wiki el alamein Hotel Mountview HOTEL $$$ (%4671111; www.citcochandigarh.com/mountview; Sector 10-B; s/d incl breakf

Buses go to Amritsar ( 65, 2 hours), Jammu ( 70, 2 hours), Chamba ( 80, 3 hours), Dalhousie ( 65, 2 hours), Dharamsala ( 65, 2 hours), Manali ( 300, 10 hours), Chandigarh ( 150, six hours) and Delhi ( 320, 11 hours).

Hotel Mountview HOTEL $$$ (%4671111; www.citcochandigarh.com/mountview; Sector 10-B; s/d incl breakfast from 7000/8000; aiWs) This hotel has well-presented rooms with flatscreen TV, tea-and-coffeemaking facilities, minibars, safes and easy- on-the-eye interiors. There s a health club, good restaurants (including 24-hour cafe) and the slick Vintage Terrace Lounge Bar (p 208 ).