Travel Reference
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Sleeping
A gaggle of cheapies lie handily close to Azadi Sq, many marked only in Farsi and almost
all above shop fronts via stairways that are sometimes hard to spot.
Jamshid Hotel$$
( 429 9666;
www.hotel-jamshid.ir
;
Kuhnavand Sq; s/d/tw/tr/ste US$86/106/126/146/
193)
Easily the best of Kermanshah's top-end hotels, the Jamshid has an eccentric white-
stone 'castle' facade, but interior decor and service are elegantly international and re-
strained. Rooms have all the usual extras down to minibar, kettle and logo-ed slippers. It's
just south of Taq-e Bustan.
HOTEL
Meraj Hotel$
( 823 3288; Modarres St; s/tw US$16/26)
The Meraj has
mosaferkhaneh
-style rooms
albeit with small shower booths and squat toilets. Access is upstairs guarded by a stuffed
goat.
HOTEL
MOSAFERKHANEH
Mosaferkhaneh Nabovat$
( 823 1018; Modarres St; s/tw/tr US$6/12/16, without shower US$5/9/14)
The friendly
Nabovat has sensibly priced, no-frills rooms whose sheets are clean and whose showers
are powerful and stay hot for a reasonable while.
Hotel-Apartment Lizhan$$
( 721 0102; fax 727 6666; Motahhari Blvd; apt US$65; )
Self-contained apartments
with full kitchens sleep up to six in two bedrooms, which might have a 1970's Cindy Doll
feel but are 110% clean, comfy and new. The perfumed entranceway features Leonardo's
'Last Supper'; well, not the original obviously.
APARTMENT
Eating
Around Azadi Sq and on Motahhari Blvd at the junction of Kaangar Blvd there are snack
stalls and confectioners selling Kermanshah's archetypal
nan berenji
cookies (literally
'bread-rice'; a round semi-sweet confection that's usually yellow and flavoured with saf-
fron). There's a great concentration of kabab cafes and open-air teahouses near the Taq-e
Bustan carvings and several restaurants around Kashani Sq.
