Name (English): Lhagang Great Plains Hotel
Name (Tibetan): ལྷ་སྒང་ཐང་ཆེན་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (Chinese): 塔公观景客栈 Tagong Guanjing Kezhan
Description (English): Tibetan-style guesthouse with a view of Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): 9 rooms, 23 beds total. 2 double rooms, the remaining rooms have either 3 or 4 beds each.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Yes: 彭州吴名饭店 Pengzhou Wuming Fandian
Amenities: Large meeting/living room with television, space for many guests.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Directions: Last hotel on left side of road before you reach the square in front of Lhagang monastery.
Contact Person: Drolma / སྒྲོལ་མ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6501; 13551981855

Name (English): Love & Harmony Hotel
Name (Tibetan): བྱམས་ཤིང་མཐུན་པའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (Chinese): 仁和旅社 Renhe Lüshe
Description (English): Modern style hotel with tea house on third floor.
Room Description (English): 150RMB/room. 12 rooms total. 7 rooms have a private bathroom including a hot shower. Most rooms are doubles, though there is one single.
Shower: Several rooms have a private shower.
Toilet: Yes, private and shared.
Restaurant? Not currently, though possibly in future on the third floor.
Amenities: Parking available in back of building. Most rooms include a television. Tea house on third floor serving Chinese-style tea. Other: Additional shared bathroom behind the main building.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 150 RMB/room.
Directions: On right side of road near the south-western part of town. (The third or fourth hotel on the right if entering from Xinduqiao and Kangding). Entrance of the hotel is on the second floor via stairs in the back of the building. Check-in desk is on the third floor.
Contact Person: Peylo
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: 13578365299; (0836) 2866008

Name (Tibetan): བྷོ་ཊ་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): “Tibetan Hotel” (or “Bhota Hotel” in Tibetan)
Name (Chinese): 蕃扎旅社 Bozha Lüshe
Description (English): Comfortable hotel run by a local Tibetan family.
Room Description (English): 12 beds total. Rooms include either 2 or 4 beds each.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 30RMB/bed
Directions: The second hotel on the right after you enter Lhagang from the south. The hotel is set-in from the road and is enclosed by a front gate.
Contact Person: Tsering Drolma / ཚེ་རིང་སྒྲོལ་མ།
Languages: Tibetan, Chinese, some English
Phone number: (0836) 286 6082

Note: Not found during the July 2009 survey; may no longer exist.
Name (Tibetan): བཀྲ་ཤིས་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Tashi Hotel
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Tibetan-style guesthouse near the monastery on the main road.
Room Description (English): 7 rooms, 20 beds total. 1 single room, 1 double; the rest of the rooms have either 3 or 4 beds each.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? The hotel itself does not own a restaurant, however there is one on the first floor of the building.
Amenities:
Other: Large meeting/living area and tea room (with television).
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 10-15RMB/bed
Directions: Entrance on left side of road if facing Lhagang monastery right before the main square.
Contact Person: dbyangs ’dzom
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 281 1203

Name (Tibetan): ལྷ་སྒང་གངས་ལྗོངས་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Lhagang Snowland Hotel
Name (Chinese): 塔公雪域宾馆 Tagong Xueyu Binguan
Description (English): Modern style hotel with tea house on third floor.
Room Description (English): 150RMB/room. 12 rooms total. 7 rooms have a private bathroom including a hot shower. Most rooms are doubles, though there is one single.
Shower: Several rooms have a private shower.
Toilet: Yes, private and shared.
Restaurant? Not currently, though possibly in future on the third floor.
Amenities: Parking available in back of building. Most rooms include a television. Tea house on third floor serving Chinese-style tea.
Other: Additional shared bathroom behind the main building.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 150 RMB/room.
Directions: On right side of road near the south-western part of town. (The third or fourth hotel on the right if entering from Xinduqiao and Kangding). Entrance of the hotel is on the second floor via stairs in the back of the building. Check-in desk is on the third floor.
Contact Person: Peylo
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: 13678365299

