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Budget Hotel In Pokhara |
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| Hotel Fewa |
Before there was a motorable
road to Pokhara. When Baidam (now Lakeside) was just a farming
village, Hotel Fewa was built among some ancient trees on the shore
of Lake Fewa. The year was 1972. Stone and timber were ferried
across the lake. Other materials such as cement, steel and glass
came to Pokhara on porters' backs.
The hotel was built by Min Bahadur Gurung who has been minister of
Forests in Nepal's first democratic government. He later expanded
the hotel, attached bathrooms and put in a water pipe from a spring
in the forest across the Lake. (This remains an excellent source of
clean water.)
Hotel Fewa has attracted a wide range of travelers over the years.
It's location has allowed it to avoid much of the development that
has changed Pokhara. It remains a quite place with the best view of
Lake Fewa although it is just a few minutes' walk from a busy
shopping area.
In 1997, Mike's Breakfast took over the management of Hotel Fewa. It
has been refurbished with new bathrooms, a wide veranda, a new
kitchen, inside and outside dinning areas and redecorated rooms. The
location remains the same- right at the edge of the lake and the
food is the best- Mike's Restaurant.
After getting the main building refurbished and the restaurant up
and running, there were still nine little srooms that were barely
habitable (with a very common bath) on the south side of the
property next to the lake. These were torn down to the foundations
with the stone saved for rebuilding. We decided to build Nepali
style rooms that would be beautiful and comfortable.
There are certain aspects of living in a Nepali house that a
foreigner comes to dislike although the experience on the whole is
one of beauty , simplicity and spiritual comfort. Among these are
smokey harths, doors that are too low, small windows, and a lack of
toilet and bathing facilities.
When building our six Nepali cabin rooms, we tried to avoin these
and a few other irritants while maintaining the integrity and feel
of a village house. The cabin rooms are built of stone, mud and
wood, retaining the small scale of a typical Nepali house. The
doorways are taller, there is a fireplace with chimney; the windows
are as large as stone construction allows; the floors are hard
surface which do not need besmearing with cowdung on newmoon and
fullmoon days; and there are attached bathrooms with hot showers.
Four of these rooms have a sleeping loft with a double bed.
Downstairs there is a fold-out sofa which also becomes a double bed.
The other two rooms have only one level but also have double beds,
fireplace and attached baths. One also has an upstairs porch with a
very nice view. |
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| Services & Facilities |
| Rooms |
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• Single
• Double |
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| Services & Facilities |
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• A wide screened
veranda in front or the rooms in the main building with a grand view
of the lake.
• An emergency electrical system with one light in each room and
lights in dinning and outside areas. This system kicks in
automatically whenever the regular power supply fails.
• New attached bathrooms with shower stalls and curtains.
• Ceiling or wall fans in each room.
• Solar hot water with back-up electric heater.
• For your peace of mind - no TV or telephone in room.
• Easy access to lake for boating or swimming.
• A friendly staff to help you with travel arrangements or special
needs.
• Mike's Restaurant - A fine American style garden restaurant - at
your doorstep. |
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