Canyon Matka Hotel

Avoid like the plague, read the Google reviews, these guys don't care about customer service one bit they only care about profit. They overcharge for everything and care nothing about customer satisfaction.

This hotel has a great location for exploring the gorge. We spent the night here and really enjoyed it. It is about a 500m walk (with all your luggage) along a scenic pathway into the hotel from the free parking area. There is plenty of space in the parking lot in the late afternoon and evening, but during the day you won’t be able to get anywhere near it! Our room was fairly small and basic with a couple of opening windows with some pleasant views out onto the lake – nothing to rave about, but nice enough. There was no AC but a fan was provided and kept us cool in the night. There was a bit of noise in the evening/night due to a few guys hanging out in the garden and restaurant drinking, but nothing too bad. The lakeside restaurant has a beautiful setting and the food was decent as well, but a bit overpriced. The restaurant is super busy in the day with all the day-trippers, but very quiet in the evenings. The free breakfast was good, but the 9AM start time was way too late!! We actually went out on an 8km hike up into the mountains and arrived back still having to wait for the restaurant to open at 9am. Overall we had a good stay here and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to other travelers.

Restaurant manager was an absolute tool. Requested the pasta and salmon and asked if they can add truffle to the pasta (there is a truffle pasta dish or a pasta dish (no truffle) with salmon). I told the waitress I would pay extra for truffle shavings on my pasta with salmon. I was brought truffle pasta with no salmon. After my tour guide spoke with the manager I walked over and stated, "nevermind, you can keep the truffle pasta, I no longer want anything since this is an issue." Manager stated truffle is more money and i ordered it so I must pay for it..... He tried to stare me down and I laughed and tilted my head and stared back and said, "ok, we are done here, I'm 100% not paying for it - remove it from my bill." Maybe hire adults as managers - they threw out the pasta instead of adding an upcharge for truffle shavings. Lol. Tool.

After our boat trip we sat for lunch. The food was excellent as was the service and the views are fantastic. Be sure to give yourself time to get back down to the bus stop though as it is about a 15min dash. Taxis are abound so if you miss the bus you won't be stranded. The general area could do with some investment in both money and time.

Essen teuer und ohne Geschmack, die Trüffelnudeln haben nach nichts geschmeckt. Die Location ist top mit tollem Ausblick von der Terrasse, der Service ist okay. Wenn es nicht aus Strömen geregnet hätte, wären wir nicht reingegangen.

The place is absolutely stunning and worth a overnight stay to embrace it all once the crowds have left. The accomdation sits behind the restaurant and is up some stairs. There are many rooms with a traditional wood effect decor. This makes the corridors and walkways loud at night. Fine for us, but worth mentioning. A small mishap when we were lead to our room before check in time) to find it was not clean they rectified this quickly. The hotel is past the dam and about a 20mins walk from the bus stop. It's uphill and we'd backpacks. If you are travelling by taxi it is easier. The hotel isn't very well signed but follow the trail and you can't miss it. The staff are helpful and the manager was really nice to us. The restaurant closes early but he allowed us to take our drinks to the cafe bar area. As part of our *********** reservation, we'd a free bottle of wine and breakfast. We were happy with both. Breakfast is cereal, boiled eggs, Olives, Cucumber, cheeses and Sausages and an array of bread. Juices and free tea and coffee. The restaurant for dinner is more expensive than elsewhere. Would I go again? Definitely for the beautiful view!!