It might well have been because the week leading up to my visit had been extraordinarily tough, but this hotel was a godsend.
Greeted by musicians in Tibetan dress, you enter the main lobby decorated by miniature stupas: from the enormous main window you can see the eyes of the Boudannath peeping over the rooftops.
Fantastic buffet and underground bar too, all for about £70 a night.
PO Box 9609, Taragaon, Boudha, Kathmandu Tel: 00 977 1 4491234
kathmandu.regency.hyatt.com/
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Not 'real' Nepal of course but five star luxury. Insulated from the noise and poverty around it, that made me feel a bit of a fraud. Easy walk to Boudannath Stupa. Wonderful staff. Fantastic rooms for peanuts. Then they hit you with 'sorry sir there are no eggs for breakfast' and you realise where you are.
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