Name (Tibetan): གངས་ཅན་བདེ་སྐྱིད་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Snowfield De Xi Hostel
Name (Chinese): 雪域德西旅店 Xueyu Dexi Lüdian
Description (English): Tibetan-style hotel overlooking the main road.
Room Description (English): 32 beds total, all on the second and third floors of building. The second floor has five rooms, mostly triples. The third floor has four doubles and two rooms with 4 beds.
Shower: Not presently
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Price: 10-30RMB/bed
Directions: Left side of the road about 1/3rd the way into town if coming from Xinduqiao and Kangding (not far past the pink building that hosts the Welfare school and another hotel). Entrance is in front. If door closed, talk to the tailor on the first floor - he also runs the hotel.
Contact Person: A-thup
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6720

Name (Tibetan): མདུན་ལམ་གཅིག་པའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Same Way Hotel
Name (Chinese): 同路人旅店 Tongluren Lüdian
Description (English): Family run Tibetan-style hotel a short distance down the main side road.
Room Description (English): 6 rooms. 1 double, while the rest have 3, 4, or 5 beds.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Other: Open patio overlooking backyard.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified.
Price: 20RMB/bed for dorm style rooms. 25RMB/bed for double rooms.
Directions: 1/3 down the main side road (i.e. the road that crosses the river heading south). The hotel is on the left side of the road. Enter the narrow throughway from road and then into building from the side-door on left. Rooms are on the second and third floors.
Contact Person: Drolma / སྒྲོལ་མ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6062

Name (Tibetan): རྟག་སྤྲོའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Hotel of Everlasting Joy
Name (Chinese): 永乐旅社 Yongle Lüshe
Description (English): Tibetan style guesthouse on the main road.
Room Description (English): 5 rooms - 3 doubles, 1 triple, and one room with 5 beds.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Not presently, though possibly in future. Also will likely have tea house.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified.
Price: 10-15RMB/bed for Tibetans and Chinese; 20-30RMB/bed for foreigners.
Directions: 3/4ths up main road on the right if coming from the south (near Lhagang monastery but before you get to the main square. The building sits diagonally left across the street from the hospital). Enter on second floor from stairs on side of building.
Contact Person: Peylo
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6480

Name (Tibetan): དགེ་ལེགས་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Jya Drolma and Gayla’s Guesthouse
Description (English): Tibetan style guesthouse just off the main square.
Room Description (English): 9 rooms, 30+ beds total. 1 single, 4 doubles, 4 triples, 1 room with 5 beds, 1 room with 7 beds.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes (2), shared.
Restaurant? No, however will serve a bowl of thukpa at night (1RMB), plus tsampa and yogurt.
Amenities: Television, common meeting/living room, internet.
Other: “We are more of a guesthouse than a hotel. Like your own home, you can be comfortable, watch TV in the common room at night and then head back to your own room when you are tired.” “You only pay for the room. In return, we help you find the interesting places in Lhagang, can assist you in renting a car, and carrying your bags.” Will also assist in catching a bus to places north and south (Bamei, Ganzde, Kangding etc.) in the morning. “More Westerners come to our guesthouse than any other place in Lhagang. We do our best to make sure you are happy here.”
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 20RMB/bed though more during the Chinese holiday.
Directions: Entrance is in the left, back corner of the square in front of Lhagang monastery. There is a large sign in English that reads “Jya Drolma and Gayla’s Guesthouse.”
Contact Person: Jya Drolma
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan, basic English
Phone number: (0836) 286 6056

