Finding cheap rooms in Kolkata is easier when you know where to look. We compare live hotel rates across the top booking sites and point you to the neighborhoods where hotels are cheap but the location is still great.
Rooms come in more shapes than hotels — in Kolkata you can also compare apartments with kitchens, vacation rentals for families, B&Bs and budget hostels in one search.
Kolkata is the start or end point for river cruises on the Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges, through the villages and temples of West Bengal.
Famous restaurants, bars and colonial landmarks in the heart of the city.
The old British commercial center, near the Hooghly riverfront.
The traditional backpacker area with the cheapest rooms in town, near the Indian Museum.
A planned modern district with business hotels and quieter streets.
Newer hotels close to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
A classic Victorian-era grand hotel on Chowringhee, facing the Maidan.
Check rates at The Oberoi GrandZoom and pan the map to compare hotel prices by neighborhood; rates come live from the booking sites.
October–March is cool and dry and the main river-cruise season; April–June is very hot and June–September brings the monsoon. Rates rise during Durga Puja in autumn.
Park Street and the Esplanade area are central and close to the Hooghly riverfront.
October to March, when it is cooler and drier; Durga Puja is spectacular but hotels fill up.
The Sudder Street area has the lowest prices; Salt Lake offers good-value business hotels.