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Hotel ParagonvsYWCA
Both hotels are praised by expert reviewers. Overall, YWCA is the choice of most reviewers compared to Hotel Paragon. YWCA has a TripExpert Score of 73 with praise from 2 publications including Lonely Planet, Rough Guide.
Hotel Paragon
Rough Guide
Lonely Planet
Stuart Lane, Kolkata, India
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"This has long been a popular traveller haunt, offering dark and dingy rooms downstairs, and better ones...around the popular rooftop courtyard."
"Coffin-box rooms are as spirit-crushing as you’d expect for the price and the jam-packed dorms are windowless." Full review
YWCA
Rough Guide
Lonely Planet
1 Middleton Row, Kolkata 700071, India
From $0/night
"Safe for women and especially good for longer stays, this clean, central hostel with plain but adequate rooms, some a/c off Park St, is built around a pleasant courtyard with a tennis court."
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"Old high-ceilinged rooms have slatted green doors opening onto a wide arched corridor...large, sparse sitting rooms have a sense of times gone by" Full review