Chinar Hotel & Restaurant

Overview

Handily placed on the Abbottabad-Mansehra Road in Mandian, Chinar Hotel is a short hop from almost everything travellers tend to need in this corner of town. Ayub Medical is about a three-minute walk,... read more

Handily placed on the Abbottabad-Mansehra Road in Mandian, Chinar Hotel is a short hop from almost everything travellers tend to need in this corner of town. Ayub Medical is about a three-minute walk, useful if you're visiting a patient or a student there, and COMSATS Abbottabad is roughly nine minutes on foot. Nightly rates run from PKR 7,000 to PKR 10,000, a fair middle-ground for the location. Rooms are set up with beds and mattresses, and geysers deliver hot water for those brisk Abbottabad mornings; there's a TV lounge downstairs for winding down of an evening and Wi-Fi throughout for guests keeping up with work or messages. With a restaurant attached to the hotel and Quetta Caravan just about next door, a decent meal is never more than a minute or two away. The wider Mandian junction keeps you close to transport, markets and the Ayub complex, which makes this an easy, unfussy base for a night or two whether you're in town for medical reasons, campus business or simply passing through on the Mansehra route.