Name (Tibetan): དར་མདོ་ལྷ་སྒང་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Dardo-Lhagang Hotel
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Traditional Tibetan-looking hotel run by a Chinese Buddhist couple.
Room Description (English): 6 rooms total - 2 double and 4 dorm-style rooms.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Yes - serves Chinese and Tibetan food. Tea room with large screen TV.
Amenities: Fax, internet, printing, help with tours/trekking.
Other: Vegetarian food available in restaurant.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified.
Price: 50RMB/bed in double room. 30RMB/bed in dorm-style room.
Directions: Hotel on second floor of the building that hosts China Unicom and the post office (on left side of street, not far from the southwest entrance of town). Enter from back and take stairs to second and third floors. Restaurant and tea house on third floor; rooms on the second floor.
Languages: Chinese
Phone number: (0836) 286 6088; 13056457999

Note: Not found during the July 2009 survey; may no longer exist.
Name (Tibetan): None
Name (English): None
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Hotel overlooking main road, very near Lhagang monastery. Owned by a Chinese-Tibetan couple.
Room Description (English): 8 doubles, 3 triples.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Other: All rooms include a television.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Price: 10-20RMB/bed
Directions: Left side of road if facing monastery, about 3/4ths down the road from southern entrance of town (adjacent to the hospital on the left).
Contact Person:
Languages: Owner speaks Chinese, his wife speaks Tibetan.
Phone number: (0836) 829 8778

Name (Tibetan): ཛམ་བྷ་ལ་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Dzambhala Hotel
Name (Chinese): 瞻巴拉旅店 Zhanbala Lüdian
Description (English): Tibetan-style guesthouse overlooking the main road.
Room Description (English): 13 rooms total - 7 doubles, 6 triples.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Amenities: Large meeting/living room.
Other: Hotel started in 2005.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? Doors generally close at 10 pm.
Price: 15-20RMB/bed
Directions: 3/4ths up the main road on the left if enter from town from south (before the hospital). Look for a cloth banner that reads “Teahouse and Hotel.” Entrance to the hotel is in the back. Rooms on 2nd floor.
Contact Person: Pema Drolma / པདྨ་སྒྲོལ་མ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 2866613; 13056457986

Name (Tibetan): None listed
Name (English): Finance Hotel
Name (Chinese): 金融招待所 Jinrong Zhaodaisuo
Description (English): Modern style rooms overlooking the main and side roads.
Room Description (English): 12 rooms total. 5 double rooms with private baths. 7 rooms with 5, 6, 7, or 8 beds. All rooms have a television.
Shower: Yes, private and shared.
Toilet: Yes, private and shared.
Restaurant? No
Other: Contact person is Yeshe, although his sister Dechen also helps run the hotel.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Price: 60-70RMB/night in double rooms. Dorm style beds are 15-20RMB/bed. Price typically increases on Chinese holidays.
Directions: Enter from the side road that leads over the river. Before reaching bridge, turn right into an enclosed building complex. Turn right again and look for apartment-style building directly in front of you. This is the hotel. To your right, you should see the Lhagang police station. Note that although there are two signs for the Finance Hotel on the main road, the entrance of the hotel is accessed from the back of the building near the police station.
Contact Person: Yeshe
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: 13096262221

Name (Tibetan): གཡག་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Yak Hotel
Name (Chinese): 牦牛旅馆 Maoniu Lüguan
Description (English): Homestay-like environment across the street from Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): 7 rooms total. 3 doubles, 4 rooms with 4 or 5 beds each.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes (2 - one inside and one outside)
Restaurant? No, but locally made yogurt available for purchase.
Amenities: Open patio on second floor. Large Tibetan-style common room with television.
Other: <b>Quote</b>: “For a quiet room come here. We warmly welcome people from everywhere. We will provide you the best service.”
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 20RMB/bed
Directions: Last hotel on right side of road near the edge of town if going north. Opposite the big prayer wheels.
Contact Person: Sang-do (sangs rgyas rdo rje) / སངས་རྒྱས་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan

