Chanakya BNR Hotel

Puri


Conjuring up images of the Raj, this splendid 150-year-old railway hotel features beautiful bygone touches throughout, including 90-year-old mural panels in the lobby stairwell and restaurant. Inside the enormous rooms, there’s period furniture and old framed Indian Railways photographs. The 1st-floor rooms open out onto a large shared verandah, but sea views are somewhat impeded by construction across the road.

The in-house restaurant specialises in a selection of Anglo-Indian dishes from India's Raj era.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Puri attractions

1. Model Beach

0.43 MILES

Puri is no palm-fringed paradise – the beach is wide, shelves quickly with a nasty shore break and is shadeless. But Model Beach, part of a sustainable,…

2. Narendra Tank

1.19 MILES

The largest of Puri's holy tanks, this is where locals bathe on a daily basis. It's also where a replica deity of Jagannath is brought on an annual basis…

3. Raghunandan Library

1.27 MILES

The world's saddest library — featuring a few rows of dusty, locked bookcases — does a lucrative trade by offering great views of Jagannath Mandir for non…

4. Jagannath Mandir

1.35 MILES

This mighty temple is home to Jagannath (Lord of the Universe), an incarnation of Vishnu. Built in its present form in 1198, the temple – closed to non…

5. Swargdwar

1.5 MILES

These hallowed cremation grounds are the final earthly stop for some 40 deceased Hindus who are cremated here daily. You can watch or walk among the open…

6. Markandeya Tank

1.62 MILES

This bathing place, where Vishnu is said to have resided as a neem tree, is particularly interesting in the mornings, when locals come here for their…

7. Sun Temple

17.69 MILES

Conceived as the cosmic chariot of the sun god Surya, this massive, breathtakingly splendid temple was constructed in the mid-13th century, probably by…

8. Archaeological Museum

17.78 MILES

This museum contains many impressive sculptures and carvings found during excavations of the Sun Temple.