Hotel Willow Banks Shimla

My grandfather used to have a house with Shimla so I am very familiar with the place for the last 50+ years. Willow Banks is absolutely the best value for money you can find in the city. Very clean, very well located right next to the iconic mall road, right next to the tourist lift and very good service and clean and large rooms. Also excellent food options either within the hotel or right next door. Perfect place to stay and enjoy Shimla.

Good location. A proper European level service and maintained hotel. Rare for India. Stayed there twice. Would recommend. Food and drink relatively pricey as you would expect.

There is no accessible parking. Beware! It's a long climb up steps or by the Govt restricted roadway. The hotel is not set up for anybody with an accessibility issue. Generally nice staff, professionally run. Food offering is pretty standard for India. Hotel is recommended. Would happily stay again.

My first time in Shimla, which turns out to be a party town. Epic views, but noisy accommodation as there are several bars in this place. It is on Mall Road which for first time travellers here is a tourist hotspot for national and international travellers. Depends on you, if you like to be in the heart of town then go if not choose somewhere else.

Property is old & decent to live. Very poor experience with wifi . Wifi does not work at all. They need to work upon the room maintenance a lot now .Still the rooms of year 1817

Property is old,well maintained .Still property needs to be renovated. Poor experience with wifi.

Fantastic location, clean comfortable rooms with good quality amenities. Clear instructions on how to find hotel. Great views of Shimla. Thoroughly recommend.

Outstanding place with really helpful people who are so polite, courteous, and willing to go way beyond the ordinary to make your stay worthwhile.

Location of property is very idyllic, staff very friendly & helpful x

It is nice hotel in good location. The only problem with this hotel is that you need to go down to get taxi. There are lot of steps to climb if you have to go early in the morning as the lift will be operational after 8:00 AM. The service is good, and the staff are friendly

Location

Service crew are friendly

No heat no view but I paid for view room

It was Good

Check in process was not smooth.

I'll not stay at this hotel again. Compared to the rate (20,800INR for 3 nights), the quality of service was much behind of ven India Standard. 1. Room was very chilly but nothing from reception even though I asked to do some things. 2. Staff are working like government officials. 3. Do not respect any hospitality. They work like a machine. I think from the top manager to the staffs on the floor don't know how to catch up the needs of guest. Avoid this hotel.

Location

Hotel hasn’t Parking and overall is good

Great property located on the mall road of shimla

It was a terrible stay because of the front office ortaon Pratap Verma . He was non courteous rude and extramlu unproffesional . He wanted us to pay the entite amount upfront on check in and when we asked that we need mote time since the amount wwas disputed he starteed yelling at us saying “ main apni jeb se thodi donga paise “ . Apart ftpm him the entire staff was helpful including the manager sanjay . Who sorted our bill dispute and actes gracefully . I wish oeople are partap are not in yye hospitality industry . They give a bad nsmr yo the hotel and also to thier proffesion. Becsuse of his behaviour i woukd ne er have gond memories of this stay😡

The hotel is located at the mall road which makes it an excellent location. The stay was very comfortable. The service was excellent. I would definitely call this hotel as one of the best places to stay in Shimla.

I have stayed before also very happy to see everything upgraded.The room service food and service is excellent but breakfast needs improvement and the manager looked disinterested in his work he doesn’t even have a smile on his face early morning sad to see such faces.The reception and check inn was properly done.Overall had a great time. Thanks

The best place to stay in Shimla. Right on the Mall Road with Cafe Shimla Times and Eighteen 71 What else you need?!! This is indeed the best location ever!

Wifi was not working. TV channels were not working consistently. No urgency by hotel staff to fix the problem.

Typical three star hotel. Keep low expectations and you will be happy. Old hotel needs upkeep.

We had a very nice stay here, relaxing. Staff were ok, rooms good. Food ok. They do need to sort out the wifi, and maybe give more detail on what to use and how to use things in the room. But I would stay here again. Well placed for the Mall and Monkey temple.