Name (Tibetan): None listed
Name (Chinese):
None listed
Name (English): None listed
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Small upstairs guesthouse near the monastery on the main road.
Room Description (English): 2 rooms total: 1 single, 1 double, plus 3 additional beds in the common room.
Shower: Yes, shared
Toilet: Yes, shared
Restaurant? No
Other: Owner also has a business in selling horses (only to Tibetans)
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? Doors close around 10 pm.
Price: 10RMB/bed
Directions: Adjacent to the “Liang of Chongqin Hotel.” Enter through metal doors in front. Hotel is on second floor. Often the owner is with horses just outside the hotel on the main road. Close to the main square.
Contact Person: Da-sang / ཟླ་གསང་།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: 13990455376

Name (Tibetan): ཞི་བདེ་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Kan ba Peace Hotel
Name (Chinese): 康巴和平宾馆 Kangba Heping Binguan
Description (English): Hotel run by a Tibetan couple. Presently under construction which is scheduled to be finished in the late summer of 2007. Modern style double and dorm-style rooms on 3rd and 4th floors. Building also hosts tea house, a restaurant, and several internet-enabled computers.
Room Description (English): After rennovation, the third floor will have fully featured double rooms with full baths, televisions, etc. Fourth floor will host dorm style rooms with shared restroom facilities.
Shower: Yes, private and shared.
Toilet: Yes, private and shared.
Restaurant? Yes - Chinese and Tibetan food.
Amenities: Internet on second floor near the dining area.
Other: The owners would like to give a warm welcome to all visitors. Assured to be pleasant place to stay.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 50RMB/dorm bed; 150RMB for double room with private bath.
Directions: On right side of road if coming from south directly above the supply store operated by a group of Tibetan nuns (across the street from the major side road). Enter from front of building. Hotel on third and fourth floors; restaurant and tea room on second floor.
Contact Person: Nyiga / ཉི་དགའ, Lhakar / ལྷ་དཀར, Pelchen / དཔལ་ཆེན།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan, English. Pelchen knows a little French.
Phone number: 13158406585 (Nyiga), (0836) 888 9689 (Lhakar), (0836) 888 2885 (both Nyiga and Lhakar), 13096260980 (Pelchen)

Name (Tibetan): ཐང་བོད་སྣེ་ལེན།
Name (English): Thanbo Guesthouse
Name (Chinese): 唐蕃客栈 Tangbo Kezhan
Description (English): Tibetan style guesthouse with Tibetan food right on the main road.
Room Description (English): 6 rooms, 20 beds total.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Yes - serves Tibetan style food, including vegetarian options.
Amenities: Large living room/meeting room for socializing and drinking tea, playing games.
Other:
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 20-50RMB/bed.
Directions: 3/4th the way up the road from the main south entrance of the city on left (above a vegetable shop). Entrance in back of building.
Contact Person: Konchog / དཀོན་མཆོག
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 829 0707

Name (Tibetan): བསོད་ནམས་ཡར་ཕེབས་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Fu Lai Xing Wang Hotel
Name (Chinese): 福来兴旺旅店 Fulai Xingwang Lüdian
Description (English): Ornate Tibetan-style rooms across from the Golden Stupa and the Lhagang grasslands.
Room Description (English): 13 rooms total. 11 double rooms. 2 rooms with 8 beds.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Yes, Chinese style restaurant on first floor: 成都饭店 Chengdu Fandian
Amenities: Large common room where guests can also sleep.
Open all year? Open from April to November and for 15 days during the Tibetan New Year.
Closed in the evening? Doors close at 10 pm.
Price: 60-80RMB for double room. 1000RMB for large meeting room for 1 night.
Directions: Outside of town right across from the Golden Stupa.
Contact Person: Rin-do (རིན་ཆེན་དོན་གྲུབ)
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: 13096269699; 13158400008

