Name: New Hotel Shiva
Address: Sujata Bypass Roadnear Metta Buddha Temple, Bodh Gaya, Bodh Gaya, Bodh Gaya, 824231, India
Rating: 8

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New Hotel Shiva

We stayed at the New Hotel Shiva for 10 days in February 2025 while making a Buddhist pilgrimage and were very happy with our stay. We were mostly in a suite room which was very spacious and comfortable. The staff were very friendly and attentive, the food was good and they had a very prompt and reliable laundry service. They also organised a driver for a couple of day trips we made. The hotel is in a great location, a short tuk tuk ride or 15 min walk to the Mahabodhi temple and near other temples. It also has an Axis Bank ATM in the same building which was very convenient. We highly recommend the hotel. Sally & David, New Zealand

Well located within walkable distance from all the Buddha temples/monasteries in and around Bodhgaya. Service is impeccable and the Manager Mr.Amit Panday makes your life easy.There is parking facility .Bank and ATM is in the Hotel building to take care of your money requirements.
Rooms are clean and the linen fresh and new.Most of the channels are available on the TV.
In house Restaurant provides delicious meals. We loved their Dal Fry. Awesome tea with aloo paratha for breakfast made our day. 

Excellent place for family when visiting Bodhgaya

It was a perfect location for us since we had our own car. We didn't have to park at the public parking area because the hotel had it's own parking at the very entry, and a spacious one. The barricade area is just a 1mins walk from the hotel. Coming to the room and services, we didn't book beforehand because this was an impromptu trip, the manager gave us the suit room at a great deal. The staffs were responsive & prompt. We ordered room service for dinner & breakfast, the food tasted really good. It didn't have extra oil, which maximum restaurant food have.. love the food more because too much oily food makes me sick, but taste was perfect nonetheless. I loved their sattu paratha, though would request them to serve home made achar, and not store bought ones. Sattu paratha tastes best with homemade Bihari style aam ka achar.
The manager personally showed us the way to the big Buddha, a road in which we wouldn't have to park the car at the public parking. He was very friendly and approachable.
We loved our stay there. Thank you!

Reserved through Booking.Com. For the low cost, terrific. Friendly enough and a no-quibble 8.30am early check-in. Got shown three rooms, all very acceptable for this price. Tatty however fine for budget digs. Location cannot be improved upon, just perfect. Free Wi-Fi,  patchy in room however good at reception. Cannot fault, just don't expect posh...you are not paying for it

The staff are polite and caters to the needs of the guests well. Food is good. Location is nice too. Didn’t give it 5 stars since the guests in the room next to ours kept knocking on our door all night , few times to help lock their door, few times for not recognising their own room. 

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A great place to stay with very attentive and friendly staff. Highly recommended

Service and Location

Very friendly Manager & prompt response

Location Location, Wi-Fi and all for Rs.680!

Visited during Buddha Purnima

The location is great, very near to Mahabodhi temple.  The restaurant at the basement offer good food with reasonable pricing.   

Room is small, very dirty and dusty.   You can find ants everywhere even on the bed.  One of the wall of the toilet has so many ants and it drops all over the floor.  The room was also extremely noisy especially those facing the main market in front of the hotel entrance.  I  was there during one of the few days where the Hindu celebrate their festival and their amplifier blasted from 4am till 11pm.  For those who wish to have a quiet and good sleep, this is definitely not the right place.

Just to add, as stated by one of the reviewer, the photo shown here is not of the hotel!

Great Location

Very nice people.  The food was average fast food.  Right next to Mahabhodi Temple  This is an Indian style budget hotel meaning no hot water, dirty rooms poorly maintained, extremely noisy.  They were build something on the roof above me from 6am to 10 or 11pm with lots of banging and loud music cam from the vendors and Hindu temples nearby, twice all through the night.  If you can put up with all that to be near the place of the Buddha's enlightenment, go for it.
      

Not recommended

Next to main temple, only budget option available in the town. Restaurant does cheap and adequate food. But the photo of the room on here is not of the hotel! Pur room was a dingy dark filthy room especially bad was the stinking and leaking toilet. Not sure if this was the hotels fault, but continual on off power problems through out our stay, which meant no fan throughout most of the night.

Great location - only plus point

I stayed this hotel on 10th October,2019. No lift. My old Mother climbed the staircase with a difficulty. Manager was very friendly. Staffs are very helping nature. Good food. Excellent  Room Service. Rooms are not spacious. Electrical plug points were not working. Average Budget Hotel.

Not a family hotel

It's very hard for me to give a good rating when the customers are treated without respect. The are hotels which want to provide a good experience, a good service and a pleasant stay. And there are hotels which just don't care.

At Shiva they decided, for whatever ridiculous reason, to change their wifi password daily, sometimes even twice a day. Of course they don't tell the customer, because they give a s...

When I arrived, I asked for the password. Proudly they gave me the password and I went to my room. However, the internet didn't work. I assumed that the distance is too far, so I didn't use the internet for the next hours. But then I found out that the internet actually worked. They just changed the password a few minutes after they gave me the expired password. Of course without telling me anything about it.

And it was not uncommon. Sometimes I got the password only to realize that they changed it a few moments later. To get the access back, you have to all the way back to the lobby and beg for the password.

They don't even have a time when they change the password, like every morning, so you can prepare yourself for it. No, it's totally random, as if they had to protect the pentagon with their internet.

On top of that, the deactivate the internet in the evening for the whole night. Of course the customer are not informed about that.

If the internet connection doesn't work properly. Well, it's an annoying issue but just a minor things. But if the customer are treated like that, showing that nobody cares about the customers, then it's really not a pleasant place to be.

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