Bellevue Hotel Darjeeling - More than Belle Vue

Our Facilities include:

• Attached bathrooms with running hot and cold water
• Doctor, Masseur, Barber and Washerman available on call
• Cable television in every room
• Coach and taxi service
• ARA by Bellevue, Gastro Pub on the ground floor
• Free wireless Internet-Access within the Hotel
• Car parking available

"The Bellevue was a very rustic hotel. Each night, we'd arrive, into the pitch black lobby, always the last ones in, and one of the young men would be roused, and would come up to our room to start a fire in the cast iron stove in the center of the room. Using electric blue "kerosene" poured out of a CocaCola bottle, and a stove full of kindling, we'd get four hours of heat to see us through until morning. On the first night, in a moment of slightly drunken brilliance, I threw my shirt over the stove, to warm it up, so that I could sleep nice and toastily. Turning out the lights, pulling on the shirt, I dove into bed.
The next morning, I tried to sneak a peak of the mountains before the fog settled in. Standing outside of our room, looking out the windows of the lobby, I felt a draught. Apparently, I had burned a six inch hole into the back of my shirt."

Ritik Dholakia, an American traveller, on his stay at the Bellevue Hotel