Name (Tibetan): None listed
Name (English): Ya'an Hotel
Name (Chinese): 雅安宾馆 Ya'an Binguan
Description (English): A pleasant Tibetan-owned guesthouse near the river.
Room Description (English): 6 rooms, 18 beds total. 3 double rooms, 1 single, several rooms with dorm-style beds (about 6 beds/room).
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Not presently. Tentative plans for Tibetan-style restaurant in 2008.
Amenities: Billiards and small shop with food and drinks on the first floor.
Other: Presently the first floor hosts a billiards rooms, however this may change later this year. The owner discussed possibly creating a Tibetan style restaurant there later within the coming months. Note the sign which reads “House of Fun” is dated; there is another sign written in Chinese that indicates this building is a hotel.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified.
Price: Double room is 30RMB. Single room is 40/50RMB. Beds in dorm style rooms are less.
Directions: Go about 2/3rds down the road leading the to bridge that crosses the river. On your left, you’ll see both a hotel sign written in Chinese and another sign that says “House of Fun.” The latter sign is out of date, but is a helpful reference when looking for the hotel. Enter the building with these signs through the billiards room and go the second floor.
Contact Person: Tsogyel Lhamo / མཚོ་རྒྱལ་ལྷ་མོ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan

Hotel ID: Lh30
Name (English): Tour Guide Hotel
Name (Chinese): 藏香居 Zangxiang Ju
Description (English): Tibetan-style hotel off the main road.
Room Description (English): 11 rooms, 35 beds total. 6 doubles, 1 single; all the remaining rooms have 5 or 6 beds each.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No, but will serve Tibetan food upon request (be sure to ask the price).
Amenities: Common room with television, open patio with view of mountains and back yard, parking available in back, laundry facilities.
Other: Quote - “Enjoy yourself here.”
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 15-20RMB/bed
Directions: Down the 2nd major side road if heading toward Lhagang Monastery from the south. Look for sign on the left side about half way down the road. Note that the sign is slightly before the actual entrance of the hotel, which is the next building down.

Note: Not found during the July 2009 survey; may no longer exist.
Name (Tibetan): བོད་ཁྱིམ་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Jockey Putup or “Tibetan Family Hotel” (trans. from Tibet)
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Chinese-Tibetan run hotel just off the main road.
Room Description (English): 35 beds total. 7 double rooms. 3 rooms with 3 or more beds.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Not in hotel, but owners have a restaurant on the main road with Chinese-style cuisine.
Amenities: Large meeting area, good for large groups.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Price: 25RMB/bed; 50-60RMB/bed on holidays.
Directions: Hotel located on second major side road if coming from south (the road just after the hospital). Hotel is on right of that side road about halfway down.
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 7588; 13158406598

Name (English): Ya An Hotel
Name (Chinese):
Description (English):
Room Description (English): Features dorm-style, as well as double rooms. 6 rooms total.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified
Price: 20RMB/bed for double rooms. 10RMB/bed in dorm-style room.
Directions: Left side of road if coming from south, about halfway through town.
Contact Person: Sangye Gyap / སངས་རྒྱས་སྐྱབས།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6006

Name (Tibetan): གངས་ལྗོངས་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Snowland Guesthouse
Name (Chinese): 雪域旅社 Xueyu Lüshe
Description (English): The 2nd oldest guesthouse in Lhagang, Snowland Guesthouse has long hosted tourists from China and abroad. Traditional Tibetan style rooms right next to Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): 14 rooms total. 3 doubles, 8 triples, 3 dorm-style rooms with 7 beds each, 3 singles.
Shower: Yes (2 - one upstairs, one downstairs)
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Hotel is right above Sally’s Restaurant.
Amenities: Guests have access to kitchen and fridge, laundry facilities, and parking in back. Guesthouse also features a large Tibetan-style common room with a television. Internet available for guests and outsiders.
Other: Snowland Guesthouse has a reputation of being safe and friendly; no thefts have ever been reported. In winter, guests are welcomed into the family’s house so they can be close to the fire.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? Door closes at 12 pm. After 12 pm, owners will come looking for you out of concern!
Price: Double room: 25RMB/bed. Triple: 20RMB/bed. Dorm-style(7 beds/room): 10RMB/bed. Single: 50RMB/bed.
Directions: Adjacent to Lhagang monastery on left. Look for the sign for Sally’s restaurant and the Snowland Guesthouse in the main square.
Contact Person: Sötsé / བསོད་ཚེ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan, some English
Phone number: (0836) 286 6098

