Aruna Hotel — Restaurant in Puducherry

We stayed at the Aruna Hotel for two nights, since we were travelling at low budget and simply needed a cheap room. The staff is extremely unfriendly and was not even willing to help when we had a medical emergency, although they proclaimed to have a doctor available on request. The non a/c double room was 600 rupees w/o breakfast, no mosquito nets, dirty bedsheets, a dirty bathroom with a window going straight into our neighbour's bathroom (nice sound and smell). They wanted to charge us a ridiculous amount of money for an extra bed. For 600 rupees you can definitely get a good room in India, so keep on searching when you are in Pondicherry and put Aruna at the bottom...

We stayed at the Aruna Hotel for two nights, since we were travelling at low budget and simply needed a cheap room. The staff is extremely unfriendly and was not even willing to help when we had a medical emergency, although they proclaimed to have a doctor available on request. The non a/c double room was 600 rupees w/o breakfast, no mosquito nets, dirty bedsheets, a dirty bathroom with a window going straight into our neighbour's bathroom (nice sound and smell). They wanted to charge us a ridiculous amount of money for an extra bed. For 600 rupees you can definitely get a good room in India, so keep on searching when you are in Pondicherry and put Aruna at the bottom...

Pros - cheap - we paid 600 rs per night; just on the outside of the interesting part of Pondi so it makes a good base to wander; it has its own bar that serves hot and cold food and snacks, a good place to meet the locals; quiet location; staff were helpful when I explained my hot water was not heating they quickly got in an electrician who fixed it.||Cons - not that clean, but nothing out of the ordinary in that respect; our second night was very disturbed by drunken guests on out floor at 4am, which the staff did nothing about.||All in all - we were reasonably comfortable...