The Staff at Cardinal Ambica is the USP of the hotel! By staff I mean the Restaurant staff, would especially like to thank "Mr Ashok Sharma" the head chef of the restaurant at the hotel , he literally serves you as if we are at his home, the food is served with lots of love and the taste is exceptional! We had great conversations with Mr Ashok Ji :) The location of the hotel is very prime, located in the center of the town, it's a 5min drive to the VaishnoDevi temple. The hotel was so kind, they provided us a pick-up & drop to the Helipad center. Extremely happy with choice of our Hotel. Rooms were exactly as shown in the pictures, good value of money, very spacious as well! Thankyou Cardinal Ambica for a memorable and pleasant stay.

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The huge parking space for people driving, like me. The beautiful lawn at the backside of the property, the staff at reception, services and surrounding shops. Multiple good food chain restaurants like McDonalds, Dominos, Sagar Ratna etc are walking distance etc are key factors. Not to forget the free pick and drop services to trekking starting points.

Cleanliness of the rooms, linens and sheets could be a notch more premium quality. Most importantly attention to details for small items like coffee sachets in every room (missing in 1 room out of 2 booked), toiletries for number of people checking in the room to be made available prior to check in and providing at least two pillows per person upfront is something that will make the stay experience even better.

Quite close to the railway station as well as the Yatra Parchi Counter. Nearby shops. Room spacious, clean, comfortable. Food was quite good, breakfast was delicious and had many choices. Linens were clean. Front desk staff polite and helpful.

Shower Gel container was empty. AC wasn't working for most of the second night, however, the hotel was running on generator back up as electricity was out, so it can be understood. Only thing was that I booked a triple room with garden view, however, the room was opposite the garden.

Ambica has a very nice location and entrance. Beds were clean and comfortable. Big pillows and AC and fan. Floors were clean. Breakfast was delicious and staff were very hospitable. Beautiful garden for fresh air compared to road pollution. Lots of bottled water and drink selection. Towels on request. Spacious room 202. Helpful and friendly staff. Treating like a home for yatris.

Only this was the shower and hot water facility. It would take ten minutes of running water before hot water available. Only downside is this waste of time and water.

Well located , good restaurants and shopping near by. Courteous staff. People at the front desk were able to help with local information. The property has a huge lawn with seating . Good beds / mattresses to rest after the long and tiring walk up till Bhawan. Spacious room.

The breakfast spread has freshly cooked food as well as cereals etc, some more fruits would have been definitely welcome. Duvet cover had marks / stains. Washroom had a broken switch and a cracked slab.

I visited Katra with my wife and kids for Mata Rani darshan. We stayed in a family suite having two double beds. Room was very clean with garden view. Breakfast at ground floor restaurant was good. We ordered dinner in room and food was very tasty. Hotel staff was very good. They offered free cab service to drop us at Helipad. Overall we all enjoyed our stay here.

During power-cut ac went off and weather was little hot so it was uncomfortable to sleep properly. But fan was working and temperature was moderate so we managed it. Slightly expensive.

We had a very comfortable stay. The room was very good size and very clean. The staff was super friendly and went the extra mile to make sure we had everything we needed. They even sent someone to our room in the morning to make sure we did not miss the breakfast. Overall a great experience and would definitely recommend to anyone visiting Katra.

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Nice Location, Good Breakfast, Nice and Clean rooms. Nice Big Garden where kids can play and we can sit back and relax. Stayed in Family room where kids can stay with you on a separate double bed.

One of the manager came to our room directly to remind us to check out on time. This should have been avoided given we already confirmed that we would be checking out on Time

The hotels lobby, room , cleanliness and breakfast. They give you complimentary water bottles every day. The tv and the channels provided are a huge list so you wont get bored

The bathroom door does not get locked from outside , also the exaust was not working and when i told house keeping he said its automatic but in my 3 days of stay it never worked. And with a family obviously i need more towels which even after telling he dint bring in next day.

The property is very nice and near to the airport. The staff is very helpful and welcoming. They also offer a pickup and drop facility to balganga the starting point of yatra and also they provided us a drop to the railway station free of cost but it depends on the availability of the car. The breakfast was also excellent specially the prathas. Definitely gonna stay there again. And a big thanks for the hospitality by the staff.

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