccino. 5 minutes walk from the "Dalai Lama" temple.

Nothing. Everything was great considering the price

The breakfast is good and coffee is very delicious with professional level. Very joyful stay in the hotel.

If there is a spot we can take photos for snow mountains it would be perfect!

Excellent view and very helpful staff. Comfortable beds

My experience in staying Norbu House is quite ecstatic. We booked two suites Yewang suite and Norbu suite for four adults in a family. Although we travelled in a very popular time period (Holi break), I was happy to find the property to be absolutely peaceful. We particularly liked the corner suite (most probably Norbu suite) for the outstanding view. The point of absolute excitation was to get a great view of His Holiness the Dalai Lama residence and the temple. I could carry out my meditation in the morning with the gentle fresh wind from the white mountains and watching the temple of His Holiness all the time. I also wish to mention that the temple is just connected with the Hotel through a very short road and we are grateful to Tenzinji for his kind help as soon as we approached him.

Well, the only point where we had a little issue was that the Hotel served mostly vegetarian foods. As we are basically non-vegetarian, it would have helped to have some non-veg in the menu. However, we were completely aware beforehand about the food and hence no complain. There could be a few more Tibetan menu in the breakfast to make it more exciting.

Norbu House is situated on a rare quiet road in McLeod Ganj, so provides a relief from the traffic (and incessant horn blowing of Indian drivers). It has amazing views down over the Dalai Lama's Temple and his private residence - the terrace is a fabulous place to eat breakfast in the morning sun. The breakfast buffet is simple, with a couple of Indian dishes, plus western staples like toast, eggs (cooked to order) and there are also 2 fresh backed cakes.. plus excellent cappucino with no additional charge. The MoMos with cottage cheese I ordered one eve are delicious. The hotel is family owned and very welcoming - the owners daughter was particularly warm and friendly, with better English than mine :)

The only thing I didn't like was the cold shower on the first morning as I didn't realise the heater needed switching on - no big deal, certainly woke me up.