Name (Tibetan): བོད་པའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Tibetan Hostel (sign says “The Hastel of Tibtan”)
Name (Chinese): 臧家旅社 Zangjia Lüshe
Description (English): Homestay environment across the street from Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): 3 doubles, 3 rooms with 4 or 5 beds each.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No, but owner will make Tibetan food upon request.
Amenities: Washing machine and internet free to use by guests. Can make international phone calls from phone.
Other: Son of owner is monk at Lhagang monastery.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 15-20RMB/bed
Directions: On right side of road if going north, just past entrance of Lhagang monastery near the north end of town.
Contact Person: Söko / བསོད་ཁོ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6780

Name (Tibetan): None listed
Name (English): Liang of Chongqin Hotel
Name (Chinese): 重庆饭店 Chongqing Fandian
Description (English): Dorm-style rooms right near the monastery on the main road.
Room Description (English): 2 rooms total with 4 and 5 beds respectively.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? Yes- Chinese restaurant on first floor.
Amenities: Tibetan souvenirs sold on first floor.
Other:
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified
Price: 15RMB/bed
Directions: Not far from Lhagang monastery on same side of road. See the large red sign. Must enter through the restaurant and then go upstairs to the bedrooms.
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 7588

Note: Not found during the July 2009 survey; may no longer exist.
Name (Tibetan): མེད།
Name (Chinese): (no name yet)
Name (English): (new hotel - no name yet)
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): A new hotel/guesthouse as of the summer of 2007. It does not yet have a name or sign.
Room Description (English): 19 beds total. Rooms include 2, 3, or 4 beds.
Shower: No
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 20RMB/bed
Directions: Unfortunately this hotel has no sign. It is on the left side of the road not far from the southern entrance of town (the second or third building after the large pink building). Enter the guesthouse on the second floor via stairs on the left side of the building.
Contact Person: Tshay kho / ཚེ་ཁོ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6018

Name (Tibetan): འཇམ་རི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Manjushri Guesthouse
Name (Chinese): 文殊旅社 Wenshu Lüshe
Description (English): Tibetan-style guesthouse/homestay near the river.
Room Description (English): 3 double rooms, 3 rooms with 4 beds each.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No, but will make Tibetan food upon request.
Amenities: Large meeting/living room with space for many guests.
Other: Owned by a retired school teacher from Lhagang. Quote: “We are friendly and clean. We warmly welcome you”
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Price: 20RMB/bed; 40-50RMB/bed on holidays
Directions: 3/4ths down the second major side road from the main Lhagang road (if coming from the south). Look for the sign that reads “Manjushri Hotel” on the right side of road.
Contact Person: Sonam Pelkyi / བསོད་ནམས་དཔལ་སྐྱིད།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan
Phone number: (0836) 286 6066

Name (English): Minyak Hotel (translated from the Chinese)
Name (Chinese): 木亚宾馆 Muya Binguan
Description (English): One of the few modern style hotels, located near Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): Presently there are 5 rooms available though more after rennovation is completed on the third floor. 2 double rooms, 3 triples.
Shower: Yes; private shower with hot water and heat lamps.
Toilet: Yes, private
Restaurant? The hotel owns a nearby restaurant from which you can order room service. Restaurant has Chinese and some Tibetan food.
Amenities: All rooms include a television.
Open all year? Closes for winter (typically from December to April)
Closed in the evening? No specified time
Directions: Directly before the hospital (and in the same building) on the left side of the road going if traveling south to north. Enter from side of building via stairs. Rooms are on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Languages: Chinese
Phone number: 13111816329; 13111815216

