About this property
Phuentsholing is Bhutan’s front door by road. It sits at about 300 metres against the first wall of the foothills, sharing a street-level border with Jaigaon in West Bengal, and it feels nothing like the rest of the country — hot, humid, busy and subtropical, with the hills rising green and abrupt behind the town. Travellers arriving overland from Bagdogra or Siliguri clear immigration here, and almost everyone spends a night before the long climb to Thimphu the next morning.
Alem Hotel & Resort is one of the town’s tourist-standard properties, the sort of place we book for that first or last night on an overland trip. Nobody comes to Phuentsholing for the hotel. What matters is a comfortable night, an early breakfast and a prompt start up the mountain road — and the town’s hotels are set up for exactly that.
Why we like it
- In Phuentsholing, the road border with India and Bhutan's overland gateway
- A practical first or last night on an overland itinerary
- A long half-day's drive below Thimphu and Paro
Location
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