Name (Tibetan): ལྷ་སྒང་རྩྭ་ཐང་གི་མགྲོན་ཁང་ཆེན་མོ།
Name (English): Lhagang Grassland Hotel
Name (Chinese): 塔公草原大酒店 Tagong Caoyuan Dajiudian
Description (English): Tibetan owned hotel with modern style rooms. Currently under renovation which is slated to be finished by late 2007. After renovation and the completion of new construction, rooms will have more ammenities, including several rooms with private baths. Building now hosts a Chinese style restaurant, tea house, pool hall, and a small pharmacy.
Room Description (English): 51 rooms total, though more after construction and renovation is finished. Most rooms have 2 or 3 beds per room. In future, there will be more double rooms. There are 16 new rooms (as of 2009) with TV, attached bathrooms, and heaters.
Shower: In rooms over the restaurant and tea house, there will be a shared shower after the renovation is completed in mid/late 2007.
Toilet: Yes, shared. New building will have private toilet and shower.
Restaurant? Yes. Chinese style cuisine on first floor of building.
Amenities: Tibetan bar and restaurant under construction.
Other: Parking in back of building. In addition to the renovation of the main building, a new building with full-featured, modern style rooms (including full bath, TVs, etc.) is being constructed behind the current hotel. Tentative plans for a Tibetan style restaurant/bar/coffee house and garden were also reported. Can hike up small hill behind for great views.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No time specified.
Price: 30RMB/bed; 150 RMB/bed for new rooms.
Directions: About 1/3rd way through town on the right if coming from south. Hotel is entered from the back - either through the restaurant or through a separate door which passes under the 2nd floor tea house. Look for the restaurant and tea house with the large glass windows.
Contact Person: Nyima Gyeltse / ཉི་མ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
Languages: Tibetan, Chinese
Phone number: (0836) 286 7888; 15082300999

Note: Not found during the July 2009 survey; may no longer exist.
Name (Tibetan): བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་སྐྱིད་སྣེ་ལེན།
Name (English): Tashi Dekyi Guesthouse
Name (Chinese):
Description (English): Tibetan-style guesthouse with a view of Lhagang monastery.
Room Description (English): 7 rooms, 26 beds total. 8 doubles, 2 rooms with 4 and 5 five beds respectively.
Shower: Yes, shared.
Toilet: Yes, shared.
Restaurant? No, but owner will make Tibetan food upon request. Can also make own food in kitchen.
Amenities: Large meeting/common space. Parking available in back.
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 20RMB/bed
Directions: In back-left corner of the main square if facing Lhagang monastery. Entrance in back of building.
Contact Person: Dorje Wangmo / རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་མོ།
Languages: Chinese, Tibetan, some English
Phone number: (0836) 286 6901

Name (Tibetan): ལྷ་སྒང་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Tagong Hotel
Name (Chinese): 塔公宾馆 Tagong Binguan
Description: Modern-style hotel adjacent to the Xikang Welfare School.
Room Description: 5 triples, 6 doubles, and 8 singles.
Shower: hot water 24 hours; individual shower for every room.
Toilet: Attached bathroom for all rooms (questionable plumbing).
Amenities: TV, phone, parking in the gated courtyard.
Restaurant? No.
Open all year? Closed in the winter; dates not specified.
Closed in the evening? No specified time.
Price: 310 RMB/triple; 320 RMB/double; 230 RMB/single.
Directions: When entering town from the south, look for the large pink tiled building set back from the road behind a large metal gate.
Contact Person: Osha
Languages: Chinese/Tibetan
Phone number: 131118191007; local: (0836) 8863406

Name (English): Chongqing Hotel
Name (Chinese): 重庆旅社 Chongqing Lüshe
Description: Rustic guesthouse with 3 rooms
Room Description: 1 triple, 1 four-bed, 1 five-bed
Shower: None
Toilet: Single shared bathroom
Amenities: Home-stay restaurant shared with family
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening? Not specified
Price: 20 RMB
Directions: Diagonally opposite from the Lhagang Monastery. Entrance up stairs on right side of building. Look for handwritten sign on the wall.
Contact Person: Yonden / ཡོན་ཏན། or Tsogyel མཚོ་རྒྱལ།
Languages: Tibetan/Chinese
Phone number: 13158406596; local: (0836) 2867695

Name (Tibetan): སྐལ་བཟང་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Karma Hostel
Name (Chinese): 聚缘驿站 Juyuan Yizhan
Room Description: 7 rooms; 20 beds: 1 double, 4 triples, 1 six-bed
Shower: None
Toilet: 2 shared bathrooms
Amenities: None
Restaurant? No
Open all year? Yes
Closed in the evening?
Price: Room with TV: 50 RMB/bed; Room without TV: 10 RMB/bed
Directions: On the main square, to the left if facing the entrance to the monastery.
Contact Person: Orgyen Dorje / ཨོ་རྒྱན་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Languages: Chinese/Tibetan
Phone number: 0836-2867996

Name (Tibetan): མི་ཉག་གསེར་གྱི་མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁྱིམ་གཞིའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Minyak Golden Stupa Family Hostel
Name (Chinese): 木雅金塔民居 Muya Jinta Minju
Description: Opening soon (as of July 2009). Potentially the most beautiful hostel in Tagong. Wonderfully ornate wooden carvings and paintings throughout the entire hostel. Very friendly and outgoing Tibetan hosts; they both used to be government workers who opened a restaurant, worked hard, and opened this hostel.
Room Description: 14 rooms; 10 doubles, 4 four-beds
Shower: shared
Toilet: shared
Amenities: Possibly opening a bar and/or teahouse.
Restaurant? Yes, 川渝大胡子饭店 Chuanyu Da Huzi Fandian
Open all year? Yes, depending on winter demand.
Closed in the evening? Not specified
Price: 30-40 RMB
Directions: On the right as you enter town from the north, just before the golden stupa. Look for the big sign in Chinese (川渝大胡子饭店Chuanyu Da Huzi Fandian) advertising the restaurant adjacent to the hostel.
Contact Person: Xiaochi (Yangchi / དབྱངས་སྐྱིད།)
Languages: Tibetan/Chinese
Phone number: 13154414096

Name (English): Chengyu Hotel
Name (Chinese): 成渝饭店 Chengyu Fandian
Room Description: 32 rooms; 2-3 beds per room
Shower: No
Toilet: Shared
Amenities: Tibetan tent accommodations for up to 6 people (including sleeping bags/quilts).
Restaurant? Yes- Chinese food
Open all year? Yes
Price: 50-60 RMB/bed; 200 RMB/tent
Directions: Directly opposite of the Golden Stupa.
Contact Person: Tashi / བཀྲ་ཤིས།
Languages: Tibetan/Chinese
Phone number: (0836) 8806007; (0836) 2866448; 13096269056

Name (Tibetan): བཞག་བྲའི་མགྲོན་ཁང་།
Name (English): Zhara Mountain Guest House
Name (Chinese): 亚拉山宾馆 Yalashan Binguan
Description: Not yet open and under construction (as of July 2009). Planned to be an affordable guest house designed for English-speaking trekkers seeking scenic spots in nomadic areas.
Room Description: 6 rooms; 4 doubles, 1 triple, 1 four-bed
Shower: yes; shared
Toilet: yes; 3 shared
Amenities: English-speaking Tibetan horse-trek guide available. English and Tibetan movies.
Restaurant? Yes; western breakfast with real coffee (approx. 15 RMB)
Price: 70 RMB/bed for single rooms; 30 RMB/bed for all others
Directions: Located on the second major side road if coming from the south (the road just after the hospital). Guest house is on the right of that side road; about halfway down.
Contact Person: Dorjee / རྡོ་རྗེ།
Languages: Tibetan/Chinese/English (some)
Phone number: 13568676327
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